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egdod

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    Comment #22606582

    Is it racist to call food in a style that originated from China "Chinese food"?

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    Comment #22606361

    It's not racist to call it the Chinese coronavirus.

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    Comment #22606354

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    Comment #22588827

    I’m not sure what the hubbub is about that. The US President’s job description is literally to put America first.

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    Comment #22588807

    Housing, food, water, Internet access, cell phones... all more or less essential goods in the modern world. How dare anyone expect to be paid for them?

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    Comment #22581191

    Water doesn’t actively try to give itself to be drunk. Is it ok to consume?

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    Comment #22573093

    Imagine putting your life savings into shitcoins.

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    Comment #22571525

    What kind of cartoon villain do you think he is??

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    Comment #22564200

    Contempt of court is a thing.

  11. comment
    Comment #22561443

    Except that people become contagious before they have symptoms, and we don’t really have a good testing regimen.

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    Comment #22558055

    Are you quoting from the Abstract or something? The claims are what matters.

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    Comment #22557827

    Sure, but I’m not obliged to give any deference to improper purposes like delegitimization of the President.

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    Comment #22554184

    They're wrong, for purposes of American presidential elections anyway.

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    Comment #22553609

    Anarchism? Hardly. It's one of the handful of intentionally anti-populist features of the Constitution, along with the existence of the Senate. He did win. The only way to say he l…

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    Comment #22553566

    > like Rusty of kuro5hin found out the hard way, poor guy. What happened? I haven't even thought about kuro5hin in many years.

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    Comment #22553377

    Skip it. A casino is probably only a little bit less bad than a cruise ship.

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    Comment #22551781

    Patents provide one way of stopping this kind of predation, but everybody hates patents so we have to pretend otherwise.

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    Comment #22535896

    > Just because there aren't any humans there, doesn't mean it doesn't already belong to someone. There isn't anyone there, human or otherwise. > And just because we are able to tak…

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    Comment #22535878

    A random asteroid impact could end the human species next month. If we spread to other worlds, our chances of survival go way up.

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    Comment #22535787

    Even if the prices were the same, the public doesn't give a shit how a company treats its workers. The whole premise is flawed.

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    Comment #22532117

    Yeah, and I don't use grocery discount cards either. But doing it via camera gives a ton of data beyond just what I buy and when.

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    Comment #22527570

    DCA is an acknowledgment that you don’t know where the bottom is.

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    Comment #22527192

    Gotta eat. Some kind of shopping is essentially non-optional unless you grow all your food. And using cash isn’t opting out of real-life shopping, it’s just opting out of one payme…

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    Comment #22527151

    Grabbing a receipt at a kiosk is a lot quicker than manually scanning your items. My main problem with this is how invasively creepy it all is.