PolygonSheep

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by PolygonSheep 2y ago
If I made a gift of "The Turner Diaries" to your local school library, would you "censor" it?
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by PolygonSheep 2y ago
> Also I'm assuming someone is pumping him full of every drug available to prevent his decline as much as possible. This seems very similar to claims I heard from Republicans about Biden a year or two ago.
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by PolygonSheep 2y ago
If you eat a bowl of mixed blueberries and raspberries, it actually does taste like blue raspberry. It's a mixture of the two flavors.
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by PolygonSheep 2y ago
That security guarantee to Poland turned out quite expensive in the end.
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by PolygonSheep 2y ago
Mozambique, too. We should bomb them. It's even got the bayonet fixed so there's no confusion about their terrorist intentions.
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by PolygonSheep 2y ago
> The busy supermarket saw people standing directly beside the target perplexed and completely unharmed. This was extremely localized. I saw that video too and I'm happy the bystanders in that case were unharmed but that was 1/
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by PolygonSheep 2y ago
Yes.
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by PolygonSheep 2y ago
I think the political impossibility was that somehow "lab leak" got coded as right/Trumpist. I seem to remember a lot of scientists signing a big open letter that it definitely wasn't a lab leak and to say otherwise was
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by PolygonSheep 2y ago
Thanks for leaving so we don't have to deal with you!
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by PolygonSheep 2y ago
> Kim Davis debacle One Kentucky county clerk refused same sex marriages to people ten years ago, was then jailed for it, forced to do it anyway and this is evidence that many people feel they have the right not to deal with LGBTQ+ peopl
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by PolygonSheep 3y ago
I agree, it was totally reasonable and worth it.
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by PolygonSheep 3y ago
Was Onn ever a "real" brand? I had always assumed it was just a private label brand.
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by PolygonSheep 3y ago
What this reminds me of is the free speech vs. 1st Amendment doesn't apply to private companies discourse in the sense that the spirit but critically not the letter of the amendment is broken
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by PolygonSheep 3y ago
Where do you find the really funny ones?
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by PolygonSheep 3y ago
> Israel should have done a better job of protecting Palestinians from Hamas, as they are now doing: They've protected over 10,000 Palestinians so far!
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by PolygonSheep 3y ago
As someone living in the South, I would really appreciate it if you stopped tarring everyone who lives in a Southern state as a "racist horrible person". There are many millions of people who live in the South. Some of them are ra
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by PolygonSheep 3y ago
Just out of curiosity when did books getting "banned" come to mean "it was taken off the shelves of the library"? It seems like hyperbole to describe such books as "banned" in any meaningful sense of the word.
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by PolygonSheep 3y ago
> Musk meanwhile seems to be bound and determined the continue to make Twitter a place, not were people converse, but a town square full of the worst members of society get to have their anger amplified in what will eventually be nothing
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by PolygonSheep 4y ago
Houstonian here. non-White, non-evangelical Christian families seem to have no trouble here. The area I live in is near 50/50 white/Hispanic. I myself grew up in a non-religious family here and no one ever gave us grief for it, th
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by PolygonSheep 4y ago
Xbox?
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by PolygonSheep 4y ago
> While I don't think this was intended - there is a movement to use place-names as preferred by their inhabitants, rather than their "colonial" names Kind of off-topic, is it just me or is this really inconsistently app
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by PolygonSheep 4y ago
American born and raised here: I always ensure I wash my hands thoroughly after handling raw chicken but I've never worn gloves or ever seen anyone doing it to cut chicken at home. I have seen it in restaurants but that's more to
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by PolygonSheep 4y ago
For me it's just too much comes off as sensational and emotionally manipulating. My mental health improved quite a lot after I stopped all news consumption in 2015. I just pulled up cnn.com as I think most people would agree that'
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by PolygonSheep 4y ago
My question is why get so fancy? Why not just use a racial/gender quota system? Just say "we want X% from demographics A, B, and C" and then hire the best you can from those groups and call it a day? That way you can just dia
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by PolygonSheep 4y ago
> many institutions have a history of seizing land from Indigenous groups The institutions themselves did? How many Ivy League founders forcefully dispossessed indigenous groups specifically so they could build a university on their lan
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by PolygonSheep 4y ago
He must have done quite a lot of rotting in the whole three weeks he was a national security advisor, especially considering that role has nothing much to do with purchasing components, uniforms, or anything else really.
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by PolygonSheep 4y ago
I don't think Michael Flynn did a lot of purchasing of parkas and submarine hull castings.
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by PolygonSheep 4y ago
I do feel a shift in the way people talk about things. There used to be a lot of class-based commentary. Stuff like Walmart abusing workers, CEO pay, Chinese sweatshops, fight for $15. I can't remember the last time I heard about Walma
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by PolygonSheep 4y ago
The same arguments was true for asbestos as well. Asbestos building materials are totally harmless if left undisturbed. But eventually that wall will have to be be repainted/sanded/drilled into/knocked down.
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by PolygonSheep 4y ago
What good is paper ownership if you can't actually use your property?

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