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littlebro07 posted...

Mazdas are good cars, and very fun to drive.

But nothing will beat the resale value a Civic will have.

This. Mazda's are up there with Honda and Toyota for dependability and fairly cheap maintenance (especially when compared to American cars), but a Civic will probably be better long term if you plan on selling. Still, you shouldn't be basing a purchase off of selling it in the future.
I have a 2015 Mazda with 70,000 miles and nothing has happened since I bought it new outside of regular maintenance. Fun as hell to drive, but a Civic is a solid purchase.
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catboy0_0 posted...

leave him be and let him let it all out

That's what I'm doing right now. I think his mom called him and I'm trying to ignore it but I can hear him sobbing in between sentences

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DrizztLink posted...

Bone him.

I am gay but my boyfriend is already a little annoyed about the gun so I don't think he'll be cool with that :(

MrK3V posted...

You guys are awful lol

If anything, I would give him props for having scheduled to see a therapist. I know there's still a stigma at times where you have to see a therapist, it means you're a loony. So I would just tell him he is taking a step in the right direction by taking initiative and changing his life.

Yeah, it's a pretty great idea and he did that on his own. I tried to tell him it's a good idea and that he's taking baby steps
It's not just the girlfriend, y'know? He's been through some shit and has pretty much had anxiety and depression problems for the last 6 years or so
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He got broken up with by the girl he thought was "the one"
He had a panic attack on the way to my place and had to pull over to calm down
He then gave me his gun and ammo and told me to keep them away from him
He scheduled an appointment with a therapist on Friday

I took off work and we went to the beach today. he seemed to be in a way better mood but is now in the shower listening to emo music, crying, and drinking a few cans of beer

What the fuck do I do?
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The executive branch, the legislative branch, and the judicial branch can and should have different methods of election because of the different roles they play in democracy.
The president having term limits is not a good argument for congressional ones for the same reason why US Representatives serve for two years, Presidents for four, and Senators for six.
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chrono625 posted...

So you think congressional and Senate seats should have people sitting in them for 20+ years?

If people continue to vote them in, yes.

chrono625 posted...

Public political positions were never supposed to be careers. It's why NOTHING ever changes.

They might not have been 250 years ago, but they're a thing today. That's not inherently good or bad, it just is.

hockeybub89 posted...

Yes unlimited terms should gtfo

They're not bad and no alternative addresses the problems we have in congress, it's a feel good measure propagated by the politically naive.
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chrono625 posted...

Feinstein, first elected to her Senate seat in 1992

And right here, is why we need term limits across the board.

GTFO with this undemocratic bullshit.
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Imagine being a Muslim woman in a western country. You are an equal partner in your marriage and it doesn't fit the stereotypes of a battered woman who is afraid of her abusive husband.
You wear a hijab because of your religious and cultural beliefs, not because you personally are oppressed.

Then some fuckwads tell you that you are being oppressed and that your husband is sexist and that your faith is built around the idea of women serving men. These people don't know anything about your personal relationship or life, but they totally want to be able to force you not to wear the hijab.
You like wearing it, and now these people are trying to make it so you can't wear it and are saying that you're free now, despite the obvious fact that they're taking away your choice to wear it.
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Spooking posted...

Ruth is bitter and sexist. During a CBS morning show she was asked "How many women on the bench would make you happy?" Her response? "I won't be happy until there are nine women on the bench." Imagine if a guy said that, but with nine guys. Would the left shout and call that sexist? Of course they would.

Her point was that there have been Supreme Courts with all men and no one batted an eye, why couldn't there be one with all women?
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Agreed. The original trilogy has many faults and issues, even the best one (Empire) is merely a decent movie.
People bitching about the prequels or the disney flicks are so fucking lost it's not even funny.
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It's fucked up that he's cracking jokes about MeToo. Making light of sexual assault is all kinds of shitty.
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Yes and no

Think about it like a wizard casting fireball. It's just fire and Superman isn't a little bitch so the fire won't do anything.
A fireball that can burn anything though? Well tough shit for Superman, he's gonna burn. Hopefully his healing factor kicks in cause otherwise he's gonna burn.

Or a magic sword. It's just metal, so it'll break when trying to stab him.
But a magic sword that is enchanted to cut through anything? Superman gonna be a ribbon in no time.

It's a slight difference and needs a little nuance to it.
Thing is though, it's all moot. The writers aren't consistent with him or this weakness, so it doesn't really matter.
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Wasn't TC the guy who complained about women in Star Wars because, and I quote: "girls never wanted to play Star Wars with us on the playground. They're taking Star Wars away from us guys."
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Capn Circus posted...

That's why Trump is calling for no courts, no judges. Just send them back right away.

Imagine thinking that we should get rid of due process because children can't understand things like borders.
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Asherlee10 posted...

Except you are still superseding the rights of the mother to make her carry the baby to term in order to fulfill those 'other options' you are suggesting. That doesn't combat my original point, however. (from your first paragraph)

I was responding to the idea of alternatives for the care of an infant. There's no requirement to carry to term because the child is already born.
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Mister_Spyker posted...

Why is this bs american politics always an "us vs. them"? Why don't both parties recognize what is bad and what is good about their stances and reach a healthy middle term.

I have no words to describe how saddened I am to know that what I just typed will never happen.

IDK what to say man, no one thinks they have "bad stances"
People don't wake up and go, "I'm a democrat/republican and I will stand by my party" -- They have feelings on various policies and gravitate towards the party that most resembles them.

What you're asking for is ridiculous.
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Mal_Fet posted...

When my uncle was diagnosed with ALS, my aunt had to devote a lot of time, and higher insurance premiums, to take care of him. Could she kill him because he was a burden on her and he wasn't "viable"?

This isn't a good argument when a lot of people who are pro-choice also support universal healthcare. There would be no additional burden if we had that.

HypnoCoosh posted...

I always wonder how many women regret abortions and what it does to them psychologically.

I've seen what miscarriage can do to a woman it's pretty sad.

I just wish they would educate woman prior to just thinking it's not a big deal flushing your baby down the toilet.

They do. There's a reason there's a 24 hour window between mandatory consultation.
For some women, they feel the pain of the abortion for the rest of their lives. For others, they never think of it.
For most it's somewhere in between.

Abortion isn't really comparable to a miscarriage. In one they chose to end the pregnancy, in the other they were actively trying and suffered because of it.
It's why killing a pregnant woman can be a double homocide, intent and context matter.
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MC_BatCommander posted...

This, idk why people on this board get baited so easily. The same exact people have been trolling this board for so fucking long

Often times the goal of a post is not to convince the other person of something, but to convince others.
For instance in this topic, Asherlee is realizing how Mal is a gimmick. If no one engaged him, then she wouldn't realize.
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Mal_Fet posted...

A flight within the US costs like 100-500 round-trip

That's just the beginning though.
They have to fly there, so $100 - $500
Many places will require 24 hours between consultation and the procedure, that's 1-2 nights at a hotel
They've got to get a taxi/subway/bus/uber from the airport to the hotel to the health center
Their insurance may not cover it because it's out-of-network
They can't cook while they're there so they have to eat out

You're looking at easily an extra $300 - $500
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Not everyone can afford to go out of state to get an abortion, there are complications:
A child who doesn't want their parents to know
Someone who doesn't have access to a vehicle
Someone who can't afford a hotel when they get to where they're going because there's a wait limit
etc.

Then you have the possibility of legislature that criminalizes women who travel to another state for the express purpose of getting an abortion

It's just messy and backwards
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Reuters is probably the best for the least amount of bias.
NPR is one of the better ones as well. Despite having a clear liberal bias due to having so many connections with higher education, it makes a point of avoiding strong language and will ask fair questions to people on both sides.
BBC is pretty decent as well. While the reporting on UK news can stumble into censorship due to the way it works there, it is very useful on World news because their bias is liberal in some ways and conservative in others, just because the UK works very differently from the USA.

Between the three of them you're gonna be better off than any 24 hour news network. Bias isn't inherently bad either, which is another common misconception.
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Damn you're not too far from me then. Don't really care for the guy but I'm glad you got a cool gift from your wife.
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Asherlee10 posted...

This is definitely a weak spot in CR's premises. He really needed to be more precise. A fetus's rights do not and will not supersede the rights of the mother. That includes bodily autonomy and the direct manner in which a fetus utilizes the mother's body. That is not the same manner in which an infant, who is assigned rights, utilizes a caretaker.

Well, as mentioned in here in response to him, there are alternatives.
Removing a fetus from a womb is only possible by killing the baby. A parent who does not want to raise the child has multiple options without killing the child. Failing any possible options, the state is able to pick up the slack and handle the child in the foster system, adoption centers, orphanages, etc. Obviously these can be hit-and-miss, but they are options that are possible without ending its life.
The hypothetical Mal brings up, with regards to the absence of the program, is not really worth entertaining. We acknowledge the program should exist due to circumstances outside of control and have created a way to finance it.

We really shouldn't be ok with forcing people to continue being parents when they don't want to be one. Just like we shouldn't be ok with forcing women to carry to term a child they didn't ask for or desire to have.
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kayoticdreamz posted...

FYI, nothing in the US constitution said that there has to be only two major parties. the founding fathers only created the document, they didn't found the two party system.

However, they did create a system by which two parties is the only logical outcome.

Not that I think that's that big of a deal because each party has 'smaller' parties within it (Evangelicals, tea partys, libertarians, etc. are all Republicans despite having vastly different priorities -- something parliamentary systems deal with).
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darkjedilink posted...

You literally think paying less in taxes is a bad thing, and the root cause of all the world's problems.

And you literally blame Obamacare for your wife leaving you. Pot, kettle, etc.
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I swear every now and then this topic gets made with the exact same posts about Pikachu and Kirby.
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Damn_Underscore posted...

Yes they do. I'm sure this has happened to you in real life - You want one thing, and the person wants something else, so you work out a compromise where you don't get everything you wanted but you are happy with the result.

Day-to-day life =/= Politics.
In real life, I don't get the chance at 100% control every 2 to 4 to 6 years. Why compromise now when I can just wait it out and get everything I want?
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Nobody really wants compromise or bipartisanship, you want the people on your side to vote down the line and you want the people on the other side to "vote with their conscience" (i.e. get some to vote the way you want).
Compromise leads to fuck all of importance getting done and ends with just kicking the problems down the line for someone else to fix (that'll be half-assed because of "muh compromise").
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Omega Hunter posted...

Gave up 90% through season 1. I simply cannot care about what happens to a robot not matter how much the story tries to tell me it has feelings.

I've never understood this issue. Is it an artificial life thing or is it a human-centric thing?
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At best it's insensitive and at worst it's racist. I don't think most white people take the second to stop and think about the origin of the phrase and decide that it's still ok to say, they just don't consider it important.
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_BIueMonk posted...

uh but seriously, no. i dont trust any of these companies to be around 10+ years from now so what will i do when they go out of business and i dont realize and dont know my password.

It's not something you pay for, plus even if somehow it all ended and you couldn't use it anymore you could export everything to a CSV file

_BIueMonk posted...

i'd rather just use 2 factor authentication

Good point here though, this does fix most issues around security
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Just started using KeepassXC and it's really intuitive and integrates with my browser quite well. Gotta figure out my phone, but I do like what I'm doing with it so far.

Do you have any passwords you use without the randomness?
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Chick Fil A isn't Kosher, there's no way this is real
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Le__seul_dieu__ posted...

I mean, he still raped children. I don't see how you can sit here and defend an obvious scumbag.

He most likely did not rape them, actually.
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DevsBro posted...

I like how CE's first instinct when someone mentions restaurants in general is to limit the discussion to fast food.

You were the first person to mention fast food, you kinda steered the direction of the thread that way
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Fun so far. Do you guys prefer KB+M or controller?
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The solution is to stop watching 24 hour news networks. They're designed to keep you watching and to make you emotional.
That's not how news should be consumed.

You'll never escape bias, and you really shouldn't treat it like a boogyman, but a constant stream of information that repeats the same news over and over is not the way to do it.
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NeonOctopus posted...

What about the thing where if you have a balance over 30% of your credit limit, it hurts your credit score. Is that true?

That's a bit more complicated. Basically the credit bureaus will take a snapshot of your credit at random times. 30% utilization is a good goal to try for because it's reasonable, but the lower it is the better your score will be. The problem is that you could carry a 2% all month that jumps up to 50% because you bought a new TV, and that just so happens to be the day they take the snapshot.
On the plus side, utilization is one of the smaller aspects of your credit score. Your length of credit, ability to pay on time (even minimum payments), and different forms of credit make up much larger parts of your score.

Twin3Turbo posted...

At the end of the day, this whole argument is pointless unless the poster clarifies.

True, but this is CE where every argument is pointless.
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Muffinz0rz posted...

He says he pays the full thing off so there won't be any interest.

Yes, and I'm saying he's wrong because you don't need to pay the full thing off in order to get no interest.
It's like applying to your dream job that needs 3 years of experience in a related field and deciding that you should do 5 instead. Yes technically you are correct, but you might as well just do 3.
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Muffinz0rz posted...

I don't know if the credit score part is true or not, but how is the interest part untrue?

You only get charged interest if you're late. Your statement balance is what has the deadline, your overall balance is made up of more than just your statement balance.

For instance, look at OP's picture. If he pays $347.15 off, he won't get charged any interest. If he doesn't use his card for the rest of the month, then he'll have to pay $407.66 on his next statement. So long as both are met by the due date, then there's no interest.

NeonOctopus posted...

Prove it.

As long as you always pay the minimum your credit will not be permanently impacted. Utilization percentage has no history, as soon as you lower your percent of credit used your credit score goes back up.
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NeonOctopus posted...

I pay the full thing off. Not only is it better for your credit score, I don't get interest >_>

Neither of those things are true.
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While it is likely Disney will buy Fox, just because they accepted the bid does not mean that the sale is final.

Think of it like you selling a car to your brother and sister. Your brother offers $1k and your sister offers $2k. You don't want to sell it for less than $5k so you reject both. Your sister then offers $6k and you accept, but you'll sell it to your brother if he ups it to $7k.

Either way, this sucks because there should be more competition, not less.
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It's on sale.

Also, if it is, should I grab the Deluxe or Gold editions?
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Illinois needs all-parties involved to consent to a recording. The boy knew what he was doing because they argued for 10 minutes before he told the principal that he was recording.
Sucks to suck, but his disability should not overrule other peoples consent.
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ThyCorndog posted...

like the only time you're not gonna notice ass smell is straight out of the shower.

The only time I do it, so yeah.
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ThyCorndog posted...

some people are just gross and like ass smell. ass smell exists without any poop. like feet smell or armpit smell. not sure why people like it

None of those have a smell if you're a clean motherfucker.
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Guardians 1 is an amazing movie with a great cast, stellar soundtrack, and a decent story with a villain whose concept was good but the execution was a little lacking.
Guardians 2 was a downgrade in every way. The characters are all Flanderized, acting like caricatures of themselves. Baby Groot exists only to sell toys. We get a B-plot with Yondu that's supposed to make us care about him for no reason except that they tell us we need to care.

It somehow made Justice League look good next to it, that's how bad it was.
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SBAndross posted...

I consider myself more agnostic than anything

I'm not an atheist but also don't think it's possible to prove/disprove the existence of God
(hence the whole "faith" thing)

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