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There's been a lot of question about the motivation for this feature. Am I the only one that thinks this could be related to things like the EARN IT (or something similar). Here's …

I'm doubtful of the harms of misinformation and the role it plays in persuading people's opinions (I believe people are fairly intelligent rather than undiscerning parrots of thoug…

Thanks for the link!

Could you provide the source for the supreme court agreement? It seems to me that forcing someone to get a vaccine would just as much violate their individual liberties so I'm rath…

Yes it does - I do not believe in the "rules for thee, but not for me" type of thinking

Why should society be concerned with rehabilitating the most violent of offenders? To be a bit more specific, assume we are talking about a parent that has brutally beaten their ch…

8th graders are typically 12-13 years old, not 10 - 10 year olds are typically in the 6th and 7th grade.

My sister is still in school and the anti-cheating software gives her a lot of anxiety - not that she's a cheater or anything, but because it is well known that this software flags…

> I see it as a currently-necessary annoyance, as the least bad option... shutting down education until the pandemic's over is unfeasible. Is it necessary though? Have you consider…

This is a lie of omission: > Dr. Fauci acknowledged that he had slowly but deliberately been moving the goal posts... partly on his gut feeling that the country is finally ready to…

I tend to agree that the world generally is more dull than people like to believe. However, I'd say that mostly applies to people trying to make more ordinary events more extraordi…

So by your logic, it would be okay for a twitter employee to modify a tweet from of the president's account to declare war (or to any number of things that would have very real rep…

It appears that reddit prefers that people believe it is the original author's words when they edit someone's post: > "I messed with the “f*** u/spez” comments, replacing "spez" wi…

Reddit's response can be found here: https://np.reddit.com/r/ModSupport/comments/mbqgx2/a_clarifi... > We’re seeing a number of good questions regarding where our policies around p…

The EU was hit especially hard too, is that somehow the US's right-wing's fault too? Maybe the fact that the virus is incredibly contagious is at fault for there being a global pan…

> are you implying that the act of deciding to have a long lockdown necessitates that the decision makers do not care about children Not quite... I'm referring to the fact that soc…

Anyone else find it strange that a country that has often fallen in line with "think of the children" arguments for hypothetical dangers appears to be completely uncaring about ver…

It's nice that you have been able to deal well with the situation this last year, but try to remember that your experience is not necessarily representative of the whole: > The dis…

People seem to blame the people giving out loans or the people receiving them. However, isn't this all the colleges fault for dramatically increasing their tuition over the last 20…

> It may be something entirely different though, point is it is not hard to come up with a context where these slides are not criticizing the color of people’s skin. I agree that y…

The coco-cola incident made national news, I imagine there are better articles out there; I simply grabbed the first one on google - I should have sought out a better one to link t…

edit: Misread the article and grabbed the first name I saw. This edit fixes the reference: "The seminar entitled 'Facing Racism' , given by Robin DiAngelo , was presented through L…

There are people on the left that assume that if you have white skin, then you must act a certain way, and that way of acting is wrong. This is based solely on the person's race, n…

So you'd like to make lying illegal...? I have an amendment to show you, it's actually the very first one!

Remember when the left said they wanted to unify the country? I guess squashing all opposing viewpoints is one way to do that... Maybe they should get some help from Russia and Chi…