Sounds like children trying to one-up each other.
It’s comedy, if that isn’t obvious. Infowars was purchased by The Onion for context…
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Thanks for the explanation. I didn’t notice the site ID. I still found it unpleasant.
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As a lover of the Western deserts of the U.S., where I hiked and rock hunted in my middle age, I have followed the water crisis of the Colorado River for some 40 years. The following two videos give excellent updates on different parts of the river, highlighting geological, ecological, wildlife, and archeological aspects of the falling water level.
The first video focuses on Lake Powell, upstream from Grand Canyon, and the second deals with Lake Mead, downstream from Grand Canyon. These are not really lakes in the conventional meaning of the word, but are wide collections of fingers of the river.
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In the same vein:
https://forums.online-go.com/t/the-irregular-times/42292/4908?u=trohde
Your link points to a thread in the Lounge, not everyone can access it.
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Yes, I’m aware of that, but I thought I’d still share it, after all some here are Lounge members. Do you think it’s worth sharing the contents of my post here also?
<edit> Never mind, I’ll simply do it. Thanks for the nudge. </edit>
Danube river currently:
The Rhine river:
Elbe river:
(photos stolen from the Web, ofc)
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The sonic pleasure alone of this…
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News Update: Heard on the radio yesterday that the federal government has reduced the Colorado River water allotment to California, Nevada, and Arizona. The was because the seven states that share the water failed to agree on an equitable reduction in use.
Current allotments before the announcement, according to Wikipedia:
I can understand for CA and AZ but I don’t see the point for NV.
I don’t think these ideas will be new to anyone, but it’s a slick reminder.
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Over the last seven years, I’ve been very aware of factionalism, groupism, tribalism, sectarianism, call it whatever. “We’re the good ones, you’re the bad ones” type of mentality. I’ve come to the conclusion that I’m not as interested in what someone believes (although that’s important) as much as how they believe it. Come at me with some hardline fanatic attitude, you’ve lost me—what you’re really doing is proving loyalty to your group. I was raised on this stuff.
This video covers this well, 17’37 if you don’t have the time or patience.
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If you like archeology and adventurous exploration, this video is well worth the watch.
As some of you know, I did a lot of rock hunting, desert hiking, and visitation of archeological sites in my middle age, but I never did anything as dangerous as this. Now that I am too old to do much hiking, I get my vicarious adventures by following this guy’s channel (The Trek Planner). This guy has several videos involving little-known or unknown archeological sites, but I chose this one because of the variety and significance of the site (the remains of wood construction are exceptional). Although the wall scratches they found are intriguing, the brief mention of painted rock art is mistaken, I think. It looks to me like water-caused leaching of carbonates out of the rock. However, he did find excellent rock art in one other video.
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FINALLY some fine Quantum Shit that’s NOT “Quantum Bullshit” 
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When I was in school, mathematics always scared me, and I thought I was dyscalculic. Later I found out “tricks” like that all on my own, and could leave that fear behind.
The fact that you found “tricks” is some proof that your mind wasn’t so allergic to maths, but simply you were not very lucky with the teachers you met on the way.
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Yes, that’s how I also interpreted it, decades later.
Definitely true, as in one school year my marks were a lot better with a certain teacher who could feed my “channels” better than the others did, and thus he was able to override my fear of math.
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