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Blazerer t1_jdzzot7 wrote

You do realise that, in your story, he must have already had the drugs on him when he boarded? In the US? And he had drugs in his pocket?

Besides the fact that whatever your target destination might have been might not have laws against marijuana, the story does not make any kind of sense when accounting for someone who supposedly smuggled marijuana in his pocket through US customs...when flying.

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patman_007 t1_jdzwlm4 wrote

I'm chalking this to the author not understanding what they were writing. Because if you read the article they flip back and forth between stating the growth rate will peak at that population marker, followed by that the population itself will peaked then. And those are two totally seperate peaks, honestly don't think they could predict the highest possible population that would be harder to determine. NOW, looking through some other info it does appear it is the population that peaks around 8.6 billion.

You need to restudy calculus. Because that's exactly what my point is derived from - see what I did there?? The growth peak will not be the same time as the growth rate peak ( a secondary difference). The growth rate will peak, and THEN when the growth rate hits 1 to 1 the population will begin to decline.

What your stating would be true if humans had kids on a 1:1 ratio, but if the population growth rate peaks at 4 children per 2 adults than there will be a period of time when the growth rate declines from 4 children per to 2 children per and that will still see an increase in population, even post peak growth rate.

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FtheMustard t1_jdzwcnn wrote

The lady that used to clean my mom's house was also a blackjack dealer in a Pennsylvania casino (Parx). She told me that she would do an 8 hr shift, go home for the night, come back the next day and do another 8 hr shift with the same people at the table. She said the casino's profits were almost entirely driven by addicted gamblers.

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DigitalArbitrage t1_jdzvvll wrote

They were the lowest bidder on a government contract to provide face scanning to sign in for filing federal taxes. Basically every adult in the U.S. would have been required to give them face scans if civil liberty groups hadn't pushed back on it.

For decades police in some states (e.g. Florida) have also been using databases of driver's license photos to search for fugitives.

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