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PixelB

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    Comment #15769499

    Yes, if anything you are the true victim here. Keep thinking of yourself as the victim, great mindset, you have a great life.

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    Comment #15769285

    Close, a fucking idiot troll.

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    Comment #15769279

    You brought it up, it was literally the first thing you said in your post. Your somewhat out of nowhere defense of your allergies just make them seem more suspect. These people are…

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    Comment #15293114

    >>Additionally, people can opt not to participate with an insurance company (or at least they used to be able to), so they have some motivation to be efficient and provide a basica…

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    Comment #15293033

    The primary function of insurance companies is to make a profit and serve their investors. These are publicly traded companies and only care about making that dollar; in this case,…

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    Comment #15284093

    >I'm strongly in favor of legalization, but I still believe Cannabis is dangerous (just like alcohol, tobacco and countless other legal drugs are). Oh, well if you "believe" it is …

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    Comment #15226105

    We have plenty of energy supply in the system, we need to optimize our distribution. We only use about 39% of the electricity we generate. I know that seems strange, but it's true.…

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    Comment #15154819

    Keep the humidity in mind if you do this. Out in Saudi it is the desert so evaporative cooling works outstanding. Where I am the humidity often gets up to 100% overnight so you wou…

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    Comment #15154756

    You hit the nail on the head, pure research is not a profitable activity. This is why we can't trust companies and corporations to research.. their motives are almost always profit…

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    Comment #14820719

    This is why these corporations lobby/fight so hard to keep the prison industry private. Their profits are obscene, and the only way to keep themselves profitable is to ensure a ste…

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    Comment #14820649

    Get rid of private prisons, period. You can even keep the same business model except instead of the profits going to a corporation, the system is run as a non-profit government ent…

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    Comment #14820633

    The US seems to be experiencing more and more instances of "desperate" people in all senses. Desperate for jobs, healthcare, food, shelter, happiness.

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    Comment #14820604

    >>it's better than working inside in a factory, it gives them skills for when they get out. That argument starts to fall apart when you think about it: The skills they are gaining …

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    Comment #14818902

    Mostly MDMA, LSD. To a lesser extent weed (harder to transport), coke, heroin, etc. They do have actual bad things on these sites as well, such as the aforementioned weapons and pe…

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    Comment #14818885

    Yes no longer will we have to fear the hordes of hippies high on goopballs eating our babies and raping our pets!

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    Comment #14818878

    Your arguments are so baseless and outright ignorant that when I attempt to think about a counter it just makes my brain hurt.. it doesn't matter what points are brought up, you wi…

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    Comment #14818856

    I got news for you, buddy, no one cares what you want them to respond with. When you make garbage arguments you will get called out.

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    Comment #14818843

    It's great to hear that you don't do any drugs at all. I'm assuming you don't drink coffee/tea, wine/beer, smoke, or take any pharmaceutical medications. Congratulations on not bei…

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    Comment #14818828

    From now on I'll be sure to only do things that you personally approve of.

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    Comment #14818796

    This is exactly right, and the problem that our government just doesn't seem to 'get'. If you want to stop people from doing something, you can't just take away their source, they …

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    Comment #14800683

    Great idea, never going to happen. Why would they sign up for that when they can just as easily charge full price for those replacement drugs (as they do now)? The only people out …

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    Comment #14799189

    Sounds like you don't know what you are talking about. Your source is a book written with heavy influence by the Pharmaceutical industry to justify the obscene costs of their drugs…

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    Comment #14788415

    Corporations are rational. They care about one thing, dollars. If you are making them money, they will keep you no matter what. If you are not making them money, they will get rid …

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    Comment #14788384

    Pharmaceutical research.