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by moate 7y ago
That's assuming they side with the civies and don't rejoin the standing military. Truth is, we have no idea what a US civil war might look like. There would be military defections as well as citizens joining the government. With n
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by moate 7y ago
You're completely overlooking the fact that fighting a foreign war =/= fighting a domestic threat. The Afghanis greatest asset is their ability to use their land/people to hide and strike. I don't think you get that adva
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by moate 7y ago
IDK that "reading things for fun" is a bad habit. I mean, what do you consider good habits? What IS worthwhile and fun? Why can't "doing something fun but of no benefit to the world at large" not be worthwhile? Even
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by moate 7y ago
The school isn't paying the athletes. Yes, there might only be a whisker separating an "alumni sponsorship" and the school itself paying, but that's the alumni's choice. You can't spin out an NFL or NBA minor l
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by moate 7y ago
If you somehow think that "unpaid laborers" in college sports is a socialist ideal, I think you need to do literally any reading at all about what socialism is. How do the workers have any control over the "means of productio
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by moate 7y ago
If that's accurate, and college sports in aggregate have no net positive value to the schools (through alumni donation, local economic stimulus, etc.) that's all the more reason to not support the status quo. That would mean these
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by moate 7y ago
IDK that the chess or debate teams has forced amateur status. They're def not NCAA sports, so they never had to follow NCAA rules. But you can now expect Noah Matricciani to tell you all about AFG's new Epee mask if he so chooses.
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by moate 7y ago
I get that this is your burner account to spam nonsense, but what? I mean, if these are your complaints aren't you just arguing that title IX doesn't go far enough, which is basically a settled matter? I don't believe there&#
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by moate 7y ago
>>That's certainly not going to improve the broken state of post-secondary education in the US. Tangential. This isn't about fixing public education, this is about worker's rights. As for "Wealthy schools get best
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by moate 7y ago
I'm sorry, is this bad satire or are you confused about what this means? Let's say you're the star center on the Stanford's women's team. There's nothing that says you can't get a shoe deal here, the same
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by moate 7y ago
Hypothetically, if a student with a full ride merit scholarship wanted to take a job in his field of study, he could. He could also speak at a conference, write a book, and do all sorts of other things that would allow him to monetize himse
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by moate 7y ago
Probably not? You vote where your primary/legal residence is. If you stay somewhere long enough, that's your primary residency. Congrats, you're now a legal resident and able to vote! Now if you don't actually establish
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by moate 7y ago
>>I think it's that with legalization, some things improved, but it also created a broad market for counterfeit products. I guess? I mean there's always been a market for counterfeit MJ products (everyone's heard the st
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by moate 7y ago
I mean, depending on how far you go down that rabbit hole, people who have personality disorders shouldn't take drugs that help treat their disorders because they alter their perception. You're more than entitled to that belief, b
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by moate 7y ago
I'm not clear here: are you using this as an argument in favor of spinner and their service or as an argument against targeted ads because they're basically just this spinner on a larger scale? If the latter, I'm with you.
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by moate 7y ago
No offense, but your original point was semantics. If you don't want to argue semantics and don't expect semantic discussions to get semantic, IDK what internet you've been using previously, but we have very different user ex
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by moate 7y ago
Sure. But that's not what you said originally, or what I quoted and addressed. That's a very different point to make. You said "nobody". I'm pointing out that "somebody" disagrees with that assessment. You
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by moate 7y ago
Let's break this one down. >>irrationally committed to using and defending drugs. Why is it irrational? You get plenty of libertarians who think that "let me ruin my body if I so choose" types as well as SJW "the w
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by moate 7y ago
>>Doing illegal drugs... The problem isn't the legality (in many places these products are legal to sell, own and consume ignoring the federal prohibitions) it's the oversight and regulation. There was a lot of hasty roll ou
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by moate 7y ago
I think your demographic analysis of those two groups would show greater diversity in the Tech sector than in finance. Look at the variety of opinions on the matter here for some anecdotal evidence.
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by moate 7y ago
>>No one says "I want to be a nerd!" No, we do at this point. There's plenty of people who like it, but I will also accept that there's plenty of people who don't. I consider myself a nerd, and use the term &q
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by moate 7y ago
And now there's one scolding people for commenting...and one pointing out that scolding. Helpful!
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by moate 7y ago
Rereading that again, I see how that could be the take-away now. My first go through was how some people switching to a vegetarian diet say things like 'quitting bacon was the hardest, I kept going back to it for the first month".
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by moate 7y ago
I find it very strange that this comes up from time to time with windmills, but not say, New York City. I'm sure it does something but it feels like "an extremely fluid material being redirected in a relatively small way in an e
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by moate 7y ago
Yes. Like, a ton. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=fiber+on+satiety&hl=en&...
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by moate 7y ago
Oreos are vegan fwiw.
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by moate 7y ago
That's a pretty big omission. Part of why I stopped playing FPS games is specifically because voice chat is both A- Important to team coordination and B- Full of the worst examples of human speech you can encounter. Weird take on their
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by moate 7y ago
Him allowing a toxic culture in which shitty people were hired and allowed to behave poorly is very bad and likely helped push him out. However, those allegations aren't against Neumann, so I personally don't think this quite qual
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by moate 7y ago
This is the weirdest fried chicken recipe I've ever read.
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by moate 7y ago
Here's a good read: https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/9/23/20879656/wework-mess-ex... Short answer: No, it's not a sexual assault thing. It's a "shady self-dealing business" t

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