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by invalidOrTaken 2y ago
I don't think this is an apt analogy. It would be more like "I only robbed your house b/c you threatened to join the neighborhood watch, after twenty years of explicit promises by the neighborhood watch that you wouldn'
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by invalidOrTaken 2y ago
I have in mind a friend who on first contact, comes off as somewhat superficial and business-brained, b/c he's always hitting people up for lunches, or calls, and likes to talk about jobs. The thing is, he does that all the tim
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by invalidOrTaken 2y ago
The key is to mean it. Then it's not inauthentic.
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by invalidOrTaken 2y ago
The goofy thing about all this is that HotS is really good if you judge it on its own merits. I played DotA for a long time, switched to HotS, and never looked back.
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by invalidOrTaken 2y ago
bring it on lol
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by invalidOrTaken 2y ago
I had a blast with Klik'n'Play as a kid. The modern version is called Clickteam Fusion. Revisited it a while ago with my nephew, it has a pretty good tutorial. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clickteam
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by invalidOrTaken 2y ago
Honestly I was afraid of this, but when I walked up to the front desk to quit, I was given a clipboard with a single piece of paper. It was pretty painless. EXCEPT . There was no way to cancel online , so, may they go to hell. But like
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by invalidOrTaken 2y ago
This map (scroll down to the chart and click the "Map" tab) is worth a look though. https://ourworldindata.org/fertility-rate
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by invalidOrTaken 2y ago
if it helps, my parents were not overprotective, and I was in a similar place when I was 19
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by invalidOrTaken 3y ago
>I think the problem is, for many people, the value of their land is kind of irrelevant. If only that were so! Then the American real estate market wouldn't have been artificially stacked in favor of homeowners for the last eighty
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by invalidOrTaken 3y ago
While moving is certainly not costless, keep in mind that this grandma moving and selling has just had a huge windfall.
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by invalidOrTaken 3y ago
Mathjax can output MathML, actually. It's as easy as linking to tex-mml.js
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by invalidOrTaken 3y ago
>Among my friends seeking to buy houses, the greater problem is the ability of large companies to buy up whatever is on the market, which they then immediately turn into a rental. It’s nearly impossible to compete with a company who will
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by invalidOrTaken 3y ago
There are not nearly enough white, black, East Asian, Latin, or Native American scientists and STEM graduates.
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by invalidOrTaken 3y ago
>I think we're all intelligent enough to recognize that she's obviously talking from her experience. She is talking from her experience, sure, but she's certainly going well beyond that! >There’s a phrase I heard toss
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by invalidOrTaken 3y ago
>It makes sense to me that a woman who feels like she experienced sexism at the workplace from men have a poor opinion of the men there. This does not make sense to me. I've experienced poor treatment from whites, blacks, men, wo
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by invalidOrTaken 3y ago
I mean, that right there is sort of a logic disproof of the concept of omnipotence---"Could God make a rock so heavy He couldn't lift it," etc. But more seriously imo is the why . Why make yourself less powerful? And any a
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by invalidOrTaken 3y ago
certainly, but Christ specifically prayed not to have to through with it (or the ordeal in the garden, depending on your interpretation), when He prayed: >Saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my
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by invalidOrTaken 3y ago
don't worry, I already got my dose of theo-argument out of twitter the other day. To your question, I basically agree with Russell's argument that a truly omnipotent God can just skip means and go straight to ends. But there are
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by invalidOrTaken 3y ago
for Christianity, at any rate, hard omnipotence is clearly ruled out by the Crucifixion
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by invalidOrTaken 3y ago
"Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature" is much older than the LDS church.
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by invalidOrTaken 3y ago
Yeah man
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by invalidOrTaken 3y ago
>the problem is that their solution is very often to revert to traditional norms. Perhaps so, but TFA rejects that solution, stressing the importance of acquiring one's own values through experience. Traditional wisdom can be help
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by invalidOrTaken 3y ago
I had pizza with the author once. This makes sense: >Well-grounded values, which is to say values that actually serve and accelerate life rather than deplete it, come from only one source: hard engagement with reality, where you can form
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by invalidOrTaken 3y ago
what indeed
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by invalidOrTaken 3y ago
There is another use for prisons unmentioned: keeping the prisoners out of the way of the rest of society.
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by invalidOrTaken 3y ago
worth noting that the Roman and Greek empires did, in fact, fall
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by invalidOrTaken 3y ago
hypocrisy, perhaps, but a ready analogy might be the heroin addict who, lucid at the moment, pleads with you to send them to rehab.
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by invalidOrTaken 3y ago
Socially things have definitely moved left. Pick $SEX_THING, consider its status now relative to 10/20/30 years ago and it should be pretty obvious. Economically it's...weird, and you could argue that it hasn't really m
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by invalidOrTaken 3y ago
echoing nickelcitymario, would love to hear what you're working on

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