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_5yps

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    Comment #22988708

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    Comment #22988701

    That hardly worked against Big Tobacco. It isn't gonna do jack shit against an adversary that is nowhere near as transparently evil.

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    Comment #22988579

    At least in Orwell's 1984 the Tele-Screens were imposed by an external authority. The present day is much worse than he could have ever imagined. Everyone over the age of 13 carrie…

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    Comment #22988525

    Most of my exposure to the written word has been through the internet, and most of my time on the Internet has been spent on sites full of people who are much older than I am. You …

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    Comment #22988456

    CP stands for "College Placement" and is the baseline, AP is regulated by the College Board and considered the most prestigious, and Honors is somewhere in between.

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    Comment #22986635

    Second-tier compared to the world's top universities; that is, Harvard, Stanford, Oxford and their ilk. I've seen posts on this website[0] how some big tech companies almost exclus…

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    Comment #22986595

    No, I don't have a blog. There aren't many things I'd like to write about, and pretty much all of the things I would like to write about have been written about more eloquently by …

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    Comment #22986001

    I agree with you on that last point - I'm talking largely about the trans people who are very online and very vocal about it (a self-selected demographic), not trans people in gene…

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    Comment #22985830

    > academic excellence "with a twist" Nailed it better than I ever could.

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    Comment #22985823

    Sure. Just sent one.

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    Comment #22985791

    It's not true that nobody's fucking. The LGBT kids fuck to an extent, as do some of the lower achievers, but even then it's nowhere near as much as I expected. I'm surprised to hea…

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    Comment #22985725

    I've seen a lot of kids my age become Communists or Nazis due to internet-induced radicalization; I was rather close to becoming a radical leftist myself. Personally, I think it's …

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    Comment #22985678

    16-year-old here. My experience is probably markedly different from most teenagers in the US (I'm an immigrant who goes to a competitive school full of other immigrants) but I find…