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cauch

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    Comment #49171727

    You are too entertaining for your own good, you know that? Let me help you more: Oh, no, complianceowll, you totally destroyed me by attacking my lack of capitalization and the huu…

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    Comment #49116430

    yes, yes, "no it is you who are rambling; me, I don't care to the point I will continue to post and try to insult you because I have a weak ego", exactly what I propose you to say.…

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    Comment #49113181

    > (monkey wrench, anyone?) Tell me about it. I played the French translated version, and the pun does not translate at all. "Monkey wrench" was translated as the french equivalent,…

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    Comment #49111789

    Yes, yes, whatever you need to say to save face. We all know it's not true but it's ok, let's pretend it is so you stop crying. There there my big boy.

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    Comment #49103905

    It's entertaining seeing you digging your own grave (being more and more immature, doing exactly what you accused others of doing, ...), but I understand your situation. Everyone h…

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    Comment #49099535

    That's not a "appeal to authority", just that reliable conclusions require people who have dedicated enough thoughts on the subject to avoid basic mistakes. You have exactly the sa…

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    Comment #49091711

    Well, you were telling me that I'm obsessed with Musk, which I know for a fact is totally incorrect. Now you are saying you are not crying. Is that as accurate as the rest of what …

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    Comment #49071135

    I was writing point-by-point response, but it is just too useless. First, as for the diversity in Roman era, I think it's incorrect to compare it to 100 year ago diversity. It look…

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    Comment #49049943

    But "value provided to your customer" is not in itself what the society need. Or at least, it is a matter of opinion and you can probably find theoretical situations where even you…

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    Comment #49037195

    Not sure if I should engage, but one thing just come to my mind in this discussion. It looks like there is a huge imbalance between the "ideologically-driven intellectual dishonest…

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    Comment #49007459

    Stop crying, the situation is simple: You said something that is a beginner's mistake (and it is objectively incorrect, your interlocutor even invites you to try to prove otherwise…

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    Comment #48999219

    > The fact that you are telling me (someone you don't know ... That's rich from a guy who also tell someone they don't know that they are "obsessed with Musk". You are so full of i…

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    Comment #48999170

    > I'm laughing so hard right now. You resoundingly do care about Musk; you're obsessed with him. I love those self-defeating argument, it's still a mystery how people don't realise…

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    Comment #48996621

    What do you mean "out of context". The initial article is literally explaining that there is a misconception around the diversity of culture during the antiquity. This anecdotal ev…

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    Comment #48996577

    Sure, but it is just an example, he is not the only one thinking this misconceptions is "historical".

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    Comment #48996450

    If you have "several hundred hours", maybe you approached the article a bit too defensively. When I read it, I did not see any "combative approach", it seems even to be tongue-in-c…

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    Comment #48996417

    But the author, and it is quoted in the comment you answer to, say, explicitly "I bring this up not because I demand utter historical accuracy in my games". The author, basically, …

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    Comment #48996261

    But the article also says that if you understand what an empire is, then there are empires all the time, and basically all time periods after prehistory would fit the bill.

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    Comment #48996231

    And yet it's not rare to find people explaining that the roman empire, the roman armies or the roman cities were "all the same". Yet these persons seem to know that in real life po…

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    Comment #48882583

    I've a very dim memory of having heard about it years ago (more than a decades), from an article of Cory Doctorow, and in my mind, he was the one who came up with the idea (and cho…

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    Comment #48850140

    > I'm not a fan of Trump's governance, but none of those people were investigated for "criticizing Trump's decisions". Is that a joke? These people would never have been investigat…

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    Comment #48848042

    > If you think that people should be arrested for 'being pricks' then you are the problem here entirely. It is not what I'm saying. I'm saying they are not arrested because of thei…

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    Comment #48846523

    > It should reject both the conspiracy theories of the right and the left. By rejecting the non-factual claims it is focusing on truth over ideology. Exactly my point: look at the …

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    Comment #48846380

    > So you agree that the US has more free speech because people can deviate from your completely arbitrarily defined "normal" form of critique. What? No, in the US, people will also…

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    Comment #48845894

    How is that free speech when you are fired for your opinion? If you are fired because you are not "a pretty girl" and the argument is "the public prefer pretty girls, so we do it t…