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Ocean currents, elevation and distance from the equator also have a big impact on what the season is going to feel like.

There's no need to change the dates. They're already arbitrary based on the position of the sun and the earth and people have the experience to take them with the grain of salt necessary to the region they live in. People who live near the equator probably don't have much care for the notion of the winter at all. Folks who live far up north know that spring actually comes in much later than march 21st. People who climb glaciated mountains in the canadian rockies know they won't get summer conditions until late june.


> People who live near the equator probably don't have much care for the notion of the winter at all.

My understanding is that tropical regions tend to divide the year into "wet season" and "dry season".


Do you realize that humans are currently triggering a mass extinction event that may very well threaten the very existence of our species within a couple generations?


Jews aren't all zionists and it's perpetuating jewish hatred to pretend so.


That cash keeps circulating among global black markets after any given invasion.


Which has nothing whatsoever to do with sending money from Chicago to Iran.

The topic here is sending money across sanctioned borders, not local circulation.


Contemporary bandsaws used by people who take workplace safety seriously have emergency brakes for just that reason (countless trained operators also lost fingers). Improving tools is something we've been doing since our ancestors first held a branch. If we satisfied ourselves with good enough we'd live much different lives.


My days of contraband in college taught me that the perspective of repeat business kept things quite amicable.


Your phone very likely runs on an OS created by Apple or Google.


It will pop just in time to put the blame on the liberal that wants to slightly tax the rich and improve the quality of life of working people.


> I'm not sure how fixing my own tractor leads to criminal acts

They're probably pre-criming the killdozer or something.


Apart from safety, the rhetoric of the US government regarding the invasion of former allies has led a lot of people to try really hard to boycott as many American products as they can.


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