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EV Popularity in China Accounts for 262,000 Fewer Deaths from Air Pollution

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source? i’m seeing that straight-to-death was known since 1940 (mere months after Auschwitz was built), the polish government published the conditions in 1942, and the ICEC knew by 1943. through the same ways we knew about Auschwitz is how we have reports from Uyghur and none of them mention Auschwitz mass-killings. we can recognize atrocities without said atrocities being as bad as Auschwitz

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EV Popularity in China Accounts for 262,000 Fewer Deaths from Air Pollution

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Not to mention, the Xinjiang part of this argument doesn't really make sense either. The Xinjiang stuff does not involve direct death (besides conditions being as horrible as prison) so that it is far worse than death: it kills the culture, is suspected of forcing organ donations, and institutes sterilization. Unfortunately for the Uyghurs, death is not involved here.

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Washington State’s Parking Reform Is Already Making Housing More Affordable

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the "amenities" eliminated are parking minimums, and you're assuming that the parking minimums aren't causing oversupply of unused parking lots. check out the very third photo in the article (the overhead view of a parking lot), its first example of a housing development benefiting from the change. notice how less than half of the spots and thus less than a quarter of the land was being used

plus, for housing, the parking minimum's only eliminated for affordable housing, senior housing, childcare, and homes <1,200 ft^2^. family housing still requires 1 parking spot per home

These people will still own cars

not necessarily

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Why are people speculating that the most recent Trump assassination attempt was fake?

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The bullet that grazed Trump's ear has been analyzed to death as too close to be fatal from the gunman's distance to reliably stage. There are numerous more plausible explanations than the one the video puts forward.

  1. It is obvious that there might be good-looking photos if you take enough of them at any historical event. We already know that GOP campaigners cunningly used the assassination to their advantage for propaganda; the staffer is simply realizing that photos off the vent should be taken.
  2. At the end it looks more like he's telling the photographers to keep their distance and pulling them away from Trump. There is absolutely no way he can see the camera viewfinder from such a distance, which is needed to decide on how to adjust the framing as the video purports he's doing.
  3. The flag is simply being seen from a different angle. Throughout the video, the cameraman is approaching the gates, and then he tilts the camera upwards and then downwards. The former brings the flag into view and the latter is why the flag also looks like it's being raised right after 0:36. Cross-reference the footage with https://www.youtube.com/live/Rr63RgGN-Yo?t=24263 (in both footage you see an agent go to the outermost. in the long livestream this is immediately followed by an agent waving Trump's red cap.), a wide view, and the flag seems static.

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Why are people speculating that the most recent Trump assassination attempt was fake?

I don't like the conspiracy theories going on here. If it were staged, why would the gunman be off-camera to fire the shots? Wouldn't we get more dramatic imagery? Everything in the footage seems awkward, not like tense danger. Trump doesn't even realize (not to mention react) when the shots are fired (which, btw, were in the hallway outside just in case this is how somebody learns that this happened) until 20 seconds after.

A society with an endless deluge of information increasingly known as "may contain distortions of reality" tends to make anyone lose their minds, one way or another.