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>ike availability of water, temperatures, etc. We should see a constant emergence of new life all the time. Why would that process stop, Anything that's so agreeable to abiogenesis…

If life could arise once, why would the conditions not be amenable to it arising more than once? Sure, life tends to pollute-terraform for itself, but it's a big planet, with more …

Rehab friends are real friends, but a person shouldn't ever want to experience the circumstances necessary to have rehab friends.

I will remember that you don't care what I think or want... so that when I hear you and yours whining after you lose another election, it will be music for me. Since no one owns an…

>Citizens are the beneficiaries of a trust. The land is held in a trust. That is not the same thing as ownership. Citizenship is the most absolute (though diluted) ownership possib…

>But they don't in absolutely any sense (legal, moral, philosophical) own the country. Citizens do own their countries. In any meaningful sense of the word "own", they do own them.…

>so the movie theater survives on selling popcorn and stuff) Apparently some of those profits now go to the studio too? Some of the deals being made sound borderline criminal to me…

Apartheid was bad. Immigration enforcement isn't bad... it's what alot of people want. These people feel as if they are (in part, collective) owners of the country, and owning it t…

My grandpa was a card-carrying union carpenter. But all I remember is him doing general labor... all the actual carpentry jobs were gone before I was born, and I hit the half-centu…

Poor countries aren't in danger from this... we can't ban price discrimination in other countries because they have sovereignty, and the pharmaceutical company isn't monolithic. Th…

Homes, not these buildings. Wood's a liability when it comes to fire suppression.

They never pursue court trials, because it's too much work. But they'll pursue plea deals, because there's this gigantic pipeline and everyone in it (including public defenders) is…

I'm not sure I understand the point. For small home networks, there is no bandwidth difference between this and streaming solutions like Jellyfin. Yes, this was a cool technology, …

>Any rational AI would have their Why would the first AI we create necessarily be "rational"? In every other type of software we've ever built, it's always been far more likely tha…

A moderator has, presumably, chosen n posts, and by doing so has indicated that if you've downvoted (or upvoted, their choice) at least however many of those, you're on the shitlis…

I think my account's old enough to drink liquor. Or had been, before they banned it.

>Actually, that big stink people made over killing third-party Reddit client access was all powermods, because doing your job as a moderator is nigh-impossible with the standard Re…

When teenage suicide clusters hit all the small towns within 50 miles of each other, you're positing that they were actually half-siblings and didn't know it, eh? I'm glad people l…

>Well, as a global population reduction is sorely needed, Retards in the 1960s believed such. But the reality is that it's not even needed a little. And subreplacement fertility is…

>There are levels of depression (or other circumstances) at which people are actual drains on their family. Committing suicide almost certainly guarantees further suicides within t…

The world record holder vegetables are all grown in Alaskan summers, up north... where they get 20+ hours of daylight per day. Dunno, maybe the CAM plants would do bad (pineapples)…

>Why use someone else's non FOSS, locked down linux, when you could All my life I have had to make do with junk I could get at Walmart or Best Buy. Got tired of it. Cheap plastic s…

>Now, all the villagers can get cheaper horseshoes, so they don’t have to spend as many resources on shoes for their horses, and can now invest more into what their village is best…

>Which, for me, raises the question why weren't these things passed down? Why weren't the young a kind of apprentices to the old? Because at that time, the younger generation outnu…

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