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This sounds like the worst of both worlds. Vehemently pro-choice employees are unlikely to be placated, and pro-lifers are going to boycott the company anyway.

It's cool that it's open-sourced, but I've never been impressed with the content. Even when an article is about a topic I'm interested in, it's hard to get past the Buzzfeed-style …

That's a good point. Most likely that would have been the work of some low-level employee at a regional office trying to boost their numbers.

I remember seeing one of these signs in 2013. I was immediately intrigued since, outside of facebook and craigslist, there was very little web activity in my state, much less my im…

You have the theory reversed. It's that hookworms caused lethargy, which was perceived as laziness. As a result, the southern accent has become associated with laziness. Personally…

It used to. > Generally, we remain neutral as to the content because our general council and CEO like to say that we are the free speech wing of the free speech party. https://www.…

You're confusing the First Amendment with the principle of Free Speech. When it comes to privately owned forums, they may have absolute control over what is acceptable to say, but …

It is presently endemic among the left rather than the right. That doesn't mean it's intrinsically related to the other ideas associated with the left. > Rejection of the mainstrea…

> Identity politics flying the flag of "free thought, only so long as you reject the mainstream and the left" still seems to me to be identity politics. The rebuke here is aimed at…

To your first point, all I can say is that I doubt it. I see a lot of moderate liberals becoming more conservative. It's anecdotal, of course, but it's everywhere. > the best way t…

> It's not like these members of the inaccurately titled "Intellectual Dark Web" are actually interested in changing anyone's mind. This is incredibly disingenous. That is exactly …

In other words, several diverse groups of people, engaging in respectful disagreement, are complaining about another group for being disrespectful in its disagreement. It sounds li…

Am I missing the racial component here? It just sounds like a very religious woman who was concerned about them wearing metal shirts. I've had people freak out over the same thing,…

> Lately, I've had a text editor opened up separate from my code editor where I kind of document my train of thought - especially on fuzzy, complex stuff. I do something similar. I…

Just want to point anyone looking to test their own VPN to https://ipleak.net/ . That's been my go-to, and it seems more comprehensive than the linked service.

In a study on rabbits, all seven were successfully reversed after 14 months. https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-04/pf-sro033117...

> There's a difference between advancing your political beliefs and not accepting the current status, and participating in antisocial behaviour in response I'm a little unclear on …

I actually agree with a lot of this. If I thought that 15 random wild-west fantasists could pull of a coup, I'd see more of an issue with the right to own guns. But the point isn't…

I have a racially ambiguous look and jarringly foreign name, and haven't experienced much other than innocent "what [race] are you" and "what country are you from" questions. The b…

> There are very few high paying jobs > There is limited access to medical care > Local government ineptitude has a very real daily impact > Small tax base means surprisingly high …

If you actually listen to conservatives, we are continuously, clearly saying that we care about _illegal_ immigration. We want to vet who we allow into our home.

> It is quite another to have "outdated" (for lack of a better word) moral beliefs There are plenty of better words. "Unfashionable" works. > anti-abortion, anti-gay, anti- I find …

The point is that, in the South, sweetie isn't a gendered term. I'm a man and get called sweetie every day in a non-demeaning sense. When used pejoratively, it's essentially "bless…