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by authoritarian 7y ago
Throughout history it's been very clearly demonstrated that laws are not always just and impartial. I'd even go so far as to argue that there has never been a time in history where all laws were just and impartial. Having a differ
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by authoritarian 7y ago
Yes, I suppose either way the waste is being created, I'm just not always confronted with it at that level
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by authoritarian 7y ago
I don't necessarily disagree with your statement, but I also don't feel particularly honorable funding invasions of foreign countries, killing civilians with drone strikes, developing and producing massive amounts of weaponry, spy
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by authoritarian 7y ago
I've had one instance with amazon where they clearly drop shipped the product and didn't even take it out of the box. I purchased a single hang-on-back aquarium filter which came in an absolutely massive amazon box, containing ano
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by authoritarian 7y ago
Back when I originally started using Amazon it got me in the habit of not checking prices elsewhere because Amazon was usually the cheapest, and that was also before I started having to pay my states sales tax. Nowadays, I find the prices a
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by authoritarian 7y ago
I didn't say they were equivalent. OP said that there's rule of law, and that if you are hiding from the police you can't claim that having to hide is an act of torture, which is obviously not always the case
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by authoritarian 7y ago
Grapefruit I can see, but what kinds of melons are there that aren't sweet? The most common melons I can think of (watermelon, cantaloupe, honeydew) are all quite sweet. Through googling I found some other melons that appear to mostly
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by authoritarian 7y ago
>even I get concerned with the green movements when they seem to be coming for each part of my life I hold sacred-- a nice warm shower (or two!) is a highlight of my day. How is this article an example of "coming for each part of yo
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by authoritarian 7y ago
I'll never understand why articles discussing environmentalism are always met with a certain amount of comments where people seem to be angry, offended, or otherwise upset as if they're being personally attacked. The police aren&#
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by authoritarian 7y ago
I used to shower daily, but after slowly decreasing to 3 showers a week it's actually had a great improvement on both my skin and hair. I've read articles that have mentioned that it may be because showering too frequently strips
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by authoritarian 7y ago
>Text messaging was available in the razr era but not nearly as ubiquitous as it is today. Relatively few people used it This isn't at all true in my experience, perhaps it's an age/generational thing? Personally, everyone
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Judge Says Police Can Search Company's Entire DNA Database(huffingtonpost.ca)
4 points by authoritarian 7y ago|0 comments
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by authoritarian 7y ago
>Seattle also has a high price-to-rent ratio: https://www.mashvisor.com/blog/best-real-estate-markets-pric... . You may actually lose money on a cash flow basis if you buy. I don't know where they got their numb
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by authoritarian 7y ago
That doesn't sound right to me. I purchased my home about 3 years ago and if I remember correctly on top of principal I would end up paying an extra 40 percent or so in interest. To pay 2 million on a half million dollar loan your inte
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by authoritarian 7y ago
I appreciate that you respond and explain why you disagree rather than simply downvoting and moving on. However, Facebook, and other similar sites, are literally designed to be addictive. Many of the founders of some of the largest social m
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by authoritarian 7y ago
The emotionally charged downvotes from the people that are addicted to facebook will do nothing to change the fact that it IS addicting. It is literally designed to get you addicted, and it's clearly working
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by authoritarian 7y ago
Quote from BI "It's the first known investment by the kingdom since the murder of the American journalist Jamal Khashoggi last year." Not something I'd want myself or my company to be associated with. As usual, I suppose
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by authoritarian 7y ago
Yes, it's absolutely an addiction. I constantly hear people talk about how they can't leave facebook because they'll lose connections with friends and/or family, won't be able to find out about events, or will someh
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by authoritarian 7y ago
Yes, I agree that religions should have to pay taxes. When I said regulate, I meant regulating peoples right to practice
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by authoritarian 7y ago
> the number of Saints who practiced heroic virtue is far greater in Catholicism than any other form of religion or lack Such as Mother Teresa, who allowed people to die in horrible conditions in hospices where patients were given insuff
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by authoritarian 7y ago
While I personally agree that religion overall has a major negative impact on society, and has throughout history, I still don't think they should be made illegal or regulated. People can believe what they want to believe, and trying t
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by authoritarian 7y ago
Yes, it's the same kind of rhetoric that people in pretty much all religions/beliefs/denominations use about all the others to trick people into joining. Yours is wrong, ours is right. Yours is misguided, ours knows the true
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by authoritarian 7y ago
Yes, I knew a girl who was raped and her mother would only allow her to talk to their priest rather than medical and/or mental health professionals. People in the thread are talking about how astrology, religion, psychics, etc. are all
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by authoritarian 7y ago
My dad payed his entire way through college with a part time cafeteria job and graduated with no debt. My tuition was over $50,000 a year and housing, fees, etc. was over $20,000. Even adjusting for inflation, he went to college for a tiny
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by authoritarian 7y ago
Yes, my dad was able to pay his entire way through university (tuition, housing, food, etc.) just with the money he made working part time at the university cafeteria
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by authoritarian 7y ago
Just what the world needs, another social network....
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by authoritarian 7y ago
This seems a bit pedantic. I'm certainly not a mathematician but it does seem obvious that you cannot cut a circle into any number of pieces and rearrange it to be a square, as a circle has curves which would prevent you from making th
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by authoritarian 7y ago
I've never had a job where I had to work more than 5 days and/or 40 hours a week. I did well in school, found a job that values work life balance, and have gone from security intern, to associate security engineer, and finally to
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by authoritarian 7y ago
Anecdotally, since I purchased my house in the summer of 2016 in the PNW, it has appreciated nearly 50%. That's a 6 figure increase just because of the area I live in, and I've done virtually nothing to the home
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by authoritarian 7y ago
Drug possession has been decriminalized in Uruguay since the mid 1970s. As you mention, Portugal also decriminalized all drugs in 2001. Switzerland provides safe injection rooms and needle exchanges for harm reduction

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