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"I believe that the federal government should have little to no power!" -- most Republicans
"Obama did NOTHING and I am outraged!" -- the same people, probably
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My friend from WI mentioned that it was a brand name or something. In the same vein youd call a tissue a Kleenex.
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Manspread? Is that like a special kind of butter aimed at dudes?
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I earned my internet. I don't appreciate the authorities taking away my hard earned bandwidth.
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I weirdly posted what I meant to say in the wrong topic, but here it is in the right place:

Northern Virginia has faaar worse traffic than LA.
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I don't see why 'mental health' needs to specifically refer to having some sort of disease like depression. Stress can lead to plenty of mental and physical health problems down the line and thus blowing off some steam is a perfectly valid way to preserve one's mental well-being. You don't have to be sick to live healthy.
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Castlevania (NES) is in no way an RPG.
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I'd agree. Those are just the arguments I've seen posed.
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Addressing mental health is good for both sides of the coin. It keeps the workers less burnt out and it can help to ensure the quality of the worker remains productive. As long as not taken in excess, these "mental health days", "alternative sick day" or "I'm growing slowly disgruntled and want to screw around days" are an excellent step in the right direction.
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I was more going along the lines that NN is essentially a government-imposed regulation and regulations only serve to hinder the free market.
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Free market woooooooo! Options are good!

Not having net neutrality is racist and anti-poor because it's just a one-size fits-all-solution.
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Simple. For more than half of the population, the media is basically de-legitimized. We're a hair trigger away from living in a first-world North Korea.
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All behold the endgame of capitalism:

All menial work is automated completely eliminating the need of a working class.

Education is hyperfocused on business and entrepreeneurialism. Humanities are a thing of the past.

Anyone who has not become a CEO and millionaire [or inflated future equivalent] by the age of 30 is culled in a Logan's Run type scenario to prevent the need for a social welfare net.

Everyone is literally a millionaire. Capitalism wins!
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You mean you don't know about NASA's lies? The word NASA even means liar in Hebrew. If you can't trust NASA, you definitely can't trust scientists who don't even belong to an acronym.
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Ever since people learned you could just do a quick Google search to prove that NASA is just a theatre company, science is on most peoples' shitlists.
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Why those six countries though?
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Same way as a seal probably?
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JE19426 posted...

ShinyMasamuneZ posted...

Maybe I used the incorrect phrasing? It's less about having actual rights and more about being less reliant on a federal body when the states can and should be able to make decisions for themselves. Not that I necessarily agree with those principles, for the record.

They could make those decisions, even if the US did what it is required to do so under the Paris accords.

But Trump showed them the way. He used his trickery and guile to teach the states that the true power was inside them all along.
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JE19426 posted...

That makes no sense, how can they make these pledges if they don't already have these rights?

Maybe I used the incorrect phrasing? It's less about having actual rights and more about being less reliant on a federal body when the states can and should be able to make decisions for themselves. Not that I necessarily agree with those principles, for the record.
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ChromaticAngel posted...

Covfefe

High-up White House officials know exactly what covfefe is. Just because you don't know what it means doesn't mean that Trump /isn't/ a genius.
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--Drops US from Paris Climate Accords
--Left-leaning states and cities start making independent pledges left and right to fight against injustice
--Right-leaning people snicker and laugh because States' rights is what they've been wanting all long
--Check?
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Think of the three members of the Trinity as aspects of the same thing or person. God, Jesus, and the Spirit all have different properties and roles that the other two cannot fulfill.

I could call my self Shiny and give myself three different roles: Gamer, Scientist, Teacher

While acting as a Gamer, I am not currently doing experiments or teaching people how to solve problems.
While acting as a Scientist, I am not wasting my time looking for Koroks and am not acting as a mentor.
While acting as a teacher, I am not pressing Up+B to recover nor am I analyzing gigs upon gigs of data.

All three roles correspond to the kind of person I am as a whole, but in general, the three roles manifest themselves fully only in certain places or times. They are separate, yet add up to an entire whole.

I am a gamer, I am a scientist, I am a teacher. But each of those three roles can exist without the other and are decidedly not the same.
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PyroBlade1985 posted...

Am I the only one who thinks this is a non-issue? I don't care who it is. A typo on social media shouldn't be causing this big if an impact.

According to Spicer, top White House officials know exactly what covfefe is. For all we know, Trump is openly divulging national secrets on Twitter.
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In an alternate universe, Citizen Kane says "covfefe" before dying.
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Is there actual evidence that the DNC killed him or is it just one of those word-association yarn-and-photos attached to a bulletin board sort of deal?
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No, but not for any reason involving cultural appropriation.
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It was amazing until it turned into a different, much worse game about halfway through.
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Those backwards-ass baguette biters don't know anything.
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Can't you write some sort of algorithm to do your assignment for you?

for i <= assignment_length
Solve(i)
i++
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Is it math?
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It's both sides really.

You've got your right-wingers against vaccines for religious reasons or due to government mind control conspiracies.
You've got your hippie-dippie left-wingers who think they're unnatural, full of nebulous toxins, and poisoning babies.

It's not a partisan problem, it's an idiot problem.
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I like to think he fired him like on his old show.
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I'm pretty we'll soon be overrun by giant prehistoric carnivores. It's the premise of the movie Jurassic Park, so this is something we should be concerned with in the near future.
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Physics
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Well, Longshot shot an eagle (Bowie's preferred form of quick transport) outside of Sovereign's HQ, but, I mean, that could have been any eagle tbh.
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SSj3BillMurray posted...

Doe posted...

SSj3BillMurray posted...

Spear loses big on maneuverability so it's out.

??

-At long range: fight with spear extended
-Closer quarters: slide the handle through your hands so that it becomes a shorter weapon

-at moving silently thru unfamiliar territory in the dark: bad enough without a big awkward stick bumping around outside your own physical reach

Use it as a walking stick or simply have it drawn and poised to strike. If you're really worried about being attacked in unfamiliar territory, you wouldn't not have a weapon at the ready.
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synth_real posted...

ShinyMasamuneZ posted...

Crowbar is definitely good for its utility in the field and its concentrated force, but its short length leaves much to be desired in terms of weaponry.

You can get crowbars the same length as a full size bat.

You can, yes, but given that they are solid metal, they become very heavy as they increase in length.
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Spear also doubles as a walking stick, a long shaft for dislodging or retrieving far away objects, a way to test the depths of bodies of water, a method for poking dead bodies to make sure they're actually dead before approaching. Lots of utility.

Crowbar is definitely good for its utility in the field and its concentrated force, but its short length leaves much to be desired in terms of weaponry.
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Shortness means that you end up on average in closer proximity to a zombie than ideal. A blunt weapon is powerful, but would likely need multiple strikes in order to kill a zombie. If we're operating under the assumption that we need to disable the brain, then a bat may not be the best. If the head is not affixed to another surface (the ground or a tree), the maximum amount of force is lessened and the bat serves more to hobble than kill.

I'd argue a polearm like a spear with a long shaft and a very sharp tip (yup, this topic is definitely full of dick jokes) would be optimal in both keeping ones' distance and killing power.
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meingott posted...

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meingott posted...

If a few hundred trillion dollars worth of new opportunities enter the market, there's not much you can do to stop the entire global economy from growing.

Counterpoint: Mansa Musa, the 13th century ruler of the Mali Empire, once made a pilgrimage to Mecca and on the way made vast generation donations in Egypt, devaluing gold in the region and causing great economic panic and collapse for more than a decade.

because the 13th century has so much in common with the modern era of advanced and rapidly advancing technology

It was an era of increasing globalization and technological advances, yes.
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meingott posted...

If a few hundred trillion dollars worth of new opportunities enter the market, there's not much you can do to stop the entire global economy from growing.

Counterpoint: Mansa Musa, the 13th century ruler of the Mali Empire, once made a pilgrimage to Mecca and on the way made vast generation donations in Egypt, devaluing gold in the region and causing great economic panic and collapse for more than a decade.
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What incentivizes the asteroid mining companies to give that newfound wealth to people in the form of a UBI? Wouldn't having a government take money from the rich to supply not just health care, but basic standards of living be just as bad or worse as something like ACA?
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meingott posted...

Which means we can be a post-money society.

Sounds like some lefty hippie crap to me.
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meingott posted...

Automation will be a process, not an over night deal. As automation reduces costs, people will be able to afford more for less. There will still be work for able bodied people for a while yet. And when we get to the point where that's not the case, everyone will have a universal income anyway and everything will be obtainable with very little hours of work required. So it'll be fine.

Most predictions about the automation of labor predict that the physical labor jobs that able-bodied people are required for will be the first to go. Industries involving manufacturing, construction, and mining are already or within the next decade or so, will be the first off the map. The size of the job pool is going to decrease as automation increases -- likely faster as automation has the potential to due multiple tasks as once.

I find your analysis of automation to be very "Equations 101". You consider only the base effect without considering the literally millions of factors and players that come into play in real life. It's like modeling the trajectory of a projectile without considering air resistance, object size, launch method or object rotation. The basic outline gives you a good enough idea of what can happen, but without considering the other factors, your accuracy is greatly diminished.

I also reject the notion that a UBI will allow a person to have everything they need or want. The UBI is to supply a person with a bare minimum for food, shelter, clothing and communications, but luxuries and other expenses are generally going to fall outside that sphere of influence.
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Mostly meme forcing.
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meingott posted...

Automation means less expensive labor and more accurate results. This is because machines are inexpensive compared to human labor, and because machines are more capable of processing tremendous amounts of information (which is one of the reasons healthcare is so expensive - it's a complex industry).

So if medical labor is automated in the majority and leads to cheaper diagnoses and tests, how does that scale with automation in other industries displacing labor and ultimately leading to a massive employment crisis?

It's great that medical costs are reduced, but if people don't have jobs to pay for them or still can't afford care from their meager UBI, what good does that do?
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World.
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HypnoCoosh posted...

If only we could have as smooth of a bull shit artist as obama for POTUS for another eight years!

God forbid the leader of the free world be able to clearly communicate his thoughts.
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This just in:

Second American Civil War breaks out over populace being unable to agree whether First Civil War was preventable
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