vgh

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by vgh 9y ago
"Shibboleth"? Cultural appropriation!
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by vgh 9y ago
This is the exact us-vs-them mentality that we should avoid. "Republicans [...] hate gay people" "[If you're not on my side you're on theirs]"
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by vgh 9y ago
Yeah, the hospital visitation rights and death benefits are good points. I'm not sure why those are so restrictive at all? Why even require a documented relationship? Just let people choose who can visit them, or get their death ben
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by vgh 9y ago
Neither of the two major presidential candidates last election came anywhere near halfway matching my stances on issues. Yet there was a third party (I guess sort of a fourth) whom I agreed with on quite a few things, as did many others.
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by vgh 9y ago
I think this is still a false dichotomy. Some of us just don't want the government subsidizing marriage at all. Why should any dual-income pair get tax benefits? I say this as a married person. The thought I'm guessing at the t
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by vgh 9y ago
One cannot even seem to have 'conservative' stances on one thing and 'liberal' stances on others. And, no, I'm not libertarian either. The US had a great opportunity to elect a third party last time around, yet de
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by vgh 9y ago
Maybe people shouldn't use metaphors. And stairs. Metaphors and stairs are my least favorite things.
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by vgh 9y ago
Other than the idioms, that's a pretty good literal translation. Definitely understandable. I agree machine translation is weaker than human translation, but I don't understand your mockery of this example.
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by vgh 9y ago
Sure. That's at: https://wiki.archlinux.org/ If you're unfamiliar, this isn't particular to any distro necessarily, although yes it is largely. It's just a fantastic resource for documentation on all