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mcgt

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    Comment #24666902

    > What is going to be the impetus for this war? Who are the belligerents? Probably white nationalists. I'm not a subscriber to the idea of a full-scale civil war either but with th…

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    Comment #24592263

    My thoughts were the same, but nothing I've seen (yet) would suggest that. Though deaths by dementia seem to be up far above the 5 year average (especially in the Southern US). Tot…

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    Comment #24586225

    I'm looking into this gap right now. In the US for example, deaths from dementia so far this year are much higher than the average for the past five years (up until ~Aug 15). There…

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    Comment #24562176

    Those scientists must've felt some appeal going on Rogan's show, despite guests like Jones. That's probably why they agreed to it. How does that feed into a culture of anti-intelle…

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    Comment #24520369

    >But instead we're lazy so we just want the president to be a dictator instead of safeguarding our republic. Funny. I wrote my senator months ago about that encryption bill going a…

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    Comment #24441181

    Bacteria fix nitrogen, not legumes.

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    Comment #24438843

    There's a better way to add nitrogen to soil and it's through the nitrogen cycle. The US Midwest (which grows a lot of corn) used to be highly populated with ruminants who did exac…

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    Comment #24393182

    Wouldn't the data we have on mental health show that contemporary wisdom on its treatment is failing? Given spikes in rates of anxiety and depression over the past century, among o…

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    Comment #24327469

    >in my experience QAnon is the political arm of 4Chan This is a spurious claim to make. Do you have any evidence of this? 4chan and 8kun have different owners who both hate each ot…

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    Comment #24240331

    As president of the US, it would be hard believing Trump's only ability to make this kind of case is on Facebook.

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    Comment #24090379

    >Because I believe it's the latter, and if you ban it, the hate campaigns don't vanish, they just start using other mediums. While true that it may not be a source per se, Facebook…