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somebody78978

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    Comment #36759461

    How is it an oversimplification? Affirmative action states that your requirements for getting into college change depending on your race.

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    Comment #36483021

    You could say that it was good enough

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    Comment #36474670

    And yet when people talk about negative ways to express and enforce feminitity, they never seem to use the phrase "toxic femininity".

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    Comment #36436480

    So by your logic, if I order a human driven taxi, and the driver does something illegal, I should be arrested along with him? Obviously assumming I didn't threaten and/or bribe him…

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    Comment #36332777

    I don't understand, the whole point of studying a virus in a lab is to gather data on it.

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    Comment #36314873

    Well, maybe the reason why those men didn't want to complete college is because they don't have the same support that women do (or at least, that's what they percieve).

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    Comment #36165558

    If the meta-RCT shows that RCTs are efficacious, then RCT's are effective. But, if the meta-RCT shows that RCTs are not efficacious, that means the meta-RCT, which is also an RCT, …

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    Comment #36070991

    I don't think the U.S. government has the right to force a company to operate in another country.

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    Comment #35981127

    Yeah, but that's also been the case for thousands of years.

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    Comment #35962982

    > When my girlfriend texts me when I'm out with my AirPods, I think we'd both like me to hear her message in her actual voice rather than Siri's And then you can use voice to text …

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    Comment #35740568

    Yeah, but human females can have more kids during that 15 year window, so that reduces the risk somewhat.

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    Comment #34899839

    But you still end up with the problem where your caste determines your privilege; the only difference is which caste benefits. Wouldn't it be better to work toward a system where t…

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    Comment #34794483

    Regarding TurboTax, I'm pretty sure the clients want the software to work slower ; there are times when the software just pauses and says something like "Checking over to make sure…

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    Comment #34644458

    Doesn't "neat" just mean without ice?

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    Comment #34584220

    We don't need an alternative. I've never understood why we need to go through security to board an airplane, but not to board a train.

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    Comment #34070220

    *Carmella, not Carmine, lol. Carmine is another mob boss.

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    Comment #34018259

    Yes, due to quantum physics, the end products of comubstion weigh slightly less than the starting products. But this change is so minisqule that you can basically ignore it.

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    Comment #34005479

    > This is unfortunately yet another gendered imposition, with women feeling like they have to adhere to a beauty standard that comes from the male gaze. Beauty standards are set an…

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    Comment #34005360

    > Most women in prostitution are from marginalized backgrounds and many are trafficked. Where is their freedom? The exact same problem applies to migrant farm workers, but nobody i…

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    Comment #33985566

    > Where does it say they were not allowed? The first couple of paragraphs talk ad nauseum about how hard it was for women to become spies.

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    Comment #33819846

    Positions of weakness are also predominantly held by men: the prison and the homeless populations are overwhelmingly male.

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    Comment #33563719

    Algae isn't an experimental food; plenty of rich people eat sushi, for example.

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    Comment #33507375

    > the name was picked for the movie because the letters are shifted by one from "IBM." Actually, the IBM/HAL thing is just a coincidence, according to both Kubrick and Clarke: http…