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  • How dangerous is to travel to the US nowadays?

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  • Okay... That took me more than a couple of seconds to process and understand. The first image coming to mind was of a bulldog wielding a shotgun taking pot shots at people. But you're referring to the random Florida Man shooting people up just because. Right?

  • How dangerous is to travel to the US nowadays?

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  • Agreed.

  • How dangerous is to travel to the US nowadays?

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  • I've tried easing the notion to my coworker but the opportunity to travel abroad, even more because the tickets have been paid for by others, is too big to miss. Their words, not mine.

  • Majestic Creatures

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  • Whatever small communities still existing that rely heavily on hunting for sustenance and survival practice this concept.

    If an animal must be killed, then all parts will be used in some fashion.

  • How dangerous is to travel to the US nowadays?

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  • The phone part I wasn't aware. There's another reason to never keep sensible info in a phone and commit all accesses to memory.

  • How dangerous is to travel to the US nowadays?

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  • The person is travelling for leisure, visiting relatives of their current partner, that live there. I've been told they've been talking about going to watch a world cup match but the tickets are incredibly expensive and hard to get. That is the closest to the soccer connection it gets.

  • How dangerous is to travel to the US nowadays?

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  • I am not going there. Full stop. But I work with this person on daily basis. I'm human. I get concerned.

  • Motorcycle police chase in Brazil

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  • The biker has obvious skill - misused, unfortunately - but the passenger has it too and if that wasn't the case the chase would have ended quickly and with horrible consequences.

    But chases like these are dangerous, especially for bystanders. Any car driver could had panicked and swerve the wrong way and ram any of the bikes, other cars or pedestrians.

  • Has/is there ever been a creature that reproduces with creatures of another species?

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  • Yes.

    The common ancestor from which all great apes - chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans and humans - derived and evolved is so far away in evolutionary history that crossbreeding simply became impossible.

    Logic and empiric evidence from other animals, today, suggests there was a period of time where these diverging species could still intermingle and crossbreed. At least in theory. It would be quite hard to take such events as granted and even more to prove it.

    What can be asserted is that through a time scale that is incredibly hard to conceptualize for most - millions of years - from a common ancestor several new species evolved, adapting to their environment and changing in response to it, to the point the "cousins" can no longer recognize each other as such.

  • Has/is there ever been a creature that reproduces with creatures of another species?

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  • And most probably extremely dangerous.

  • Has/is there ever been a creature that reproduces with creatures of another species?

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  • Simply put, no.

    The nearest you can get to the notion you are trying to explore are crossbreeds between horses and donkeys, dogs and wolves, and captivity involuntary crossbreeding of large cats.

    These crossbreedings are only possible because the animals involved share a common ancestor that is still close enough in the evolutionary history to allow the mating, fertilization and subsequent successful carrying of offspring.

    Dogs and wolves are so close as species their offspring is completely viable. Dogs (canis familiaris) are technically a sub species of wolves (canis lupus).

    Some crossbreeds of big cats are infertile and some are genetically viable. The mating and crossbreeding is possible because all cats are in the same family (felidae), hence, still very close but already far enough between species that offspring may or may not be viable (capable of reproducing afterwards).

    Donkeys and horses are already far apart enough that any offspring is completely inviable.

    So, by this same logic, the more far apart two species are from their common ancestors, the more difficult it becomes to achieve successful crossbreeding or crossbreeding at all.

    A cat and a dog can not crossbreed. A bear and a dog can not crossbreed. Humans and apes can not crossbreed.

    No animal, no life form, can successfully reproduce with another if they are not of the same species or do not share very, very close ancestry.

  • The rich convinced us that taxing them is too complicated but everyday people can be taxed pretty easily

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  • That might be correct in some places but not where I live.

    Recurring taxes on property are calculated with the age of houses taken into consideration. This means the property value for taxation actually decreases over time, unless a given area undergoes through a serious development effort that forces property value up. This can reach such extreme cases that it is possible to get away with remodelling a house - as in a single standing building - completely, fully modernize it, and still keep its property value untouched, unless swimming pools and other value increasing additions are put in.

    Property value and commercial value are separate and independent concepts. A property appraised for taxation in 100€ can sell for 100 times that value. There will be sale fees taxes applied to the transactions itself, for the buyer, and the seller may have to pay income taxes on the sale, but there are way to skirt most of these.

    And then there are rents.

    I pay more taxes on my work than a person for the rent they receive by renting property. It used to be a flat rate of 28%, equal to deposit interest and other values, but then someone said if the taxation on rents was to go down, the rents would go down and more housing would come into the market. Except it did not happen and instead rents shot up and opaque companies started buying homes to rent from people that could not be bothered to manage what they had and pay their taxes on a yearly basis.

    Everyone loses.

  • So, has age verification really become the new normal?

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  • I used Aurora for a while and noticed several applications were unavailble, returned download error or if installed would invoke a google account login to run.

  • So, has age verification really become the new normal?

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  • Age restriction still applies and NewPipe can no longer circumvent it. Restricted videos get flagged as such and will not play.

  • If most of the jobs get replaced by AI, how people will have income to spend on products which will likely be produced by AI itself?

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  • The system will collapse on itself.

    Either the super concentration of wealth triggers governments to enact heavy taxation on fortunes or the system simply gets reset by the large majority that will simply ignore what is considered valuable today in detriment of something else.

    Regardless, how things go today is not a sustainable route

  • I think the default language on the internet should be American because Americans invented it.

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  • Finally. Took long enough.

  • I think the default language on the internet should be American because Americans invented it.

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  • Off the top of my head, I can answer the phone in half a dozen different ways in my language. And that is without going into rude or strange words for older people.

    I want my diversity of options.

  • I think the default language on the internet should be American because Americans invented it.

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  • American is not a language. English, on the other hand...

  • I think the default language on the internet should be American because Americans invented it.

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  • Which one? The USofA as no official language. And apparently English is not even the most spoken language in it, by some recent surveys.

    Should we make Italian the official language for telephones? It was an italian that invented the technology that gave rise to it. No? Doesn't really make much sense, does it? Or perhaps chinese should be the only writen language. After all, they did invent paper and popularized it as a writing medium.

    The american armed forces got to create the concept and kickstart it but the moment the technology is out, it belongs to no one and every one. Let's all be collectively happy for that.