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monadgonad

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    Comment #49153510

    > People cycle because it's faster, not because it's easier That may be true, but the fact is that cycling is a more energy-efficient form of transport than walking. It takes liter…

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    Comment #48858684

    The author is "not exactly a train enthusiast" as they say, and nor are the vast majority of the audience . Yet the article presents the game in a way that sounds appealing to such…

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    Comment #48670313

    > "people under 16", you mean children right? They're still people, don't be weird.

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    Comment #48658796

    > Too much protein can definitely kill you, or at least make you ill, as discovered by the Europeans who explored the northern parts of America and who had initially tried to live …

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    Comment #48627135

    > It's similar to my aversion to books like "The Game" Note that The Game isn't a PUA manual, it's investigative journalism into the PUA scene.

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    Comment #48626242

    As someone who is fluent in Japanese, the thing is that this is not an example of a method that works well, it’s an example of a beginner coming up with an overwrought headcanon (w…

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    Comment #48048271

    Staying on the safe side would be not confirming whether it stands for Turbo Rust or not. "You might very well think that; I couldn't possibly comment."

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    Comment #48006338

    You think that they have “days leading up to consultation”? Please don’t be so disingenuous; I’m sure you know exactly what the person you’re replying to meant.

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    Comment #47887657

    "Not about moral high ground. One's an ideology my morals agree with, one isn't."

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    Comment #47273707

    The current situation really has zero bearing on the principle that it’s better to inform users of this.

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    Comment #47059632

    > The difference is that electricity wasn't being controlled by oligarchs that want to shape society so they become more rich while pillaging the planet and hurting/killing real hu…

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    Comment #46231984

    I think it is humorous exaggeration

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    Comment #46229343

    > Should I be familiar with every step of Dijkstra’s search algorithm and remember the pseudocode at all times? Somehow, I think you already know the answer to that is "no". I've b…

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    Comment #46180652

    Antibiotics don’t stop you suffering from poison ivy. At all. In other posts you say you had a broken skin barrier that’s vulnerable to infection, so you presumably know that this …

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    Comment #45913023

    > I won't call clickbait on this But you are going to imply it by bringing it up at all. > They didn't kill him, they failed to save him. The post does not say otherwise. Please gi…

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    Comment #45501601

    > very well understood and documented by a huge community Is this article not someone in the community documenting what's understood? I'm sorry if it doesn't meet your expectations…

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    Comment #45500688

    Me. I'm a backend developer who occasionally wants to make a web frontend for a side-project but knows essentially no CSS. The solutions are not "well understood" by me because I k…

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    Comment #45179846

    The article, and especially much of the discussion here, is about how privatisation has led to this situation. Privatisation of a public utility which _even in many other developed…

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    Comment #43718008

    Fruiter Aero is a term that retroactively applies to the style of a certain time. Look at Windows Vista. Windows Vista's design is what we now call Fruitger Aero. Windows Vista cam…

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    Comment #43704413

    I'm not sure how you've come to that impression. The boards I used to frequent are hobbyist ones, not political, yet they have people calling each other the n-word all the time. On…

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    Comment #37553939

    You're talking about a completely different phenomenon.

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    Comment #32922646

    > Why not pick a good option? Why go through the trouble then be like, fuck it, Ill pick a shitty option? You're assuming way too much active thought and choice on the part of the …

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    Comment #32713272

    You clearly did not read the post you're replying to at all. They are not talking about ignoring it or claiming that they are not liable.

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    Comment #31779261

    Neither dietary cholesterol nor saturated fat nor sugar are bad in moderation, and that's completely orthogonal to the point of them providing probiotics.