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You might not download a car, but this guy did.
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Aaantlion posted...

It's legal to fire people for other things that don't necessarily work performance as well, though.

Why should somebody be made less employable for reasons that don't affect work performance?
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Lokarin posted...

Name one way gayness affects work performance?

Lesbian lingerie saleswomen would have to balance their sexual attraction to customers with their professional duty. This constitutes a conflict of interest.

Of course, even if they are a protected class, there's nothing stopping a lingerie sales job from specifically excluding lesbians because they can demonstrate that the job does actually require a straight woman (by the same vein, that job wouldn't hire a straight guy, which is fine despite gender being a protected class). If it's a requirement that's inherent to the job, discrimination is perfectly fair game.
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If protected classes are going to exist (which they probably should, in the interest of keeping certain groups from being less employable for no reason), then LGBT should be one of them. The only potential objection is a religious one, and it's not the law's job to enforce the whims of any one religion.
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Full Throttle posted...

She had cocaine, psiolcybin mushrooms, Aderall, Xanax and weed in her system and claims the weed is the one that made her have 'psychotic visions'

Mix that many drugs, and you really can't pin it down to any single one of them.
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The people starving now are starving not because there isn't enough food in the world for them, but because the food that is in the world isn't reaching them. With better organization, there's no reason the world couldn't support significantly more people, especially once we start developing vertical farming technologies (e.g. hydroponics, aeroponics) and viable lab meat.

Hypothetically, the entire population of the world could fit into Texas, with a population density about 5-10% higher than that of Manhattan (if I'm remembering the math I did a while ago correctly). Having such a high population density over such a large area creates some logistical challenges that you don't see when it's a much smaller area, of course, meaning living in such a megalopolis would be very different from living in Manhattan, but it wouldn't be impossible.
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Aaantlion posted...

Because the benefits vastly outweigh the minor consequences and, more importantly, it's a safer and more efficient method than using tanker trucks. The oil is being transported no matter what, you're just choosing the delivery method.

The difference being that pipelines are a long-term investment and commitment to expanding fossil fuel usage, which is the opposite of what we should be doing if we're actually going to do something about climate change. Trucks? Hitch up a different trailer and start hauling something else. You've got no infrastructure investment there to worry about. Trains (which are actually safer and more efficient than pipelines, provided the infrastructure is appropriately maintained to avoid another Lac Megantic)? You can use an expanded rail infrastructure to transport just about anything, cutting down on the amount of long-distance truck transport needed in the future (which is pretty overwhelmingly a good thing, given how hard trucks are on roads). Pipelines? They're good for oil. That's it.

Yes, pipelines are better than trucks, but only if you look at immediate, short-term usefulness. Provided future fossil fuel usage is reduced by as much as it really needs to be, pipelines are not a good investment.
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China creates their own reality to be in touch with. They don't really care about yours.
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I've been playing a lot of Warframe lately. It's pretty solid.
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ParanoidObsessive posted...

Believe you? I barely understand you.

This title needs more quotation marks.
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zebatov posted...

adjl posted...

SunWuKung420 posted...

To all the people that believe science is infallible,

Nobody believes that science is infallible. Just that being more afraid of vaccines than the diseases they prevent is stupid and flagrantly at odds with basic statistics and risk analysis.

False.

Ive never felt at risk of disease but Ive certainly read over a vaccine side-effect booklet before. Im not willing to take the risk, personally.

And that belief is stupid and flagrantly at odds with basic statistics and risk analysis. Your feelings of how at-risk you are do not influence the actual risk you're facing.

zebatov posted...

I actually just rely on the fact that the chances Ill ever come into contact with any life-threatening diseases is slim to none.

And that is true only because enough people have been vaccinated to provide herd immunity. For now. That you're relying on herd immunity (despite being perfectly capable of being vaccinated yourself) means you should be opposing anything that could potentially reduce vaccination rates and interfere with that.
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Shadowbird_RH posted...

Anti-vaxxers mostly only hurt themselves.

Mostly their kids, actually. And also anyone around their kids that would normally rely on herd immunity.
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Kyuubi4269 posted...

adjl posted...

Kyuubi4269 posted...

GMArcturus posted...

That swimsuit was risque? Fuck, I hope you don't watch porn.

Porn typically has normal swimsuits.

It varies, but more saliently, porn typically ends up being much more risque than this swimsuit. You know, with all the boning and whatnot.

I'll take a punt at there being something between porn and professional content that could be on your social media that wouldn't be appropriate for work.

Well, yes. But the key point here is that if this swimsuit is risque enough for Zeus to be offended by it, he should stay away from porn.
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DirtBasedSoap posted...

why do we call masturbation hypnox

For a considerable portion of GameFAQs' history, the word "masturbate" was autoflagged for moderation, along with many of its common euphemisms (such as "fap"). Eventually, it became common within this community to get around that by using the term "cjaycing" as such a euphemism, in an effort to mock the then-admin for the site, CJayC. When that became a moddable offense, the user hypnox offered up his username as a replacement, and that's stuck around ever since.
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Horse really isn't that viable as livestock. That's not to say it can't be eaten, but for it to be somebody's primary meat would be pretty unusual.
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Kyuubi4269 posted...

GMArcturus posted...

That swimsuit was risque? Fuck, I hope you don't watch porn.

Porn typically has normal swimsuits.

It varies, but more saliently, porn typically ends up being much more risque than this swimsuit. You know, with all the boning and whatnot.
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SunWuKung420 posted...

adjl posted...

SunWuKung420 posted...

To all the people that believe science is infallible,

Nobody believes that science is infallible. Just that being more afraid of vaccines than the diseases they prevent is stupid and flagrantly at odds with basic statistics and risk analysis.

But when the medication contains something more harmful than the diseases themselves, well...

A belief which is stupid and flagrantly at odds with basic statistics and risk analysis. Vaccine complications account for vastly fewer deaths and injuries than these diseases did prior to vaccination. Are they perfectly safe? Of course not. Nothing is. Are they safer than being unvaccinated? Objectively so.

The medical and scientific communities have done a lot to sow distrust, so I can sympathize with people being skeptical of them, but skepticism doesn't mean refusing to accept basic empirical reality. Vaccines are the second-greatest advancement in public health in human history. Discarding all of that observable good because you're worried about a couple one-in-a-million side effects or want to cling to one study that was never good science even before it was retracted for being fraudulent is a ****ing terrible idea. Be skeptical, certainly, but not unhealthily so.
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SunWuKung420 posted...

To all the people that believe science is infallible,

Nobody believes that science is infallible. Just that being more afraid of vaccines than the diseases they prevent is stupid and flagrantly at odds with basic statistics and risk analysis.
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Imagine not liking chocolate. Some people...
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Untitled Goose Game.
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DocDelicious posted...

This is no different than tweeting some racist s*** and an employer not wanting to associate themselves with you because of it.

Except for the very important difference that racism is bad and swimsuits are not.
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Bulbasaur posted...

darcandkharg31 posted...

Bulbasaur posted...

it sure fuckin looks like the kid started figuring out the question to the right there, though

Yeah, looks like the daughter didn't care but then momma came in and told her they needed to be fuming at the question.

also that the kid can apparently spell offensive, but not wright or rude.

There's a good chance she asked her mom how to spell "offensive," but thought she could handle the others on her own.
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The drift issue is a consequence of dust/debris getting into the base of the stick, so it's likely less a matter of the unit being defective as Helly being really unlucky with his stick-debris.
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Most trails I know of that allow cyclists are wide enough for cyclists to pass single pedestrians pretty comfortably (hence cyclists are allowed), and explicitly say that everybody should keep to the right of the trail and pass on the left, using a bell if on a bike. I'm not sure if they explicitly dictate right of way between cyclists and pedestrians, but I do know that they put horses ahead of everybody and ATV's behind everybody, which just makes sense. I've never particularly had problems biking or hiking on those trails, provided I maintain some situational awareness and don't take up more than half the trail when a bike's coming up from behind, so it seems to work well enough.
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Aculo posted...

Mead posted...

I used docked mode one time only

a lot of people don't use docked mode, and that's fine. the switch lite is perfect for them, ok?

i use both pretty equally, so docked mode is a must. but i don't think it's waste of money to get something that's missing the feature you won't use, ok?

Eeyup. The Lite is not for me, but I can absolutely see the value of it for those who don't use docked mode.
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Aaantlion posted...

...well, they're not entirely wrong about it being unprofessional. After all, she submitted the social media profile to them.

It was a public profile. I don't see anything there saying that she specifically submitted it to them.

Aaantlion posted...

And the company has a valid gripe about those kinds of social media issues,

Not really. This notion of policing people's private lives for "unprofessional behaviour" is thoroughly ridiculous. You don't need to be professional when you're not doing anything work-related. If she were actively speaking ill of the company (or prior employers)? Sure, that's damaging. If she were wearing her work uniform while doing something objectionable? Sure, that's damaging. But nobody thinks less of a company because one of its employees has a picture on their instagram of themselves at the beach in a bikini. That's just stupid.
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Zikten posted...

anyway, supposedly nitnendo will repair a faulty switch lite or joy con for free. but you have to send it in, and it probably takes forever. I remember sending in a red ring of death 360 10 years ago. and I think it took like month to get my console back

My experience with sending consoles to Nintendo for repair has been pretty good. For both my GC and my Wii, I had it back in less than a week.
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When I first installed windows 10 on my laptop, I got an error message consisting entirely of "Something happened." It was pretty great.
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I made a batch of smoked cheddar/bacon/green onion ones once. Those were pretty great.
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argonautweakend posted...

I haven't had a good pierogie in a while. I feel like there should be more pierogie places out here(pgh) since they are good and a popular food. Unless i haven't looked hard enough i haven't seen them.

They're honestly not that hard to make. The dough's very straightforward, the filling's just mashed potatoes with whatever you want, and assembly goes pretty smoothly once you do a couple and get the hang of how much filling to put in. It's all just very time-consuming and messy, which is the biggest barrier.
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SunWuKung420 posted...

Mad_Max posted...

SunWuKung420 posted...

It's both.

This. And they're both dumb.

Softly tapping in order to deter a tailgater is fine. Slamming on your brakes hoping to cause an accident is just as idiotic as tailgating.

Softly tapping only "deters" a tailgater if it causes them to react as though you slammed on your brakes, which means they're braking hard and can potentially cause an accident. If they're tailgating you in the first place, they're not going to care that you're showing them your brake lights work. They're only going to back off if they think they need to slow down dramatically to avoid hitting you.

Mad_Max posted...

Softly tapping to deter a tailgater is not fine, and is dumb.

It can be hard to swallow your pride and "admit defeat" letting some asshole tailgater pass you, but that's the safest thing to do. Move over, let the tailgater pass, and be on your way.

Gradually slowing down is one of the better ways to deal with tailgaters. One of three things will happen:

-They'll get fed up and pass you when possible
-They'll take the hint and stop crowding you if they can't pass
-If they continue tailgating you, going slower means you'll have more time to react to anything that happens and therefore reduce the likelihood of needing to stop suddenly enough to be rear-ended

Sure, it sucks that you have to be slowed down by some idiot that doesn't know how to drive, but it's the safest option.
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Kyuubi4269 posted...

Also % is fairly dodgy, I find that as the phone gets older, the lower percentages last longer.

My experience with my last phone was the opposite of that. The first bar (of 5) would last about as long as the other four combined, and that trend stayed true even as the battery started wearing out. Granted, that was a flip phone that lasted me nearly 8 years before I replaced it because the hinge had broken and I couldn't use it without using a second hand to keep the halves from falling apart, so it might not be the most representative of most people's phones these days.
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slacker03150 posted...

Why a gator moat and not a hippopotamus moat.

Thanks to Florida, the US has a somewhat greater supply of gators than hippos.
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I see he's trying the Chewbacca defense.
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I'd say so. I personally feel it's the weakest of the three Project Rainfall games (though Pandora's Tower is very hit-or-miss and only barely edges it out, in my opinion), but it's pretty solid and well worth playing.
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Good.
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Silly Mead, warships aren't military force!
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Hop103 posted...

OniRonin posted...

1. Boob plate armor are unrealstic

If it's not a historical game, realism doesn't matter.

Boob plate armour being unrealistic is less a matter of historical accuracy and more a matter of "having armour plates deflect blows closer to the heart is a stupid idea." Non-historical games still have the same physics and anatomy to consider.
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A centuries-old building has a problem with mice? More at 11.
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keyblader1985 posted...

I wanted to laugh at this topic, but the circumstances sucked all the funny out of it.

Yeah. This dink robbed us of our ability to laugh at people being silly. What a dink.
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dancer62 posted...

Don_Dondon posted...

Climate Change Deniers, anti-vaxxers will all be gone before long anyway lol

True, because both issues will be replaced by real issues.

And what, pray tell, would you consider to be a "real issue"?
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DrunkRoger posted...

Calling a KNOWN illegal alien an illegal alien is not offensive.

Doesn't mean it can't be harassment. It's also pretty pointless.
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Aaantlion posted...

mrduckbear posted...

A juror was so upset that she had to seek therapy.

Being on that trial should entitle everybody to government-paid therapy. That's some fucked up shit. As much as I like the idea of trial by jury, I can't imagine having to serve on some of these juries.

Indeed. Being freaked out by a "possessed" Woody doll is stupid, obviously, but this is a case where jurors are going to be seeing and discussing some extremely disturbing, traumatic evidence. If the government's going to rely on jurors to conduct the trial (which is a fine idea), then they really need to be paying to clean up the aftermath of that trauma.
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aDirtyShisno posted...

adjl posted...

aDirtyShisno posted...

darkknight109 posted...

aDirtyShisno posted...

Fun times living without the First Amendment.

The first amendment has never protected harassment, libel, slander, threats, or other such forms of harmful speech. It's not a "I can say whatever I want, whenever I want, with zero consequences" get-out-of-jail-free card.

But it did protect from banning words. Until now, at least in New York City it doesnt.

Intent is required for harassment. Using a word you dont like doesnt itself prove intent, especially when that word is the definition of an object. That object being an immigrant who has entered the country unlawfully.

This is literally just saying "for those of you who haven't figured it out yet, telling coworkers to go back to their own country is generally going to constitute harassment." It has always been harassment, it's just become necessary to spell it out thanks to a bunch of racists that have been emboldened by Trump.

Completely ignoring that my entire point was about illegal alien and not go back to your country I see...

What's the difference?
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aDirtyShisno posted...

darkknight109 posted...

aDirtyShisno posted...

Fun times living without the First Amendment.

The first amendment has never protected harassment, libel, slander, threats, or other such forms of harmful speech. It's not a "I can say whatever I want, whenever I want, with zero consequences" get-out-of-jail-free card.

But it did protect from banning words. Until now, at least in New York City it doesnt.

Intent is required for harassment. Using a word you dont like doesnt itself prove intent, especially when that word is the definition of an object. That object being an immigrant who has entered the country unlawfully.

This is literally just saying "for those of you who haven't figured it out yet, telling coworkers to go back to their own country is generally going to constitute harassment." It has always been harassment, it's just become necessary to spell it out thanks to a bunch of racists that have been emboldened by Trump.
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LaggnFragnLarry posted...

SunWuKung420 posted...

Sarcasthma posted...

You haven't had a single milkshake in 3-4 years? Now that's what I call moderation!

It's hard to find actual ice cream anymore.

i saw some in the freezer section of my local grocery store

For that matter, you can get a half-decent ice cream maker to use at home for like $100, if you're too good for storebought stuff.
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Nichtcrawler X posted...

It was more offensive than it was funny.

https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/facebook/000/006/759/both.jpg
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Sarcasthma posted...

SunWuKung420 posted...

Sarcasthma posted...

SunWuKung420 posted...

I never get any since I never spend money there.

wow no way

It's fascinating that someone in this day and age knows how bad McDonald's is for you. Right?

What about if you eat it in moderation?

Like only three India Pale Macs a day?
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aDirtyShisno posted...

adjl posted...

aDirtyShisno posted...

Specifically in the workplace, housing, and public accommodations. New York City has declared using the phrase illegal alien can be considered workplace harassment even if talking about illegal immigrants in general and not referring to any particular employees, if an employee becomes afraid from possible discrimination.

Go back to your country, threatening to call ICE, and other similar phrases could also constitute harassment even if the immigration status of an unlawful immigrant is not in dispute.

This really shouldn't be particularly objectionable. It's just spelling out something that most would already know to be true. You could already make a workplace harassment case off of such comments even without them being explicitly spelled out, this is simply a matter of making it clear to the dickwads who consider this acceptable conduct that it's not.

If Im at work and I see a news report about Trump finally building his wall and I say something like Yeah, no more illegal aliens coming in that way I should not be guilty of a crime just because my coworker broke the law when entering the country.

If you're doing anything to make your workplace uncomfortable for your coworkers, then yes, you absolutely should be guilty of a crime (or misdemeanour or whatever workplace harassment qualifies as because I can't be bothered to look it up). That's what workplace harassment is.

Now, in all likelihood, talking about illegal immigration in an empirical, third-person manner like that isn't likely to make anyone feel harassed enough to file a harassment complaint. You would therefore probably be fine in the example you gave (well, aside from that being a pretty contrived, awkward sentence, but that's beside the point). Understanding whether or not you're committing some form of harassment requires you to understand your audience, so if you're cognizant of how your audience feels, you probably won't have a problem.

Noop_Noop posted...

More like adjl than anything, but at least he doesn't write 3 page responses that nobody reads and occasionally he reads the posts he is responding to.

Good lord you're butthurt. This is hilarious.
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Krissa posted...

I'd like to see your sources.

On what, vaccines not being linked to autism? You're not going to find a source proving a negative, because that's just how logic works. A source on the single "vaccines=autism" study being falsified? Gladly:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3136032/

The abstract covers the whole saga. TL;DR version: Wakefield published a study in 1998 suggesting the MMR vaccine was linked to autism, a study which people took seriously despite it being garbage science (n=12). Subsequent not-garbage science showed that supposed link to be nonsense as well as a financial conflict of interest, and the paper was retracted. A second retraction occurred in 2010 when it was revealed that the paper misrepresented his experimental findings and contained some data that he knew to be incorrect. And then the final nail in the coffin was a journalistic investigation that uncovered that he was guilty of deliberate fraud and had knowingly falsified data, presumably for financial gain. This final revelation cost him his medical license and should - in my opinion - qualify him for thousands of second-degree murder charges because of the movement he sparked.

A single, falsified study is the basis for most of the anti-vaxx movement. QED, wench.

Krissa posted...

There are studies proving the link between illness and neurodegeneration and heavy metal toxicity.

Duh. There's no question that mercury and whatnot are neurotoxic. As with any toxicity, however, dosage must be considered, as must the form the toxic elements take (e.g. Chlorine gas is highly toxic, yet chloride ions are essential for our bodies' function). If you want to suggest that vaccines are responsible for neurodegeneration and heavy metal toxicity, you need to show that vaccines contain neurotoxic doses of those heavy metals, as well as that the metals are present in a form that would cause such toxicity.

Krissa posted...

Also, if a person contracts a disease, why do you care? You're protected right?

Vaccines are not 100% effective. I've had pertussis, despite being vaccinated beforehand. I can probably thank that vaccine that I'm still alive to tell you about it, because that was a pretty nasty bug. In addition to lessening the severity of any infections one does end up with, vaccines increase the pathogen load that's required to overcome your existing immunity and end up with an infection. There's a world of difference between the pathogen load you're exposed to in the environment and the pathogen load you're exposed to when somebody with measles sits next to you. Vaccines can generally handle the former, but the latter is much harder. This is why the polio vaccine we give now is substantially weaker than the one that was originally given: you don't need as strong a vaccine when you aren't dealing with people with polio on a daily basis.

Additionally, there are people who actually cannot be vaccinated, usually due to an allergy or some form of immunocompromise. Those people have to rely on herd immunity, which is the simple fact that you're unlikely to get infected by a disease if most of the people around you are immune (I believe the threshold is 90-95%ish). Those people become vulnerable if the vaccination rate drops below the herd immunity threshold, which is bad. There's also the fact that the unvaccinated people getting these diseases generally didn't make the non-vaccination decision themselves, so there's an element of wanting to protect them from their idiot parents. Just basic compassion, really.
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