Stop gatekeeping conservatism. Allow the party to change for the better.
Keep in mind that party policies don't always reflect the voters opinions, as the party primary follows donor opinions, not voter opinions.
Depends on where you ride your bicycle.
In the US, bicycle deaths are at 79 per billion miles src. In the Netherlands, this is 17 per billion miles. src.
Note that the Dutch take much more risk when cycling. It is normal for young kids to cycle to school and sports unsupervised. Bicycle helmets are very rare. Despite that "reckless behavior", cycling is quite safe here. Having dedicated cycling infrastructure really helps.
There are definitely differences between thumbdrives.
First of all, on Amazon, ebay and the like there are flat out fake drives. You can recognize those by the extremely high capacity and low price. They will pretend to have high capacity, but then they'll just throw away your data. To test if you've fallen victim to one of these, copy a very big file (e.g. a movie) onto the drive, remove the drive, reinsert it, and then try to use the file. If that doesn't work, your drive was fake. Amazon will refund you of that happens, I dont know about ebay and others.
Any name brand will be good enough quality for home use. If you intend to use the drive for backups, spend a bit extra. If you intend to use the drive for just moving files around, feel free to cheap out.
Some drives offer extra security features such as fingerprint scanners. Those are not worth your money.
Extra rugged drives may be worth it to you, but if you're careful, you won't need that. I have not found waterproof drives to have extra value, but that depends a lot on how you'll treat the drive.
In general, you can't go wrong with SanDisk of Kingston. There are several other good brands, but I don't want to make this list too long.
As a European, I feel that rhetoric of violence is the most American way of doing politics.
While the plastic gadgets are wasteful, they don't hold a candle to all the unnecessary food packaging that's used. Just tear apart one of your garbage bags, and see how much is food-related packaging and how much is gadgets.
I visited the US (WV) recently, and I was appalled by how much waste goes unrecycled. At home (Europe) our family produces one bag of unrecycled waste every 2 weeks, in WV we produced 6 bags in 2 weeks, and that's while living in European style (refillable water bottles, declining plastic bags for groceries, buying unpackaged produce, etc.).
That's the right kind of propaganda.
All media is propaganda to some extent. It's just that we don't realize it for the media we agree with.
The El nina years are in there (the blue lines) none of them look like this year at all.
That said, this chart is not the best for understanding the actual extent of the sea ice. It doesn't show the amount of sea ice, it show how much there is relative to earlier years. The actual amount of sea ice is still growing at the moment, as one would expect in winter. Just not as much as earlier years.
The difference with the "Heil hitler" prase, is that it identifies the speaker as a nazi-sympathizer. Slurs serve to describe those spoken about/to.
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