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MisterBastahrd

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    Comment #49267159

    Gen Z is about as good at discovering new things as Columbus was.

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    Comment #49209893

    Welcome to American conservatism.

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    Comment #48978106

    Brandon Sanderson writes forgettable stories for pubescent children. His characters fill very specific plot roles and those plots don't really deviate in any interesting way. Sayin…

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    Comment #48864439

    I have a friend who is a teacher and spends that much yearly for ChatGPT and Claude. It saves him many hours a year in time assembling documents and creating posters, flyers, and p…

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    Comment #48729037

    It's an extra hour of potential outdoors activity before nightfall. Yes.

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    Comment #46358942

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    Comment #45870376

    There's something particularly pathetic about lauding a guy for not taking a $400K yearly salary when he spends $4M a weekend on taxpayer money playing golf, but that's what you ge…

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    Comment #45237938

    Did you know that mainstream articles aren't actual research and are made for mass-consumption rather than reporting factual information? Might want to actually learn something.

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    Comment #45221482

    It isn't okay for anyone to die from gun violence, but if we're gonna have to expect people to be sacrificed on the altar of the gun nut lobby, then it makes the most sense that th…

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    Comment #45221421

    His position was idiotic in his broader philosophical framework because his economic stance is that the poor should struggle and the rich should reap the benefits of their investme…

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    Comment #45221372

    It isn't subjective. Those corporations aren't far-left even by US standards, where Bernie Sanders would be considered center-right in a global context. Get an education for your o…

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    Comment #44993947

    When you consistently shoot yourself in the face despite all evidence because you believe it'll make you wiser, at some point rational people just need to point out that maybe you'…

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    Comment #44893756

    As someone who used to work in contract recruiting, hiring requirements that made absolutely no sense and were fishing for H1-B eligibility were common. I'm still adamant about the…

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    Comment #44760958

    This has been an attack on democracy over 40 years in the making. Conservatives have been openly saying what they've wanted to do all the time, but most people thought there'd neve…

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    Comment #44759191

    There are still hundreds of thousands of journalists around the country who don't have ivy league educations and are getting paid a pittance to work in their fields. I once worked …

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    Comment #44574182

    Netflix wasn't launched in 2007. The streaming service was launched in 2007. Netflix as a company was founded in 97 and was ubiquitous by 2002. Why go to the movies and pay $100+ f…

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    Comment #44425370

    And I'm fine with it. We've got trillions of dollars worth of companies that do very little but leech off of the rest of us and utilize the vast wealth they've accumulated to degra…

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    Comment #44313542

    Because a fly can spit on your food, but a mouse can eat a hole in your baseboards.

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    Comment #44285010

    If he didn't want them sold, he should have destroyed them. Because even if his current heirs decide to keep them locked up, eventually someone is going to come to the realization …

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    Comment #44281392

    Given that they track you every inch of your route, it'd be a pain in the butt to attempt to fake it. I've gotten a refund on food before because my driver picked up my food and th…

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    Comment #44281195

    I've had three doctors in the past year tell me that either I wasn't a candidate for cancer treatment because I was gonna die in the next 3 years anyway, or that my best bet was a …

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    Comment #44207125

    Coonass is a pejorative that Cajuns from Louisiana received during WWII when they were asked to be translators for the French resistance. The language in Louisiana diverged into ca…

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    Comment #44202662

    Just look at Louisiana for a second. There are hispanic creoles, native american creoles, german creoles, italian creoles, so forth and so on. Because to be a Louisiana creole isn'…

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    Comment #44162955

    For me it was MERC flavored DikuMUDs. When you're fighting a strong boss and you need to communicate with your team, you gotta be able to issue commands to the server as well as ca…