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EpicAura99 t1_jabn2tu wrote

…has a very good safety record, you’re right!

>the Marine Corps’ MV-22 Osprey has a lower mishap rate per 100,000 flight hours than the Harrier, Super Hornet, F-35B, or CH-53E Super Stallion.

https://www.sandboxx.us/blog/is-the-v-22-osprey-actually-as-dangerous-as-people-think/

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FuschiaKnight t1_jabmttn wrote

fwiw neither party was around 200 years ago (tho Dems are close at like 195 or so years). The Republican started around 1860, so it’s closer to 160 years old.

Back during the Civil War, Republicans were union men who defeated the traitorous losers. As a result, white Southerners wouldn’t be Democrats for generations. Started to change around Wilson, especially FDR, though the final big push wasn’t really until LBJ passed civil rights and voting rights legislation during his huge Democratic-majority Great Society agenda.

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marmorset t1_jabm0az wrote

I'm a real estate agent, housing sales have slowed down, but prices have not dropped at all. They're not as high as the rate of inflation, but they're rising. Demand has dropped because mortgage interest rates have gone up, but supply is down since construction slowed/stopped during the pandemic and that's kept the cost up.

No, the government should not be declaring that housing prices are deflating because that's not at all true.

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OptimalBarnacle7633 t1_jabli7t wrote

I grew up in Hawaii and when I first started traveling was so surprised to learn that people rarely saw rainbows, let alone double rainbows which are common here too. Hell I’ve seen triple rainbows a couple of times

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jfjacobc t1_jabl4mj wrote

Because she was still the first woman senator of the US. Her racism and slaveholding past doesn't change that.

If anything, it makes it all the more important, as she reflected a large portion of society's views at the time. She was appointed as a political move to win points for a Democrat's re-election. Understanding the ugly parts of our past helps us avoid them in our present and future. If we ignore or disregard all the things that don't conform to our modern social standards, how can we critically analyze and grow from them?

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LipTrev t1_jabjmpe wrote

> This isn’t an entirely accurate statement. Chimborazo is the mountain that is farthest from the earth’s core and closest to the sun due the earth’s centrifugal bulge.

But centrifugal is a false force /s

Chimborazo is a perfect example that people who say centrifugal force is a false force really need to close mouth, sit down.

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TronOld_Dumps t1_jabje6q wrote

Honestly I really don't see religion and unique perspective in the same sentence. But agree to disagree I guess... Or whatever they say....

Edit - Religion in a nutshell. Something we can't prove now did something and now we need to worship said thing.

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