Reddit Favorites
Products
Services
Books
VPNs
Android apps
More
What is Reddit's opinion of
NPR News?
From 3.5 billion comments
Popularity trend
Comments
GMOs are not a health problem , they are a monopoly problem. Monsanto creating new effective streams of GMO crops is fine, but extorting farmers year to year is. Listen to the pigweed killer from NPR.
Pete recently did a great interview with Terry Gross on Fresh Air. There are so many iconic images of Obama's time in the White House, and Pete was always close by with his camera in good times and bad. I respect his professionalism and have been moved by much of his work.
No money for graduate and PhD students either but we're throwing it at foreign governments because our POSOTUS has a crush on their president.
Further interesting info from another npr report: “One of the striking aspects of Tahirih's further research, including a 2011 study on forced marriage in the U.S., is that there is no single profile of the girls and women involved. They came from families of Muslim, Christian, Hindu, Buddhist and other faiths, from immigrant families from many countries and from non-immigrant communities, too. If there is a common denominator, it's this, says Smoot: "Whenever you have a community that is closed, where it's difficult to reach outside it, where there are great stakes to oppose community norms, that contributes to child marriage happening." [link]
This is bad, but it's part of a pattern. Before this, Trump already made it harder for elder abuse victims to sue nursing homes.
Easily. There are 100's of billions of stars in a single galaxy and there are 100's of billions of galaxies in the known universe.
NPR has an interesting article on this very topic, in it they estimate there are "7.5 x 1018 grains of sand, or seven quintillion, five hundred quadrillion grains". Now contrast that to the number of stars: "to 70 thousand million, million, million stars in the observable universe (a 2003 estimate), so that we've got multiple stars for every grain of sand"
A quick google search led to the conclusion that the surface acrylic layer is not bonded to the concrete or asphalt underneath. So it’s like a gap of air and the ball cant bounce.
People are still responding to his apology and admission with shaming him for asking. That's not a game I'll play. That's one thing about this that is a good thing and should be addressed. He did ask. He had a power dynamic at times, yes. He didn't always ask or wait for a yes, that's also wrong. But two of these reports mention him asking. One was met with a no, and he didn't do anything. One was met with a yes and he did do something. That's consent at the time and while contributing to the pattern of exhibitionism, to me isn't legally grey at all. (And the power dynamic was involved, and he's acknowledged that in his admission.)
One comedy writer said in reponse to his apology "If a woman wants to see your penis she will tell you." which I think is another issue too. My last boss was a woman and if she told me she wanted to see my dick, that's still fucking wrong and implying otherwise does nothing to stop this behavior. Sexual harassment is wrong in all forms from all people.
The same thing happened to Nutella. It would seem what is obvious to some is not obvious to all. The general saying "What tastes good is rarely good for you" is a solid rule to go by.
But it's also not all the average consumer's fault. As far as definitions and associations go, the sugar and food industries have done well to lobby their way out of health discussions regarding their products with all the cunning of a Don Draper or Nick Naylor. John Oliver does a nice drive-by overview of the sugar issue here.
Something that I found rather illuminating for the fact that I honestly never noticed it prior to watching a Netflix documentary (I wish I could remember the name; I will try to do a bit of digging and edit later): find a "Nutrition Facts" label on whatever product you might have within reach around your home. Look at it and realize that every time you have looked at these, you have never seen a "% Daily Value" for sugar. That's not by accident, because if you had any concept of how high the percentages were, you might be horrified how far most of the things you consume exceed it.
Fortunately, there is hope for the future, and perhaps we'll eventually start to get a handle on our nation's obesity/type II diabetes epidemic.
The title led me to expect read more about Kansas in the article.
Anyone who's unfamiliar with what happened there may appreciate the NPR Planet Money podcast, #577 The Kansas Experiment.
How am I supposed to feel about this? You're supposed to think it's funny. You might not get it for a while, but some time next year you'll chuckle quietly to yourself and remember all this business about the hole.
This is a dude who along with Sheriff Joe drove a tank into some dudes farm he accused of cockfighting, turns out that the dude wasn't even cockfighting.
Ever since then I've been willing to believe any awful story about him.
No way a large government run bureaucracy could mess something up like the reporting of an incident that should have disqualified someone from buying a gun.
>Betsy DeVos was confirmed with a 51-50 vote. That result in no way represents a majority
You're fucking right it doesn't, because those 50 Senators who voted for her represent way less than 50% of the country. Nonetheless I have no idea why you think this says anything favorable about the Senate.
> In the most outlandish but mathematically possible scenario could see an issue that only 51% of the 13 are for, 0% of all others are for, which would only constitute about 26% of the population that by representation would pass
If 13 states make up 51% of the House of Representatives and only 51% of them vote for something and literally none of the other 49% do, that bill loses 26 votes to 74.
I'm pretty sure you're confusing this hypothetical scenario with how someone could become president thanks to the electoral college, since a candidate theoretically needs a mere 23% of the popular vote to become president.
And for all the well-deserved criticism the electoral college gets, The Senate is even worse. Senators representing just 16 fucking percent of the US could force a bill down the throat of the other 84% of the country.
> chances are some evidence of bodies would have turned up over 7 years, right?
No, not if the murderer has any idea what's he's doing. Evidence tends not to just "turn up." One-third of murders in the US go unsolved, and not all of them go through extraordinary lengths to get away with it, either.
According to NPR, Obama beat him to it yesterday:
>President Obama and Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta have both reached out to Karzai to apologize for the incident and pledge their support for the Afghan people, but those actions aren't likely to calm things down.
Just posted this in another comment, but since you (sort of) asked, the border actually does cross about 100 miles of sacred Native American land
Something interesting I heard recently in a Terry Gross Fresh Air interview:
>Some of the experiments I do are testing, for instance, anthropomorphisms, attributions that we make of dogs. One of my favorites was of the guilty look. Dogs show this guilty look, pulling their ears back and pulling their tail under their body or turning away. Often, owners know when they've done something wrong. So it's fair for people to say that dogs look guilty. But I thought, that's a strange attribution. How can we be sure that dogs are guilty? And so I did a little test to see if the guilty look popped up only when they'd done something wrong or in any other circumstance.
>GROSS: What did you find?
>HOROWITZ: And it's a really simple experiment. And I found that the guilty look showed up more often when they were being scolded or about to be scolded by their owners, whether or not they'd done something wrong. And so it looks like we really prompt the dogs to put on this look, which is probably more aptly described as a submissive look or a concerned look, than a guilty look. I'm not saying that dogs don't feel guilt. They very well might, but this look isn't showing us that.
From here:
NPR has a bit more on the story. Location seems to be a nuclear waste processing facility (used during the Cold War to produce plutonium). Doesn't seem to be a melt down. Definitely an accident. Potentially another waste explosion (1957, there was an explosion at Mayak) or another such accident.
Russia recently began transporting spent nuclear fuel from their submarine facility to Mayak. This could be related.
Or just that so many people literally don't understand that ACA and Obamacare are the exact same piece of legislation...
NPR did a fantastic piece on Sater the other day. I can’t find the original but the linked article still has a lot of meat on its bones.
Not to mention the huge impact of environment both social and biological on human development. I remember reading an article in the NYT about how the crime drop under Giuliani in NYC was predicted 20 years prior as a likely effect of removing lead from gasoline, and that would be how long it would take to stop seeing the negative effects from all the people it affected. Environmental pollutants have a huge impact on things like intelligence, impulsiveness, and even compassion. If we keep burning coal and fucking up our air and water we are going to continue breeding little criminals despite our best intentions.
That said, there is a genetic component to intelligence, but 5 IQ points here or there is not nearly as important as providing children with positive role models, good educational and enrichment opportunities, and safe environments. Putting kids in shitty environments can quickly erase a slight genetic advantage while teaching a 6 year old math and music will do wonders for our future as a species.
*edit: Couldn't find the NYT article, and I was wrong about the source at first, but here is the NPR interview where they discuss it definitely worth a read
>Based on state marriage license data and other sources, advocacy groups and experts estimate that between 2000 and 2015 alone, well over 200,000 children — nearly all of them girls — were married. In nearly all cases the husband was an adult.
>A report released Wednesday by the Tahirih Justice Center sheds new light on how state laws are contributing to the problem.
You can find info at other sources too!
Pro tip: the internet makes it easy to corroborate stories that you may not believe to be true. Don't trust BuzzFeed? See if you can find any other reports by using a search engine such as Google.
RT - [link]
CNN - [link]
NPR - [link]
FOX news - www.foxnews.com/us/2017/11/16/keystone-pipeline-leaks-210000-gallons-oil-in-south-dakota.html
10% is pulling the weight for the other 90%
..and we're not the only species, most ants tend to be layabouts as well.
He also called up Comey at the FBI and told him explicitly.
> He said he had nothing to do with Russia, had not been involved with hookers in Russia, and had always assumed he was being recorded when in Russia.
Fun fact: the lesbian joke about Subarus comes the company literally targeting lesbians in the 90s. They did some customer research and found out that one of their most loyal customer bases were all female, with two unmarried heads of household. So they came out with subtle ads that said stuff like "it likes camping, dogs, and long term commitments." the story is pretty interesting Planet Money did an episode on it a while back:
Correlation doesn't equal causation. It might be because it's generally accepted that it's healthy to eat eat breakfast. Therefore more health conscious people are going to eat it because they were told to. That kind of skews the results of the study.
Also who funded that study and who performed it? Food companies often pay doctors and researchers to 'study' their products and often end with their results benefiting whatever company is selling said products.
Here's a link from NPR.
[link]
Yep, correct, it will be a tax cut for everyone. But it is designed to shift as much money as possible to the already rich. Those who are using deception should be held accountable, but everyone if lying, this is politics. Like the source though.
For what it's worth, both Donald Trump's CIA director and President Obama's CIA director have stated that Wikileaks is actively working against American interests. Make of that what you will, but at the very least we can say that the opinion is bipartisan, which is saying a hell of a lot these days.
The below article/story refers specifically to those suffering from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. However, it also applies to Severe/Refractory Depression. Argue if you will. However, please remember that even if you’ve suffered from depression you’ve never suffered exactly what someone else has. And no one has suffered exactly like you. Our experiences, while similar, are never the same. I’d urge everyone to err on the side of caution. People in such severe pain don’t need antidotal tips. They need people to believe them when they say something isn’t helping even if it “should” be helping. As a wise therapist once told me “Don’t should on yourself.” I’d add “Don’t should on others” either.
2 were fired, and 2 more suspended with one of them subsequently resigning.
Saw that piece and it was great. Better yet, though, today they followed it up with some more, too:
> Note this: In a lawsuit, Bayrock's former finance director Jody Kriss portrays the firm as a money-laundering operation, used to conceal transfers of illicit funds and disguise them as legitimate real estate transactions. He also alleges that cash infusions from overseas were fraudulently portrayed as loans to help the firm's principals evade taxes.
> "Tax evasion and money laundering are the core of Bayrock's business model," the lawsuit alleges. And the Trump SoHo building, it said, was "a monument to spectacularly corrupt money-laundering and tax evasion."
> Bayrock has denied money-laundering allegations; the company's spokeswoman declined to comment for this story. The White House referred all questions about Trump SoHo to the Trump Organization, which did not respond to multiple inquiries.
-
> As it turned out, selling the New York condo-hotel to U.S.-based buyers was tough; the "non-residential" designation meant they couldn't qualify for mortgages, says Ruedi Sieber, a broker who at the time worked for a firm selling the Trump SoHo units.
> "You could only do cash deals," Sieber said. "So unless the guy had a million and a half in cash to purchase the property, he couldn't buy it because no bank would give you a loan."
Shout out to the mods, this is a pretty divisive topic.
Highly recommend reading anything written by Sarah Kliff over at Vox. She is one of the leading healthcare journalists in the country right now in my opinion. Her articles on Vox as well as discussions on the Weeds podcast are all excellent.
I'll keep it succinct. We pay more for worse outcomes] ([link]) Anything is better than the current employer sponsored insurance system we use today.
Congrats on arguing the wrong side of something. This major international study came out in July of this year, confirming the major decline in the western world
It's also important to point out that nowhere in the BBC article do they claim that sperm counts aren't actually dropping, they merely point out flaws in the 1992 study and say it's more complex than popular belief.
It's most likely not "all the stuff in our water" either. It's overwhelmingly likely that its due to a variety of lifestyle changes (diet, being overweight, being sedentary).
On a micro level, the case studies are endless where men have changed their diets, lost weight, and started regularly exercising and have 2-4x multiplied their testosterone levels and / or sperm count.
On the flip side is PCOS. The only proven effective treatment has been diet change and weight loss. And again, countless studies showing the link between weight loss and female fertility.
Adipose tissue (fat) is a very large producer of hormones in the body.
There's this neat trick where the executive can turn "legal" immigrants "illegal" by revoking their status. So that way you can run around spouting that "it's about illegal immigrants," when legal immigrants get targeted over and over.
> With lawyers from Facebook, Twitter and Google sitting before him, the Senate Intelligence Committee chairman described a divisive scene in Houston last year — engineered entirely by Russian influence-mongers.
> One Facebook group, the "Heart of Texas," posted anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim content, then began promoting an event on May 21, 2016, marketed to "stop the Islamization of Texas."
> A second group, "United Muslims of America," also began advertising an event to "save Islamic Knowledge" — across the street from the "Heart of Texas" rally.
> Republicanism is Republicanism, and for most voters, it is based more on group attachments and resentments than it is on ideology.
This study presents more evidence of what I feel is pretty palpable: that "conservative" movements and voter base is not about traditional principles so much as a tribal in-group vs. out-group. Sen. Flake, who as a dedicated conservative describes this phenomenon himself:
> Flake admits that may seem like "a preposterous claim," given that they control the government. "But make no mistake, as a governing philosophy, conservatism is indeed in crisis — and not in spite of this apparent success but because of it," later blasting self-described conservatives for changing their political stripes "depending on fashion or the passions of the day or based on how much applause a line in a speech received at a rally."
While I'm not a conservative, the things traditional conservatives argue for are at least constructive: free markets, strong families, and fiscal responsibility. I just wish this conservative perspective could find better ways to be promoted. The us-vs-them politics of Trump pose nothing to gain at all, except a feeling of power and security.
If you feel bad about Americans wanting to keep Confederate statues, remember that the government of Japan is trying to get rid of statues dedicated to victims of their war crimes in other countries
Ok.
1) The BBC article never claimed that sperm counts weren't dropping. All it said is that there were flaws in the 1992 study and that more info is needed. Here is the concluding paragraph. >So, twenty years on from the BMJ paper we cannot say we have a complete picture about sperm counts globally. We can say that sperm counts are declining in some places, and this needs to taken seriously. But from the best evidence it seems this crisis is not happening everywhere. And without new and carefully controlled studies, we are likely to spend many more years in the dark over this issue. It is only by looking carefully at where counts are and are not falling, using the most accurate methods available, that we might find any clue to the cause.
2) The BBC article is from May 2012
The title of this TIL is not reflected anywhere in that BBC article. All it did was point out some flaws in the 1992 study and that more careful analysis is needed. They also pointed out that it isnt a global phenomena.
Which is what most recent studies have shown. It's mostly a western problem.
I mean, liberals are more resistant to fake news, but that doesn't mean we're completely immune.
>they are likely headed down now which means layoffs
It's not just likely, it's happening right now - here's an article from the 18th.
It is shocking how often abusers who were getting away with it dig their own grave by suing for defamation. Like the DJ who groped Taylor Swift, then sued her for lost wages when he got fired. She counter-sued, and won $1, just on principal.
The links within the articles are the sources. The third word of the 5th paragraph is itself a link to this CNBC article.
There's also this, which shows you could have googled this for yourself to see if anyone else was reporting it: [link]
And they thought he was joking. Allow me to let Louis CK explain it to you:
>"At the time, I said to myself that what I did was okay because I never showed a woman my dick without asking first, which is also true. But what I learned later in life, too late, is that when you have power over another person, asking them to look at your dick isn't a question. It's a predicament for them."
HERE IT IS:
>NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Sophie Bjork-James, a post-doctoral fellow at Vanderbilt University who has been following white supremacist groups online for nearly a decade. They discuss the origins of Trump's tweet, a GIF of Trump pummeling CNN. Someone by a vulgar username posted what is believed to be the original GIF on Reddit, five days ago. The user has a history of writing hatefully about African-Americans, women and Muslims.
audio:
[link]
Don't fall into that trap. That's how they sell it to the states, which then make it mandatory.
Want a real life example? Barbers sucessfully argued that licensing (which costs significant money and time) was needed for safety reasons. This meant a woman was legally barred from braiding hair!
SO NOT BESTOF-WORTHY
Unfortunately, when the Reddit GunNuts™ see a big long post with lots of links in it that they automatically assume that it's a "threadkiller" or "bestof."
This entire post is based on a flawed premise: that gun control is merely a "political position." It isn't. It's a public health issue. Therefore, the CDC is well within its mission to research gun violence and make policy recommendations. And the idea that the NRA isn't to blame for shaping public policy is just ludicrous and laughable on its face.
I know gun nuts don't like to hear the truth (or they like to redefine it Orwell-style), but a page full of biased pro-gun links is never going to change the fact that gun violence has become a raging public health crisis in this country, and that this is just a heavy-handed attempt by the NRA (via its Republican stooges in Congress) to quash any meaningful attempts to solve the problem.
I don't know about engineers per se, but i can say that Postgraduate Degree Not Medicine has been going noticibly more liberal as years have gone on.
I caught the latest Fresh Air: Many Trump Appointees Are Uninterested In The Agencies They Head Up and it was crushing to hear all that we, as a country, will lose for decades to come as a result of the inept appointments Trump has made to key departments.
It was worth the listen, but very discouraging.
The tweet just had me rolling. I can't believe the stuff people come up with.
I'm aghast that people still call eyes belonging to Asian characters in literature and real living breathing people "almond shaped." Why is it always food? 🤷🏾♀️
Then I remembered this article I read a while back about the history of why it is. Infuriating.
They will have to weigh their their personal philosophies against the fact that she cost those tax payers almost a quarter of a million dollars.
> Taxpayers in Kentucky must pay more than $220,000 in attorney fees for the couples who sued Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis for refusing to issue marriage licenses to avoid having to give them to same-sex couples.
Yes, lighting can absolute wash people out. Especially when there's a lot of contrast in the image already (dark person, light background) - you lose the subtleties of shade. Shooting dark skin tones properly, without washing people out or completely losing all features (making them look like a dark silhouette) is actually a real issue. See these NPR articles:
(Kodak's Shirley cards)[[link]]
(Racial Bias in Photography)[[link]] and the article they cite there, (Teaching the Camera to See My Skin)[[link]]
Isn't it every time these events are reported that it turns out its a setup?
Lebron James did this himself
Obama's photographer took almost two million photos while he was in office. At that point, the photographer might as well have just carried a light around instead of a flash.
Here's hoping someone wealthy buys the medal and gives it right back similar to what happened to the Nobel laureate a few years back: [link]
> No if a person really wants to kill themselves, they will.
This isn't right. Many suicidal people are in an acute crisis and they have to get through this extreme low until they feel better again. Those may even just be a few hours.
The more easily accessible means to suicide are the higher the numbers of deaths.
>Anderson says that suicide is an overwhelmingly impulsive act. He cites a study of survivors that said only 13 percent reported thinking about committing suicide for eight hours or longer; 70 percent said they thought about it for less than an hour; and a whopping 24 percent said the idea had occurred to them less than five minutes before their attempt.
>If that's true, then suicide is highly opportunistic, and Anderson suggests that reducing the opportunities would reduce the incidence. [...]
>Anderson points to another example where simply making a change in people's access to instruments of suicide dramatically lowered the suicide rate. In England, death by asphyxiation from breathing oven fumes had accounted for roughly half of all suicides up until the 1970s, when Britain began converting ovens from coal gas, which contains lots of carbon monoxide, to natural gas, which has almost none. During that time, suicides plummeted roughly 30 percent — and the numbers haven't changed since.
It's not a generalization. It's a descriptor of the history of Spanish colonization that had a racial class hierarchy and racism as a strong basis for which their culture was based on. Some may resist it, which is great, but you can't deny the history on which Spanish America was founded.
An ex-soldier working as a cop, ie someone who was trained to the standards of the military, was fired earlier this year by his police department because he chose to de-escalate a situation instead of shooting a guy.
This is where the DNC has really dropped the ball.
They (the DNC) stopped trying to compete in so many races, in districts that were solidly red. Part of what that means is that they didn't have campaigners going around, asking people in these solid red, rural areas what it is that matters to them. And the asking is what is really important. People don't want you to assume you know what their issues are.
The podcast Pod Save America's latest episode ("A good day.") had some great interviews in it where they talked about this. What got the Democratic party those wins in Virginia was all the people down on the ground, going door to door, talking to people, and getting their voices heard. (Those stories that campaigners collected do make it back to the top, maybe not verbatim in all cases, but the topics and subjects do.) When people get heard, they feel like they are being represented (and they are right).
Democrats haven't been doing that in years past, and so they're a good reason behind the sentiment that Democrats only care about the 'Coastal Elites'. Thankfully, the leaders within the DNC are thinking about fixing this. They're trying to revive the 'fifty state strategy', which means making the effort to compete in every race, and make sure that everyone in every district and territory in the US has a chance to get their voice heard.
It's a monumental task, of course, and it'll take the better part of a decade to get fully implemented (and done right), and it's fraught with risks (by using resources that would otherwise be used for closer races). But we'll see! I think it is the right thing to do.
Yeah I rly hope no one forgot that turtle Mitch McConnell delayed Obama's nomination to the Supreme Court Merrick Garland. His nomination was obstructed for 293 days, the longest nomination in the history of the Supreme Court. SHAME.
Anyone paying attention knows this is a very dangerous precedent. If we allow partisanship to take over the highest functions of our government we will never get stuff done. That's why McConnell will go not got down in history gracefully. And that's why when the Trump administration is over, I'm gonna push my representatives to address the issue of the Republican takeover of our judiciary branch.
Does anyone really think it's coincidence that Trump has been nominating judges left and right, while at the same time allowing other important cabinet positions to sit empty? Trump has been assigning people "loyal" to him to lifetime positions, including but not limited to Neil Gorsuch. [link]
Why would anyone be comfortable with Donald Trump's appointee doing PR stunts like these, at a place that directly benefits Trump? [link] And by the way, that event was hosted by the "Fund of American Studies", an organization from The Charles Koch Foundation and the Bradley Foundation. This doesn't pass the smell test [link]
Neil Gorsuch needs to go. He's an illegitimate appointee. And after this is all said and done, we need to take a really careful look at the people corrupt Donald is leaving behind. Otherwise this will have a negative impact on our society for several generations to come.
Conde Nast, owned in turn by the NewHouse bros, who are about as globalist as you can get. Not the loud obnoxious Soros kind. The quiet kind.
I suspect the fact that you posted actual but unflattering facts about Kasim Reed is the reason you're being downvoted:
> A few days before the Georgia primary, influential Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed published a column on CNN.com praising Hillary Clinton and ripping her opponent, Bernie Sanders. Reed attacked Sanders as being out of step with Democrats on gun policy, and accused him of elevating a “one-issue platform” that ignores the plight of the “single mother riding two buses to her second job.”
> But emails released from Reed’s office indicate that the column, which pilloried Sanders as out of touch with the poor, was primarily written by a corporate lobbyist, and was edited by Correct the Record, one of several pro-Clinton Super PACs.
Not unlike naked mole rats -- which are cold-blooded like reptiles, use fructose like a plant, have a social structure that, like insects, revolves around a queen, and can go a full 18 minutes without oxygen (although 30 minutes will kill them) -- Brockroaches are just weird.
Post on!
BBC is an actual journalistic site, where they may gaffe it is more likely than not that they fix it, they're a great source, along with NPR.
Granted. The issue is that not much of America's milk comes from small farms.
The same holds true for animals that people eat. The vast majority of it comes from mega-farms.
That NPR lass was really pushing it too. Starts at 6:16. You could tell John was trying to be polite and avoid his brutal honesty.
Lulu Garcia-Navarro, the woman, was clearly trying to get that response from him.
NPR interview with Trump supporters who think racism didn't exist before Obama. They don't think they're racists but the changing demographics of America make them uncomfortable despite living in an all-white town.
That's a hypothesis which isn't really confirmed. One recent paper about it is Disgusting clusters: trypophobia as an overgeneralised disease avoidance response. Note that the experiment found that "only the trypophobic group reported aversion towards objectively harmless cluster stimuli that had no relevance to disease," indicating that this isn't an evolutionary response that everyone has.
It could, as the paper suggests, be that those who experience it have an "overgeneralized" version of a response to certain kinds of diseases. But on the other hand, people can have phobias about anything - they're called specific phobias. They're not all categorized because there are so many.
In any case, many of the people who report this don't have the symptoms of a true phobia - fear which can affect your functioning significantly. Other scientists have proposed that trypophobia is essentially a psychosomatic phenomenon - see Fear Of Cantaloupes And Crumpets? A 'Phobia' Rises From The Web.
So... lets start this spicy' a' meatball!
On the topic of White Genocide: We have some good ole' Rhodesia nostalgia! Now, my memory is a little short, but who really liked Rhodesia who was in the news a couple years back. Oh yeah, Dylan Roof. But hey, it can't all be racists, can it? Actually yeah, it can be.
Lobotomies have long freaked me out. The stories about them always depress me, too. Awhile ago, I stumbled upon this story of a man who received a lobotomy when he was a young kid. Now a days, I'm sure that procedure would be classified as child abuse. Crazy what was okay back then.
Your post instantly reminded of that Dixie Chicks song “Goodbye Earl”
One that I can think of off hand is Donald Harvey the Angel of Death
Not when you compare the US with other first world countries.
Maternal mortality is even worse. It's actually getting <em>more dangerous over time</em> to give birth in the US, while it's becoming safer virtually everywhere else on Earth.
Yup.The judge told him to stop arresting and helping to deport illegals, cuz das rayciss. He continued his crackdown anyway and was charged with criminal contempt and found guilty. [link]
just be nice, crows remember your face and even pass your information onto their offspring who may have never seen you before! [link]
Actually, most ecologists agree that mosquitos aren't niche enough to not have another insect fill their need.
There are an immense number of insects who are the same size and variety which can fill the gap when they die off. Mosquitos aren't important enough to be saved.
>"It's sad the passenger pigeons were lost," says Andrew Read, a biologist and entomologist who specializes in the ecology and evolutionary genetics of infectious disease at Pennsylvania State University. "But did ecosystems collapse? No. Did anything bad happen? We just lost a pigeon, that's a shame."
>"If we took out Aedes aegypti, that would be something," he adds. "Nothing good comes from them, just that people get really sick."
>Fonseca feels similarly. "I'm not worried about eradicating an invasive mosquito. It's an urban species that specializes on feeding on people," she says. "The result of removing them is health to humans and more people."
Trump is a big fan of autocrats. Trump actually complemented Kim a few times in the past and at one point said that he would be honored to meet him... (source)
> "At a very young age, he was able to assume power. A lot of people, I'm sure, tried to take that power away, whether it was his uncle or anybody else. And he was able to do it. So obviously, he's a pretty smart cookie." (April 30, CBS)
> "If it would be appropriate for me to meet with him, I would absolutely, I would be honored to do it. If it's under the, again, under the right circumstances. But I would do that. ... Most political people would never say that, but I'm telling you under the right circumstances I would meet with him. We have breaking news." (May 1, Bloomberg)
Yes it would. Job Donohue, a Stanford law professor did a study of CCW laws and found this:
>DONOHUE: The basic finding was that the net effect of allowing citizens to carry concealed handguns was an increase in violent crime, which essentially rose to about a 15 percent increase after 10 years of existence of the right-to-carry law.
Source: [link]
Notice that not a single person in that picture is sweating. The U.S. spends over 20 billion a year for air conditioning in Iraq and Afghanistan. [link]
You should be petitioning the Weinstein company to release a version with the language bleeped out. The MPAA has stated the R rating is because of too many F-bombs.
Actually, studies have shown that academic studies are horribly flawed and scientific claims often cannot be replicated. [link]
lol
Not only was the video edited to be highly misleading, but the people who filmed, edited and produced said video have been charged by Texas (who dropped) and California (ongoing) for taping without consent and for fraud.
Multiple states have investigated Planned Parenthood based on that video and have found no evidence of illegal activity. I can only assume the same will happen in this case and that the federal government is just looking to attack PP, again.
In many US state there is no legal marriage age, and tens of thousands of child marriages occur in the United States every year.
Up until about 1986 about 40% of women were majoring in computer science, that number had since dropped to about 17%. Men did hardware, women coded. ([link] a source for that.]
from what I understand, "they're" making artificial pollinators now. tiny drones and other insects with little backpacks put on them...
Her body has a reason to expel blood every month, yes, that reason is an abandoned attempt to make a baby. If it is never attempting to make a baby, the reason kind of goes away.
Women on birth control don't actually menstruate when they have their "periods", they just go through "withdrawal bleeding" from the rapid change in hormone levels, which was designed to feel more natural and increase acceptance when pills were first sold. This design kinda survived on tradition from there.
There have been people intentionally doing this, by avoiding the placebo pills that come with most birth control for decades with no ill effects, and studies done, which show no real health consequences over normal birth control regiments (one such study apparently showed health benefits, if nothing else, it reduces iron deficiency to bleed less often). Still, not mainstream because it doesn't feel "natural".
See any of the following:
There are also some people who don't poop, these people are patients who undergo Total Parenteral Nutrition. They no longer need to poop, because their body no longer has anything in their intestines to get rid of...
tl;dr yes, it's healthy [](/melvin)
Transfats in the form of hydrogenated oils in baked products are really an invention of the 20th century. In fact it is simply due to a marketing ploy by P&G.
Lard and butter were used before and can be used again. And before you make the shelf life excuse, I buy cookies all of the time from Belgium and Germany that are imported. They only use butter. [link]
> Ah yes because drug dogs ~~in training~~ are known for their complete accuracy.
FTFY (link for anyone who's curious)
The North Carolina law that was recently struck down by the federal courts was explicitly designed to discriminate based on race. The state legislature requested statistics on which forms of ID are disproportionately owned by white people, and then wrote the law to require voters to show one of those forms of ID.
For the most part, politicians don't really care about whether elections are free and fair. They got into politics to change the country, not to be some impartial referee arguing that all voices should be heard. When they argue for some change in the electoral system, they are almost always motivated by improving their (or their party's) chances in future elections. This is true for Democrats too, it's just that they usually benefit from higher and more even turnout, so they often (though by no means always) happen to be on the side of free and fair elections.
Just 6 years ago, only 30% of white evangelicals said "an elected official who commits an immoral act in their personal life can still behave ethically and fulfill their duties in their public and professional life."
That number spiked up to 72% this year.
At this rate, by 2020 evangelicals will say "If the candidate hasn't officially sold his soul to the devil, then they don't have my vote!"