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So the existing ones don't need government money, then, right?

The USSR very much came about due to a bunch of people deciding that the status quo had to go

>And voila, you are now walking the surface of another world couple light years away from your destination No I'm not, my clone is. My consciousness is right where it started, maki…

FTA: "Many Catholics object to the fact that embryos are routinely discarded during the IVF process"

"As the Americans learned so painfully in Earth's final century, free flow of information is the only safeguard against tyranny. The once-chained people whose leaders at last lose …

Truly one election not going your way is proof we should go back to serfdom. The proles must learn their place!

So you basically just want other governments to shoulder Americans' healthcare costs. Doesn't sound like a win for them

Generally, you don't just sit and listen. You do it while doing something else that is non-audio, like commuting or exercising or cleaning or cooking or...

22*1.3 = 28.6

Does it help to think of it as `r/somefansofslatestarcodex` instead of as a subreddit run by the blog's author?

Sounds like the problem is with having political parties, not the EC.

If millions of people each like Oprah enough to give her a dollar, she makes millions. (pardon the napkin math) If you live in a town of, say, 25k people and your town has 10 garba…

IANAE but it sounds like when imports get cheaper, importers pocket as much of the the difference for as long as they can get away with it. When imports get more expensive, they pa…

Trauma like having a bunch of idiots yammering away in class so that the rest of us can't get an education?

Would the war have actually ended early if Germany had taken Paris? With the British and Russians still unmolested on their own turf, wouldn't the French have tried to retake the c…

mindcrime is the "original commenter" that bherms is referring to...

Biology question: does having a tubal ligation affect a subsequent IVF pregnancy at all? Are there records of such a case happening?

How so?

> working Americans often suffer the most severely from the impacts of poor mobility. You missed an important qualifier, there.

When does she ever change future events? Sure she needed knowledge from the future to make that future happen but that's just a time loop, not altering the foreseen future.

That seems a bit harsh. One could just as easily claim that Trump's opponents can't fathom him doing anything well and give him even less credibility than he deserves. While both a…

One can still argue with paid PR without resorting to ad hominem and boo lights...

A more neutral way to put it would be that the ACLU is in favor of abortion rights and many conservatives are in favor of fetal rights.

That's... not entirely accurate: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sid_Meier%27s_Alpha_Centauri#P... (2nd one for Peacekeepers) I loved my chosen. How then to face the day when she lef…

To be fair, the guy is in his 50s. 40someodd years ago was a different world and he's just describing the attitudes of the time. Boys played with boys and girls played with girls. …