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calme_toi commented on Sand trafficking in Latin America   insightcrime.org/news/the... · Posted by u/josh-sematic
calme_toi · 7 months ago
Reminds the sand trafficing espicode from NPR Planet Money: Peak Sand https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018/07/13/628894815/epis...

>A few years ago, an entire beach in a remote area of Jamaica vanished. Thieves dug up hundreds of tons of sand and hauled it away in dump trucks in the middle of the night. The sand--white, powdery, Caribbean sand--was worth about a million dollars.

calme_toi commented on Ask HN: Are there any search engines without AI?    · Posted by u/ochrist
calme_toi · 2 years ago
For me, it’s ask questions in r/ask Reddit or r/eli5 if you are not in a hurry of getting the answers.

Asking questions in forums has been a habit I picked up recently.

The process of writing it down and describing it to other people really helps a lot than I expected.

calme_toi commented on Senate Bill to Ban TikTok   congress.gov/bill/118th-c... · Posted by u/WUMBOWUMBO
calme_toi · 2 years ago
This somehow reminds me when China banned Google.

"Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning."

u/calme_toi

KarmaCake day256April 13, 2022View Original