Haha. I remember being an undergrad. Then I learned about pretense and realized that everything from the war on terror to the crusades were not driven by god, but by powerful men who desired more power and did it by exploiting the weak. Sometimes they used religion (Papal States, ISIS), other times they abused their…
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15yr has a lower interest rate. Right now the rate on 15yr is about 3% while a 30 year is 3.5 to 3.75%.
We all know that a high IQ is a desirable, useful quality.
There’s a long form article by (I think) the New Yorker (or the Times, or some other old rag of the like) that chronicles the marketing successes of De Beers and how they pretty much invented engagement rings and diamonds as a thing everybody had to have.
Gold is a pretty good, not excellent, conductor. Copper is better, but can’t be pounded into thin sheets for integrated circuits, which is why gold is used for that. That’s a niche use that isn’t going to be very relevant, because most IC factories are going to be toast in a nuclear exchange.
Gold has been valuable to nobility as a symbol of wealth. When societies collapse, and the nobles disappear or are executed, gold becomes a near worthless novelty until a new order supplants the old. Then and only then does it regain value.
Not all cities were targeted by the Soviets, because most cities had zero strategic value so it’d be a waste of a warhead to destroy them. You’d have tens of millions of survivors, including government officials from all levels and agencies, as well as utilities and infrastructure. Life after nuclear war wouldn’t…
How is gold more useful than paper? I mean, you can draw notes on the paper, and who wouldn’t be tempted to use a stack of Benjamins as TP after the AP?
It would be if ‘commie’ wasn’t (still) a go-to insult for boomers of a certain stripe...it’s lost it’s novelty on me. I acknowledge that it might still be amusing for those who have the fortune of more pleasant social circles.
Doesn’t seem ironic so much as quaint. Communist vs capitalist is an anachronistic debate to have 25 years AFTER the Soviet Union collapsed.
I know there was that Discovery pseudo-documentary on Toba that argued otherwise, but there really isn’t any link between supervolcanoes and extinctions. Nor is there evidence of any genetic bottleneck due to the eruption either. They’re big events that do a lot of local/regional damage, but they don’t appear to have…
I read it as “this guy is REALLY worked up over strangers who call him a commie or a capitalist, or whatever” as if the strangers or the labels actually matter.
Wow, you have a lot of unresolved anger issues.
You had a good point going and then you fucked it up. Problem with simple addition is that it highly likely (given the similar numbers) that it’s just 1 vulnerability that affects all 3 OS versions. So you’re probably looking at something like 38/26/12/0
Refurb? No thank you. There's a good reason why those things usually have lousy warranties compared to new stuff. The failure rate is much, much higher.
Refurb? No thank you. There's a good reason why those things usually have lousy warranties compared to new stuff.…
Yep, I made a wrong call on that. She certainly talks like the type though. Maybe she fell into a bad crowd of Walmarters?
That whole Toba bottleneck theory is completely unsupported by any facts.
Long story ever shorter: you just made most of that up. Especially that part about climate affecting the eruption. Climate will change a lot of things, but not that.
The groans are signs that the structure is releasing stresses. They’re good sounds. Same for the swaying.