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Esselon t1_jaipx9y wrote

Doesn't really affect my point of his underlying assumption that there's nobody in the US government already looking into this. Somehow we've been hearing tales of UFOs for years and they've just been saying "oh it's just people seeing things."

Considering there's been recent declassifications of reports about government investigations into UFOs, I think we can safely say that this is being looked into.

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cnn t1_jainpvf wrote

A pre-Hispanic mummy, estimated to be between 600 to 800 years old, was discovered in a food delivery cooler bag by Peruvian police over the weekend.

Police told CNN that the mummified remains were found with three men who were drinking in a deserted park in the Peruvian city of Puno on Saturday afternoon.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/28/americas/peru-mummy-puno-delivery-man-intl-latam/index.html

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YearPurple t1_jaimmcv wrote

As an Indian student in US, the quality of city public libraries in the country was one of the most memorable facets of my American experience. At times, I enjoyed spending time in the city libraries more than in the university libraries. Admittedly, I lived only in college towns in East Coast and Midwest. So, they were perhaps not entirely representative of the country. But i truly appreciated the effort made by cities to have public libraries.

The town I grew up in India had a decent public library. Not a great collection, but for a young autistic kid like me, it felt like a heaven on earth. Every district town used to have a public library until early 1990s. Ironically, as the country became more affluent with economic liberalisation and privatisation, those district libraries declined.

I am rambling but Americans should not take their libraries for granted.

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oddkoffee t1_jailsn7 wrote

naw man there’s no reason to ban it for the entire country. they aren’t gleaning any info about regular people that isn’t already collected/sold/traded by literally every other big company, and there’s value in the ability to exchange information and knowledge easily, even if you don’t like the platform. but it - just like facebook, or what’s app, or any other opt-in privately-owned information-collection program - shouldn’t be allowed on government computers. google/amazon web services are way harder to get away from [which is its own problem] but banning voluntary social media sites that aggregate personal info and log key-presses/voice data from state hardware is pretty easy.

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