newbie789

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by newbie789 5y ago
> To be a dedicated fan of Nintendo's franchises is to be a masochist. For example I am a Zelda and Metroid fan (by “fan” I mean “someone that enjoys playing those games”), but I don’t think I’ve ever cared about any video game to t
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by newbie789 5y ago
I’m glad to hear people discussing this! I love how most of the hippies that love “natural psychedelics” have a loophole for LSD. Just because a drug has a precursor found in nature doesn’t make the drug itself natural. As somebody that exp
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by newbie789 5y ago
Is there one for hidden posts? I have accidentally clicked “Hide” on mobile SO MANY times.
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by newbie789 5y ago
Is a chat function a social network?
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by newbie789 5y ago
Is the Bloomberg terminal a social network?
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by newbie789 5y ago
This is the funniest post. Devil’s advocate, hear me out (thought experiment), what if the economy is made up of people other than business owners? What if economic function needs both businesses and individuals to survive? Where, out of
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by newbie789 5y ago
You have as much fun as the poster you’re replying to? How do you know that?
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by newbie789 5y ago
> To expose it directly here would likely have little effect generally, but would have an outsized effect personally (damaging trust). If it did have an impact it would likely expose those involved (many careers). I am not in the command
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by newbie789 5y ago
This website is pretty easy to post on anonymously. It takes five seconds to make a throwaway and another three to post a name. While I agree that there are frauds out there in academia and elsewhere, I have no reason to believe that you’re
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by newbie789 5y ago
This is hilarious! I’m sure Elbert’s cutting wit and no-nonsense method of sniffing out true cinema mastery and creative rot saved dozens of eight year olds from watching this film, thus preserving their intellectual cinematic palate for b
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by newbie789 5y ago
What a terrible day. Meatloaf, Louie Anderson, and Thich Nhat Hanh all at once. :(
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by newbie789 5y ago
> * Drinking alone helps you understand yourself better. - No it doesn't. It distracts you from that endeavor. If you sit at a table with no TV or phone and do nothing, you will have a significantly more interesting and honest dialo
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by newbie789 5y ago
This sort of stuff is abhorrent. Anecdotally, I went to a high school in Utah where the librarian would use a sharpie to censor sexual content. The weird thing was that she’d only censor consensual sexual content. I remember reading a b
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by newbie789 5y ago
This kind of reads like Mayor Breed will be handing over a whole lot of power and funding to SFPD and whatever tech contractors they’ve partnered with on the basis of… what? The violent crime and open drug use in San Francisco has been fam
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by newbie789 5y ago
This is a funny article. While it admits that crime is going down, it cherry picks a handful of egregious crimes to make the city look like some lawless hellscape, while offering little in way of concrete suggestions to improve things. By p
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by newbie789 5y ago
https://futurism.com/the-byte/spacex-building-military-rocke...
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by newbie789 5y ago
I’ll upvote that. Being a mod is a difficult and nearly completely thankless (but utterly necessary) job, he’s got a good attitude and consistent enforcement of the rules. Cheers dang!
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by newbie789 5y ago
I haven’t hired one, but I’ve been one for a couple (very) different people. In my experience, the factors that lead to success are clear communication and mutual respect. If you’re expecting a telepath but aren’t willing to spend a littl
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by newbie789 5y ago
> When the U.S sells arms by the billions to despot regimes is it also a state-sponsored terrorism around the world? Yeah
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by newbie789 5y ago
This largely upon skimming seems pretty boring ideas like “it’s possible to teach math better in high school.” It’s a trip that it’s couched in language that apparently is pissing a lot of people off (and bringing up some resentment about r
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by newbie789 5y ago
What -ism doesn’t suggest or prescribe change in behavior?
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by newbie789 5y ago
This is genuinely impressive and a wonderful write up! Dear lord, what a Herculean task
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by newbie789 5y ago
Hahaha
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by newbie789 5y ago
Love how nobody has interacted with this post at all.
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by newbie789 5y ago
Hey why do you feel so uncomfortable saying anything whatsoever about race science while full-throatedly defending a person that ostensibly engages in that? It’s a simple question: What do you think about this race science guy that you’re d
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by newbie789 5y ago
Ah yes, the hallmark of somebody acknowledging wrongdoing: saying that criticism of him is “unambiguous lies”
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by newbie789 5y ago
I forgot to buy this book! Thanks for the reminder, Gary!
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by newbie789 5y ago
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/paraphrase
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by newbie789 5y ago
Rather than answering the question about your opinion about “the whole race/IQ debate” (your words), you’re going out of your way to… what? Admonish me for being rude for bringing up the literal topic at hand (a public writer and possi
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by newbie789 5y ago
Wait. What? He publicly holds very polarizing (and ridiculous) views on issues that directly affect people’s day to day lives, but I’m not thinking straight because I don’t immediately buy the idea that he’s _just_ being bullied for other

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