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The treatment is for type 1, not type 2. Very different causes.

Campaign donations are not personal gifts, and regulated by election laws. This is a false equivalency and at best whataboutism. This is not to say Citizen's United shouldn't be re…

Cars don't run. And even if they did, or you tortured the definition to include rolling on fairly straight prepared paths as running, it is only better for specific definitions of …

Except it is the speech of those pressuring the company that is free. I can tell a company that supports things I don't agree with that I won't be a customer. If enough of customer…

I think it is the use of the term "landchad". I've never heard it before. Maybe it's a thing, but it sure sounds like a phrase from the incel world.

I'm sure he didn't care. It's not as though there is video of him... Oh, right. There is. https://www.nbcnews.com/video/trump-i-will-be-appointing-pro...

The internet was meant to be used by people who knew how the internet worked. Herein lies the problem. This might sound like gatekeeping, and maybe it is. When these systems were d…

Why not use all of it? I opted out of micropayments and ads, installed the full bevy of ad blocking on Brave, and use pihole for DNS.

Wow. This article aged badly in the span of hours. From the article, published this week: "...bringing back social restrictions is pointless so long as there is no danger of hospit…

No. They're all bullshit.

There is not a direct relationship between Fox News and Fox 45. That is true. But... Fox 45 Baltimore is owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group, and corporation with a definite pro-…

Unless Trump is challenging the terms of service that he had to agree to when getting his account, this is largely a non-issue. Trump _agreed_ that Facebook/Twitter could ban him w…

Or because sequels often add new characters. And the Trump Republicans made themselves ridiculously easy targets...see the Four Seasons Landscaping fiasco, paying off Playboy model…

That's actaully the problem. You can't change a fingerprint, but you can fake one.

No, we downvote things that are crap. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/03/31/fac...

That is a definition of God that is so amorphous that it is completely useless. God is whatever you want it to be in that particular moment. So much so, that there is nothing concr…

The Church is composed of the people in it. And should be judged by the actions of those that comprise it, otherwise you are abandoning all agency, and it may as well be dismantled…

And no one is claiming that there aren't sinners in the Church, and no one is outraged that there are. The problem is that the "hospital" was moving abusers around from floor to fl…

Religion is just a tool too. It's just not wielded by the flock, but rather by someone that wants to control the actions of the flock. Spirituality can be something else altogether…

"Virtually every youth-serving organization used to not handle abuse of youth properly." This again? The existence of others committing the same crimes does not indemnify the Churc…

So the Church, an organization that sets itself up as the moral arbiter between God and man, doesn't have more of a moral responsibility than school districts across the country? A…

There's a lot of conceit in this notion that just because _you_ can't understand or explain something means that it goes beyond understanding and explanation. Religion exists becau…

"There are not one hundred people in the United States who hate The Catholic Church, but there are millions who hate what they wrongly perceive the Catholic Church to be." Oh, that…

Actually, yes. This is entirely reasonable. Hosting companies decided they didn't want 4chan or Stormfront or other hives of white supremacy and that's okay. Publishers are allowed…

Except it wasn't. Carnivore was a thing that people knew about, and the US government backed away from it when it was publicized. Total Information Awareness was a thing that was k…