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It might be worth considering removing it if the bills are being redesigned for another reason (like Canada did with the plastic bills a while back), but I don't think it'd be reasonable to start a redesign just for that purpose.
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Dynalo posted...

By whom?

From the perpetrator? Sure, you could file a civil suit. As the old saying goes though, you can't get blood from a stone. If the person is rotting away in jail and has no assets, all you got were some expensive lawyer bills and a piece of paper that says you're owed money you'll never get. If the perpetrator happens to have money though, you could end up actually getting something. So it's a case-by-case thing.

From the government? No. That's not the governments job.

Sounds about right.
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Nightengale posted...

OhhhJa posted...

they have laws against free speech

I'm almost certain this is either a fabrication or a manipulative interpretation of some hate-speech law we have, but I don't have the facts to back that up on hand

A number of americans have difficulty accepting the fact that certain instances of hate speech can easily qualify as being threatening and.or terroristic, and that legislating against them is quite reasonable if you already accept legislating against personal threats. They seem to put a little too much weight on their freedom to burn crosses on people's lawns.
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Zeus posted...

Full Throttle posted...

and almost ZERO along the West Coast as these are Liberal Democrat States

Bullshit. For starters, California has a large Christian population -- partly thanks to immigrants from central and South America. More importantly, the two states with the *lowest* percent of Christians aren't on the West coast, they're Vermont and NH -- but even then it's 23%+ which is a far cry from zero.

Are you questioning Duckbear's ability to analyze basic data that should lead to obvious conclusions?
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JanwayDaahl posted...

I've not given Grim Dawn a chance as it looks more or less similar to Diablo 3, which I hate.

How so? I know you've mentioned that you don't like D3's less-grimdark art style (in a manner that reminded me of those hilariously cringy "necromancer's choice" redesigns back when the game was first revealed, but that's beside the point), but I can definitely tell you that unless you don't read anything, Grim Dawn is plenty dark.

JanwayDaahl posted...

PoE was OK, I played it when it was in beta, but it couldn't keep my attention.

PoE has changed quite dramatically since the beta, given that that was like 5 years ago. It'd definitely be worth taking a look at again. Not like you've got anything to lose, given the game's price.
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Banana-na-na-na
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rexcrk posted...

Why dont they teach more practical and useful skills?

Namely, accounting and cooking. Especially practically-oriented cooking, with a focus on meal planning and capitalizing on grocery store sales (e.g. "Here's five recipes you can use when ground beef is on sale"), plus cooking principles instead of just recipes. There's an argument to be made that the lack of such education is one of the biggest culprits behind the obesity epidemic, since people just don't know how to cook healthy meals under time and/or budget constraints, resulting in them turning to cheap fast food or premade stuff.
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Dynalo posted...

Talk to any of the people with more structured schedules (CS, engineering, sciences, etc) and ask the students there which electives they took. 90% of them will give you the same answer - because they knew that specific class was easiest.

And then there's me, who took a few higher-level organic chemistry classes as electives >.>
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DocDelicious posted...

One-Winged Angel

Hate it.

I wouldn't say I hate it, necessarily, but I definitely don't like it as much as many do.
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Sahuagin posted...

I don't even like our anthem anyway, but how is "in all of us command" grammatically correct? or... what does "in all thy sons command" even mean, since "sons" is not possessive...

I guess they did like a german thing and put the verb at the very end of the sentence. that a dumb way to form a sentence is.

It is grammatically correct, but somewhat archaic.

faramir77 posted...

It's terrifying to me that the government can toss out democracy so that one person's feelings aren't hurt.

I don't think changing two words in the anthem without holding a referendum really qualifies as "tossing out democracy." Especially not when the motion in question was passed through the normal democratic process. The government makes a whole lot of decisions every day that have far more impact than this that they don't have individual votes for. Having the whole country vote on everything would be hideously impractical, which is why you have elected representatives that vote on your behalf on a smaller scale. Don't like how your MP voted? Vote for a different one next time. The MP you vote for doesn't get in? Tough luck, you've been democracy'd.
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Anisoptera posted...

does this mean we can finally buy GPU's for a fair price now?

That'd be nice.
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I love all the hate coming from a country whose anthem literally includes the line "our flag was still there."
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I'm not sure a video from 2013 demonstrates that.
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Give him five years of wearing earplugs.

Only not, because that would definitely qualify as being cruel and exploitative of his disability, and that's not a precedent anyone should want, but it'd be creative.
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Kyuubi4269 posted...

So it penetrates lung tissue. Like a barb.

Lots of things penetrate without being barbs, though. Do you actually understand what shape the term "barb" refers to?

Kyuubi4269 posted...

As you said, it's filtered in the liver, it has a means of being dealt with, we just don't know at what point it is insufficient for a fetus. This is different from trauma.

Any sort of mechanical trauma has a means of being dealt with, too. The body's constantly repairing tears and cuts and the like by means of clotting and tissue regeneration. And alcohol doesn't have a means of being removed without causing damage in the fetus. I literally just said that.

Kyuubi4269 posted...

1) We've known about alcohol poisoning for a long time so isn't comparable from that angle.

But not about the nuances of its teratogenic effects, which are what are relevant when talking about FASD. Same case with the nuances of asbestos' carcinogenic effects: it's just known that exposure in some quantity at some point can cause cancer somewhere down the line.

Kyuubi4269 posted...

2) Asbestos causes damage in a way we are familar with, it's predictable, it's not unknown.

The evolution of that damage into cancer, however, is very poorly understood. Hence it's not known whether or not there's a level of asbestos exposure that doesn't present a significant carcinogenic risk.
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There's Norway you'll be able to do it.
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Kyuubi4269 posted...

adjl posted...

(for comparison, asbestos also does not have a known safe exposure limit).

Asbestos is barbs, barbs are never safe. Alcohol is processed in the liver.

Asbestos fibres are slivers, actually. The harm comes not from any sort of mechanical trauma that would depend on their shape, but rather from the body forming granulomas around the fibres.

Also, alcohol isn't processed in the fetal liver. The fetus relies on the mother's liver to filter out toxins before they enter the fetal bloodstream, provided her liver isn't overwhelmed. That's where the potential for harm comes in.

Also, none of this is relevant to the actual purpose behind the comparison, which was to say that both are cases where the knowledge simply isn't there to be able to say that any amount is safe, due to our understanding of the associated harm being relatively new.
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ernieforss posted...

back in the 60s doctors would recommend pregnant woman use to drink champagne if the baby was too restless.

That doesn't mean it isn't harmful. Medicine's come a long way in 50 years.

ernieforss posted...

Back in the middle ages hardly anyone one drank water because it was most likey containmated. They drank alcohol instead.

The alcohol content in that beer was quite a bit lower than in modern beer, given how much harder it was to control the yeast's growing environment. The middle ages also weren't exactly a time where a bit of cognitive impairment would screw up your life.

ernieforss posted...

if you are a drunk and are hurting the baby yes prison is good evil plan (two negative equal a positive.)

That makes no sense.

ernieforss posted...

if you are at a new years party and only going to have a social drink it's fine.

The current medical consensus on the matter is that there is no known safe exposure limit for alcohol for fetuses. That doesn't necessarily mean that a single drink will guarantee FASD, but it does mean that there's no reason to believe that single drink will be safe (for comparison, asbestos also does not have a known safe exposure limit).
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faramir77 posted...

I'm going to sound like a dick saying this, but in a way I can sympathize with him. I live in Alberta, and Montana is basically Alberta Jr., and I know that the social issues Montana faces are the same social issues southern Alberta faces.

Gerald Harris is a native man. The native community around here has an unbelievably widespread FASD problem. I don't know the exact percentage, but something like 30% of native people in this area have FASD. If you know the history of how the native people got screwed over by European traders/bandits about 150 years ago, you'd understand the root cause of that.

His position is extreme and I disagree with it, but I can tell he is sick of dealing with this problem in his community.

The thing is, attitudes like his are a huge part of why there's such a problem. Stigmatizing the mothers of FASD kids only makes them less likely to seek help with their drinking problems prenatally, not more. Alcohol problems in FN communities also aren't something jail is going to help. Those are deep-seated issues at a cultural level, stemming back to widespread mental health issues associated with the residential schools, 60's scoop, and similar issues (at least in Canada; the US' history with their natives is somewhat different). Put people in jail for drinking while pregnant, and 30% of the community's kids have FASD and no mother.
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Lokarin posted...

It only took 1 year to build the Empire State Building,

To be fair, that was at a time when it was widely accepted that you were going to have roughly one fatality for every million dollars spent in a construction project. Not really an era to feel nostalgic about.
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LeetCheet posted...

Did anyone else find it funny that when Microsoft revealed their new Xbox One X, one of the first games they showed it off with was Minecraft? A game with extremely simple graphics.

That's one of the main arguments against the idea that games need to be expensive these days (typically used to justify stuffing them with extra monetization schemes, though we won't get into how legitimate that justification is). Yes, it's expensive to make games with excellent graphics, but is it really necessary to do so? The most successful game of the last decade - by a massive margin - looks like crap. If Minecraft didn't need billion-dollar HD graphics to succeed, why should any other game?
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SpaceBear_ posted...

We all have all the world's information and history literally at our fingertips.

Everything else is just a gimmick.

Not quite all of it (as any historical researcher can tell you), but certainly a huge percentage, and more than enough for most people.
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HappyDog posted...

Well maybe not prison but more rehab.

That. Prison isn't going to solve the problem. Odds are it'll make it worse, given that prison isn't exactly an ideal environment in which to carry a child. Many cases of FAS or other drug-related issues are not from women who callously disregarded their pregnancy, but from women who had preexisting alcohol or drug abuse issues that carried into the pregnancy. They don't magically stop being addicts just because they get pregnant. If anything, threatening jail time will worsen that problem, because the women in question won't want to seek any kind of outside help for their addiction out of fear they'll end up in jail.
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Of course women belong in the kitchen. Men belong in the kitchen too. Everyone belongs in the kitchen. That's where the food is.
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I'd love to try making streepworflas, but a suitable waffle iron is an extremely niche item to have in a home kitchen. You can make starpweeflins and waffle cones with it, and that's basically it, which isn't really worth the cost.
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JixHedgehog posted...

They need a random/shuffle button

So many great shows I can't be stuffed starting myself

The problem with that is that there's so much stuff that really is not remotely great. You could probably limit your shuffle to 4* and higher ratings, or something like that, but you're still gonna hit a whole lot of lemons. You're also going to end up finding yourself in the middle of serials.
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TheWorstPoster posted...

Because, a Microsoft owned property, isn't allowed to have cameos, on a system that they have no interest competing with, since they have no handheld devices.

That sentence had three unnecessary commas.
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And only during the dry season. Otherwise the land bridge is underwater.
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And, sadly, I don't see that lasting because of how abused the system has been. I doubt it'll end up being more than a card that you can keep in a wallet, which probably won't include details on the disability, but given the widespread abuse of that "you can't ask any further questions after 'it's my service animal'" policy, and the potential consequences of letting untrained animals into public spaces, I don't see it running unchecked much longer.
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helIy posted...

knivesX2004 posted...

better than diablo 3

this dude got mad jokes

It's a game whose primary draw is its deep customization system, and you played it long enough to spend ~2% of the skill points and try less than 1% of the active abilities (and that 1% was "Attack twice" instead of "Giant fiery laser of death," so you didn't even pick a cool one). I don't think you can really give PoE a proper assessment.
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If you don't like it, there are less-moderated forums out there.
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Jen0125 posted...

adjl posted...

wwinterj25 posted...

Yeah none of that was offensive nor trolling.

I'd call it trolling. Blowing people off like that is specifically intended to annoy them.

? Maybe if you're super sensitive.

Oh yes, polite conversation totally includes saying "you're boring so I didn't listen to anything you just said." That's not obnoxious at all.
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wwinterj25 posted...

Yeah none of that was offensive nor trolling.

I'd call it trolling. Blowing people off like that is specifically intended to annoy them.
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Do something interesting enough to distract you from being tired.
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Sarcasthma posted...

adjl posted...

Sarcasthma posted...

@adjl

'Sup.

Oh, I guess you have Janway ignored. He was doing some shit-talking and I was hoping you could dismantle him like you usually do.

No worries if you don't feel like it, though.

Nah, I don't have him ignored. It just wasn't anything of any particular value that would have been entertaining to rip apart. Janway's just being boring here, and not in any way worth my time.
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$2 isn't going to be much of an allowance in ten years' time, but otherwise it seems like a solid parenting strategy.

solid_kush posted...

pionear posted...

solid_kush posted...

Topic is straight up racist. lol

How?

Because of the topic title.

You make it seem as if her being black is the reason she is charging her child rent and bundling up every other black person to what this mom did. You could have just worded it as Mom charges 5 year old rent. If she was white you wouldnt even mention that she was white in the title.

I just figured he was emulating duckbear.
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Step 1: Have lots and lots of money.
Step 2: Spend lots and lots of money.
Step 3: Cancel the cheque before actually handing it over and just get a fleshlight and spend the rest of the money on ice cream or something
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SINnocent posted...

Unfortunately, most games nowadays are in fact not creative or efficient with their difficulty settings.

"Nowadays"? The vast majority of games at any stage in the industry's history haven't increased difficulty in particularly inventive ways. The conflation of tedium with difficulty has been around for as long as gaming has. Games that do difficulty right are - and have always been - rare gems.
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Sarcasthma posted...

@adjl

'Sup.
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I generally start with normal. Harder difficulties, I tend to leave for subsequent playthroughs, unless I'm given reason to believe that's where to start (in FE13, for example, I knew that Hard was pretty comparable to the Normal of prior FE games, so I started there).
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PaddysPub posted...

glormpf

Geriatric Linguists of Reputable Merit Pleasuring Foxes?
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Zikten posted...

I can't believe Twitter told her to f*** off and then even suspended her.

As often happens, ducky's wording is ambiguous, but I believe it was the offending account that was suspended, not hers.
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Noop_Noop posted...

Bro, you can add whatever bows you like and paint it any color you want, but socialism is just communism lite. Deal with it.

That's like saying measles vaccines are just the toned-down version of being impaled by a pike. You're still getting stabbed either way, but by making the stab wound small enough, the benefits outweigh the drawbacks.
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xjayguyx posted...

BC

xjayguyx posted...

Way too cold most months

I sincerely hope you mean the Eastern or Northern mainland and not the Vancouver area.
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I'd say Dead Space or Alive Volleyball. The others, if I don't like the product, I can just not play the game. That one, though? I'm gonna end up seeing some necromorphs in bikinis, regardless of whether or not I seek out the game.
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Tropic_Sunset posted...

adjl posted...

This is a quality topic.

I feel like I'm missing some context though. I've spent too much time not being here to know what goes on here.

Mostly, ImmortalityV is a creepy dink. That's about all the context you need.
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This is a quality topic.
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I mean, yes, but I wouldn't miss the creepy talking part if it were to somehow disappear.
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Krazy_Kirby posted...

lihlih posted...

Krazy_Kirby posted...

they would have to fire 20 at once to have even the slightest chance at having a nuke hit us. we have plenty of anti missle defenses

Shooting a nuke out of the air has devastating consequences though. Some experts even say that it could be just as, maybe even more damaging to shoot it out of the air.

better to shoot it down before it gets here than to let it hit.

Simply stating the opposite of what he said isn't a very effective arguing technique.
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A sociology class talking about a social ideology with significant historical and present-day relevance? ****ing leftist SJW cucks.
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