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by rfrey 2y ago
The US might be much closer to an authoritarian lurch than 20 or 30 years ago, but don't romanticize the recent past. My understanding is that polls around the time of the Kent State massacre... Where unarmed students were shot in the
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Anything else you strongly disagree with, that you'd like banned?
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Is it your position that Lenin and Stalin rose to power as the result of foreign influence?
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That's not a convincing rebuttle. Saying that "drinking water is healthy" is controversial because "drink 1000 litres in a day and see how that goes" does not help the conversation.
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"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will pe
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What's hard to understand? It's Russian financed propaganda, with courier services provided by the far right and far left. The far right happens to be in control of the Republican party at the moment, so we hear more if it with th
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by rfrey 2y ago
>Culture-wise, it’s unthinkable for Europe to come around and revive the military-industrial complex I'm not sure that means what you think it means. Eisenhower wasn't being complementary when he coined that term.
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My local library doesn't have ads posted all over the place, or anywhere for that matter.
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Why would they bother with that, when they have a perfectly usable constellation of space lasers?
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Is it legal in the US to directly market cigarettes to children? Why not?
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Putting your money into an index fund is the exact opposite of what is being advertised, e.g. trading platforms optimized for day trading, complete with blinkenlighten and "learn to trade" mini courses teaching technical indicator
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Preorder now, delivery in 10,000 years.
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The confusion is because "BOK" is not "book of knowledge" but "body of knowledge". So a "guide" as a canonical source kinda makes sense.
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Dan Gelbart Mec520 – Sensors and Actuators for Control Systems(youtube.com)
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Were you drinking coffee before Starbucks came on the scene? I was, and if you could find a cafe that served better than a brown crayon steeped in water, it was a rare treasure.
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With the caveat that they can only be charged a nominal fee, say the actual production cost of the drug. It would be good to avoid fraudsters stripping desperate people if all their assets
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That's just not so. Most profs were in school years before the internet was ubiquitous. And asking a friend to do your work for you is simple, but far from free.
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>Those people definitely existed, but were pretty rare. Maybe you are one of them. Statistically, probably not. Mexico has approximately the same per-capita sugar consumption as Italy, Spain and France, yet the obesity rate exceeds that
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by rfrey 2y ago
Of course I eat carbs when I shouldn't. Not the bread, but I eat potatoes sometimes, and too much fruit. I'm not denying that I eat too much. The point is you claim that if we gluttons would just cut out sugar for 2 weeks and lear
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by rfrey 2y ago
I bake bread for my family every day because I can't get bread in Canada that has no sugar. I'm aware of how insidious sugar is. You obviously deal with a lot of obesity that is caused by excessive sugar consumption. Your conclusi
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by rfrey 2y ago
2 lbs a week is a 1000 calorie per day deficit. My loss was closer to half a kilo a week. I have fluctuated between 85 and 210 kg since I was 16 or so. I am now 54. Of course I am not saying my body violates the laws of thermodynamics. Afte
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by rfrey 2y ago
I eat almost zero processed foods and very little sugar - mostly from fruit. I shop exclusively on the perimeter of the grocery store and eat at a restaurant maybe once a month, with all my meals cooked at home. I try my best to limit porti
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by rfrey 2y ago
> Never send back food. I like my steak rare. But if someone doesn't, and the kitchen messes it up, the correct response is to either choke it down, or leave a $65 meal uneaten on your plate?
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by rfrey 2y ago
Because as oil reserves are depleted, oil is extracted from more and more difficult places. Deeper wells, less porous rock, etc. these new sources require more energy to extract the same amount of oil.
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by rfrey 2y ago
We're not talking about "all algorithms" any more than the alcohol example is talking about "all liquids". Social media algorithms have one purpose: to manipulate people into more engagement, to manoeuvre them into
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It is a constant and omnipresent discussion.
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Your original post said "It's not the job of the lawmakers to follow the constitution". To my ear, "follow" is a lot closer to "support and defend" than it is to "interpret".
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by rfrey 2y ago
> people who expect me to care about my appearance You seem to care about your appearance a lot, and also seem to be putting a lot of effort into cultivating a particular image. There used to be a lot of punk rockers in high school who &
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by rfrey 2y ago
Every ideology that promotes radical change, including extremely positive radical change, will develop some extremists and ideologues. Animal welfare groups have groups who would murder humans to save cows. Environmental groups have fringes
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You're absolutely right, there was also apple juice as a fallback.

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