JAlexoid

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by JAlexoid 3y ago
Murder rates have been going down in all developed nations, regardless of the gun ownership statistics. Even being gun regulation advocate, I cannot accept the premise that banning guns will do much to reduce murder rates.
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by JAlexoid 3y ago
Having been born in Europe and having lived in 9 different countries across the whole continent - my experiences have been largely similar.
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by JAlexoid 3y ago
It's gender dysphoria...
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by JAlexoid 3y ago
> its a potential billion dollar industry And that is fine. It's a good motivator to provide a great product. I will never see anyone here complaining about the video game industry... The whole video games industry is pretty much a
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by JAlexoid 3y ago
Not my experience. You can have someone with cancer openly talk about it, but any psychological issue is treated like it's your own personal fault.
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by JAlexoid 3y ago
That's why people use(and abuse) all kinds of substances. It's just your social acceptance of a certain substance is deemed "acceptable"(alcohol), while others are deemed "bad"(THC).
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by JAlexoid 3y ago
> As the parent comment noted, these issues aren't as prevalent in other cultures. So why here? Why is these so much pain that needs to be medicated? They aren't "less prevalent". They're underdiagnosed and untre
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by JAlexoid 3y ago
MDMA is no less popular in Europe, than it is in US. You should read up on harm reduction.
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by JAlexoid 3y ago
Except that it also includes a heavy dose on thinly veiled transphobia. Which is a contributing factor to mental issues and stigma.
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by JAlexoid 3y ago
Take it from someone that's not from US - your comment is ignorant and toxic. In US mental conditions are undertreated, while outside of US they are underdiagnosed and self medicated. I'm from Lithuania, one of the "leaders&q
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by JAlexoid 3y ago
You mean that we're going back to the Moon? Maybe even Mars?
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by JAlexoid 4y ago
Irony is that you get less features, according to their pricing feature graph...
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by JAlexoid 4y ago
You have a very weird understanding on how colleges today operate. There has been a lot of progress in exposing students to broad and multifaceted view of human endeavours. Aboriginal cultures are portrayed in full and with their negative a
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by JAlexoid 4y ago
TikTok also tells you to stop spending time on TikTok.
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by JAlexoid 4y ago
> scams/knockoffs That's the most common issue with MetaZuck - advertisements are riddled with fraud. Outside of Facebook Local marketplace, they are utterly horrendous.
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by JAlexoid 4y ago
I'm sorry, but this sounds like a lot of pseudo-intellectual mumbo jumbo... with a lot of condescending undertones. Instagram is by far the least horrible of social media platforms. It doesn't drag you into comments wars or allows
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by JAlexoid 4y ago
It's not just hiring. It's also training and ramp-up.
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by JAlexoid 4y ago
Coming to US from Europe - in US employees are contractors(hi at will employment), actual contractors are just people who are smart enough to know that.
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by JAlexoid 4y ago
I have yet to meet a good leader, coming out of Meta. I worked with several, and all of them share the. same trait - ignore the problem, till it disappears. They're great to "work" for, but they're horrible at building a
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by JAlexoid 4y ago
> Rural living is for me. Yes. You know where you should be. I'm very adaptive and can do both(to a degree), and a lot of people are like you, me and city dwelling socialites(that pay $5000 for a shoebox apartment in the middle of M
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by JAlexoid 4y ago
I have been robbed at knifepoint, intentionally kicked off my bike by a motorbike, pickpocketed and cash taken from the ATM(with a ruse)... All traumatic events that haunt me to this day. And yet, I still can say that a city is still one of
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by JAlexoid 4y ago
Live in a rural area. Move to Adirondacks, you'll have to drive everywhere - but there's little to no noise and so little light pollution, that you can see the Milky Way. We moved from Williamsburg to Cornwall(NY). We live in a ru
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by JAlexoid 4y ago
Not to mention that many places in US actively oppose or outright ban mixed use developments. (commercial lower levels, with residential on top)
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by JAlexoid 4y ago
That may have been the case like 30-40 years ago, but it's not the case now.
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by JAlexoid 4y ago
I'm an avid cyclist. Just from personal observation, outside of high density urban areas I see very little people on bicycles. Now I moved out of NYC to the suburbs - I know every cyclist in the area, and that's me plus 2 other pe
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by JAlexoid 4y ago
And yet here you come. Replying to my comment, using the same exact techniques created specifically "to win". Literally evoking the feeling of being attack, by introducing thinly veiled insults into your comment. What do you think
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by JAlexoid 4y ago
Chaos for badly managed HOAs, that will have to be dissolved and the property transferred to municipal control... disbanding bad HOAs and leaving properly managed HOAs. I didn't mention that bad HOAs should definitely have the option t
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by JAlexoid 4y ago
That's literally worse.
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by JAlexoid 4y ago
A tailor and laundry are technically industrial use, yet I wouldn't mind having a taylor or a laundry service nearby.
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by JAlexoid 4y ago
I second that. We moved from Manhattan an hour north into a rural area. Our town clears our road continuously during winter, while are property taxes are low single thousands. We get three trash pickups per week and other trash removal serv

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