Peace back in 16th place lumped together with some other crap. Says it all about their priorities.

Wohoo rate extortion ftw!

That thing is so obviously designed for soccer moms.

The Dollar is not immune to challenge. If we want a global free market every country (as well as non-countries) should be able to challenge the status of the USD as a reserve currency.

Russia has more interest hitting ISIS than not. USA has more interest in discrediting the Russians than hitting ISIS.

I'm kinda glad I jumped out of that boat long ago. Not being imposed corporate whims feels really nice.

The 73' petrol crisis and the subsequent introduction of the petrodollar should throw some light on that.

Basically US provides all their military equipment and forces them to trade their petrol for USD only and no other currency. So the military and the money is controlled by the CIA. The rest is what we see on the news.

If the clocks are hanging on the same wall it is possible that the structurally transmitted vibrations would be more effective than acoustic waves.

I was more interested in how they represent timelines from an infographic design perspective. Not much to talk about on that front.

The mineral being needle like means the creature doesn't need to 'sharpen' its teeth. They come sharp as a property of the mineral structure. Very interesting.

I came here from Voat. It is not a direct clone. Voat offers considerable improvement over Reddit. For example you have only 10 upvotes/day until you collect 20 upvotes from your posts. You also need 100 upvotes to be able to downvote anything. After your first 100 karma the restrictions are relaxed but there are still upper limits.

This forces users to be better behaved and almost eliminates vote brigading and spam. It is an improvement but definitely nowhere near the sophistication of Hubski. For example they still need moderators which always skews the discussion and creates undue workload.