throwaway7312

33 ms·

31.
by throwaway7312 9y ago
> This is a fantasy, and I think a level of control is needed to stop the rousing of genocidal ideology propagated through rhetoric and providing its proponents platforms to speak on. The Nazis you dislike would agree with you, and tell
32.
by throwaway7312 9y ago
You can't. If you consider anyone's speech "hate speech", you are totally unequipped to eliminate negative emotions in other humans. "Hate speech" automatically presumes irrationality on the part of the other p
33.
by throwaway7312 9y ago
The West Antarctic has been collapsing for centuries. This is nothing new, and it has nothing to do with atmospheric carbon dioxide. [1] It will take 800 years for the sea level to rise six feet at the rate it is and has been rising over th
34.
by throwaway7312 9y ago
Glee at the suffering of others hardly marks a man as more evolved. From where I sit, I do not see much difference between the man this article is about, and those enjoying schadenfreude at his expense. All are trapped in the same place.
35.
by throwaway7312 9y ago
The host rented to the guest knowing she was Asian from the start. She didn't have a problem with her race at that point. Things only got nasty once they got nasty. If you had a nasty fight with someone, and it ended with that person s
36.
by throwaway7312 9y ago
Exposure to other races, however, has the opposite effect (decreased tolerance toward other races), regardless how much education (or reeducation) an individual has undergone. [1]-[19] Which begs the question: can we ever achieve a society
37.
by throwaway7312 9y ago
Nuttiness. This is the same President the MSM declared had "finally become President" after he bombed a Syrian air base following a (hoaxed?) chemical attack. Then got attacked endlessly by the MSM for not continuing to bomb Syria
38.
by throwaway7312 9y ago
Minor correction. Science is anything that follows the scientific method. One important step of the scientific method is "make testable predictions." Another step is "refine, alter, expand, or reject" hypotheses. Science
39.
by throwaway7312 9y ago
Of course they wouldn't. The poorest 5% of Americans are still wealthier than 68% of the world. [1] It makes little sense for even an unemployed person on welfare or disability to do this job rather than cash a welfare check. There is
40.
by throwaway7312 9y ago
US media is biased. Try this experiment: find a conservative friend and a liberal friend. Ask each of these friends which of the two papers in the parent and OP is more biased and which is more fact-based. Your conservative friend will tell
41.
by throwaway7312 9y ago
There's an easy way to get rid of suburbia: Stop forced integration in cities. As soon as you eliminate housing projects, housing wavers, rent control, etc., and allow the market to deal with housing naturally, suburbs become obsolete.
42.
by throwaway7312 9y ago
>> Vieux-Chauvet’s novel instead provides portraits of diverse individuals—free people of African descent, enslaved people, white slave owners and white actors, parents and children. >> The evocation of the ways in which women s
43.
by throwaway7312 9y ago
And that is indeed what it's always been about, back to the days of Margaret Thatcher, when the British government first incentivized researchers to produce evidence showing carbon caused global warming, and not the reverse[1]. It&#x27
44.
by throwaway7312 9y ago
>> Slightly off topic - Is it still a concern in 2017 that spammers will get hold of email addresses which are displayed publicly on the internet? Depends what email provider you're using. But most modern email providers (Gmail,
45.
by throwaway7312 10y ago
As an iPhone 3G user who spends a lot of time bouncing between countries, this makes me think I should upgrade to something more recent the next time I'm headed anywhere there's a risk customs may inspect my devices.
46.
by throwaway7312 10y ago
CO2 levels dropped once the temperature did[1]. [1] https://www.liveleak.com/view?i=0e7_1420745413
47.
by throwaway7312 10y ago
That's not what this is about. It erupted across every news channel precisely as Pizzagate did. If you searched on Google News for "Pizzagate", what you would get was "FAKE NEWS!" "FAKE NEWS!" "FAKE N
48.
by throwaway7312 10y ago
Animals get depressed, and manifest all the same behavior patterns humans do during depression. It's a much older phenomenon than human society. There are a number of good theories on what the function of depression is. The best I&#x27
49.
by throwaway7312 10y ago
There's a difference between beating depression, which the parent comment is talking about, and being 'over' depression, which is what your comment is talking about. Beating depression requires mastering one's own inner
50.
by throwaway7312 10y ago
Definitely. If it wasn't Muslim youths blowing themselves up, castrating people in the Bataclan, and running over people in trucks, it'd be Protestant and Roman Catholic youths. Or maybe atheists. Atheists are usually pretty angry
51.
by throwaway7312 10y ago
I ran a project recently where we'd hoped to do everything in 30-hour workweeks, but it quickly became apparent we'd need 80-hour weeks to complete it for our deadline. We ended up working about 3 weeks straight in a full-on 80-ho
52.
by throwaway7312 10y ago
I think this is a great idea. I suggest China, Saudi Arabia, Israel, and Africa start first. As soon as China opens its borders to anyone who wants to go in and make lots of money there, and Saudi Arabia does so, and Israel does so, and Afr
53.
by throwaway7312 10y ago
Or, more likely, Trump sounding off about election rigging puts potential election riggers on notice and lets them know if try it they'll be caught in a recount. That hasn't stopped claims of up to three million illegal immigrants
54.
by throwaway7312 10y ago
There's a lot of 'should's there. Whether China should or should not demand foreign companies change for China is irrelevant. China does demand it... And foreign companies do change.
55.
by throwaway7312 10y ago
"Got tired of watching the highlight reel of other people's lives and decided to spend my time living in mine."
56.
by throwaway7312 10y ago
NASA disagrees: "A new NASA study says that Antarctica is overall accumulating ice." http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/nasa-study-mass-gains-of...
57.
by throwaway7312 10y ago
Here's one from NASA: http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/nasa-study-mass-gains-of... More detailed discussion on Antarctic here: http://joannenova.com.au/2016/07/backflip-antarctic-
58.
by throwaway7312 10y ago
Man produces CO2. Global warming. Man produces CO2-eating organism. Global cooling. Snowball Earth? [1] Wasn't there a campy French-Korean movie about this with Captain America in it? [2] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
59.
by throwaway7312 10y ago
So said the Hittites when the Sea Peoples swept in from the seas in the West and the Kaskians surged down from the mountains in the East. So said the Romans when the Teutons migrated their men, women, and children into Italy and took town a
60.
by throwaway7312 10y ago
Here is a media report quoting climate scientist Peter Wadhams of Cambridge University that Arctic sea ice may be completely melted as soon as 2015: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/environment/globalwarm

More ›