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Author of The Graysonian Ethic (Available on Amazon, pick up a dead tree copy today)

Also Author of Future Sepsis (Also available on Amazon!)

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Advocate for freedom and tolerance even if you say things I do not like

Adversary of Fediblock

Accept that I'll probably say something you don't like and I'll give you the same benefit, and maybe we can find some truth about the world.

Ah... Is the Alliteration clever or stupid? Don't answer that, I sort of know the answer already...

The typical explanation of "the left can't meme" is that they only point out that the bad man is bad, which isn't really useful unless you already agree that the bad man is bad. It's like Soviet and Maoist propaganda in that regard. "Good man good! Bad man bad!" -- it isn't intended to convey anything meaningful, just to show what team you're on.

Above I see "bad man bad, he needs to be in jail", "bad man bad, following bad man stupid", "bad man bad, he peepee small", and "bad man bad we put bad man friends in jail"

The right does these sorts of memes occasionally as well, unfortunately.

What's orange?

I've found it's very regional. Some regions have really outstanding care, others are absolutely terrible. That doesn't necessarily dispute what you've said mind you, since it can be underinvested for years but have pockets of excellence regardless...

Seems to me like there's a signal/noise problem here. If you ran the same test with 352 adults and you gave them both placebos, and you ran it 10 times, would you get similar results and opposite results?

Awww, they should have stayed on strike for another 10 years. That'd show them greedy companies who's boss.

Assuming it's a public good, and I do think many things should be.

Even Canadian conservatives are not about the idea of shutting down our single payer healthcare. It's imperfect, but still net quite good. Even the PPC doesn't have it as part of their platform to end universal healthcare and instead plan to fund it better.

Lol the porn magazine that isn't a porn magazine fired the porn star who isn't a porn star

The only other problem is that people who are blind who also read braille is a minority within a minority.

My grandmother lost her sight to scarlet fever. She was well read thanks to books on tape, but never knew braille at all.

As far as I can tell, she's by far the norm, with 90% of blind people not knowing braille.

I have to admit, I think it was only a year or two ago that I found out that "wipe Israel off the map" was a lefty talking point, and I still find it really confusing.

A group of kids riding bikes together until the sun goes down in most cities

I suspect this might have quite a bit to do with it.

And I'm not stuck in traffic I am traffic in this respect. 75% of people overweight or obese as of 2018, and I bet it's way worse post-covid now that a lot of people's activities out of the house have been heavily disrupted.

Maybe not, but I ain't gonna stop.

"Labour MP" [...] "Stays sane"

Pressing x to doubt

My favorite part is that these people are also very stupid.

You think that the Palestinians wouldn't all be standing there at the million parent march? It's like, these people never learned that "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" isn't actually true. Sometimes the enemy of your enemy is also your enemy. They aren't giving up their deeply held religious beliefs just because you said something nice about them on Twitter.

Many people in the military have bragged and written books about all the treason they committed under Trump.

And these people cheer for what is a military coup of the civilian leadership like retarded seals.

This year, I began trying to walk with my son as often as possible. I load him up in the stroller, and I just start walking. In particular, after the beginning of July I tried to get out as often as I could. At some point I started recording those walks using my phone.

I didn't end up capturing all the walks that I did, and of the walks that I did end up capturing I didn't end up getting all of them because sometimes I forgot to put it down until late. However, here are the statistics.

I walked a grand total this year of 65 km, and that took 18 hours. I climbed the equivalent of 700 m on upward hills. And all of this work ended up, at least according to the app, burning 3800 calories or about 1 lb.

A long time ago I successfully lost a lot of weight, and people always ask me how I did it. The key isn't burning more fat as I've shown. That's an awful lot of work for 1 lb. The key is to eat less and to eat better. That's how people succeed at weight loss.

"damnit Dante, that isn't the solution to every one of life's problems!"

"Haha blocktype printing press go brrrrrr"

"The problem with socialism is eventually you run out of someone else's money" - Margaret Thatcher

https://video.fbxl.net/w/oFthi6CFmxGvSr15VAJR7W

I thought about this when it was first going on, but now I think this video encapsulates the Kevin McCarthy experience perfectly.

That's a good point. Germany only surrendered when Berlin fell and it was totally conquered and Hitler enjoyed a saltpeter and sulphur surprise, and Japan surrendered after it was clear they'd lost totally and two of their cities just had the world's most powerful weapon used against them. If the mass bombing of urban centers demoralized the enemy then they never would have fought to the last man.

I try to fact check my posts before I make them because I'm wasting everyone's time if I'm saying things that are just factually false. In the process of checking this post, I found out that Germany fell on May 2nd and surrendered on May 7th (and again on May 8th-9th because Stalin said "Surrender harder!"). I find it interesting that the second nuke hit Japan on August 9th, but the unconditional surrender didn't fully take place until September 2nd. I guess there was actually an internal power struggle and an attempted coup against the emperor, and after the emperor made a radio broadcast explaining the decision to surrender the military tried to confiscate all copies of the broadcast.

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