Ditto for silicon for computer chips.
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This must be news from the âyeah, no shitâ file.
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Motive still unknownâŚ
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I have no idea where the Banshees found the sample (right at the beginning), but itâs always struck me as true.
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Well, that takes care of the refugee problem. /s /black humor
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https://www.quotes.net/mquote/1022991
Edit - Since it didnât one-boxâŚ
It Came from Outer Space 1953
Sheriff Matt Warren:
Did you know, Putnam, more people are murdered at ninety-two degrees Fahrenheit than any other temperature? I read an article once - lower temperatures, people are easy-going. Over ninety two, itâs too hot to move. But just ninety-two, people get irritable.
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Apparently itâs from the movie âIt Came from Outer Spaceâ (1953), in a section titled âDoubts and Paranoiaâ. The only online video clip doesnât seem to be working, but here it is FWIW:
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Hah! Guess youâre just a little quicker on the draw this evening!
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Havenât found the quote yet though
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squee I love the internet. I really thought Iâd never find out where that was from. I could tell from the delivery it was an âold movieâ, so Iâd given up.
Thanks everyone!
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Not about suicide, but certainly about heat and the tensions it can causeâŚ
So I think we can expect more of these kinds of tensions with more global warming?
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Good lord, thatâs horrible. Doesnât their insurance pay for this? Donât they have insurance? If they donât, isnât that their problem? I mean this is like expecting to get car insurance to pay for a wreck from a time before you bought the insurance.
Unlike health insurance which should be available for everyone from birth. Though I guess corporations, being people, deserve the same treatment.
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Privatizing profits and socializing losses is the American way
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Zardoz on Econ: Risk taking with other peopleâs lives is good. Risk aversion is evil.
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under his proposal, courts would have to balance âthe public benefit of the electrical infrastructureâ
If itâs about the public benefit of a utility, the simple answer is to make it a public utility. Bailing out a privately-owned for-profit business is the opposite of whatâs in the public benefit.
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