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bluntly: why would an Indian news website use metric to satisfy a bunch of foreigners who don't read their paper over a cultural numbering system that people on the Indian subcontinent have used for centuries without problems and which is almost universally understood across the subcontinent's dozens of languages
It’s bizarre but many cities are run by folks with no real knowledge of how cities are run, so it makes sense why it happens.
i don't think this is particularly true--i think a lot of it just boils down to simple, short-term economic math. frankly, a lot of US land area is in an economic death spiral that makes a Walmart much more appealing than trying to maintain the existing local business community. you can't count on people keeping businesses in the family in the middle of nowhere--but you can safely assume if you bend over enough for Walmart they'll stick around and employ people. lotta mayors will take that consistency every time
better fit for the World News or Environmental sections, nothing more
When I see a comm called ‘Socialism’ I wouldn’t expext an analysis on the Haji in Saudi Arabia.
i mean, no offense but: virtually all contemporary subjects are shaped by class conflict or capitalist hegemony and it seems like it'd be a much better use of time for socialists to explicitly and plainly make those connections, than endlessly theorypost or relitigate the anarchist/communist or social democrat/socialist or Trotskyist/ML splits
The solution here is to just provide enough cooling methods I would say. I feel putting this in a wider ‘capitalist and climate’ frame is a bit overdone.
in what way? Saudi Arabia is already so hot (and at times humid) that going outside at all is potentially lethal--in no small part because it is a capitalist petrostate whose existence is predicated on cheap oil warming the planet--which also renders much of the Hajj literally impossible to do in any safe manner since it must be done outside. the climactic and capitalistic ties are fairly obvious here to me.
also, it's worth noting, the article explicitly notes one problem (of several) with your proposed solution:
Technological adaptations such as air-conditioning do work. But they are not available to all. Nor are they fail-safe. During a heat wave, many of us turn on the aircon at the same time, using lots of power and raising the chance of blackouts. Blackouts during heat waves can have deadly consequences.
Kind of annoying to have to click the damned link if the text can just be in the body of the post. What, do you work for PC gamer?
no offense but why are you on a link aggregator (and a clone of Reddit in particular) if you're averse to clicking links? that's literally the point of this form of social media: emphasis on sharing interesting links from other places, with the expectation that you'll follow them.
in any case we strongly discourage the practice of copying the entire article because it's technically copyright infringement, we generally expect people to actually engage with what's posted instead of drive-by commenting, and it's just generally bad form to rob writers of attention and click-throughs for their work.
i think contextually this article would make the point that it's directed at white people considering wearing dreads and not other non-white groups, but yes it is pretty corny to effectively frame black people as the only group that has a cultural tradition of locked hair
i'm sorry but this is not the place to have a meltdown over this. you're not the center of the universe and not everything is a personal affront to you because it doesn't frame things in a way you would prefer
this is, respectfully, the goofiest objection i've ever seen. stop being so fragile over a headline
no offense but: i can't believe that a statist society, which gives the state a monopoly on violence, gets to decide who lives or dies
you've been having a minor meltdown throughout this thread to anybody who asks you basic follow-up questions. take three days off and stop it