workerONE 1d ago • 100%
"With the latest settlements, the number of people alleging abuse now stands at nearly 2,500"
So every Catholic church in major cities has thousands of sexual abuse victims? Did they just move the priests around and let them teach the other priests how to molest kids? How many centuries has the Catholic Church been molesting kids for?
workerONE 1d ago • 100%
Corporations and the ultra wealthy are buying votes through lobbying and it's perfectly legal. Our system is corrupt but they don't need to hide it. There's no need to pretend that politicians represent their constituents.
workerONE 2d ago • 100%
Every year the Treasury issues bonds in the amount of the trade deficit to balance out the goods and services exported vs imported. Those bonds are debt that the federal government owes. The money received for the bonds is accounted for but is essentially deleted from the economy... The federal government creates money when it spends, it does not need the money it collects from bonds. We could stop creating this debt every year but they believe that balancing out imported vs exported is important for some reason.
workerONE 4d ago • 100%
"He had injuries incompatible with life as a result of his fall."
Very sad and that's a strange sentence
workerONE 5d ago • 100%
The rich will exploit desperate people and use different groups against each other to keep labor costs low.
workerONE 6d ago • 75%
What a jerk
workerONE 6d ago • 60%
Just some people think like this, you can't categorize all of the far left
workerONE 7d ago • 100%
YYYY-MM-DD crew checking in
workerONE 1w ago • 100%
That was great to watch. Thanks
workerONE 1w ago • 100%
workerONE 1w ago • 100%
This election is really fucking with my anxiety.
workerONE 1w ago • 100%
O.o
workerONE 1w ago • 100%
It was caused by humans! He admitted it!
workerONE 2w ago • 100%
When you're famous they let you do it
workerONE 2w ago • 61%
Okay, that's Wikipedia that I quoted
workerONE 2w ago • 62%
Wikipedia indicates there wasn't a massacre in Tiananmen square: "Several people who were situated around the square that night, including former Beijing bureau chief of The Washington Post Jay Mathews[f] and CBS correspondent Richard Roth[g] reported that while they had heard sporadic gunfire, they could not find enough evidence to suggest that a massacre took place on the square"
"In 2011, three secret cables from the United States embassy in Beijing agreed there was no bloodshed inside Tiananmen Square.[244] Instead, they said Chinese soldiers opened fire on protesters outside the square as they fought their way from the west towards the center.[244] A Chilean diplomat who had been positioned next to a Red Cross station inside the square told his US counterparts that he did not observe any mass firing of weapons into the crowds in the square itself, although sporadic gunfire was heard. He said that most of the troops who entered the square were armed only with anti-riot gear."
While they do provide sources that say the student death toll was likely high, most sources estimate around 500. (Again, not in the square itself)
I'm just trying to be factual- the students were funded and supported by Western forces including the United States, probably not to help the students and spread democracy and capitalism, but to create division. The students clashed with China's fucked up communist government and military. There's not too many possibilities when a civilian force clashes with a state military.
I support you if you oppose China's actions here, I just think saying there was a massacre in Tiananmen square is insincere.
workerONE 2w ago • 100%
I didn't know they were doing a farewell tour, the last show was in San Pedro? Very cool
workerONE 2w ago • 100%
They also (generally) don't like to have their water next to their food because when they drink they put their head down and can't see predators that might be attracted to the food.
workerONE 2w ago • 100%
She was found safe! The article has been updated
"leading aerodynamicist Doug McLean has attempted to go beyond sheer mathematical formalism and come to grips with the physical cause-and-effect relations that account for lift in all of its real-life manifestations. ... McLean’s complex explanation of lift starts with the basic assumption of all ordinary aerodynamics: the air around a wing acts as “a continuous material that deforms to follow the contours of the airfoil.” That deformation exists in the form of a deep swath of fluid flow both above and below the wing. “The airfoil affects the pressure over a wide area in what is called a pressure field,” McLean writes. “When lift is produced, a diffuse cloud of low pressure always forms above the airfoil, and a diffuse cloud of high pressure usually forms below. Where these clouds touch the airfoil they constitute the pressure difference that exerts lift on the airfoil.” The wing pushes the air down, resulting in a downward turn of the airflow. The air above the wing is sped up in accordance with Bernoulli’s principle. In addition, there is an area of high pressure below the wing and a region of low pressure above. This means that there are four necessary components in McLean’s explanation of lift: a downward turning of the airflow, an increase in the airflow’s speed, an area of low pressure and an area of high pressure. But it is the interrelation among these four elements that is the most novel and distinctive aspect of McLean’s account. “They support each other in a reciprocal cause-and-effect relationship, and none would exist without the others,” he writes. “The pressure differences exert the lift force on the airfoil, while the downward turning of the flow and the changes in flow speed sustain the pressure differences.” It is this interrelation that constitutes a fifth element of McLean’s explanation: the reciprocity among the other four. It is as if those four components collectively bring themselves into existence, and sustain themselves, by simultaneous acts of mutual creation and causation."
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