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    Leaving this link here. A good long read from a protestor's point of view.

    Comments are worth reading in this case.

    https://medium.com/@KongTsungGan/hon...2-242f288eae86

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    A Brit friend in San Francisco, who has lived in the U.S. for more than a quarter century once said to me, "America is fucking vast and largely lawless." This article kind of touches on his concise and accurate assessment.

    https://www.gq.com/story/my-time-as-a-bounty-hunter


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    Remember this story last year? A deep dive into the story. It reminds me of the disappearance of Michael Rockefeller in Papua New Guinea in 1961.

    https://www.outsideonline.com/240003...north-sentinel


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    I continue to call the Neanderthals a different species from us, based on their distinctive skeletons and skulls; others feel that the recent evidence of interbreeding and increasing evidence of sophisticated behaviour mean that we should merge them, and the Denisovans, into our species.
    I find this fascinating - Neanderthals had larger brain cases than humans, stronger bodies and better adaptation to the environment (in Europe). Seems like a superior race - were they more intelligent?

    They had one big disadvantage holding them back - limited capacity for spoken language. Skeletal remains show that their larynx was located higher up in the neck, which means the range of sounds they could produce would have been limited compared to humans. Maybe this is the main reason they lost out.

    They might have thrived in the Internet age if they could have leapfrogged into this era.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Elefant&Castle:

    They might have thrived in the Internet age if they could have leapfrogged into this era.
    I think some have going on someof the comments I have seen
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    Quote Originally Posted by huja:
    Article about Fan Bingbing, the Chinese movie industry and the state of China in general. Interesting read.

    https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood...est-movie-star
    https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/02/w...qYJ3bMguJV27W4
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    Three Years of Misery Inside Google, the Happiest Company in Tech
    (For weeks, as WIRED was preparing this story for publication, Cernekee's lawyer tried to dissuade the magazine from disclosing his identity. Six days after this article went to press—but before it appeared on newsstands—an interview with Cernekee appeared in The Wall Street Journal. He presented himself as a whistle-blower and mainstream Republican who had been bullied and eventually fired for his beliefs. In subsequent interviews with Tucker Carlson and on Fox & Friends, Cernekee said he believed that Google would try to sway the 2020 election—a claim that inspired a tweet name-dropping the engineer from President Trump himself.)

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