WalleyeWarrior

Any app that you are using to track your medical information is 100% saving that data and selling it off. I don’t know why people are shocked to discover this.

The barges were just a little less than a few meters wide. The manpower to build a 100km long canal that is 2.5-3 meters wide is substantially less than what it takes to dig one 8 meters wide in the era before steam shovels.

Not really. Most of these old canals were only a couple yards/meters wide and dried up 100 years ago.

We didn’t have any guns in the house growing up, but I know plenty of people who did and so a desk gun is fairly common across the US.

Have you not seen Dead Poets Society?

Do you think that people living paycheck to paycheck have good enough credit for a loan?

Economics were good if you lived in a western country. Former Soviet Block, Yugoslavia, and global South countries were having a rough go of thing in the 90s

Is that why tech bros keep trying to bring back phrenology?

My town also has a long John silvers KFC combo. I have been there once in the past 10 years when my friend’s grandpa insisted on going

Flat screen TVs replaced CRT in the 2000’s, the iPhone came out in 2007, HD home media in the form of Blu-Ray, the PS3 and xBox 360, and mass internet adoption all occurred in the 2000s. You just didn’t think it was special because you were growing up with it. The slow web pages you complain about are because telecom companies in the US took billions of federal grants to upgrade their systems and then just pocketed it

Maybe you should look at who has been expanding the surveillance state for the past 25 years, because it’s essentially a bipartisan issue in Congress and all administration. Edit to expand on my point, but the Democrats continued sycophancy to giant corporations and refusal to enact policies to benefit actual people is why America has accelerated towards fascism for the past 30 years.

I want to know where the wookies names come from. What’s the etymology behind Chewbacca? Because it’s certainly not coming from anything the wookies are able to say.

None of the Gulf states are able to drill for oil, and even if they could they wouldn’t be able to ship it out. Look at a map of where all the middle east oil fields are

There are thousands of parasitic wasp species. Just because they aren’t dicks to us doesn’t mean they aren’t dicks to us.

This is Ohio man, we draw our drinking water from the same rivers and lakes that the town upstream dumps their treated sewage into

Pretty much every town around here has lead pipes that are becoming a serious problem. Couple that with the de-industrialization that happened in the 70s and 80s, so anyone with ability got out of here back then.

People here straight up hate renewable energy. They vote against wind turbines and solar whenever it’s on the ballot. These farmers are so deep into conspiracy theories that they go to local government meetings and say wind turbines cause brain cancer. It’s been that way around NW ohio for decades now

I wouldn’t say “useful” but the military industrial complex does at least employ actual people to create actual things, where as an AI data center just siphons off the resources of an area and creates no jobs. This is avoiding any moral judgement on weapons production, simply saying that the energy that goes into it is creating an actual product.