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Cougher
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Comment #22094892
No one has spoken to me about guideline violations. Not one single time. Why would you lie about something like that? As far as my comment goes, it was a joke. Purely in jest.
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Comment #22092623
"There aren’t a fixed number of jobs." In the case of my mailman, there is. If he retires, another person is hired to take his route. This is the case with many jobs. Clearly I'm n…
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Comment #22092611
That's part of the function of downsizing. I'm not talking about cases of downsizing.
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Comment #22091507
"The existence of old people is not the cause of unemployment." Perhaps you meant to post this under someone else's comment, because I didn't claim that the " existence " of old pe…
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Comment #22091158
"we may eventually be in a situation" Which implies that we're not there now. Right now, there are a lot of young people who could use a solid job like a mailman, some of whom have…
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Comment #22090808
Not only did I live in California, but I lived in the middle of a national forest there. And yes, I spent a great deal of time enjoying it. The question remains, and I'll clarify: …
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Comment #22090717
This comparison is absolutely meaningless to me. Does that mean I'm older than the older readers?
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Comment #22090709
My mailman is 75. There are a lot of young people who could use these good jobs. It's time to get on your rockers and shake your fists at the clouds.
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Comment #22080818
For one thing, the post implied that being indoors came with the higher humidity in Texas. But assuming that the poster really did "accept a life spent indoors in air-conditioned s…
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Comment #22073375
"Most back pain, especially lower back pain, is a result of weak glute muscles" Citation please.
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Comment #22059678
Stop paying attention to the hysteria. It's great for views and clicks. It's terrible for viewers and clickers. "We have been told that climate change is an ‘existential crisis.’ H…
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Comment #22052860
What's there to research? I'm familiar with football and familiar enough with the idea that new players made "winning" plays in the process of losing the game and ending their seas…
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Comment #22038821
Does Apple allow you to make your own ringtone for your own phone yet? Or copy your own songs to your own phone for your own listening?
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Comment #22038791
This response says everything it needed to say in the first sentence without the gratuitous snark of the second.
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Comment #22038588
"What can we say? We know alcohol's a toxin. We'll never believe alcohol can be good for you. This is America, for chrissake! We're willing to die for our true beliefs!" https://ww…
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Comment #22038564
That's mighty convincing evidence you have right there.
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Comment #22019548
“Then one day, she was chatting to a cholesterol expert about the potential link in the hallway at her work, when he brushed it off as obviously nonsense. “And I said ‘how do we kn…
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Comment #22014958
"You missed the point." Back at ya, matey.
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Comment #22014725
"Climate change is going to start fires eventually, so let's just ignore what happened and claim that what happened isn't what happened but what's gonna happen happened."
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Comment #21999902
And the least surprising news is that it's yet another concept car that people won't be able to buy. "Sony didn’t have to go and make a real car to show off some tech it thought mi…
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Comment #21999853
"Tesla delivered an impressive number of 112,000 vehicles during the final three months of 2019." I get that people like this company, but this isn't even as credible as pop stars …
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Comment #21990638
The article does not say that health care costs cause poor health. It says that we have poor health in spite of our high health care costs. Also, you stated that poor health is the…
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Comment #21990484
"Along the way, the AI creates an army of what Braun calls “monsters”: Nightmarish faces pocked with inhuman deformities and surreal mutations." "The company refers to these mutate…
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Comment #21990368
This is a basic example of Google's treatment of its users. They could have offered this to users as an option to help their browsers run more smoothly, while informing the users o…