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Indeed we do, straight from the mouth of our lord, who has spoken not once, but twice! Truly this is a blessed day.

How else should one interpret this sentence other than, "I've already corrected you on this, so you should know better"? > We've been through this argument, recently, and I'm a lit…

So what, you set him straight and now he's never allowed to hold that opinion ever again? Maybe he didn't accept your argument. What a ridiculously pompous comment. Tptacek has spo…

Do you doubt that even one does? Because if one does, it gives them such a ludicrous advantage that the others can't even be competitive if they don't.

Good thing all my games are on PC ;) I think people give too much credit to the government for being a rational and calculating actor. I don't find it difficult to believe that the…

For what purpose? Do you have any evidence of this?

That's how all of physics is constructed. Even things you may think are obvious, like Newton's 3 laws of motion, are only accepted because they agree with our measurements. How els…

Let me save everybody a click. From their website: > Suncell® directly generates electricity from reaction of hydrogen to dark matter using water freely available in the humidity i…

I don't doubt that you've seen examples of that, but I've seen plenty that go the other way. Heavily downvoted comments that are only slightly defensive of him, and others that ris…

There is little difference in maturity between a 17 year old and an 18 year old, and I would not consider either a child. And 17 year olds cannot be deployed. But since we're being…

I enlisted right out of high school. Did my 4 years and got out. I think it made me more mature, or at least less naive about certain things...eventually. The experiences were valu…

Unfortunately I can't find it now. I was looking for it earlier because I wanted to reread it myself. Wish I'd bookmarked it at the time. Sorry about that.

I'm talking about the men in this article. Both of them were career military officers. It's fair to say that that was their choice. Certainly there's propaganda that goes into recr…

Sure, let me just call up all my buddies from my old platoon and apologize to them because some internet know-it-all said I should feel sorry for them. They're all doing great, so …

There's an element of the "just working here" mentality, but it's more than that. I was in Afghanistan more than a decade ago, and in my mind, we were fighting against the abuses a…

It's not weird at all. Soldiers on opposite sides have a lot in common, just as you might have a lot in common with someone of your profession from a different country. Their confl…

> Then he told me to go fly a kite, because that’s usually what happens when people are wrong and have zero evidence that their stance is right and yours is wrong. It's also what h…

> they take out a large short position, then they publicise their research. If the market agrees with them, the uncovered fraud tanks the stock price, and they make a healthy profi…

> Outside of a city, good luck getting the police to come to your house. Where I used to live they would take at least 20 minutes and it wasn't particularly rural. Even living in t…

I'm not sure how either of these articles support your point. Your first article is someone criticizing prior efforts by others to reduce public education funding. The only person …

They talked about reducing funding.

That's a poor excuse. They're low resolution, but not so low resolution that you can chant a slogan and then claim you meant something else entirely. Why not "reform the police", o…

This can happen even without regulation, simply because the company doesn't want the risk of using a less-than-fully-tested design. I used to work at a kiosk manufacturer that woul…