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Unless our monoculture crop gets hit by a bug or a disease it can't handle. Potatoes were a godsend in Europe and greatly increased the food supply. Until the blights, of course.

If you want to break up gangs, you need to get to the root of why those gangs exist.

Well the concern with GMO's is that they'll lead to ecological disaster. The Big Agri companies that develop them keep them tightly guarded and little or no independent research is done.

Nope. edit: do you get why Colbert is always lampooning being "colorblind"?

Not really what's being said there.

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Jan 24, 2013 -> 05:56 AM) The original Metal Gear Solid had two different endings, based on a single event halfway through the game. As far as the sequels are concerned, one ending is the actual one that occurred. Yeah, you make one ending "canon" and go from there. Any piece of literature or film that has ambiguous or branching endings or a wide range of people writing for the same characters (e.g. Star Wars, comic books) makes these choices.

Junior Seau's family is suing the NFL http://pro32.ap.org/content/seaus-family-s...-brain-injuries

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 23, 2013 -> 04:36 PM) The Virginia state legislature is officially moving forward on a plan to split their electoral votes by district. Effectively, in the last election, this would have neutered Virginia as a swing state. The President would have received 4 electoral votes from them, despite winning a majority in the state. https://prospect.org/article/virginia-repub...enfranchisement http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archiv...calhoun/272464/

Need some good recommendations for leg strengthening exercises. I've got limited weights/equipment.

The deeply flawed nature of colorblindness, as a governing principle, is evidenced by the fact that the public consensus supporting mass incarceration is officially colorblind. It purports to see black and brown men not as black and brown, but simply as men - raceless men - who have failed miserably to play by the rules the rest of us follow quite naturally. The fact that so many black and brown men are rounded up for drug crimes that go largely ignored when committed by whites is unseen. Our blindness also prevents us from seeing the racial and structural divisions that persist in society: Ye segregated, unequal schools, the segregated, jobless ghettos, and the segregated public discourse - a public conversation that excludes the current pariah caste. Our commitment to colorblindness extends beyond individuals to institutions and social arrangements. We have become blind, not so much to race, but to the existence of racial caste in America. — Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 23, 2013 -> 04:36 PM) The Virginia state legislature is officially moving forward on a plan to split their electoral votes by district. Effectively, in the last election, this would have neutered Virginia as a swing state. The President would have received 4 electoral votes from them, despite winning a majority in the state. It's part of the GOP's national strategy.

To some extent there's a good point that our current agricultural practices are really inefficient because of how much meat we consume in our diets.

Running out of food and water is part of destroying the planet/ourselves. It's not "one food resource," it's the ability for a chunk of land to produce food at all. All of that unoccupied land in the Sahara, Gobi, Arabian, Atacama etc. deserts can't really support much life at all, so it's meaningless to talk about it. And, of course, global warming is only going to make desertification worse. What huge chunks of the US are "unused" that could support human development and farming? What water source for most of the US agriculture is there "right around the corner" if the Ogallala is drained?

I'm glad that "left-wing fearmongering" won over destroying the economy just because

There's a lot of space for people to physically be on. That doesn't mean there's enough space to support a lot more people. Fish hatcheries around the world are collapsing, the Ogallala Aquifer is being drawn down, sea levels and temperatures are going to rise making a lot less land habitable and/or arable. Really "% space physically occupied by a person" tells us nothing.

How much of that land is inhabitable? How much is arable? How much has adequate fresh water supply? How much can support additional human habitation (either directly or indirectly) without collapsing ecosystems?

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Jan 22, 2013 -> 09:24 PM) Wow what a day. Just got back home after boozing it all day with Balta. Convinced him to get a tattoo and some beaded jewelry before we parted our ways. lol happy belated!

They're able to diagnose CTE in living players now. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/sp...ex-nfl-players/ edit: oh and it turns out Seau did have CTE

good thing Martz couldn't find any use for him

nah, I don't really care about your infantile insurrection fantasies one way or the other

cool story, bro

not really

Right-wing terrorism is real Backlash to a new West Point study on domestic extremism exposes the depths of conservatives' denial

Seneca, Selma and Stonewall It wasn't until the mid-90's that interracial marriage became accepted by a majority of people in this country.