Dr. Bunsen Honeydew
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@EdwardVersaii
That student has got a unique voice. My class, we have all the best voices. Incredible voices. You wouldn’t believe it. One of the school administrators came over to me and said “Sir, do you know how great you have been teaching, to develop voices like that?”
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@PeterSweden7
@ScottMcConnell9
This news is not being suppressed. Here’s a Reuters story and you can find others.
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@Samtanic_Panic
The suit guy has a point. A hunk can look good even in a see-through white shirt because you’re looking at his body not his attire. The suit guy’s point is that any normal person, regardless of body shape, can look good if they dress themselves well.
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@olya_rudenko
If he becomes a martyr, God forbid, it will only unite Ukrainians more, I think. President Zelensky, I haven’t seen such statesmanship recently from politicians in any country, you have earned the world’s respect regardless of what happens
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@robbiejohnson16
@MrStevenCree
This sort of comment is the reason I love Twitter sometimes. Someone mentions a bear in the Toblerone logo, and someone else knows personally the story of the actual person who made it and why. RIP
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@KroumBalabanov
@lapatina_
40 years from now, Kyiv will be a prosperous European capital like Warsaw is today. And Russia will be crap. All because of this Putin’s folly.
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@kumashirokeishi
@donnellymin
I am worried that this could spark a Trumpian style polarisation of Japanese society. Suppose that Kishida now proceeds with constitutional revision and Japan gets its own nukes. There is some suppressed polarisation that may rise to the surface. Japan has not always been placid.
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@aquaimperium8
He was probably cheating, doing something like using the seconds hand of a clock on the wall to generate random binary numbers (odd d, even f) or something like that
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@defensechatter
@IMatviyishyn
The most powerful man in the world can’t sit within 5 meters of anyone (except maybe Lukashenko) and can’t be in a room with windows to the outside. Very powerful indeed.
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@apmassaro3
This one is arguable. If there had been no Molotov-Ribbentrop, Germany would still have attacked Soviet Union, and Stalin tried first to get protective guarantees from UK and France. Not only can we not blame Stalin for WWII, we do have to credit USSR for the Nazis’ defeat.
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@BeijingPalmer
They are anti-Americans (or anti-liberal) first, pro-socialist second (so they will defend fascists if doing so is anti-American/anti-liberal), but humanitarian last.
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@Mulboyne
Elizabeth Bruenig just turned 31. I think with more years she would want to go back and reconsider what she said there. I personally find it quite offensive, which I’m sure she probably didn’t intend
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@francska1
It’s nice to see Simonyan looking so subdued rather than aggressive/triumphant. She knows Russia has started something it can’t finish.
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@bctallis
@andersostlund
Remember the blockade of West Berlin. The French were scared to offend the Soviets, but the US and UK decided to try the impossible to supply the city by air. Germans if anyone should understand the importance of bold, quick action in times like these
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@Nowooski
“Hispanic” is offensive??? Sure, it’s more appropriate to call Peruvians Peruvians or call Mexicans Mexicans, but as a term covering all Latin Americans living in the US? I don’t think calling people “Latinx” is going to make them feel more respected
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@Samtanic_Panic
The suit guy would also point out how much BETTER the hunk would look if he were also well dressed
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@franakviacorka
Ukrainian devices are invading Belarus? That is a clear act of aggression against the territory of Belarus by the devices and phones of Ukrainians!
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@RishiJoeSanu
That’s not true at all. Nationals of most European countries can enter the US and stay for 3 months without a visa, but they’re not allowed to work. Getting a work visa is almost as much of a hassle and time-consuming as it is for Indians. US visa approvals are very slow.
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@yarotrof
NYT opinion page always gets it wrong. It's different from WSJ opinion page which is sometimes right and sometimes terribly wrong. NYT opinion page is just always wrong, with a supposedly "reasonable" stance that is anything but. It's NYT.
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@Helene_G_du_P_M
@butleriano
It’s not tundra. It’s just relatively empty countryside, fields and woods, and marshes, as you say
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@AndrewPerpetua
Canada is awesome! I have no personal connection to Canada so I can say this without obvious bias.
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@benbeechphoto
Why do foreigners come in August, which is literally the worst month of the year weatherwise if you’re going to be walking around, and is relatively expensive to boot. They’d be better coming in December, or June, or March, or whenever
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@CommunistPord
@glynstantinople
@AlScott1998
@TerribleMaps
It makes total sense. Why would Columbus need to celebrate it as a holiday when every day in Columbus belongs to Chris?
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@Noahpinion
On 21 July 1950 baby Tuffi fell out of that monorail into the river. She went on to live another four eventful decades
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@MacaesBruno
Transfer slowly enough that Russia has zero excuse to escalate to nuclear weapons, but still in time for Ukraine to win. In the meantime, however, Ukrainians die. I think the real issue is keeping the NATO members on one page. It means the slowest one sets the pace for all.
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@_JakubJanda
@jojjeols
Don’t lump Germany together with France on Macron’s visit. The messaging from Scholz’s visit was quite different and not problematic. Macron otoh is problematic if China interprets him as speaking for Europe rather than just for France. He has every right to speak for France.
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@beamerofjoy
@nexta_tv
The husband of the woman Russia claims killed Dugina was involved in activities that strongly suggest he was a Russian spy. Just more evidence that Russia’s claim she did it is absolutely incredible
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Russia’s foreign minister Lavrov said negotiations can begin once Russia “restores democratic order” in Ukraine.
As Russian troops neared Kyiv, Ukrainian MP Oleksiy Goncharenko was asked to respond.
He had a pretty clear answer.
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@KimDotcom
The same is true for Japan and S Korea trade balance. However, I think you’re blaming the wrong culprit. US didn’t invade Ukraine.
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@TyDClay
@luke_metro
26k means he was walking 4 1/2 hours per day. It’s probably because he was a tourist going all over the place. I live in Japan and my typical lifestyle is more like 12k not 26k. Impressive to be walking 26k in mid-Sept when it’s still quite hot and humid. Autumn is better for it
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@Noahpinion
@PropterMalone
Nope it’s Canada. Having a friendly nation along our long undefended border is priceless compared to the alternative of having a possible foe there. Japan and UK are tied for
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@sikri06
@TimothyDSnyder
I share your sense that the war might continue for a while, but if Macron and Scholz want to end it quickly before it destroys the EU economy why don't they help Ukraine win quickly? There are many things they can do that they aren't doing yet.
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@mattyglesias
Russia would be better off as a producer of advanced industrial goods as well as natural resources. Unlike Australia, it has well over 100 million people and many are very well educated. The only reason it’s a petrostate is the absence of rule of law.
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@NikaMelkozerova
It’s good. They are realising that they are pariahs in much of the rest of the world. They may not be ready to admit to themselves the reason why, but this is an important step
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@len_chet
@itsyiwenlu
They are not ungrateful; they are perhaps patriotic. Opposition to a government doesn’t mean lack of patriotism but often means the opposite. It’s the opportunistic bootlickers who lack patriotism
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@DrRadchenko
@ForeignAffairs
@VladislavZubok1
The analogy of Wilson and Germany’s agreement to an armistice shows what is wrong here. After 1918, Germany was embittered. We need Berlin 1945, not Berlin 1918. Yes, the cost to the West could be high. The cost of the alternative of not pursuing Russia’s defeat could be higher.
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@AgatheDemarais
@JKynge
@TheEIU
Just from the graph it’s clear they are assuming a significantly higher NGDP growth rate for China than for US out to at least 2040. Let me show you this projection I have for Japan out to 2010 made in 1990 LOL
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@DietmarPichler1
It’s probably just the politically correct way in Russia to say “We will lose this war.”
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@caitoz
Besides the huge asterisk around the parts of China that were colonized, the whole nation was colonized by Marxist/Leninist ideology. They claim to be homegrown, but the whole governance system is Soviet. That’s why we oppose it, not because it’s “indigenous” whatever that means
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@Noahpinion
Yeah you gotta wait 10 seconds for your browser to load to see what Russians are saying, but hardly comparable to them accessing BBC and VOA in Stalinist time when they needed a shortwave radio and getting caught could mean the gulag. Chomsky doesn’t know what he’s talking about
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@samajoki
@RonanBrownen
In the Soviet Union it was a crime to have been captured as a POW. Upon release and return home, the POV could be sent to a labour camp or executed for the crime of having been exposed to the enemy’s value system
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@illuconscious
@primalpoly
You have access to all that information but you can’t find out how to spell the plural of hero
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@UmlandAndreas
@AMFChina
Stop buying oil and gas is the big one. Is it feasible? Germany is willing to go very far, but that is very far indeed
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@CacheThatCheque
I think your intention was a good one to promote Japan to a global audience, but I do think “beautiful women” in the promotion makes it sound like it’s aimed at a male only audience. I like Japan too. I didn’t marry a Japanese but it’s a good country overall. Good stock info!
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@BrentonEcc
@MenshevikM
He tried to save a failing system. The failure wasn’t his but inherent to that which he was trying to save. A tragic figure, perhaps, but not a failure
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@MapleGR86
@AlTonno1
Yep, the predecessors of Turkish, Mongolian and probably Korean were in a Sprachbund but they are not common origin. My theory for Japanese is that it’s Korean family grammar with Austronesian family vocabulary that occurred through vocabulary substitution
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@ElbridgeColby
As someone in Japan I don’t think most Japanese see it as “going along with the US” to focus on Ukraine. Japanese recognize that threats to a liberal order in Ukraine and potentially next in East Asia are connected. Japanese see the battle as ideological as much as it is military
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@Goat_testes
@BeijingPalmer
If you call the use of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki a war crime, then everything in war is a crime. War is about killing the enemy.
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@Euan_MacDonald
@irgarner
He has a thing for bridges. He’s been seen smashing Yatsuhashi Bridge and Kachidoki Bridge in the past. No surprise the Kerch Bridge might attract him
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@razorbunnyB
@StatisticUrban
Who suppressed the crazy nightlife of Weimar-era Berlin? It is common knowledge (or so I thought). Certainly not suppressed.
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@Robert_E_Kelly
Contrarianism, grift for attention (and maybe for money), and possibly even fear, if Russia has power over them some way. The strange thing is not rooting for Russia, but being constantly online spending hours each day to do so. Why care so much? If Putin falls, we may learn why
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@Noahbhat
@visegrad24
2024 is going to be tougher for Ukraine than 2023 was. However, it’s far too early to claim it “lost the war”. 2025 is going to be tougher for Russia again. Ukraine may well win in 2025 if it plans right
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@jojunmmmerco
They should add Тихий Дон (“Quiet Flows the Don”) which is kind of like War and Peace but set not far from Donetsk and about the landscapes we now see near Berdyansk and Mariupol
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@MehtaIshu14
@Noahpinion
That’s why they’re foolish. A weaker and more isolated America will have less, not more, resources to allocate to social spending. They think globally prominent America comes at their expense, but it’s the opposite
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@therealdavearn1
@Tendar
He means that from Putin’s eyes, Carlson is betraying the US. Putin has respect for CIA as a worthy adversary and has the mindset of a guy for whom the state’s spy services are everything. Betrayal is despicable to him.
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@ElbridgeColby
Having lived in Japan more than half of the past 30 years, I think Japanese policymakers and voters do look at things clearly, much more so than say Germany. Japan indeed hasn't spent so much on defence (for good reasons), but there's been a dramatic change in the past few years.
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@AlexKokcharov
@SpiritusDubium
@JoensuuRisto
@TadeuszGiczan
That’s why delivering an unambiguous defeat to Russia is so important. People don’t like wars when they lose them.
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@JChengWSJ
@_KarenHao
@QiLiyan
Obvious answer: it’s political. In China, restricting people’s movements, even egregiously, is not considered bad at all. But allowing deaths is considered very bad. So reality reflects these priorities, and the official statistics reflects these priorities even more than reality
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@paulinka_don
@dr_oleksan
@irgarner
They are trolling Poland by leaving only a tiny sliver around Warsaw and giving the rest to Germans and Russians. Hungarians ought to note however that they aren’t giving anything to Hungary. Maybe Slovakia, but otherwise only the Serbs are their friends and take precedence
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@migdsb
@EJ_Burrows
So why did Putin do it, or why didn’t Europe stop him? There’s no US conspiracy here, only Russian aggression and Europe’s failure to deter it
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@RealCynicalFox
Don’t be so literal. US policy on Taiwan is to remain ambiguous. China doubts US would defend, so the combination of Biden saying it would and anonymous WH sources contradicting him increases or restores ambiguity about what US would actually do
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@bimbocommunist
@bromnk
@ErikSolheim
But only if you criticize it in the “right” way. Free speech is not allowed
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@liqian_ren
Because if China takes Taiwan, it will be able to pressure Japan and S Korea so that they will have to align their economies to China. The importance of Japan+Korea+Taiwan is infinitely greater economically than the importance of Ukraine and its neighbours. 1/2
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@frgx
@AlecStapp
In Japan, value of land and value of the structures on it are considered separately. The structures are depreciating assets. If housing is an investment, it’s the land only we are talking about
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@james_rands
Hard indeed to understand how a citizen of a G7 country could think it’s in their personal interest for US and G7-led order to be weakened. It’s almost all downside for the citizens of these countries, even if (or especially if) you’re poor
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@BenWerner_
@Babygravy9
I live here, and it’s nice enough. Low purchasing power is correct, but “police state”??? I think you are talking about somewhere else
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@NiaoCollective
How about: we can read Latin texts written 1300 years ago today. When Beowulf was written, the important documents in Europe were all written in Latin. This poster is just trying to create outrage, but this particular post is more laughable than annoying
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@PappyParki
@RadioFreeTom
Americans think the Ukraine thing is not their problem. They have an incredibly superficial understanding of foreign relations. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, but they don’t want to pay for the prevention
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@Kateryna_Kruk
The difference is Iranians resent their leaders who are thieves and liars. Russians think it’s normal.
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@weeltnes
@misakoboto
@emilyrauhala
Hu did allow some problems to grow bigger, though in his defense he didn’t have enough power to really tackle them, and decided grabbing such power as Xi has done would have had more negatives than positives. Best thing he did was respect institutional norms including term limit
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@AgatheDemarais
@JKynge
@TheEIU
Just to keep us humble in making long-term predictions based on compound growth:
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@james_rands
It’s mostly opposition to US-led (or really G7-led) order. People see Ukraine as a proxy war and if Russia wins it hurts the G7 so they support that. The thing is, a “multipolar” order won’t be peaceful. As soon as G7 is weakened, China, Russia, Iran etc. turn on each other.
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@JohnGoo1115
@jeremymbarr
@eosnos
I think the poster, rather than trying to elicit empathy for himself, was trying to show publicly the email writer’s rude language. It’s questionable to show any email publicly without the writer’s consent, but at a certain level of rudeness I think it’s excusable
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@Mulboyne
I mean, it’s acceptable to say “no I don’t think the US should fight China even if it invaded Japan” as much as I vehemently disagree with that. What’s beyond acceptability is to say “Japan has it coming from China” and chuckle. That’s evil. Probably she didn’t intend that.
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@mrjeffu
It’s not crazy. They knew the guy was at home, they would arrest him if he stepped outside, and they needed to get a warrant. They don’t want to ruin future prosecution on procedural grounds and were being careful.
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@Melojett
@EricTopol
@notjessagain
I have lived in Japan over three decades. Japanese people are not any more caring than Americans or anyone else. There are cultural differences that help Japanese society to be resilient to disasters, that’s all
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@MKarnitschnig
Task 1: work as hard to earn the trust of ALL Europeans (think: Greeks, Ukrainians, Finns or Lithuanians) as you worked to win the trust of Israel before. Task 2: quadruple your military spending immediately Task 3: stop having VW, Siemens and BASF run your foreign policy
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@manyapan
I and my spouse had it in Japan in August (after three doses of mRNA vaccines) and more similar to your Chinese experience than your Europe one. Probably reflects absence of natural immunity in China whereas Europe already had some natural immunity before omicron spread
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@BeijingPalmer
And if you call them out on it, of course they will respond “what about that time when American was intolerant or not humanitarian?” They don’t stand for anything positive themselves; I know coz I ask them what they want and they can’t answer only attack
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@sichen_tang
@fangshimin
We see them. We know that 80% of Chinese are very smart logical people and that only a minority of noisy people online are idiots. But we worry that the noisy ones might prevail, if the leadership is not wise
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@johnrobb
@ScottMcConnell9
No one is cheering about it. Most people just feel it would be a really bad idea to roll over when someone with nukes annexes foreign territory and threatens nukes if they’re resisted. What people are cheering is Ukraine’s victory in its war to defend itself
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@lesley_pizza
@kixes
Hard to avoid meetings with yourself. Seems like a potentially difficult law to comply with
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@TerribleMaps
The island would be quite habitable as the atmosphere would presumably be displaced upward by the additional water and Everest is at 28 degrees latitude. I would worry about tropical storms on such a planet though as they might grow westward (in n hemisphere) without hitting land
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@staffcommenter
@slurplebrained
@AAfarensisHXR
@CatOrman1
also, the locations with mammal diversity are also places with elevation diversity and therefore aridness/wetness diversity
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@StatisticUrban
It’s prone to large earthquakes. Not as often as Japan is, but enough that until they learn how to build truly resistant structures it’s maybe all the better that they haven’t built a second Manhattan there
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