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JohnWhigham
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About JohnWhigham
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Comment #31517486
Hello Jack Thompson
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Comment #31517401
it was meant to facilitate another American revolution (against our own government should it turn tyrannical). "Was" is the key word now. People have become so indoctrinated and ad…
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Comment #31517333
Guns are a tool, a very deadly tool, but a tool none the less. Really tired of seeing this argument. They're made for killing, period. Fertilizer, box cutter, automobiles all have …
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Comment #31517308
Doesn't track for many places in the US. Chicago has some of the strictest gun control in the country, yet also has a mass shooting every other week in the summer.
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Comment #31517244
Children left to their own devices nowadays would just endlessly scroll Tiktok. They don't have the mental capacity to stop otherwise.
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Comment #31453071
It's been shocking the amount of "emergency" funding for Ukraine that has been passed in the past 2 months. If it were for anything else other than the military, Republicans would …
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Comment #31436357
Read Dr. Shanna Swan's new book, it's all about this. Very scary shit
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Comment #31436348
I'm not against all usages of it. I think where one needs a supremely robust material (like in the military) it's very useful. However I think it should be banned from any and all …
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Comment #31368580
Much of the Midwest is corn and soybeans, both garbage since a good portion of them are synthesized into corn/soybean oils. We should make better use of the farmland but Big Agro w…
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Comment #31368522
What do we do with the leftover toxic brine?
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Comment #31368103
Reading about the Mead Reservoir the other day and now this, I'm thoroughly convinced the US needs some sort of large scale disaster for something to really change in this country.…
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Comment #31367311
I once heard that you're the average of the 5 people you spend the most time around It's also "you are your friends". If you're normally a mild-mannered guy that starts hanging aro…
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Comment #31367240
1 billion to just to say "nah I actually don't want to do this". 1 billion for, after all is said and done, nothing to actually materially change. Does that sound supremely fucked …
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Comment #31355694
In the context of divorce court fucking over men, California is by and far the worst in the country.
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Comment #31353853
11. Get a prenup. No, really, do get one. While true, unfortunately in many (blue-leaning) states, they're starting to become at the judge's discretion. Absolutely sickening to be …
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Comment #31353701
How is he a boogeyman? He's already prolonged the pandemic by convincing the vaccine companies not to allow smaller biomedical companies (with markets in poorer countries) access t…
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Comment #31346250
Don't think you got my point. I'd wager most parents that don't like sexual education courses don't see the hypocrisy in supporting this bill. They're essentially letting the state…
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Comment #31345613
Funny thing is that I guarantee a lot of the parents in support of dumb shit like this lose their minds at sexual education classes in public schools. Just shows that most people d…
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Comment #31330284
Anyone know any good supplements that are not soybean/corn oil? Pretty much everything at grocery stores is.
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Comment #31329928
Can we not with these crappy growth hacker type articles devoid of substance?
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Comment #31327973
That's why you have to get out as soon as you can. The money in being a code monkey in the West is on borrowed time. The tried and true money is in management. Managing people alwa…
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Comment #31327259
I don't live in the Southwest, but I'm not inconveniencing myself so some fucking company can make more money. If the individual needs to belt-tighten, so can the company. They're …
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Comment #31313616
They're right though. The Internet was better when it didn't have tons of people giving their unsolicited opinions and corporations coming in and having every single one of their a…
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Comment #31313572
Yes, JavaScript is a joke for having such a barren standard library that the community has to do it for them.
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Comment #31307345
What do you imagine people 30 years ago did, during a time when crime was a lot worse?