war1025

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by war1025 5y ago
You've got some sort of vendetta going on here, so I'm sorry for whatever burr you have in your britches. When someone says "you are misinterpreting what I said" perhaps you should consider that you are misinterpreting w
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by war1025 5y ago
Great. Restrict the handouts to Type-1 diabetics. They certainly didn't get the disease by choice.
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by war1025 5y ago
> I keep hoping one day folks in the US will get tired of being screwed on their healthcare and living in fear of getting sick... shrug As someone with good but very expensive health insurance, any time I bring up health insurance prices
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by war1025 5y ago
You mean like that time four Republican Congressmen were shot during a baseball practice in 2017? [1] [1] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/congressman-steve-scali...
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by war1025 5y ago
Even if by some crazy implausibility it was the "greatest threat to our democracy since the Civil War", that's like saying, "Man, I just got a paper cut and that is sure the worst injury I've had since that accident
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by war1025 5y ago
It was an insurrection in the same way that any other large scale protest was an insurrection. It was not, however, "the worst attack on our democracy since the civil war" like Biden, other Democrats, and the media at large have c
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by war1025 5y ago
Perhaps in the future you could avoid leading with things such as: > that's about as useful as a story of how someone prayed and their mom's cancer went away. All I did was comment and say, "Hey, we did this and it worked
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by war1025 5y ago
> IMHO, I think a flag-waving socially-conservative socialism could be surprisingly successful in America, if someone could get it off the ground. I think that's basically Trump's base to be honest. Politicians just haven'
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by war1025 5y ago
> This is a wild misrepresentation of the opposing perspective. I think that's currently how the game is played. You can try to be better than that, but then the other side wins because they are still happy to play dirty.
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by war1025 5y ago
> You're being downvoted because these arguments are so bad as to almost clearly be in bad faith. I'm being downvoted because some subset of people here view down vote as "I disagree". I used to be bothered by it. I d
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by war1025 5y ago
> The divide is on topics like anti-vax, nonexistent election fraud, et cetera. IE, actual lies. It's funny that the party of "my body my choice" is so against people wanting a say over what goes into their bodies. I am pe
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by war1025 5y ago
It's weird to think of Facebook as the reasonable people in the room. The left wants to own online political discussion in the US, and they are very bothered that the right finds a ready audience when they are allowed to compete.
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by war1025 5y ago
> Either everyone has been blind for decades or the current narrative about racism is a lie meant to achieve some political purpose. I think it's a bit of both. As the saying goes, "I can tolerate anyone except the outgroup&quo
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by war1025 5y ago
My understanding is that it's pretty common on the US coasts (i.e. the major metros where housing is super unaffordable). I imagine it's a self feeding cycle. Young adults can't purchase homes, so their parents cosign and giv
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by war1025 5y ago
I agree with everything you said. I guess the point I was trying to make is more that doing these things is not impossible. It is just a matter of being properly informed (which is in itself a difficult task).
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by war1025 5y ago
> It has everything to do with their income being 80% of their essential bills. There is some truth to that, but there is also a fair amount of truth to the fact that a lot of people list things as "essential" that really aren
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by war1025 5y ago
You can gain the acquaintance of quite a few strangers by joining groups. My town has a general discussion Facebook page. I don't know that any of the people would recognize me on the street, but there are quite a few names I recognize
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by war1025 5y ago
Fair enough.
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by war1025 5y ago
> I would wager good money that most modern conservative US Christian families have a male alcoholic relative not too far removed. I think that has more to do with the pervasiveness of Christianity and alcoholism independent of each othe
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by war1025 5y ago
> How to reduce social division in America in the long-term: ban private schools, fund public schools at the national level, and do it quickly, utterly, and irrevocably. We tried this to tame the savages [1], and I don't think peopl
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by war1025 5y ago
> Although I hope you are ready to meet lots of Christians and a few alcoholics every year. Always good to lump the Christians in with the alcoholics.
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by war1025 5y ago
I don't have a side project, but this is basically the approach I take at work. Try to do one useful thing each day. Doesn't even have to be a big useful thing. It adds up. I guess that's really the whole point of the tortois
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by war1025 5y ago
> In your other comment, you wrote in a kinda magic-wishful-thinking way "you can only get pregnant if you really want kids". I really think you are all just intentionally misunderstanding me. I am not saying "You can onl
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by war1025 5y ago
People don't like the government telling them how to live their lives. They especially don't like the government telling them how to parent. And they extra especially don't like the government going behind their backs and tel
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by war1025 5y ago
I am not up on niche keyboard lingo and assumed this was advertising a keyboard where 40% of the keys were mechanical. Really was wondering what advantage that would have since mechanical keyboard people seem very opinionated about the infe
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by war1025 5y ago
I get wrist pain typing on normal keyboards, but I've found my main issue is negative wrist angle. I have been using those silicone roll up keyboards [1] for almost two decades now. At first we got one because our keyboard broke and it
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by war1025 5y ago
> Having kids when and only when you want them? Sure. "Only have sex when you want a kid" has always been an option. > Having kids when and only when you want them, and fulfilling your biological urges? Not so much. Unsure i
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by war1025 5y ago
> it certainly doesn't mean that you're somehow more intelligent or competent than the people for whom similar methods of family planning have failed. I personally think it is a sign of modern hubris to assume that effective fa
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by war1025 5y ago
> Conversely, what about infant death Now that I have kids, I think back every now and again to when I was in high school and my math teacher's wife miscarried fairly far along into the pregnancy. Looking back, I'm sure that wa
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by war1025 5y ago
> the choice to not have children meant giving up much of heterosexual sex. A bit personal maybe, but my wife has never been on birth control, we don't use protection, and have never had an "oops" baby. We had kids when we

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