This is the first time I've seen that blog not be posted by the person running it.

I was hoping the mods banned it

The movie holds up pretty well if youve never seen it, give it a shot.

It's based off an old school fighter pilot with no legs.

Because his blood couldn't pool in his feet, he could sustain more G's.

So when Sci Fi, they extrapolated that. Sometimes giving them robot legs to keep the benefit but still walk

If there's no ads and you're not paying a significant amount of money...

Your data is the product.

Even if it costs a lot, your data is likely still the product

If we can "fix" concrete, nuclear becomes a lot more attractive.

All the concrete is why new nuclear power plants can take decades to be carbon neutral.

He fought thru WW1...

He was probably legally insane by today's standards and just couldn't imagine life without war.

He might have had CTE from the constant explosions and gunfire.

He might have been trying to get last second revenge for friends who died.

Who knows why he did it, but there are lots of things that could have made it seem like a good idea at the time.

It was a substantial amount around the Great Depression...

Which I'm pretty sure was around when they married.

But I'm going off memory, this just gets reposted constantly

> The war ended in 1865 and let’s say the guy was only 15 at the end of the war thus born in 1850. If he married a 25 year old at the age of 70 in 1920, SHE would still have been 100 at her death.

She was like 17 and his caretaker while he was on his deathbed.

They got married in name only right before he died because there wouldn't have been any work for her.

I don't even think there was a priest, but he wrote something in the family bible saying they were married and back then that was good enough.

So she got a widow's pension until the day she died.

Pretty obvious my issues are with India's government and I think the majority of their citizens deserve more...

What does that have to do with India not raising their internal poverty line for 20 years?

Like, I don't see how that's anyone's fault except the Indian government.

60% are still under the global poverty line regardless of how much India lies to their own citizens....

At this point I don't think this is going to be productive tho. Because the only Indians that can afford the internet aren't in that 60%, and they seem really motivated to tell the rest of the world it's not a problem...

Probably because they directly benefit from that wealth disparity

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Also weird how 90% of the time I block one of those accounts, I immediately get a reply from a different account that normally never posts outside of a niche sub...

Like, if it didn't happen so often, I'd think it was coincidence.

> Also India's population below the poverty line is 16%, not most people..

Because they haven't updated the poverty line in almost 20 years...

If you use the adjusted global level 60% are in poverty...

>She is part of a faceless, often-cited statistic: About 60% of India's nearly 1.3 billion people live on less than $3.10 a day, the World Bank's median poverty line. And 21%, or more than 250 million people, survive on less than $2 a day.

https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2017/10/world/i-on-india-income-gap/

Do you think $2 a day goes as far in 2022 as it did in 2004?

Because by using Modi's numbers that's what you're saying....

And yet half a third of their women are illiterate and most people live in abject poverty...

They've got the money to fix that stuff, their government just doesn't give two fucks about their own citizens

I could go for some sushis and sashimis....

> one of their biggest markets

It doesn't matter how many people are there if most either can't afford a phone or only afford the cheapest model...

Which is why Google's revenue from India is a drop in the bucket compared to global.

Sure, ~700 million in revenue sounds like a lot.

But just US is 209 billion in revenue

If Android called their bluff and pulled out of India their country would be fucked...

Most of them only have cell phones for the internet, and sure as shit can't afford iphones.

The only alternative is Chinese operating systems, and those are loaded with spyware.

It would make sense for postal workers or people with mobility issues.

Battery life sucks, but that improves with time or a battery in a backpack.

In my state a "private seller" doesn't even have to ask the buyers name.

Literally anyone can buy a gun

If lack of cuddling makes you lonely, it could help.

If you never get lonely then it's more likely it's not about the amount of it, it's about some other part in the process.

It's not always as simple as "more is better"

But even petting a dog increases it, if you can't find a human to cuddle, you can still probably find a dog to pet.

It's always called "love hormone" but it does lots of stuff.

Like the reason some people get violently jealous. Or the ability to recognize emotions or even faces

We actually learned a lot about this because for a brief window we'd cut the brain in half to treat seizures.

Based on the changes the brain could make and the age of the patient, we learned a lot about how brain placisty changes over time.

The more you look at OPs posts, the less sense it'll make.

> The point is, when china increases their spending, Indian does too. And visa versa.

OPs shitty graph disagrees....

Except even that isn't the same....

Most of China is under 2%, and all of India is over 2%

Some years one goes up and the other goes down.

It just looks the same because the graph is shitty and measuring something that doesn't even matter.

Then you'd talk about total spending, not % of GDP.

If me and Bill Gates spend 2% of our earnings on something, we're not both spending the same amount of money.

What doesn't make sense about that?

The vast majority of posts about India don't make sense when you think about them...