George83728

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by George83728 3y ago
If they don't need reddit, then they should stop using it to demonstrate that point. > "I'm not addicted, I can quit anytime I want." > "Okay then, prove it and quit today." > "....No."
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by George83728 3y ago
I warned my mother that my brother was eying up the cookie jar, days before taking all those cookies for myself. Just saying.
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> Considering the amount of media attention this has gotten from even mainstream sources including places like the BBC Reddit moderators are uniquely privileged when it comes to making their opinions heard on reddit. The shuttering of
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by George83728 3y ago
Those bots also shit up the S/N and generally disrupt conversations with useless replies nobody asked for. They're a big part of the reason I stopped using reddit. Related: https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/image
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by George83728 3y ago
The word you're looking for is lying.
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by George83728 3y ago
> Also, the Washington Naval Treaty was a complete failure? It set the stage for japan to build more resentment which led to ww2. 1. Attributing the whole of Japan's imperial ambition to the Washington Naval Treaty is farcical. 2
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by George83728 3y ago
Unsurprisingly, Americans generally evaluate American media by American standards.
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Well since you've responded sarcastically, it must be debunked.
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[Not] incidentally, around the world it's easy to find people who know more about American politics than their own local politics. I'm friends online with several Brazilians; they spend as much if not more time talking about Trum
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> A lot of dog whistling with sentiments like "I'm criticizing the Chinese government, not the Chinese people." (spoiler alert: it was both) 'Dog-whistling', meaning they don't overtly say it and you infe
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by George83728 3y ago
A man has a right to be offended by somebody asking him if he is a man. (Woman too, for that matter.) Asking everybody their pronouns by default is an overtly political act, meant to re-engineer society to be more accommodating to people
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by George83728 3y ago
If a gender-fluid pansexual wants to identify their sex as "Yes please", who are you to say they can't? Hmmm.
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Today, you can say that people who think themselves kittens aren't sane and most people won't disagree with you. 20 years ago you could say that men who think themselves women aren't sane, and most people wouldn't disag
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> Nobody wants to ban your cotton bag. Really? Well that's good to hear. Because earlier it seemed like you were agitating against cotton bags with remarks about their 10000x CO2 emissions and remarks like "god forbid reus
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My friend doesn't proselytize. He knew I was an atheist the first day we met and not once has he ever proselytized to me. He conceals the very fact that he is a catholic at work because he has reason to believe (well founded reason
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by George83728 3y ago
> [...] infectious biological weapons because they are near impossible to control. You mean contagious, not infectious. Biological weapons which are infectious but not particularly contagious, such as anthrax, are much easier to co
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by George83728 3y ago
> The lawsuit further mentions that two employees in Bitwarden’s human resources department complained of feeling harassed by Scharf’s religious statements. I am an atheist but my best friend from college is a devout catholic and he te
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by George83728 3y ago
Pros and cons for cotton bags: Pros: Never spills my groceries onto the sidewalk when I'm walking home. Looks nice. Cons: The CO2 emissions of producing... one square yard of cotton cloth. (Btw, how many pairs of pants do you own?
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by George83728 3y ago
What are some good Nero quotes? Wikiquotes only has two; one of which is "I wish I could not write." which seems a bit ironic since it seems most of his writings are now gone.
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> The situation isn’t being shifted Really? Then what male researchers were hanging posters of Lena in classrooms?
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by George83728 3y ago
Libertarians love government contracting. The less the government does themselves, and contract out to corporations instead, the happier libertarians are. Many libertarians even want to abolish the US Postal System so that even that wor
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by George83728 3y ago
Palantir's AI calculated this comment to be the ideal way to derail this conversation. 1. This article has nothing to do with climate change, so why is such a comment the top reply? 2. "nobody says we should stop anything [to add
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by George83728 3y ago
Better to have the rules and sometimes find very compelling reasons to break them, than to never have the rules at all. The rules raise the activation energy. A rule against murder may be overridden when presented with an extreme circums
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by George83728 3y ago
> It mostly boils down to what they personally feel comfortable with emotionally (and that’s fine, but not something you can apply in law for all people). Every democratic country has laws which are motivated by the way people feel emo
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Yes, it's amusing that the simplest way (for atheists such as myself) to justify deontology is with a utilitarian argument; having deontology principles is good because those principles produce good outcomes. But I think my point stan
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Utilitarianism and consequentialism are very dangerous; they make it too easy for people to justify murder by doing a little moral arithmetic and (consciously or subconsciously) putting their finger on the scale by selectively considering o
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> The surface of the moon is 100 m thick blanket of impact debris that has been pulverized over billions of years. Nothing in kind of structure could survive that treatment, regardless of whether it is silicon or carbon based. Impacts
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Across Eurasia you had about 2000 years where people were riding around on chariots with strong spoked wheels, but farms didn't have even primitive wheelbarrows to move rocks off their fields. Moving rocks off fields is back breaking
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From what I understand, there are quite a lot of cosmic rays coming to Earth at 10 TeV and even much higher, so the black hole thing never made any sense to me. Shouldn't cosmic rays have already created an earth-destroying blackhole,
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> North america was pretty isolated from europe but bad things still happened. I don't think this and the hypothetical moon pathogen are comparable. In the case of smallpox in North America, the native Amerindian population had n

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