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I hope this comment gets as much appreciation as it deserves.

The best way I ever heard this sentiment phrased was "the most radio friendly single on the album had the refrain 'I want to fuck you like an animal'".

Pretty heat machine.

Economics are not the only considerations at play. Even if economic considerations do dominate, the social safety nets of many European countries offer attractive alternatives to t…

China has never been a place, historically, that has welcomed foreigners as anything other than short-term visitors. To the extent that it has, those foreigners have become Chinese…

> more digestible I see what you did there.

No one said anything about a conspiracy. From TFA: "In addition to a base of far-right wing support, which makes up 15 percent of the population, the AfD is attracting a protest vo…

I'm curious where I could find an example of someone saying that working hard and being punctual are white supremacist.

I was a Gnucash user for a decade before switching to beacount ( https://github.com/beancount/beancount ). Can't see myself ever going back.

> No, it's that if you DON'T work hard, you WON'T get it. Depends on how much you start with.

Open source software really _has_ penetrated every niche.

Not a native Chinese speaker, but I am a proficient speaker of Chinese as a second language. No dog in this fight except to mention that "天真" does have a "sum of its parts" aspect …

Whether there is more corruption in Africa or the United States probably depends on qualifying statements like "Where in Africa?", "Where in the United States?", and importantly "W…

Clarifying question: are you referring to emotional labor as labor which is emotionally taxing for the producer, or labor which produces a positive emotional effect on the consumer…

Now I'm getting the feels masondixon - thanks for being so open to a discussion.

Hi rubberstamp! I disagree that this thread is "just nitpicking each other" - I think it's been both educational and civil. For instance, when masondixon learned that Reagan had a …

> Don't you get excited at the prospect of a leader not beholden to any special interests at all? On paper that does sound exciting, but it's not something that I want at any cost.…

OK, I'll accept that my analogy isn't very good. So your argument is that someone who is a good private executive will also be a good public executive? Let's accept that premise as…

Ok - thanks for clarifying. I don't think that this assertion strengthens an argument that voting for Trump is better than voting for any other candidate. I would argue that someon…

Hi tomp! I was trying to summarize masondixon's stated points about the negative effect electing "statesmen" have had. masondixon listed: - two wars - Obama missed seeing the rise …

Hi masondixon! > But look at the last 15 years of foreign policy from "statesmen". We had two wars, Obama missed seeing the rise of ISIS, Syria is a humanitarian nightmare, we had …

Could you get away with allowing folks to manually paste in the HTML of their own linkedin page, or perhaps upload a PDF version of their linked in page? Are you scraping the page …

And the Objective-C community thanks you for it, Michael. We wouldn't be software developers, however, if we weren't hopeless pedants who lose the forest for the trees and point ou…