grotsnot

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by grotsnot 1y ago
So the existing ones don't need government money, then, right?
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by grotsnot 7y ago
The USSR very much came about due to a bunch of people deciding that the status quo had to go
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by grotsnot 7y ago
>And voila, you are now walking the surface of another world couple light years away from your destination No I'm not, my clone is. My consciousness is right where it started, making this an extremely limited form of "travel&qu
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by grotsnot 7y ago
FTA: "Many Catholics object to the fact that embryos are routinely discarded during the IVF process"
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by grotsnot 7y ago
"As the Americans learned so painfully in Earth's final century, free flow of information is the only safeguard against tyranny. The once-chained people whose leaders at last lose their grip on information flow will soon burst wit
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by grotsnot 7y ago
Truly one election not going your way is proof we should go back to serfdom. The proles must learn their place!
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by grotsnot 7y ago
So you basically just want other governments to shoulder Americans' healthcare costs. Doesn't sound like a win for them
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by grotsnot 7y ago
Generally, you don't just sit and listen. You do it while doing something else that is non-audio, like commuting or exercising or cleaning or cooking or...
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by grotsnot 8y ago
22*1.3 = 28.6
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by grotsnot 8y ago
Does it help to think of it as `r/somefansofslatestarcodex` instead of as a subreddit run by the blog's author?
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by grotsnot 9y ago
Sounds like the problem is with having political parties, not the EC.
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by grotsnot 9y ago
If millions of people each like Oprah enough to give her a dollar, she makes millions. (pardon the napkin math) If you live in a town of, say, 25k people and your town has 10 garbage collectors (napkin math: each pair covers 1000 people&#x2
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by grotsnot 9y ago
IANAE but it sounds like when imports get cheaper, importers pocket as much of the the difference for as long as they can get away with it. When imports get more expensive, they pass on as much as they can to consumers as quickly as they ca
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by grotsnot 9y ago
Trauma like having a bunch of idiots yammering away in class so that the rest of us can't get an education?
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by grotsnot 9y ago
Would the war have actually ended early if Germany had taken Paris? With the British and Russians still unmolested on their own turf, wouldn't the French have tried to retake the city instead of surrendering? Or at least their allies k
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by grotsnot 9y ago
mindcrime is the "original commenter" that bherms is referring to...
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by grotsnot 10y ago
Biology question: does having a tubal ligation affect a subsequent IVF pregnancy at all? Are there records of such a case happening?
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by grotsnot 10y ago
How so?
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by grotsnot 10y ago
> working Americans often suffer the most severely from the impacts of poor mobility. You missed an important qualifier, there.
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by grotsnot 10y ago
When does she ever change future events? Sure she needed knowledge from the future to make that future happen but that's just a time loop, not altering the foreseen future.
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by grotsnot 10y ago
That seems a bit harsh. One could just as easily claim that Trump's opponents can't fathom him doing anything well and give him even less credibility than he deserves. While both assertions give that nice truthiness rush, neither
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by grotsnot 10y ago
One can still argue with paid PR without resorting to ad hominem and boo lights...
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by grotsnot 10y ago
A more neutral way to put it would be that the ACLU is in favor of abortion rights and many conservatives are in favor of fetal rights.
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by grotsnot 10y ago
That's... not entirely accurate: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sid_Meier%27s_Alpha_Centauri#P... (2nd one for Peacekeepers) I loved my chosen. How then to face the day when she left me? So I took from her bo
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by grotsnot 10y ago
To be fair, the guy is in his 50s. 40someodd years ago was a different world and he's just describing the attitudes of the time. Boys played with boys and girls played with girls. I interpreted as Lanza merely walking us through the th
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by grotsnot 10y ago
I'm a dude, he's a dude, she's a dude, we're all dudes
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by grotsnot 10y ago
That same first amendment also contains the ostensible provision for businesses to bar African Americans via freedom of association. But as country we (rightly) decided that that's bullshit and enacted laws to stop that practice. It&#x
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by grotsnot 10y ago
It's just an outlier to the trend. So "exclude" in this case is just a qualifier to the statement and doesn't reflect an actual desire to treat the company differently.
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by grotsnot 11y ago
It might help your case to pick an example other than trotting out the old paedo boogeyman. I can see the point you're making, but there's a red flag for "THINK OF THE CHILDREN!" fear-mongering.
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by grotsnot 11y ago
> 45% of all global wealth is concentrated in just 4.6% of the world's population. Why do you say that like it's a good thing?

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