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(Our World in Data) Beef production in Brazil has been the largest driver of global deforestation in recent decades
Most beef production in Brazil is to meet domestic rather than international demand.
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) tzzzzz FARRRRRSH! AAAAHH– !!
Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger’s The Enthusiast is that novel! It’s even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out! Dick Tracy, 8/30/26 I had kind of lost interest in this Dick Tracy computer hacker storyline, mostly because…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Honestly surprised that toilet lid isn’t carpeted
Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger’s The Enthusiast is that novel! It’s even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out! Pluggers, 8/29/26 The key to unlocking this scene, to my mind, is the cobwebs. Pluggers now spend all…
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(A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry) Collections: Global Trade and United States Navy
This week we’re doing another one of our series of military theory primers, this time focusing on a fairly simple contention: that the United States Navy is a load-bearing component of the global economy. I considered attempting to work in A.T. Mahan and the concept of command of the seas in here but simply outlining…
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( Comments for Austro-Athenian Empire ) Comment on Easy Rider by Libertarian Answer Man: Homesteading Donuts, Hostile Encirclement, and Prostitution as Selling One’s Body
[…] “enclosed estates” is roughly compatible with core libertarian principles. See, e.g., my reply to Roderick Long’s post Easy Rider. Update: See: Collectively Homesteaded Easements and the […]
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(The GiveWell Blog) August 2026 Updates
Every month we send an email newsletter to our supporters sharing recent updates from our work. We publish selected portions of the newsletter on our blog to make this news more accessible to people who visit our website. For key updates from the latest installment, please see below! If you’d like to receive the complete…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Eternal past, eternal present
Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger’s The Enthusiast is that novel! It’s even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out! Andy Capp, 8/28/26 Guitar Bob is an Andy Capp ancillary character who may have been around since the…
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(QC RSS v2) Just Like In Her Animes
Chobits had some problematic elements imho
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(xkcd.com) Launchpad
This is a syndicated post, originally published by xkcd.com at xkcd.com.
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