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moccachino
9y ago
I'm not going to explain to you why it matters in which direction societies evolve. And yes, the 'wrong' candidate obviously can exist, for example the one that deceives the voter.
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The ugly truth is that while you may be very conscious of how you spend your time online and what you interact with, the majority of people simply is not, and many people are ill-equipped to even understand how they are being manipulated to
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9y ago
I must say I find it very hard to wrap my head around that you would say that the creation of a medicine to cure a real disease is not a work of value.
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9y ago
It is my understanding that BMI is pretty much useless for the individual to know, but it is a valuable aggregate statistic. So it makes sense for the doctor to record your BMI for the national database, but you obviously have much better i
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9y ago
Completely agree, but I was responding to the comment that suggested men don't become teachers because they are afraid of sexual harassment suits
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9y ago
Teaching young kids is a genuinely hard job which is severely underpaid in almost all countries. I think that is the primary reason for men not flocking into teaching.
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9y ago
Your comment reminded me of https://xkcd.com/1891/
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9y ago
I can believe that. Not to belittle Tiger Woods or anything, but golf is not a sport in the same way that basketball or triathlon is a sport. EDIT: This was poorly worded. Golf is a sport, but I don't know that a professional golfer is
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I was not aware of this "Dear Muslima" thing, but let's analyze it. Someone makes a video complaining about being propositioned (I didn't watch the video but read the context). Dawkins, a homosexual who as been around fo
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9y ago
You are confused. 1) Sam Harris / Richard Dawkins are not promoting any of these Bad Qualities (xenophobia, racism, sexism, etc.). You seem to concede that because you now talk about "lots of younger atheists" that "form
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9y ago
That you associate them with any of the things you mentioned tells me you haven't listened to or read any of their works with the intention of understanding the contents, rather than picking out sentences that can be twisted to fit int
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9y ago
I feel you, I do this so often :/
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9y ago
The Finns will save us! Also, can't blame the Germans for being unsure which side to be on in the next great war..
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9y ago
Only for the software, not for the hardware, duh!
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9y ago
You have more interesting meetings than I have..
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9y ago
I saw this the other day and it looks like something I need! But I have been periodically checking it since to see if a crucial (for me) feature is added. Which is: Do you have plans to add the ability to put "real" people as SOs