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lookalike74
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Comment #49014446
This article gets it wrong from the start... "But whereas speech is most obviously important for communicating propositions or concepts, obtaining such knowledge, this is not the p…
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Comment #47650614
Great share, thank you!
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Comment #46211382
Why point out the couple who paid for the surrogacy is a gay male couple? Seems like more of a dog-whistle than a valid point.
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Comment #44776652
Thank you for sharing this. I work in telehealth and in the U.S. at least, most patients using these devices have no idea what data they're sharing and who they're sharing the data…
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Comment #43348254
Also ambiguous would be sympathy for this but not for the many private citizens called out publicly on social media by platform owners and government officials for the express purp…
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Comment #43086687
Other than comparing the sales records of two bands, concert attendance, or other numerical measures, it's hard to imagine your comment makes any sense. The Stones and REM weren't …
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Comment #40972568
Is that really analogous to one of the world's largest social media sites, especially one with AI that knows exactly what ads to serve you and your friends but not that you're dead…
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Comment #38226647
I love you for this comment
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Comment #36717180
Rupert Murdoch popularized tabloid news as we know it today and Fox News is a reflection of that. They were always concerned more with ratings than facts, and whoever wrote this ar…
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Comment #34168111
Happy for the author and some good points to consider as food for thought (however lacking in research on key points.) But reading between the lines, if the worst addiction did to …
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Comment #32707256
Thank you for this comment. The only possible negative here is "Kiwifarms itself will most likely find other infrastructure that allows them to come back online." Cloudflare suppos…
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Comment #31564245
It's also easy to dehumanize by assuming there are 'archetypes' that can be reasonably applied to people just because they're poor or living on the street.
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Comment #31024852
Most food banks in the U.S. use tolerances that go months beyond the dates on packaged and canned foods and also take into account the integrity of the cans/packages. Fresh prepare…
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Comment #30983231
To disable heresy you'd need to disable personal or moral offense. But it's as unrealistic to think that could ever happen as it is to blame "the left" for reacting to the delibera…
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Comment #30895972
The influence of this cannot be overstated. George Carlin said it best... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=u-ryuJDTpEc
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Comment #30877040
There's also massive abuse by police of the tools and information provided to them for non-official purposes. Police personnel that will casually run license plate checks for frien…
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Comment #30845658
The yes/no in some cases could allow fixed-income people to be approved when they are short of the required income or credit history because they've never had a rental problem. A l…
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Comment #30810549
...by showing 50% more advertisements and pretending what's relevant to Google ad clients must be relevant to users...
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Comment #30796923
Great question, DJ's mix songs and this person mixed 'every possible 12 note melody combination' they could generate with code.
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Comment #30525568
>Should I add “…and any other enjoyable activity”? No because most enjoyable activities don't cause you to die or want to die when you stop them. (Or idk... maybe the potato chip m…
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Comment #30280963
Learning to be more grateful for what you have will make selling yourself much easier.
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Comment #30280944
Learn more about being grateful for what you have and selling yourself won't be such a chore
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Comment #30051884
Eating kaolin isn't common but in Georgia you can still find it for sale in local gas stations. https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/science-medicin...
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Comment #29945366
But it was a racial thing, heavily-encouraged by the losing party for years (decades actually) and with a well-documented history as such. Every U.S. Capitol police officer heard r…
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Comment #29902519
5 full-time jobs at 40+ weekly hours each would be 200 hours worked per week, which this person clearly does not put in.