"FBI data from 2017 showed that of the 20 biggest cities in the United States, San Francisco had the highest rate of property crimes per capita"
"Walgreens could argue that the level of retail theft in San Francisco remains so high that year-over-year decreases are not moving the needle and operating in San Francisco remains unprofitable"
another link in the article: SF ranks high in property crime while it ranks low in arrests
> Did anyone need footage to know this is an ongoing practice?
IIRC, racial quotas are illegal discrimination, and in the video sounded like the CEO was talking about quotas (the percentages for blacks and Hispanics seem to line up with the percentages in the general US population). Maybe it could be seen as a direct admission of guilt.
But in any case, while no one probably "needed" this footage in some kind of abstract technical sense to infer this practice was happening. In a practical sense, such a blunt admission from someone in power is needed to get the point across to people who aren't paying attention.
As a side note, as a Portuguese person I think they could have found an easier word for non-portuguese speakers. Not sure if the english speakers around the world will be able to say the nasal "em" correctly or with ease.
> Not sure if the english speakers around the world will be able to say the nasal "em" correctly
Probably they won't, but then so what? The consequences of miss pronouncing the name of a subsea cable seem quite mild to me. It is not like you have to pronounce it quick over the radio with no ambiguity allowed to save life or limb. :)
Every time that medical staff is assaulted in Portugal, specially when the code word "family" is used, we already know it was done by a Gypsy group or family who couldn't be bothered to wait in queue to be looked at.
The other "low income, uneducated people" never do such things, always the same group.
Come again? You mean the self-grandizing, almost sacked twice, never really promoted anti-semite Patton? And the lying about flight ime to get decorations, life desteoying, actually sacked and rediculed McCarthy?
But I'll bite, how exactly were those two individuals right about anything? Can ypu share some specific details?
>I have heard that the switch from the main consumed beverage from alcohol based drinks to caffeine based drinks may have possibly contributed to the Enlightenment.
Why didn't the caffeinated beverages stimulate the advancement of science in the countries where those plants are native from?
It possible did. I think coffee was created in Arabia in the 900s. Weren’t the Arabic countries way ahead of Europe in terms of technology for those several hundred years?
Not in that way. Arabic expansion grew a new layer above cultural heritage of East Mediterranian region, and Persia, and its most important centers were exactly there, showing a lot of continuity with their "pre-coffee" roots. Which I think contradicts your theory.
Good to see countries realize that if they just export raw materials and don't do any industrial processing locally, then they are mere colonies of a foreign power.
Even if the bigger part of the profits travels abroad, if the industrial knowledge stays in the country and also has a network effect on other industries and businesses, then it's a win on it's own.
Specially in this case where I doubt Chile even has the know-how and funds to explore the lithium on their own without foreign help.
setting up a whole industrial value chain from mine to manufacturing & servicing is not guaranteed to succeed in any shape or form, "forcing it" has historically only been pet projects for the hegemons of the time, and a lot still failed, like Soviet computing industry and now (probably) the PRC chip manufacturing (sudsidized with at least like 120 billion$)
>If local culture is still preserved, taught and celebrated, is a really a problem?
Yes because it won't be really preserved if you don't have speakers who use it as their main language since nothing new will be created, just relics of the past that will slowly be lost.
Most people other than highly-cosmopolitan minorities don't think they should lose their language, which is so deeply tied with how we even process our understanding of the world, by mapping concepts to words, with their culture and identity, just to make it easier for foreigners who can't be bothered to learn the local language.
The problem is that the minority is way more vocal and has more influencing power.
Obviously there's no patterns to be recognized in there. Nothing whatsoever. Move along citizen.