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textgel

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    Comment #28065304

    You're potentially taking up a hospital bed at some point that could be used for someone else.

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    Comment #28065248

    > Requiring people to consume a medical product just to live their normal lives is morally wrong. > So your hang up is the FDA giving full approval? Perhaps they will but could you…

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    Comment #28065225

    That we know of, just as we "Knew" these vaccines would effectively prevent transmissions and wouldn't have side effects.

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    Comment #28065147

    I want to be able to date without the risk of HIV, seems we have to abolish gay bars and make homsexuality itself a crime.

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    Comment #28065104

    Just as they had a good idea that vaccinating would effectively make the virus transmissible, just as they had a good idea about masks working and not working, just as they...

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    Comment #28017156

    Perhaps it would be better for me to say ostensibly there to build browsers (and other software). In response to the manifesto I'll ask how recent that manifesto and mission statem…

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    Comment #28016751

    > I am not asking the world: I am asking you, an individual human who assuredly stands for something (and hell: we know you at least stand for this, as you decided to stop using Fi…

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    Comment #28016600

    Some in the world are capable of working without being emotionally incapacitated by the thought that those they work with don't agree with all that they believe in. Mozilla is ther…

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    Comment #27917269

    > I'm sorry, are you dismissing all psychology papers? Following the reproducibility crisis they can't be trusted on face value. When used to promote SJW and progressivist causes t…

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    Comment #27916829

    Agreed. This is the paragraph that Barrin92 is trying to missrepresent. > Let me be clear: The horror of Mao’s China was singular. I am not making a comparison to the death and des…

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    Comment #27916527

    You're right it isn't different, it was a stupid idea with firewalls and it's a stupid idea with chess sets.

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    Comment #27916466

    Ah yes a progressive claim backed up by psychology papers. A field currently drowning in a reproducibility crisis, and a group who believe that lying and slander is not only okay b…

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    Comment #27849066

    That's fair; apologies. I'm too late to edit it now but if some passing mods see it and is able to alter please do so.

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    Comment #27847594

    "showdead" is a must for HN

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    Comment #27847144

    It's honestly getting creepy at this point. Throughout this entire comment tree starting from its base you have multiple long term HN users all consciously going out of their way t…

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    Comment #27846007

    Don't get me wrong, you're absolutely right about the tribalism that affects all sides in this situation we're in.

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    Comment #27845599

    Oh isn't that convenient. The definitely racist memo full of racism has so much in it that it is somehow completely impossible to quote any section at all that contains it. > And b…

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    Comment #27845447

    Now do we believe the word of a progressive who claims they saw these things given how much lying that crowd has been doing in this very comment section alone.

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    Comment #27845164

    Well not completely but yes more or less. Look at this comment collection surrounding Damore. The one thing that unifies the group defending the firing is that they are all willing…

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    Comment #27844945

    > And yes, obviously people read it that way. He was fired because he wouldn't stop arguing about it, remember? Various people keep claiming that but there doesn't appear to be any…

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    Comment #27844607

    Any proof of this claim?

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    Comment #27844299

    Start with these and let me know how you get on. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Looking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationality https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning We can advan…

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    Comment #27843976

    Quite probably. They're welcome to disagree about the reality we are literally discussing right now, just as there were no doubt members that disagreed with the realities outlined …

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    Comment #27843949

    Looks like the wired analysis and your own views can be summarised as "we don't understand everything about psychology", and that "biological differences barely matter, it largely …

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    Comment #27843559

    I don't really get what you're arguing? This seems to be just semantics on a 3rd party comment on a forum. > The text preemptively claims that people will reject it because they ar…