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Sir_Vival

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    Comment #21309038

    You're right on the second point - we were all always taught that precum can contain sperm. It can...if the guy hasn't urinated after ejaculating the last time he did it. Not all t…

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    Comment #21302550

    I'm pro life as a whole but that's a crazy take on things. The average woman would need to get an abortion a year. That runs me the wrong way on a bunch of different levels. Aborti…

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    Comment #21138017

    That does provide healthcare - Medicare and Medicaid, which I believe covers about half of the US population. One reason some are opposed to going to a government paid system is th…

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    Comment #21105400

    That's disengenuous at best. Health care only goes so far when half of our population is obese. I would think survival rates for various diseases would be a better metric.

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    Comment #21105344

    I had a job 5 or 6 years ago where I needed to maintain/add to a website using ColdFusion. I actually kind of liked it, compared to PHP. That said I wasn't doing anything especiall…

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    Comment #20394862

    I hate any application in Windows that doesn't close when I hit the close button. If you want your application to minimize to the taskbar, have that happen when I hit the minimize …

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    Comment #20394310

    I've have a weakened immune system and am also a wedding photographer, so staying healthy is important. If I can use a bathroom with touching anything but myself (#1), I'm going to…

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    Comment #20281919

    Lasik usually costs a few thousand dollars. Mayo Clinic charged me $1400 for someone to look back over an old MRI of mine. I wouldn't have done said yes to that if I had known the …

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    Comment #20111959

    Asian beetles also bite. I have to spray my house every fall lest they find their way in, which leads me to vacuuming their corpses up every few days the entire winter.

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    Comment #19850197

    That'd do the exact opposite of what you want by absorbing most of the light.

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    Comment #19837209

    The wet plate collodion process is only sensitive to blue/UV light. Those tattoos must fall elsewhere in the spectrum. As an aside, I've just started doing them myself and it's cle…

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    Comment #19801081

    It would be astoundingly easy to fix. All you'd need is a law/regulation that says drug companies can't charge US customers more than the average price for the same drug in say, Ca…

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    Comment #19800708

    Do more Peloton jobs have the option to be remote? My wife is an accountant and she's looking for something, but it's hard to find non-dev remote jobs.

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    Comment #19719252

    Not so fun fact - the medication HCG is derived from human urine and can possibly pass CJD on. There is no warning on the label, and since CJD takes 20-30 years to kill you once in…

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    Comment #19518032

    I get cluster headaches or something similar - still being diagnosed. Anyways, they're extremely painful, by far the most pain I've ever experienced. I have a meditation/visualizat…

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    Comment #19352569

    And it's well known that disreputable repair shops will ask you up front how much your insurance is paying you so they can get the full amount.

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    Comment #19182686

    You don't choose to be born. You choose to take out the loan. You sign forms telling you exactly how much it will cost you in the end. It's a decision. I can't imagine anyone sayin…

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    Comment #19042345

    I would guess our lawn sizes are larger on average. You have cities where there are no lawns, suburbs where they would have a use, and a lot of rural areas where the lawns are simp…

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    Comment #18999918

    That used to be true but in the past two years they've gotten quite bad. For instance, during the child separation story they called it "President Trump's child separation policy,"…

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    Comment #18999916

    That's used to be true but in the past two years they've gotten quite bad. For instance, during the child separation story they called it "President Trump's child separation policy…

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    Comment #18986500

    It's ironic you'd mention Tasty as a counterexample to them repackaging content. Kenji Lopez-Alt called them out for stealing recipes: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.independent.…

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    Comment #18986437

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    Comment #18897285

    It doesn't seem like "over testing" or "harm" if the end result is less people dying. The fact of the matter is that I was able to get an MRI the same day I went to the doctor with…

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    Comment #18775358

    It's insane more people haven't realized this. All you need to do to fix our healthcare system is bring transparency to prices and have insurance actually be insurance again instea…

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    Comment #18597114

    Sorry, but I hate when people say this to indie developers like it's some grand new idea to them. Marketing is hard. You can't just post about it online as many places have self pr…