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721.
by growlist 7y ago
It's so simple to get condoms and wear them - or to just partake in a lower risk sexual activity. No one is forcing anyone to have risky sex: it's a choice, and just as we don't accept arguments that men's desires are so
722.
by growlist 7y ago
I do wonder whether this fund should be subject to punitive measures, since it is built on an activity that is generally acknowledged to be destroying the planet. It's not right that a group of people should be able to insulate themsel
723.
by growlist 7y ago
It's called a Space gun: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_gun You also might be interested in SpinLaunch: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpinLaunch
724.
by growlist 7y ago
Definite devaluation to information since the internet came along. I used to read books and magazines cover to cover when I was a kid as there was nothing else to do! Sundays were especially bad. Thank god for books.
725.
by growlist 7y ago
That was ruled by a court of law to have been accurate. And how do you know they all voted specifically due to that? You don't.
726.
by growlist 7y ago
> I do NOT associate my identity with my nation though. I associate it with my hobbies and work. Indian conduct has been equally abhorrent, that is my point, yes. EVERY nation. No worries. But you don't get to determine how other pe
727.
by growlist 7y ago
> I am openly contemptuous of a lot of my countrymen for their aggressive refusal to listen to reason and their vindictive pursuit of policies which have harmed a lot of my friends Appreciate your honesty, but you live in a society and o
728.
by growlist 7y ago
> I'm saying tying your identity to a nation is a cesspit to begin with. Well, good luck in your re-education programme for the majority of the world's citizens then that identifying with their nation is horrific. Who are you,
729.
by growlist 7y ago
Can't reply to your post below, but - net migration to the UK is running at hundreds of thousands per year, which is apparently causing all kinds of tensions with public services and society. You can't just hand wave that away by
730.
by growlist 7y ago
As with another poster, you are mistaking me advocating for these things, whereas I am just observing. The argument is made that leaving the EU for more or less tangible feelings around sovereignty, identity etc. is futile because leaving t
731.
by growlist 7y ago
So the British are not permitted their own identity now? Both Dresden and the famine you cite are debatable. But anyway you are mistaken if you think I am advocating. I'm not. I am observing/speculating that I think many people th
732.
by growlist 7y ago
So for you 17.4m voters are equivalent to flat earthers then? Deary me.
733.
by growlist 7y ago
I'm not arguing on the rationality or otherwise, just saying that the dry economic arguments aren't necessarily the ones that have traction with voters. I don't think that's a controversial thing to say. On those other i
734.
by growlist 7y ago
You're honestly arguing the BBC is giving equivalent levels of coverage?
735.
by growlist 7y ago
Or policing hurty tweets rather than chasing rapists.
736.
by growlist 7y ago
The BBC in 2019: ignores the the barbaric suppression of the Gilets Jaunes protests; gives comprehensive coverage on the protests in Hong Kong. Treat with scepticism.
737.
by growlist 7y ago
I think plenty of people that voted Leave put other concerns - identity, sovereignty, community etc - above the strictly economic. And why shouldn't they? We don't only live for money, do we?
738.
by growlist 7y ago
Statistics about the Remain/Leave make up of panels on Question Time, Politics Live etc. say otherwise.
739.
by growlist 7y ago
'They could achieve anything any other human could in their lives.' this is just preaching
740.
by growlist 7y ago
Broken window fallacy - whatever is spent on this won't be spent on something else.
741.
by growlist 7y ago
And of course it's pure coincidence that draconian measures of control over the populace are being justified by the spectre of climate change, brought to you courtesy of our child-messiah Greta.
742.
by growlist 7y ago
If you want deadly British tidal flats, try Morecambe Bay.
743.
by growlist 7y ago
It's a real mess isn't it. Personally I'm awed by Japanese cuisine, which seems to have integrated the need for healthy nutrition with amazing flavours and satiety, and embedded it into the culture as a cherished component. R
744.
by growlist 7y ago
It's not about economic poverty. Firstly food is (as I understand it) pretty much at its cheapest ever, even zero cost from food banks (notwithstanding the supposed shame, and I can tell you my family would have had no shame in taking
745.
by growlist 7y ago
I'd be quite happy if they could just drive up and down the motorway themselves in reasonable conditions. Seems like we're pretty close to that already, and that hasn't even required wiring them all up to talk to each other.
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by growlist 7y ago
The UK has an extensive potash mine. Quite an amazing site - it extends out under the North Sea in places and has a laboratory doing various interesting science: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boulby_Mine But what struc
747.
by growlist 7y ago
Hard times make hard men, I'd venture.
748.
by growlist 7y ago
We used to celebrate eccentricity in Britain, but these days sadly it's often under attack.
749.
by growlist 7y ago
That's not what I'm saying at all! I'm firstly criticising the use of a particular rhetorical device that I think has become ineffective, and secondly pointing out the inconsistency when those that would advocate all kinds of
750.
by growlist 7y ago
> 'If we continue to degrade the soil at the rate we are now, the world could run out of topsoil in about 60 years, according to Maria-Helena Semedo of the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization.' I don't personally find t

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