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Their argument they have doesn't seem to be limited to just the temperature of the Earth as caused by humans. Many of them extend that denial to say that human beings do not have any widespread negative impact on the Earth at all; if creatures are dying they're simply just not strong enough, nature will find a way, there are millions of animals left everywhere, yada yada.

But then these same people - and I'd put money on it that if you were to draw a demographic circle the overlap would be near perfect - unironically defend hunting, because (and this is their absolute most favourite and defensible position - "Hunting is a necessary mechanism to control the destructive behaviour of deer on the ecosystem."

So to recap. We need to kill deers because deers destroy all the flora which kills all the fauna. But we don't need to moderate human behaviour such as levelling rainforests and throwing all our plastic shit in the ocean, because animals will figure that shit out no problemo.

I'm sorry pinky is drunk but you get my point
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Cocytus posted...

There's nothing wrong with a man liking his work or work friends.

There's a bit wrong when work doesn't reciprocate his feelings because for them work friends are just cordial relationships and not true friendship
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Schwarz posted...

Wow, is ur name Judy cuz u sure r judgin.

I do not claim to be a non-judgmental person
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He went away on leave this week. He's not going anywhere, he just wanted a week off.

On day two he came back into the office to look at his computer. Brought his wife in and everything. Spent half an hour here saying he needed to "sort out the computer, it's been bothering me". On his day off.

Then we realised he had diverted his work phone to his mobile. So any clients calling the office would get straight through to him. He did this intentionally.

We've since noticed he's responding to the chat in Slack (messenger app). Guy is sitting in a coffee shop somewhere by himself responding to work banter on his week off.

Don't be like this guy.
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Who the fuck looks at their 300lb+ body and think "yes, this is fine. In fact no, it's good".

Like I'm not about bullying people who are fat but don't fucking try to tell me you're woke to be that size.
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https://soundcloud.com/user-949053676/trade-it-all

His side project The Funk Apostles is pretty cool live but what the fuck is this milquetoast 80s funk shit? Dude needs to stop singing and just play the keys.
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Youtube

Owned by google

Home to probably all the most talented developers in the world

But they don't want to fix the thumbs down button and maybe let the community take care of asshat trolls to some degree

What's all that about
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xyphilia posted...

FLUFFYGERM posted...

yep. it's pretty depressing to see.

Don't you get the urge to want to help them lose weight though, especially if you get to enjoy the spoils afterwards? It's a long investment but could be fun.

That's not how that works
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I saw this happen. Obese girl with a pretty (but fat) face lost like 100lbs and started working out. Became straight up model material.
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l Dudeboy l posted...

Your friend doesn't seem like the brightest person. Definitely why they're a Trump cultist.

ftfy
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I think my brain just melted trying to make sense of that
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Twin3Turbo posted...

RE_expert44 posted...

No. When I get downvoted it's usually something I saw coming before I posted so I stand by my comments.

This.

For one I very rarely post on reddit and could give a crap less if I'm downvoted

I can really only remember being downvoted twice recently. On one occasion I recall being downvoted, it was for giving a not so popular opinion on domestic violence where I had proof to back up and prove my claims. People argued with me, I showed them proof of what I was purporting, and ultimately they didn't even try to give rebuttal. They just told me I was wrong.

The other time was when I called a girl a brat for being mad at her sister in law for "ruining" her wedding when her sister in law objectively did nothing wrong. Some people really didn't like that.

On another note, @pinky0926 I actually saw a post of yours a few weeks ago on the instantkarma sub. I checked to make sure and sure enough, it was you.

Sure it was on instantkarma? What was the post? I can't even remember posting there but it's certainly possible. I do post a lot and seem to get a lot of karma sometimes.
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Wutobliteration posted...

which rarely happens unless you're posting on some fandom sub maybe. And if you're not happy about it, you can go to another subreddit. Eg. hate the liberals on politics? then go to /r/the_donald then

It happens all the time. Any time an article from /r/news or /r/worldnews or /r/politics hits the front page you can bet that it will be full of self-congratulatory posts by people who barely took the time to read the thread title, nevermind the article. You can bet your ass they have an incredibly superficial understanding of the situation as a whole. And those people will be upvoted by thousands of people who are equally ignorant and misinformed.

If you've ever seen a topic on reddit being discussed that happens to be your area of professional/personal expertise, you can appreciate just how much nonsense is spread and congratulated on that site.

This is reddit's biggest problem, in my opinion. Not only does everyone get a voice (that's like any message board), but the importance of the voice is determined by how much the rhetoric appeals to the userbase.
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Positivity, on my CE???

Yeah this is good
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Wutobliteration posted...

the very design of reddit is meant to filter out trolls. It's not as easy to make alt account since subs regulate karma entrance. The downvotes are there to show how unpopular or stupid your topic is. It has its cons, obviously, but it does a good job at filtering OUT THE TROLLS.

It also does a good job of filtering out discussion, dissent, anything that the masses determine unsavoury. The upvote/downvote system allows a bunch of idiots to drown out a literal expert and make him look like the stupid one.
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Depends. It's less the comment karma I'm worried about and more bandwagon idiots stopping by to say something toxic and unnecessary because they want to get their shot in. I have no doubt that there's a significant portion of people on reddit who coast through comment sections just to find downvoted comments and reply to them.
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DocileOrangeCup posted...

when you destroy your family over it im sorry but i kind of have a hard time feeling sorry for you.

I think that's the most pitiful kind of person, myself. Imagine having a problem so bad that you can't even put your family first.

I've seen someone who was a good mother get addicted to meth and eventually have her child taken away by social services by the grandmother. Imagine that; your own mother enacting legal proceeding to take your child away from you when just 2 years ago you were a model parent. I think that's fucking tragic.
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You're looking for compassion and empathy in absolutely the worst place, I'm afraid. Can't expect the usual suspects on CE to have goodwill towards other people when they clearly hate themselves so much.
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It would basically start a war. Hong Kong do not want to be a part of China.
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Awesome posted...

people in the US are getting fat because of the high fructose corn syrup, artificial food coloring and food oils. trying to lose weight by going very low calorie will make you lose fat, muscle and at the same time damage your liver and thyroid function.

We're not talking about a very low caloric deficit because I've repeatedly implied slight caloric deficit, not starvation mode, but putting that aside

How do you suppose you reverse the obesity of a person without them eating less in some regard? How do you suppose their body can possibly become smaller will maintaining the same amount of energy input and perhaps only a marginal increase in energy output?

Remembering that obesity in itself is a massive health risk, of many times greater a magnitude than marginal thyroid problems
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Awesome posted...

undereating and restricting calorie intake destroys the thyroid and lowers your bmr, do you not understand that?

its like every thing i post here is laughed at im making all of this up. this is why the world is the way it is, full of stubborn and igorant people.

get informed.

Who the fuck is talking about undereating

America and much of the western world is suffering from an unprecedented obesity crisis and you're worried about people eating too little

We're talking about not being a fat fuck by keeping an eye on your diet

Don't even
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MrPeppers posted...

Thats a misleading term that should be eradicated. A calorie is simply a unit of energy, the amount required to raise 1g of water by 1 degree C. We measure food in kcals or Calories with a capital C. I know you didnt ask for the lesson but it just aggravated me slightly

"Empty calorie" is just a fitness related buzzword that means "food types that don't have a high nutrient content, like sugar donuts". It's obviously not very sensible for the reason you gave but it sort of makes sense if you squint your eyes a bit.
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Awesome is peddling this bizarre nonsense frequently it seems, it's weird. He's talking like everyone has cystic fibrosis and a thyroid disorder.

Counting calories might be destructive for people with eating disorders such as anorexia. It's also not necessarily going to be that effective if you have a rare condition that effects how metabolise food. For everyone else it's a good way to get a handle on how much you eat and to meet your training goals.

As a general point, 1300 calories seems like a really small amount unless you are a small woman and you're not doing any exercise.
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Howl posted...

pinky0926 posted...

On one playthrough I maxed out all my characters and got the best possible equipment. I'm not even a completionist but that's the most work I've ever put into a game.

That's a really odd goal for that game, as the best possible equipment for characters is determined largely by what Battle you are attempting to fight. Penance for instance requires totally different equipment set-ups than all the Dark Aeons.

I had all the different gear setups for those special battles and a general one that was suitable for most enemies. From memory it was a 4 piece armour set that gave you auto-revive, auto-potion, auto-shell/auto-protect (depending on character) and auto-haste. Was pretty OP for pretty much every enemy except penance and marlboros.
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That game remains the most perfect JRPG experience I've ever had. I sunk maybe 3000+ hours into that game. I played it over start to (near) finish maybe 6+ times. On one playthrough I maxed out all my characters and got the best possible equipment. I'm not even a completionist but that's the most work I've ever put into a game.

I've been trying to recreate that experience since, with no luck. I tried Tales of Vesperia but didn't get into it. Xenoblade Chronicles was maybe closest, the world was amazing and the storytelling good, but I didn't feel the same level of progression or depth with the combat. I wasn't quite as attached to all the characters, only a couple of them were that interesting to me. Xenoblade Chronicles 2 so far has failed to grip me. The combat/item system is so convoluted and I think they throw too many things at you at once.

Any recommendations? I'm considering Octopath Traveller but the story seems pretty naff.
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Cancelled my prime over this nonsense a while back
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I always feel sorry for child prodigies.
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NinjaBreakfast posted...

Another good example of this (albeit this literally didn't happen at all) was apparently serious journalists talking about Theresa May doing a Love, Actually and calling out trump. As if Theresa May (i) isn't an awful right wing, serial human rights flouting pos in the first place (ii) would ever actually do such a thing.

This has to be the mother of all strawmen because you will be hardpressed to find any person under the age of 55 who has a kind word to say about Theresa May

So no that's not a good example really, that's a farfetched example. If you want to comb the internet looking for the rogue liberal who confirms your bias I guess it makes sense.
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Milkman5 posted...

The queen was literally appointed by "God"

aka her family appointed themselves, said it was god's plan and that their blood is superior

Liberals love her despite this, but hate Trump because Hillary's emails got hacked therefore making the election invalid...

lmfao

You'll find that liberals are largely entirely critical of the monarchy for all the reasons you just mentioned but also feel that she's a standup gal in her own right

You know, nuance.
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NinjaBreakfast posted...

The wish fulfilment projection of liberals onto the head of a monarchy built entirely on unearned privilege is v cringe

oh boy here we go

Nevermind that liberals in the UK want to see the end of the monarchy and it's the conservatives who want to hold onto it for entirely the reasons you just misattributed

But please continue to fundamentally not understand things
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jborgan posted...

I just read that Trump said the Queen inspected the Guard of Honour for the first time in 70 years because of his visit. Apparently she does it multiple times a year for any head of state.

He will lie about anything and everything. And yes, I love her subtle fuck you to him.

He intimately understands how braindead idiotic and culturally unequipped his base is.
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Rob Cesternino posted...

Liberals hate him because hes white and Russia is the last remaining conservative white country.

this is a post
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https://twitter.com/SamuraiKnitter/status/1018570246037352449

TL;DR - Queen always, always wears a brooch of significance when visiting/receiving guests. Usually it's a mark of honour to the guest or something celebrating the historical relationship. The meaningful brooch thing is a big deal, she's been doing it for like 60+ years. So when Trump visited, she wore a purely friendship brooch gifted by the Obamas. Not even a brooch of political significance that celebrates the American relationship. Just a plain little friendship brooch they gave her that's not even supposed to be for state visits. (Plus some other subtle brooch related digs the following days).

Also Trump was 12 minutes late for tea. Wtf.
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solosnake posted...

This guy gets it

His point is very different to yours.
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solosnake posted...

? pretty sure Putin wasnt even elected till 2000

Because press only exists for sitting presidents
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solosnake posted...

I dont know if any of you guys lived through "Weapons of mass destruction" but this frenzy really reminds me of that

Are you fucking kidding me

Where have you been the past 20 years? Bad press about Putin didn't begin in 2016 when Trump got elected. It predates fucking Clinton dude.
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solosnake posted...

No, Im just saying dont resort to irrational hatred over something. It is important to be 100% sure. Dont just blindly follow propaganda. The implications here have the potential to change an entire generation across the planet.

Dude like 4 minutes of light reading will give you more than enough reason to confirm that Putin is indeed the boogeyman.
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Putin is an ex KGB snake that has successfully eroded the democracy in his country and assumed full authoritarian dictatorship. In America you'd consider it un-democratic to lie in the news or make life difficult for journalists. In Russia they get a government sanctioned hitman to murder you and don't even really bother to cover it up. There's really not much else to say about it.
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solosnake posted...

Did you leave? Because i would have left the house after something like that

I just sat there feeling so angry and upset
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MutantJohn posted...

> gets invited to a girl's place to "watch a movie"
> goes over there and nerd rages about optimal entertainment setup

wew lad

Yeah I know she's bang out of order
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Conservatives are showcasing their complete lack of understanding on the subject of homophobia if they think jokes about Trump getting cosy with Putin are homophobic
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TES_Nut posted...

Far from the dumbsest thing I've ever heard. Maybe you're just an asshole?

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EliteLevel posted...

I dont see the problem

Look man this girl didn't just have a 10 foot HDMI cable sitting in a drawer. She wanted to play movies from her laptop to her TV so she went out and bought one, or even waited like 3 days or so for it to arrive in the mail. Then she sat there with this big ass cable acting like a limbo line across the living room just so she could watch TV, not knowing that she could have just played direct from her Netflix using the TV.

Then when I asked her about it she said she didn't have time to set it up, even though she's one of the least active people I know and had clearly spent the entire day on the fucking couch texting people. I mean she had just said that she was bored with nothing to do.

This rustled my jimmies something fierce
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EvalAngell posted...

I got a really nice suit for a wedding from Zara. Didn't break the bank, fit great and I got some compliments on it. It might be fake wool but it did the job.

Their suits are not halfbad actually, I have one and I really like it. I'm talking more their topcoats.
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Her: I'm so fucking bored, nothing to do today. Want to watch a movie?
Me: Sure, can be there in an hour or so
*go to her place*
*notice she has a big ass HDMI cable from the back of the TV to her laptop on the couch 8 feet away*
Me: You bought this TV recently right?
Her: Yeah
Me: It's a SmartTV right?
Her: Yeah but I haven't had time to set it up or anything, I've been too busy

What do you even say to that
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Your car can wireless connect to your phone, it can give uninterrupted GPS directions with voice-activated software, it can sense when rain is hitting your windscreen and start the wipers, it can climate control and cruise control and automatic brake assist control and automatic reverse parallel park...

...but for some reason it just "can't" tell you why that fucking light on the dashboard has decided to turn on. No, in that case you need to take your car to a Certified Dealer so that they can plug in a Proprietary Tool which will perform a basic database lookup so that the mechanic can then google the error code that came back and then he will tell you what the problem is.

Fuck.
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EvalAngell posted...

H&M is crap. Shop at Zara. It's still the same "fast fashion" styles but way better material.

Except for their coats. Their coats are embarrassingly cheap. Can't really fake wool and shearling but they try anyway.
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hollow_shrine posted...

I've never been to an H&M but have been a Uniqlo while travelling, and it reminded me a lot of Old Navy. Decent quality, not too fashion forward, expect to replace it in a couple years unless it's made from canvas or denim. I think they also carried these super warm jackets that were also really light and could be compressed to fit into something as small as a purse. That thing was damn near magical. My sister got one while abroad, and I should have convinced her to get me one.

This is a fair summary but Uniqlo are a shade trendier than Old Navy for sure.
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*Btw if you're a big lad I would not recommend Uniqlo. They're more your underweight asian man territory.
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Uniqlo is a decent proposition for basics in the USA, but IMO too expensive in the UK now. Essentially their clothes are decently made and totally uninteresting, but serve well if you need to pad out your wardrobe with more t-shirts, work shirts or jeans.

H&M is a good starter place to buy clothes. Again not the most interesting stuff out there, but you could easily buy a whole wardrobe of stuff here and be considered well put-together, if unremarkable. When I first started getting into style I bought a ton of shit from H&M and looked pretty decent. The caveat is that their clothes are not the best quality and tend to fade from washing quite easily, and ethnically they're a bit shady if you care about that.

Just cold wash at <90F, don't tumble dry, don't dry in the sun.

In summary both are incredibly cheap and will kit you out in very reasonable inoffensive outfits, but if you want to be a bit more fashion forward at a cheap price point you'd want to look at something more like Zara.
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