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RE: TIL The Taliban used dynamite to destroy two 4th century statues of Buddha. They saw it as idolatry. The destruction revealed a previously unknown network of caves with wall paintings from the 5th to 9th centuries and another giant statue of Buddha.
Interestingly, the Buddhism practiced in Afghanistan around the 3rd/4th century was actually a fusion between Buddhism and the Greek Pantheon, called Greco-Buddhism.
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RE: Sydney's water supply falling at fastest rate on record due to drought. At the current rate of decline, discounting rainfall, Sydney dams would only have enough water reserves for another two years
Two years if you do nothing about it. We faced day zero here in Cape Town. The day the taps run dry. We avoided it by only using 50 liters of water per person per day for like a year. It sounds like a
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RE: Millennials are less well off than members of earlier generations, and mass incarceration is likely contributing to the problem, according to a new study. On average, incarceration cut one's net worth by 34% and financial assets by 76%.
Contributing, yes, but the problem is systemic. Millennial spending habits are just like their parents', but their median income is lower. They also live in a more expensive world. Millennials spend four
RE: Trump's "chosen one" comment and spat with Denmark shows his "psychotic-like state" says doctor who first warned about president's mental condition
Logically I get why things about Donald is news but I have to admit that I've wondered time to time why this stuff keeps getting printed. At this point you could make up just about any headline and no
RE: Andrew Yang wants to pay a severance package, paid by a tax on self-driving trucks, to truckers that will lose their jobs to self-driving trucks.
If you are in the industrial maintenance field, and get to operate and repair robots do you get to call yourself a field medic when the robots take over?
RE: TIL The last person to be convicted of blasphemy in the United States was an Arkansas man who in 1928 put a sign in his storefront reading, "Evolution Is True. The Bible's a Lie. God's a Ghost." He spent 3 months in jail.
Full paragraph: >The last U.S. conviction for blasphemy was of atheist activist Charles Lee Smith. In 1928 he rented a storefront in Little Rock, Arkansas, and gave out free atheist literature there.
RE: Dutch organize a ‘goodbye party’ on Brexit eve: “The party will involve "sitting in a deck chair with Dutch chips, French wine and German beer, watching Britain as it closes itself off."”
'It will be a nice goodbye to a good friend who is going on an exciting adventure, but is perhaps not too bright' Hilarious.
RE: Andrew Yang wants to Employ Blockchain in voting. "It’s ridiculous that in 2020 we are still standing in line for hours to vote in antiquated voting booths. It is 100% technically possible to have fraud-proof voting on our mobile phone"
Computer security experts disagree with Yang on this. Paper voting is the way to go. Blockchains are great but if your local client is compromised and sends the wrong vote to the blockchain, you're still
RE: The wife of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu attempted to enter a plane’s cockpit in a fury after the pilot failed to welcome her in a loudspeaker announcement
This woman has been sued multiple times by ex-staff for abuse. She also has a criminal offence now, which should have cost her a pretty penny, but for some reason the amount she had to pay was dropped