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> College admissions could really do with some sort of objective criteria Like GPA and SAT/ACT scores? Because they tried that. Secondary education is too easy and variable in the …

> If your work harder than anyone else you'll still not get recognized because you're not claimed to be smart, cultured, pretty or interesting enough. Err, that's not at all what s…

It was a similar story in Seattle. Frequently you'd call both yellow cab and orange cab (the two major cab companies) because you only expected one of them to show up within a reas…

It's probably not too different from the other statements, e.g. "Shit, I'm really sorry, I'll get that done soon" "Yeah, I'll talk to the other team and tell them to get their shit…

> Post teens were adults with adult incomes but not adult responsibilities, like kids, for quite a few years, usually. Hmm, not sure I agree with that really. I agree with most of …

IIRC the federal government really doesn't offer plea bargains, right? And federal sentencing is pretty rigid, so he probably would have served ~80 years.

As I mentioned above, that's definitely not the case in the outer boroughs of New York (Manhattan in some cases too, depending on where you are, though I don't know that for certai…

> And yes, it took twice as long Yeah, that sucks. If it takes you 12 minutes normally to walk 1 km (assuming 5 km/h, which is a normal walking speed), now it takes you 24 minutes …

Walking sucks in the winter. It's never ridiculously cold (certainly not midwest or Canada cold), but windchill is frequent and kinda nasty if you have literally any skin exposed. …

> Funding schools through property taxes is an easy explanation for that one Though if it wasn't for that it would be through a local school levy, or a fundraiser, or any number of…

> As soon as the elite can segregate them-self from public systems like schools and hospitals Ehh, I mostly agree with your first point but I think it's kind of a pipe dream to thi…

Oh god, please don't do this. This is worse than "We decided to go a different direction," because at least that takes less time to read. If you're not going to provide substantive…

Ouch, this is clearly meant to be (at least somewhat) tongue-in-cheek. Calling it "drug abuse" is a little extreme unless you're familiar personally with the author. It doesn't see…

> The tensions arise, such as with firearms laws, because states don't see eye to eye on those issues so they get to dictate exactly how things work in their own states That causes…

> This approach creates a more unified country because people are able to make their own decisions and live with them. I don't know why you would assume that: There's a whole host …

Incest - maybe. There's a clear harm involved there (inbreeding depression) that's much more substantive than anything used to argue against gay marriage. Polygamy - We probably wi…

Wait can animals consent to marriage? Isn't that a pretty necessary component?

It's almost assuredly a "States Rights" argument. I'd be really shocked if it wasn't.

Maybe. I think it would cause a very serious disruption to bring a guy like Terry into a normal team dynamic. The CIA delusions alone would make most people understandably uncomfor…

Hey! I'm sorry to hear that people treated you poorly. That's really shitty and in an ideal world people would treat you as an individual, and not as a representative of a disease.…

That wasn't really my intention, and I apologize if it came across that way. What I meant to say is that confronting a schizophrenic about their delusions or disorganized thinking …

It's a weird conundrum. He's obviously extremely mentally ill. On the one hand that doesn't give someone carte blanche to do whatever they want. If he started stabbing people we'd …

Heh, that's fair.

> With the wisdom of hindsight, I should have said, "Hold it. Wait a second. I'm riding on this spacecraft. Just go out and replace that tank." That's crazy. I didn't realize the t…