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amypetrik8

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    Comment #46372139

    >which no government around the world has been able to materialise an answer to. I disagree. The whole hot political topic of "illegal immigration" is as a side effect - seemingly …

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    Comment #46370107

    I think back to every ... overly enthused student council member or student council president or HOA president I've seen in my education, a microcosm of politics. These are people …

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    Comment #46362508

    What are the chances that breaking up a tumor this way seeds cancer elsewhere in the body? Welp I put it to you like this - if you DON'T use this then you have a gorillion cancer c…

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    Comment #46332389

    Yes, or put simply - sometimes the smartest way to do something is the dumbest way. The only difference is you did it the dumb way after deep thought, not out of sheer ignorance. L…

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    Comment #46331014

    >So never being offered a job because it doesn't exist doesn't lose you anything. Ah well look, if the job posting was just to collect resumes with zero intention to actually hire,…

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    Comment #46327633

    >I love the insanity of this idea. Not saying it's a good idea, but it's a very highly entertaining one, and I like that! An even more insane idea -- minding the idea here is porn …

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    Comment #46308670

    as a black box, a 4k context LLM AI (text in, text out) is no different than a highly effective search engine indexing all possible 4k bodies of text (also - text in, text out)

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    Comment #46261086

    I actually have "face blindness" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosopagnosia ) Got it after a bad car accident, some brain damage. Interestingly it also made me race blind as wel…

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    Comment #46241250

    >Opinions that seem too radical or stupid to be believed are often bots, or NPC humans repeating bot content that they read somewhere else. You forget to mention trolls. The best w…

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    Comment #46227218

    > some immigrants about what brought them to the United States in the first place. What brought them to the US is that if they have a kid, now their kid is a citizen. Green card et…

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    Comment #46214448

    > interpersonal conflict low probability in this case because this guy seems a repeat offender but absolutely things can get that toxic and ugly > trying to beat the other student …

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    Comment #46214377

    >My dad had an Akamai M8 My own dad had a Akamai T19 cloud computing system and he would give me all the oggs and flacs and mp3s off the cloud from his Akamai system

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    Comment #46214347

    I get gummies at 2000000000 IU and that's not even the final form of my vitamin Also what's an IU. Apparently it's meant to normalize impact across vitamin D species of which there…

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    Comment #46201077

    I had giardia one time .. actually I still have it :( I went to see the physician to treat it, a MD, at least I thought. The doc said he wanted to give me "ivermectin" to eliminate…

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    Comment #46178837

    Speaking as a person of color, the government Oak Park prosecuted me for reasons of my blackness which is racist. The controversey that followed, if you ask me, is why the cameras …

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    Comment #46160918

    there's a bunch of BS going on with autism that I find very obnoxious 1) I see autism as non-verbal, no concept that other people or conscious minds exist. That's what -actual- aut…

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    Comment #46156854

    just to go off of this, I'm not bipolar but I feel we need to also consider more severe mental disorders. For example I have multiple personality disorder Hello, I also have multip…

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    Comment #46156831

    having infinite time on exams is level of the the ADHD cheating iceberg level 2 of the ADHD cheating iceberg is having medically approved methamphetamines to infinistudy before exa…

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    Comment #46156719

    i counter you all with the 70 year legend https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_air-cooled_engine

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    Comment #46156272

    > filters out the people who are too mentally ill to mask this is a very good point - only vulnerability is a person decompensates from "able to mask" to "lets gooooo" in a very sh…

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    Comment #46156099

    > If you want to do this, you just have to pass laws saying companies are required to manufacture x% of their goods domestically. and if they go below they pay a fine yea? yea, tha…

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    Comment #46143682

    >Candidates from both parties seem to mostly focus on social issues (Democrats are 110% preferable here imo). The problem with the democrats - indeed why Trump is in office - is th…