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yocheckit
7y ago
Was their a lot of drug use going on? Which drugs?
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yocheckit
7y ago
My experience with China is that certain parts are 100% first world, but other parts are 100% 3rd world, with many places inbetween. Whereas the difference between the poorest & richest Brit while significant is nothing compared to the
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yocheckit
7y ago
It didn't make me question my beliefs because at the time I didn't really have any. But the opening of Bioshock and Andrew Ryan's monologue got me thinking about that stuff for the 1st time. "I am Andrew Ryan, and I'
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yocheckit
7y ago
No, they were not. The heavily religious communities in the early US didn't display any of the tribal behaviour commonly seen amongst the Taliban (which are the cause of most of the governance issues in Afghanistan), just the extremely
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yocheckit
7y ago
Yea, I'm amazed at the criticisms of Steam. Do you all not remember buying computer games before it? Having friends on all different programs, no integrated chat, cds everywhere, this is defintely rose-tinted googles.
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yocheckit
7y ago
huh, that is fascinating to hear. Will definitely be keeping an eye on this space, thanks for the info.
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yocheckit
7y ago
Do they? My experience reading them doesn't indicate that at all, IQ is enormously important in determining lifetime success it's just there are different plateaus. Once you achieve a certain IQ threshold (be it 115, 130, 145, wha
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yocheckit
7y ago
Really? Care to elaborate?
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8y ago
I went to a school where they did try to introduce these subjects to us from a young age. I'm talking the age of 10 onward and it really was pointless. Of course you can teach things about Roman Legions, or Athenian ships etc, but if y