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Comment #22225458
This is a sexist institution.
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Comment #21654332
This estimate gives 1.5 million [1], this gives 1-3 million. [2][3] [1] http://www.jpolrisk.com/brainwashing-police-guards-and-coerc... [2] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-c…
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Comment #21653860
What about the 1-3 million people in Chinese concentration camps (excuse me, "re-education camps")?
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Comment #21641496
Fantastic!
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Comment #21641479
After years of trying to confront the source of my depression, I found out that I inherited incurable bipolar disorder and the only proven effective treatment is drugs. How do you …
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Comment #21641431
No. There are plenty of medications that have measurable effects on average. That doesn't mean it's a one-shot solution for everyone's depression. You need to find the right medica…
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Comment #21641390
Lamotrigine works for most bipolar people for at least a few years. It's used as a first resort since it has typically no side effects. It quit working for me after four years of u…
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Comment #21641245
Respectfully, I think you were playing with fire and got lucky. You have to treat bipolar disorder very differently than unipolar depression. I don't know any doctor who would reco…
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Comment #21624018
Most gendered languages have 2 or 3 grammatical genders (masculine, feminine, and sometimes neuter) with gender expressed in nouns, adjectives, pronouns, and verbs. Depending on th…
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Comment #21623951
>You'd trust The Economist (or the CBO) to be the arbiter of what other people are allowed to say? They already do that with their own employees. They censor and control what state…
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Comment #21610417
Thanks for the perspective. Very interesting.
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Comment #21610375
The websites are set up so that you would not make a profit if you tried to game the system.
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Comment #21603794
The ISP retains records. It's not uncommon to get letters from your ISP telling you to stop torrenting that blockbuster movie you torrented last week because some law office report…
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Comment #21603760
Punching that Nazi makes him go viral and gives his movement clicks.
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Comment #21603742
It's so we can have the appearance of rights. Same reason why China has kangaroo courts.
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Comment #21603736
Police de facto have more rights because they can expect lenient punishment (or no punishment) for crimes they commit even when out of uniform. You can argue until you're blue in t…
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Comment #21603688
American neighborhoods are typically either like Switzerland or Swaziland. Most neighborhoods have low crime, low gun violence, and high income comparable to Switzerland. The other…
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Comment #21598014
I read a while ago in an article from the APA that soldiers who completed VR simulations of trauma were better able to handle stressful situations.
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Comment #21597981
Do DIY clouds give you anonymity? I assume that if I run my traffic through a VPN server in AWS and I am the only one operating and using the server, anything I do on that VPN can …
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Comment #21597906
Actually VR games and simulations reduce the likelihood of developing PTSD.
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Comment #21596430
I trust The Economist newspaper and the Congressional Budget Office
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Comment #21587950
Do you never make generalizations or broad assumptions?
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Comment #21579014
Would you mind answering my questions? I would appreciate it.
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Comment #21578524
China sends in soldiers as police, does false flag attacks, hires the triads, tear gasses 90% of the city, kills protesters on the streets, and arrests protesters and fakes their s…