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saltyoldman

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    Comment #48509147

    Is it over because making real arguments backed by facts are hard?

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    Comment #48509131

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    Comment #48509095

    You must be one of those people asking to free Karmelo? Some things are just simple. ISIS is a terrorist organization you're carrying water for. Most of the mission of ISIS is simp…

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    Comment #48499837

    Or, you don't understand the main criticism of it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacifism#Criticism

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    Comment #48496603

    . Weapons or other technologies whose principal purpose or implementation is to cause or directly facilitate injury to people. So if our enemies had no qualms at all about doing th…

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    Comment #48496360

    For some reason I actually thought it was designed specifically to write Haikus!

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    Comment #48482088

    This shit's happening with every topic now. I really wish we'd just start cutting out massive blocks of internet and phones so our old people are not scammed, so our young are not …

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    Comment #48456692

    I did analysis on this with Codex by pulling the vote data for Raman, Pratt, Bass. It definitely said that the vote changes were concerning, but possibly explainable if we new if t…

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    Comment #48456387

    What happened was there were a lot of boomers that taught my generation in the bay area. So when I was in high school around 94-98 the teachers were typically 40-50ish year old boo…

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    Comment #48446327

    > given my orthopedist told me to stay away from anything that’s heavy on the knees, “like tennis, skiing, or, say, snowboarding,” Obviously not knowing the background of this pers…

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    Comment #48441967

    As per usual, no one can defend communism.

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    Comment #48440962

    The opposite of capitalism is some form of socialism or communism. We know that it CAN'T work (at least in America) because all of the extra money to help people is stolen. So Capi…

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    Comment #48440593

    The 100B+ of hospice/daycare/and multiple other medicare related fraud schemes that is happening every year. Perpetrated by the people that keep saying things like "communism was n…

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    Comment #48430454

    Yeah, sorry. This narrative is over now that the fraud has been exposed.

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    Comment #48429075

    Isn't that exactly what they said when Cambridge Analytics data gathering happened?

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    Comment #48427886

    Sounds like the system works like all other hacked systems on this planet. We need to fix our broken systems.

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    Comment #48426934

    Well it's true, I've had so many girlfriends that have literally told me they are not sure about bringing more people into this world because there are already too many it's ruinin…

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    Comment #48419580

    We have entered an era where everything we used to take for granted is under attack. We need to figure out ways to harden our society's services so that they are protected from the…

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    Comment #48414310

    B. THE TERM "DATA CENTER" SHALL NOT INCLUDE FACILITIES MAJORITY-OWNED, OPERATED, OR OTHERWISE CONTROLLED BY A PUBLIC RESEARCH INSTITUTION AND USED FOR RESEARCH PURPOSES. Lol, alway…

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    Comment #48408057

    In the united states the birthrate problem is largely climate change panic (which is not a reason to not have kids because other populations / immigrants start accelerating their b…

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    Comment #48404198

    Something is sketchy with that. Even if SAT/GRE/ACT scores are sent to school, why in the hell would those include your ssn

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    Comment #48404059

    Ugh, yeah, I'm a critic of this. The image in the article is probably a bit of rage bait, but still, the current system of having very specifically designed OHV areas is better tha…

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    Comment #48394793

    This is like ANY company. What company will last forever. Not many.

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    Comment #48394468

    This is just eds. Same guy here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TSLAQ He's got some kind of beef with Elon and has predicted TSLA stock will crash many times.

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