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@TheUnderdog
They will still make money, they just won't have a monopoly on the production. If any licensed company can produce the drug, then the free market will bring prices down to a reasonable amount.
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@TheUnderdog
I'm opposed to patents on lifesaving medications in general. The government doesn't deserve $1000 a month for every diabetic patient any more than Eli Lilly does.
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@TheUnderdog
50 billion is a less than 1% of what the US spent last year.
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The only potatoes need is decent spacing. And everyone likes potatoes.
That being said, growing plants in your apartment isn't particularly feasible. If you've got a south facing window you get no natural sunlight, so you're reliant on setting up grow lights.
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These are always fun. Sign me up!
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@TheUnderdog
She was far left, not a troll.
You can definitely be a far left troll, the two are not mutually exclusive. PolytheistWitch's post always read as genuinely held beliefs to me, though, so I also wouldn't qualify her as such.
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@Best.Korea
1. If you don't want it, don't take it.
2. If you don't want to offend, throw it away after work.
3. Tell them it's called intermittent fasting and they can suck your dick.
4. I realize that 3 is contradictory to not offending them in 2.
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@TWS1405_2
Think of it like a motor conveyance.Sex is the make, gender is the model.
This is the worst analogy I think I've ever seen.
If sex is the make (let's say Ford is Female and Mazda is Male), then how is there only 2 genders? The Escape, Escort, Mustang, Explorer, Taurus, these are all genders that fit under the F sex. And what makes a Ford a Ford? is it the engine? the body? what about the Mazda B series and Ford Ranger, which were practically identical other than the badge?
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@badger
There are absolutely cases of innate instinct, like turtles running to the sea when hatched, as you described. Hunting is usually learned from the parents/pack, so captive-bred predators usually cannot be released to the wild. Snakes, however, usually do fine, presumably because they are on their own from birth, all hunting behaviors are some combination of instinct and self-taught.
A lot of people overestimate how much is instinctual.
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@TheUnderdog
1) Abortion is healthcare (what she already believes and what planned parenthood claims is true). Abortion should be free.
They already say this. The right denies it.
2) Our southern border needs to be secured.3) Our law enforcement police officers need to be protected. Back the blue. Blue lives matter.4) The 2020 election was rigged and Donald Trump should be our president.
Planned Parenthood is in the business of providing reproductive healthcare and education on reproductive healthcare. Taking a political stance on anything outside of that field would be a failure of their mission statement, just as NRA should not have an opinion outside of protecting the 2nd Amendment.
5) America first. The left used to be America first with not wanting to fund other country’s wars, but now this is a right wing talking point and the parties switched on isolationism. The left used to be isolationist, now the right is.
Planned Parenthood is a global organization. It definitionally cannot be isolationist.
6) The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
Again, outside the scope of their mission.
7) The government can’t force us to take the COVID vaccine (call the vaccine the jab to appeal to right wing conservatives even more).
This is factually incorrect. The government has been mandating vaccines since George Washington.
8) Transwomen need to stay the hell away from women’s sports (this is something the TERFs already believe but TERFs like Dave Chapelle are already pro choice but the right still loves the guy and the left hates him).
Sports is also outside of their purview.
9) Groomers are bad and drag shows are not for kids. The right has been really hammering the “drag shows are bad for kids” talking point and if planned parenthood agrees with this, the right would give planned parenthood credit and even celebrate planned parenthood (just like they loved Herschel Walker who paid for an abortion and is a deadbeat dad multiple times).
Again, a poltical statement outside of their mission.
Overall, even if PP bent over backwards, abandoning everything else to try and secure abortion rights in the US, it wouldn't work. Conservatives just hate abortions that much, and any attempts to align with the right would be met with hostility and accusations of lies (which they would be)
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@Lemming
Though I don't mean it as a stab at furries,Who I assume treat it as a hobby, rather than identify as,Like cosplayers.
Most are cosplayers. They may have a sexual attraction to animal characteristics (look up knotting if you dare), but do not believe that they are actually their fursona.
There are therians, however, who believe that they have a non-human soul.
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@YouFound_Lxam
They came up with a "new" definition of the word Woman.
If you disagree with this, shouldn't the word 'definition' be in quotes? Putting 'new' in quotes merely implies that this definition isn't new, which while true, seems antithetical to your actual stance.
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@Public-Choice
Lol how is updating your feed every 3-5 years too much work?
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@Public-Choice
If you want curated content, you essentially have three options.
1. Algorithmically curated, which maximizes for views, not your education. This is why your home page isn't what you want it to be.
2. 3rd party curation. Several platforms exist for educational content that is curated for quality, such as Brilliant, MasterClass, Coursera, Wondrium. Usually these are paid, either per lesson or as a membership, so if price is an object, this won't work either.
3. Manually curating it yourself. There are hundreds of valuable channels on YouTube that do what you want, you just need to find them. Ignore the home page recommendations if you feel they aren't helpful, google lists of similar channels instead.
Some educational channels I listen to are Kurzgesagt, Geographics, VSauce, MinuteEarth, StarTalk, THUNK, and Veritasium. There is also a decent number of PBS channels on various topics.
If you're already at a degree level of knowledge in a specific field, you may have to look for more niche channels, for instance a professional linguist would be interested in EcoLinguist. Googling "youtube channel for [x field]" will usually produce decent results.
A few other tips to maximize your use of YouTube:
- Check the Channels tab of a channel homepage that you like (example), they will often link associated channels that are either owned by the same people or have collaborated with them in the past.
- Use an extension like Similar Channels to find overlapping channels.
- Some channels produce a wide variety of content that might not all be what you're interested in. Usually their homepage will have playlists of different subjects.
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@Best.Korea
"advanced farming techniques and GMO foods would easily sustain 200 million people"Yes, except now we have 8 billion. What is it exactly that you are suggesting here? 🤔
I'm suggesting that the methods that feed 8 billion will work for 200 million? This is possibly the stupidest thing you've ever said.
You seem very triggered by the fact that Best.Korea solved world hunger and invented a solution much more cost-effective and more humane than yours.
Your solution can't be more humane than mine because I haven't suggested one. World hunger is not a problem of production, but of distribution. The US throws food away while other countries make less than $10 a day per capita.
And when did Best.Korea start referring to himself in the third person? Bad Dobby.
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@TheUnderdog
Then she gets $20,000 restitution. If she aborts, she gets $13,000. The remaining $7k goes to sponsor the kid.
lol you think it takes $7000 to raise a kid?
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@Best.Korea
Humanity had famines even at times when there were just 200 million people in total on the planet.
Yes, before the advent of the science you hate so much. Today, advanced farming techniques and GMO foods would easily sustain 200 million people. Proof: the U.S. exports more food than it imports.
Drying food increases calories absorbed from it.
Bullshit.
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@Stephen
don't you think that this was a cruel and deceitful promise to make to a mother while keeping from her the truth of her sons cruel torturous demise at such a young at age?
The original question was what kind of mother Mary was to celebrate her son's inevitable suffering. I answered this by showing how she didn't know. It's not my fault Christianity is a terrible religion.
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@Stephen
that was going to be hunted down, betrayed and arrested and put on trial and then beaten senseless and then nailed to a cross to die an agonising death?
She didn't know that any of that was going to happen. She was told
“Don’t be afraid, Mary. You have found favor [a] with God.31 You will become pregnant, give birth to a son,and name him Jesus.32 He will be a great manand will be called the Son of the Most High.The Lord God will give himthe throne of his ancestor David.33 Your son will be king of Jacob’s people forever,and his kingdom will never end.”
(Luke 1:30-33)
That sounds pretty worthy of celebration to me.
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Crazy boot man is even more entertaining than I thought.
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@Best.Korea
Kim’s a girls name.
The English given name Kim, usually short for Kimberly, is generally considered to be female.
The Korean surname Kim or 김 (also sometimes latinized as Gim) is not neutral or gendered. It is a family name and so doesn't refer to a specific person, but to their heritage.
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@IwantRooseveltagain
Nobody nails a paper to the local church door when they want to make a statement either. Instead they do twitter threads. It's not a matter of the right educating themselves, it's that they've moved to social media or at least FOX news.
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@Lemming
Still I don't think people are going to isolate too much.Some people do,Mormons, Amish, Libertarian Free State Project.
The Mormons most people think of (officially Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) are not isolationist. They practically own Utah and Southeast Idaho (my county is 48% Mormon iirc) and have congregations all over the world. There may be much smaller sects that tend to isolate, but the only ones I know of are the polygamists, who are technically breaking the law.
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The only person I would care to have banned would be BrotherDThomas. There are plenty other right wing or christians on the site who still manage to have mostly civil discussions, but his condescension, hypocrisy, etc., are particularly annoying.
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@ebuc
I have a Christmas present for you. It's the concept of 'inferential distance.' If you want to have a conversation about (meta)physics (if that's what all your garbage posting/meaningless formatting means) with the laymen who use this site, then you have to use layman's terms, or at least explain every new word before you use it.
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@Shila
Depends on your definition of determine
Determineverb1.cause (something) to occur in a particular way; be the decisive factor in.2.ascertain or establish exactly, typically as a result of research or calculation.
For number 1, absolutely not. Number 2 is under debate as to its validity in some circles, but generally speaking, you are much more likely to be intelligent if you have good grades than if you don't.
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@Intelligence_06
Trying stuff that I have already done years before ... does not make you a scientist.
This is the replication crisis in a nutshell.
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@SkepticalOne
@YouFound_Lxam
There is at least some evidence that the original scripture referred to the Greco-Roman practice of pederasty, not homosexuality in general, which probably wasn't practiced widely enough to be a huge concern for the Jews to be writing about.
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@Intelligence_06
Communism/Socialism as an economic system is predicated upon scarcity of resources, just as any other economic theory. In heaven there would be no such scarcity, so I would say no in terms of economics.
In terms of governmental structure, God is the epitome of an absolute dictator, so straight up monarchy(theocracy?) on that front.
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As long as we're talking about preparing for a survival situation, than a dehydrator or freeze dryer is much faster than sun or air drying. If you're already in a survival situation, than most foods will go bad long before drying out if you try to do them through OP's 'room dry' method. Smoking or salt curing works much better for fast-spoiling foods like meat and fruit.
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It's almost like the Gospels were written decades later from several different sources and have varying accounts at every turn.
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@jaay
There's no automatic weighting of forfeits currently, it's up to voters to take that into consideration. I would recommend posting in the vote requests thread when it goes into Voting, with a note that the opponent full forfeited. Someone is likely to vote on it.
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The US has only built one nuclear reactor in the last 20 years.
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@YouFound_Lxam
gender is technically a social construct.But you could say that about so many other things as well. For example, money.
How is that an argument? Of course money is a social construct. There is no inherent value in a piece of paper that changes when you add a zero on it.
Gendered behavior isn't an inherent product of biology or psychology, otherwise it wouldn't change based on your culture and upbringing.
all the way up until about 60 years ago, people didn't do that, they used gender to identify the 2 biological sexes.
This is utter bullshit. Before the 1920s people basically exclusively used the term 'sex' to refer to biological sex. ''Gender' referred to the grammatical conceit of 'male' and 'female' articles, nouns, and adjectives. The synonymity of gender and sex gained prevalence in the 1980s as 'sex' became a more taboo term associated with sensuality.
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@MeowRanger
Cutting off connections with social world eventually leads to lack of confidence and social skills.
I'm not advocating for introverts 'cutting off connections' as you put it. Social interaction is important for health, especially in your developmental years, and obviously a lack of social interactions will lead to a lack of social skills.
In my experience as an extremely introverted person and someone who has wanted to become more extroverted, forcing myself to go to social gatherings and "be extroverted" was a huge drain on my emotions and energy. Even a regular environment like going to school leaves me wanting to stay in my room for a couple hours to unwind. From what I understand, extroverts feel the opposite, and will organize outings with friends to energize themselves.
I truly do wish I had spent more time developing social skills and less time reading in my early years, especially elementary school, but it wouldn't have made me more extroverted.
I myself became an introvert and was really happy with my life but still social life with friends, teachers and relatives was missing.
You don't 'become' an introvert just like that. It's a spectrum, and even relatively extroverted people can adapt to low social environments, but they won't thrive inn the same way.
To answer the original post, an introvert in their ideal environment (low/optional social stress, limited interactions outside of their friend/family, and time to themselves) is just as happy as an extrovert in their ideal environment (high interaction volume/intensity, new experiences, parties, etc.)
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@MeowRanger
introversion ≠ lack of social skills/confidence. Introversion just means that you're more comfortable in solitude or small social gatherings, where extroverts feel energized when they spend time in large social environments. This is why extroverts suffered more from lockdown than introverts.
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@sadolite
What financial benefits of marriage? The tax benefits are fairly minimal, and everything else described in the video is identical to having a roommate.
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@Best.Korea
Usually edible plants have edible leaves and flowers and stems.
That is potentially very harmful advice. Even domesticated plants such as potatoes and peppers have poisonous leaves and stalks. Rhubarb, though it has an edible stalk, has toxic leaves. Humans figured out what foods are safe to eat over the course of thousands of years, not a single nuclear winter. It would be better to advise people to just buy a book on this, even if they don't read it until they need it, they'll have it.
Our ancestors taught their children a lot about survival, but our society doesnt do the same. Like, what is their plan if the bad scenario happens? Fighting over the last supplies in the stores? And what when those run out?
1. The current plan is to avoid 'the bad scenario.' An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, as Benjamin Franklin said. Chances are good that a full nuclear war would render vast sections if not all of the earth uninhabitable by humans. There's only a small window in between agriculture failing and total annihilation, so it's far more important to make sure nothing bad happens in the first place than try to recover afterwards.
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@Best.Korea
There's a big difference between knowing these things in theory and using that knowledge in practice. I already knew that nettles were edible from nettle tea, but I don't actually know what part of the plant is edible. I'm not even a hundred percent sure I could identify one in the wild, or if there's a specific time of year to eat them.
Most people would not be able to survive simply because they lack the knowledge about plants and animals, and they refuse to learn.In an event of a nuclear war, in case you get cut off from civilization, ask yourself how would you survive.
Most people (55% of the world and 83% of Americans) live in urban areas. Even if they had these skills, it would mean little because they would have nowhere to go. For instance, the state of New York has a population density of 421 people per sq. mile, while hunter-gatherers like you describe historically lived at 2-10 people per sq. mile. The U.S. overall is still at 94 if you spread people out to the Midwest, which would be impossible to do in a scenario that also renders modern food production useless (such as the nuclear war you mentioned). And that's not even going into how much land is uninhabitable or paved over.
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racism being more prevalent/less taboo in rural areas actually makes a lot of sense. Lower population (density) means you are exposed to less different people, so your stances on non-normative values (queer, other religions, other races( especially if you live in an area with very little diversity, i.e. "white neighborhood/black neighborhood") are much more likely to be negative.
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@Intelligence_06
It's a really dumb joke I haven't heard since I was in middle school.
sadolite: Have you ever seen that clown that hides from gay people?
person 2: No, I haven't
sadolite: haha, must be because you're gay *dabs furiously*
There's a much better joke that operates on the same principle. Start clapping until someone asks why you're clapping. Tell them that it keeps the dinosaurs away. When they respond how there are no dinosaurs, you can smile and say 'it's working then.'
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@IwantRooseveltagain
It's still about $1.20 more where I live than it was in 2019. Definitely an improvement over last year, so I'm not complaining, but prices rising around the election had almost as much an effect on prices as the war in Ukraine.
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@ebuc
Like all waves, gravity also has frequency. A radio works by measuring a specific target frequency and converting it into sound. Theoretically you could do the same for measuring gravity, though gravity runs between 10^-16 - 10^4 hertz, whereas FM radio is ~10^6. For context, a 10^-16 hertz wave has a cycle/period every ~310 million years. A regular antenna wouldn't work though. Since gravity waves shape spacetime, it would be like trying to measure the rotation of a wheel while moving at the exact same rotational velocity, it would appear to be staying still.
To detect gravitational waves we built LIGO, which basically consists of two giant L shapes 4km long and 3000km apart. Even then the 'blip' from two black holes colliding over a billion light years away only made a difference a thousandth the width of a proton.
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@Sidewalker
Why are the Psalms in the Bible if they're not scripture?
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@ebuc
I didn't understand a single thing you just said.
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@ebuc
Quasars are a natural example of EMR being focused in a specific direction. There are no known examples of gravity going in a specific direction in nature, which indicates that it is likely impossible.
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@YouFound_Lxam
These are the same men that sterilized Native American women without telling them.Ummm...all of those men are dead.
The event polytheist was referring to took place in the 70s, so those doctors are about my grandparent's age. Some may be dead, but a reasonable amount of them are still out there.
Those then male dominated fields decided to use it as a way to control and subjugate women.
The field of modern medicine disenfranchised female midwifes, who practiced birth and pregnancy health before men decided to step in. Ignaz Semmelweis was the first to notice that going straight from autopsy lectures to delivering babies was having an effect on maternal and infant mortality. Before handwashing was finally adopted having a baby in a hospital was actually more dangerous than at home with a midwife.
Does the vagina of a woman dictate what a living human is?
Definitely. And since I was born via emergency C-section, I am not a human. /s
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