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by jriot 9y ago
There are no victims because it is a personal choice. If you want to be fat and lead a horrible life, so be it. Eating healthy is very simple. People research which TV to buy, what television show to watch, what political news story to be e
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I understand the article is more about feeding in mass. However, how hard is it to eat healthy? I don't understand why people have trouble here. It is fairly simple concept we can apply logic to: if food is prepackaged: if food h
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If it costs $5,000 - 10,000 more to hire an American, so be it. The company gets an individual of native culture, native English speaker and a fellow countryman. Plus they are at least within 3 hours based on time-zone - minus Alaska and Ha
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Seeing what other go through and taking care of others children is not the same as raising and caring for your own children. Regardless of how much you want to disagree with me, an individual's opinion without children holds little wei
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Happily childless. Parenting thoughts from a non-parent - pass.
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Comparing doing laundry to taking care of your kids...
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Why would you have kids if you feel taking care of a kid is the worst job in the world?
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Also to note, make sure you go when it is a New Moon i.e., no moon in the sky.
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Giving birth is a gender role, a biological gender role. Breast feeding, what the breasts are biological designed for in women, is not a gender role, it is a biological role. Having children requires sacrifice for both parties. Do you think
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I've seen kids on a vegan diet and they aren't nearly as healthy or strong as kids who eat a non-vegan diet.
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I don't butcher my own animals, but I do purchase half a cow in the fall from a local farmer here in Idaho. In the end it comes out to roughly $6 a pound for grass fed beef. Much cheaper than the grocery store since grass fed ground be
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Nothing is too big to fail. Society needs to be able to adapt and maintain a level of patience during transition times i.e., be patient when Amazon's cloud fails to a new tool.
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None of them would have. It is a stressful job. We created simulated stressful environment and they couldn't handle it. We weren't going to spare their feelings and risk other people's lives.
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I have often wondered if it is sexism or women getting used to how men treat each other. Currently, I am a data scientist, but prior to that I was an air traffic controller (ATC). ATC training was brutal. You come in at 0530 for work/t
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Nothing pisses me off more when I am talking with someone and they take their phone out to check a notification or people using their phone during a conversation or meeting. Once someone pulls their phone out, I stop caring about the conver
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IQ costs Oregon parents their kids, but is that fair?(oregonlive.com)
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As long as the consumer is aware of the lack of safety there is no reason why it can't be sold.
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Berlin doesn't nearly get as hot as the United States. Try sitting inside a house in Mobile, AL in July without air conditioner and see how long you last. Using your water example, what about the deserts in the US that don't have
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It is still used and being produced. Cash will not being dying anytime soon. People are using Bitcoin for many reasons, one of them being privacy, cash provides privacy.
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Do you not think that mining metal, the minting process etc... is not waste?
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The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin. Chinese Science Fiction, really different perspective of hard questions particularly from a Western perspective.
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You forget that those of us who learned to program later in life were doing other things the company finds valuable. I am 32 and have been a data scientist for the past 3 years - completing my PhD in mathematics. Prior to that I was an air
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I was air traffic controller for 11 years - we were trained to speak slow, calm and concise for these exact reasons.
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People with wealth don't have more leisure time because from my experience all their time is spent working to ensure their wealth doesn't dissipate. Furthermore, once you reach a level a certain level of wealth then you want more
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https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2017/06/04/some-modes... One solution. While a small footprint, it is bigger than the comment section combined (assuming we aren't millionaires with priva
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Part of me believes what really is causing the most issues are the proposed solutions to fix climate change. Most of the recommendations I have read insist on raising taxes. I will never vote yes on any tax increase, as I don't trust o
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You just need ask and present your case. My employer and I worked out a $10k raise every year for the next three years. Now I don't concern myself with looking for work anywhere else. I can focus all my attention on the problems I am c
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I compare founding Facebook to be the equivalent of founding Marlboro - highly addictive, bad for your health and provides no social value. In the end of agree with OP.
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You want your money, as shareholder, to return a profit and don't want the company focused elsewhere. However, you want the government to step in to solve this problem using other people's money. That is the problem with America,
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If the password you give them also cleans your device you have given them the password to access your device. How is that lying or misleading? I would argue their invasion of privacy is a crime but no one is watching the watchers, thus thes

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