therealforsen

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by therealforsen 7y ago
Why would an individuals fertility be increased because the fertility of his group is increased? The gene would not propagate unless he has more children than his peers. There is no evidence of evolution by natural selection to begin with,
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by therealforsen 7y ago
The notre dame belongs to a traditional institution. It should be reconstructed exactly the same as before, not by the modern aesthetics of people who don't even attend church.
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by therealforsen 7y ago
Next: a protest to protest the retaliation for the protest against retaliation
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by therealforsen 7y ago
You should re enable it. Amber alerts are when a kid has been kidnapped and is probably going to raped or killed. You should do your part to watch for the perpetrator.
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by therealforsen 8y ago
I have yet to be told why it is important for there to be as many women in STEM as men apart from statements that I'm sexist for not knowing
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by therealforsen 8y ago
I wonder what the lowest limit on work-time is for productivity. That would be interesting to know. Also, companies could only pay people for that many hours.
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by therealforsen 8y ago
It's social engineering
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by therealforsen 8y ago
I would bet the reason it was mentioned was to make China sound technologically advanced. Similar to when they spread the lie about being a leader in green technology around when the Olympics were hosted there. They established faux solar p
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by therealforsen 8y ago
Why would China become less authoritarian? They can continue to grow and gain power without doing so.
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by therealforsen 8y ago
That's creepy to associate young people's blood plasma with nectar of the gods.
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by therealforsen 8y ago
The funny part of it to me is the cognitive dissonance of people who both believe that a change of less than 1 degree in global mean temperature over a century will destroy the Earth, but also that we'll be terraforming Mars by then.
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by therealforsen 8y ago
stalin was worse than hitler. caused much more death and misery.
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by therealforsen 8y ago
Turns out when you save the world from Hitler, you don't have to be a paragon.
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by therealforsen 8y ago
i think by globalism he means that free trade brings with it the free movement of labor across countries >what type of alternate reality could exist where foreigners would be polite enough to not, like, turn a wrench or run an assembly l
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by therealforsen 8y ago
the US constitution only applies to US persons. someone living in china doesn't actually have freedom of speech protected by our constitution.
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by therealforsen 8y ago
Someone who's not a developer with student loan debt might call that greed as well. We are all very sympathetic to ourselves.
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by therealforsen 8y ago
> Plumbers, construction workers, contractors, lawn care/snowplows. You say an electric pickup truck is a great status symbol, but I doubt it is to the majority of people in those professions you just mentioned. The people who view
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by therealforsen 8y ago
Why would an electric pickup truck sell well? Needing to use a pickup truck isn't correlated with caring about electric cars. No one wants to try to find a gas station with an electric car charger in the middle of the countryside, wher
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by therealforsen 8y ago
They should have taken the layoffs as a sign their company produces bad content and to get a real job.
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by therealforsen 8y ago
because steel is necessary for war, and it's dangerous to rely on foreign nations to provide that
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by therealforsen 8y ago
I suppose they're good if you really do need to escape the reality you're in. But I regret the amount of time I spent playing MMO's as a child/teenager. I invested all my time in virtual worlds instead of the real one, a
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by therealforsen 8y ago
Sounds like they finally learned to code
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by therealforsen 8y ago
Too many people go to college today. A degree used to carry prestige. Now it mainly shows you're impulsive enough to take out $60,000+ in debt when you don't even know what you want to major in.
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by therealforsen 8y ago
The issue with most news outlets is that they're either mainstream ones that are liberal echo chambers, or conservative upstarts which reactively go just as far in the other direction. Imagine a news organization where every level of e
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by therealforsen 8y ago
This reads like propaganda for the Chinese state. Remember that they're a dictatorship where public servants aren't allowed to practice a religion and citizens are punished if they draw too much attention to negative views on the