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> People focusing on colonizing Mars when we have such an immediate problem to address TODAY are delusional and actively endangering the most vulnerable people in the world. I don'…

Fiber can help form stool if you have chronic diarrhea, but it can also help relieve constipation. You are correct that diuretic refers to peeing; what the poster was probably tryi…

Jeez, it's just an expression. They're just saying that it would be way easier to not have to worry about kids at home right now. You're reading way to far into it. They are not sa…

> Preventable medical error is almost certainly in the top 5 causes of deaths in the united states. This is untrue, a very common myth based on a questionable study out of Johns Ho…

I won't argue for or against marijuana, but I disagree with your argument. Some drugs are capable of permanently transforming a "sane" individual into one with psychosis or other p…

> Yay because arguably it's the only way doctor offices are going to keep up with ever changing tech. Keeping up with the tech is not the problem, it's keeping up with the ever cha…

> * 3a has a headphone jack. Personally, I adjusted pretty well to Bluetooth headsets but some people really appreciate the jack. For me, phones lacking a headphone jack is an abso…

Specialist doctors do not make 1 million dollars (exceptions are generally those who run/manage their own business, or run a hospital - basically it's their business role that puts…

This may be workable for a certain subset of projects, but programmers often have much more on their system than the end user. End users don't need a bloated IDE, an SQL server, an…

This is a serious issue: doctors have a huge disincentive to receive psychiatric care in the US. It is also completely off-topic.

I can guarantee that there are many people who have no past trauma who have addiction. I can't say exactly how common it is (it may be a minority for all I know), but I know for a …

It's not just you, the wording is a bit weird. Yes, they are trying to say that the definition of the kg will be based on the Planck constant. Further down, the article says: "The …

Not sure I understand the disagreement here; I think you're right on. I had an mp3 player before the iPod came out; it's not like iPod was the first mp3 player. The iPod had a nice…

That is one definition of racism, but it is not even the most common definition. Individuals can be racist/perform racism. You don't get to change the definition that most people u…

I wasn't aware of this, but sure enough, "accent discrimination" is addressed by the EEOC. However, in the case that nobody can understand the person due to such a thick accent, th…

> There are unfortunately people that could be damaged by smoking weed, irreversibly, if their schizophrenia proclivity gets activated. I don't think we need to enforce laws on eve…

There is plenty of research that supports alternative teaching methods. The problem is, success in these research studies does not always generalize well to classrooms around the w…

Boredom and wanting to work on something new is probably the biggest driver I have to disagree with this point. Switching jobs is a very stressful and scary experience. Most people…

> How is this different from websites that think it's okay to force you to abide by ridiculous password restrictions The difference is that disabling of "autocomplete" is a user in…

I think it absolutely matters what the charge is. In this case, we are talking about someone who murdered a 4 year old. I don't have too much sympathy for someone who does this. If…

How is murdering a 4 year old child a "fairly minor" felony??

Could you post the research that implicates polyphenols in cancer? I could not find any in-vivo studies linking polyphenols to cancer in a quick search. A review article from 2017 …

Genuinely curious - why are you hoping to see an uptick in Esperanto speakers? I'm not sure I see the advantage of Esperanto, although I do find constructed languages fascinating.

It's not that hard to get into if you live near a climbing gym. You can start in the gym. As you make friends with other gym climbers, you can tag along with them for outdoor climb…