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t1_jb7u857 wrote

Reply to The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz (2014) - Portrait of Reddit co-founder, internet whiz kid, open internet activist who committed suicide at the young age of 26 [01:43:40] by

Whenever this is posted I hand out this free advice:

  1. When you get away with one, the police don't forget and the police have your number. Keep your nose clean.

  2. If you fail to keep your nose clean, and if the Feds in particular nail you--and then give you a sweet plea deal--take it. They don't lose. Take the plea.

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t1_jb5l69v wrote

Reply to comment by in Terry Pratchett: Facing Extinction (2013) - Author Terry Pratchett, having been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, returns to Borneo, where 18 years earlier, he encountered wild orangutans for the first time [01:01:50] by

"It's common practice to burn the land before developing a palm oil plantation"

"Many of those that escaped the fires ended up on plantations and in villages-- desperatelylooking for food and protection from the fires. Starving, tired, wounded or sick, many became easy prey for poachers who saw an opportunity to make easy money selling the meatfrom the adults and putting the babies up for sale on the black market. Mothers were butchered and their babies were plucked off their dead and dying bodies in order to be sold into the illegal pet trade."

https://redapes.org/about-orangutans/orangutan-crisis/

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t1_jb4sezu wrote

Reply to comment by in Terry Pratchett: Facing Extinction (2013) - Author Terry Pratchett, having been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, returns to Borneo, where 18 years earlier, he encountered wild orangutans for the first time [01:01:50] by

Right, he wanted to know how they were dying since the palm trees themselves weren't killing them. Turns out it's a combo of habitat loss and being killed hacked apart with machetes by the Indigenous population. And now we know the rest of the story.

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t1_jb3lgkx wrote

Reply to comment by in Terry Pratchett: Facing Extinction (2013) - Author Terry Pratchett, having been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, returns to Borneo, where 18 years earlier, he encountered wild orangutans for the first time [01:01:50] by

>Everyone knows that people who live in an area are the local population

Apparently not, that's what sparked this whole side-thread; someone asked "how they were dying" and couldn't find it readily until they dug and found that quote.

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t1_jb2v7w8 wrote

Reply to comment by in Terry Pratchett: Facing Extinction (2013) - Author Terry Pratchett, having been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, returns to Borneo, where 18 years earlier, he encountered wild orangutans for the first time [01:01:50] by

I mean, unless you somehow imply the local population is killing the orangutans because of their race, how would anyone even accuse you of racism? Everyone knows that people who live in an area are the local population

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