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Thank you for holding up a mirror, dang! Being publicly called out came as a bit of shock and really got me thinking. The comment above really isn't me. Or rather, it is clearly me…

So this is the male version of the trophy spouse stereotype. Focuses on lifting and courting, has an education just to check off a box, writes pseudointellectual drivel to pass the…

I'm actually not pushing for anything, and since I wasn't following antivaxxers this is all new to me. I guess this was my 10000 moment for the day ( https://xkcd.com/1053/ )

OK, I'm probably going to burn a bunch of karma on this comment, but this is very interesting. For example, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4516275/ looks like a legit…

Not an anti-vaxxer, but comments like this are even better antivaxx fodder :) I understand where you are coming from, but the ultimate goal is to stop COVID, not get everyone a jab…

True. This one hit close to home for me personally, but I can say with confidence that therapy can make things a lot better. There's a tendency to either coddle a person with these…

And if you look at that particular prosecutor's record, there is a clear pattern of "overkill".

And it sounds like he was perfectly aware of this. This feeling of being "not really a man" can be overwhelming, and I feel like this is an incredibly toxic thing perpetuated by ou…

No, vei nid to do al the saim drujeri bicoz ze jenerashon befor vem had to :) Olso, zis kaind of speling luks strainj to old pipl.

If your birth country isn't India or China, a masters could significantly speed up the process of getting a US green card. For India or China you'd wait a decade anyway.

There is also a pretty well-made show on this topic, and it's even on Netflix: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fartsa_(TV_series)

There are even to this day quite a lot of houses in Russia with this exact setup. My grandparents old house had an oven stove and radiators. They replaced the oven stove with an el…

Americans lost two skyscrapers and still talk every year about how the country was scarred. Yes, it was terrible, but imagine a country literally burned by fire from the sky, and f…

But, to play devil's advocate, isn't this exactly what we should want, long term? I think the end goal is for Black and autistic people to be thought of as people first and foremos…

Fun is maybe not quite the word I'd use. The juxtaposition of all the wording about "defense" and menacing-looking characters that would definitely be the villain and not the hero …

Won't we figure out at some point how to input the fun into the brain directly, bypassing the usual senses? At that point, what's the use for galactic colonization? Math/fun can be…

Artificial bodies. Our deep-seated bias towards compassion has led us to subvert natural selection through medicine (and I say this as someone who likely would not survive a few ce…

But what about Plato's cave? You say that a mind arises from a healthy brain, but let's say we put a perfectly healthy brain into an environment where it cannot experience the same…

I think our sense of right and wrong actually has a lot to do with evolution. Indeed, it's one of the things that drives our evolution as a species. Self-preservation is very impor…

There are basically two viable next-gen messengers: Telegram and Signal. One has an open encryption protocol and a founder who is much better connected in Silicon Valley.

I have to ask: but why? The author correctly concludes that the human mind is software, but then their survival instinct gets the better of them and they don't carry this thought t…

Isn't this "doctrine of the foregone conclusion" exactly how the west operates? Not too long ago there was an invasion of Iraq over some WMDs that unnamed "intelligence sources" we…

Annex territory? Turkey, NATO member, 1974 ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_invasion_of_Cyprus ) Your parents were alive during that time, so it's not that old school.

There are a lot of Russians who don't support Putin yet will fight to make sure another one of these peaceful transitions doesn't happen in their home. Rampant crime, addictions, b…