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xmorecowbellx t1_jdtylbg wrote
Reply to From millionaires to Muslims, small subgroups of the population seem much larger to many Americans by jrdjared
There are only 26 million Sikhs in the world and 24 million live in India. Yet seems like they are everywhere here in Canada. Perceptions can be very odd.
xmorecowbellx t1_jb4upjp wrote
Reply to comment by geographresh in Study reveals that although private automobiles continue to be the dominant travel mode in American cities, the share of car trips has slightly and steadily decreased since its peak in 2001. In contrast, the share of transit, non-motorized, and taxicab trips has steadily increased by giuliomagnifico
Those things, and also just the increasing difficulty to find free parking in major centres, along with the rise of Uber/Lyft, lowering cab prices a bit.
xmorecowbellx t1_j11hqv3 wrote
Reply to comment by Driver8666-2 in Brooklyn pastor who was robbed while preaching charged with wire fraud and lying to FBI in unrelated case by Octavus
China’s conviction rate is 99%. Checkmate atheists.
xmorecowbellx t1_jdu5fuk wrote
Reply to Vivek Venkataraman argues that political equality and proto-democracy were the most common form of political organisation in the "state of nature". These ideals preceded modern liberalism & statehood, and are arguably how humans have lived the majority of our evolution. by Ma3Ke4Li3
Kind of makes sense since most of these groups would have been very small, and a small group can teach a rough form of consensus or pseudo-consensus (just family heads or similar) and a lot invested in each other’s viability.