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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...

Now you may end up getting beaten up 45 times, slapped 50 times, have the cops called on you two times and have a YouTube video canceling you two times.

But once in 100 tries, you get to touch boobs.

That's pretty funny, it appears that Baltimore has had over 300 gang-related murders in one year. 23 Baltimore schools have 0 students proficient in math. 77% of high school graduates read at an elementary school level, some at a kindergarten level. 65% of children in Baltimore live in single parent households, which are overwhelmingly likely to lead to overwhelmingly worse outcomes for boys and girls including membership in gangs.

But no, it's the guns.

The doctor who wrote this must be the sort of butcher who would prescribe cocaine for someone lacking energy instead of solving the problem of vitamin deficiency.

Wow, quick progress. Happy to see things coming along!

Ditto?

I bet if Morgan Spurlock knew how it was all going to turn out he'd have eaten a lot more McDonalds.

"I want [x]!"

no you don't. only in your fantasies.

Ngl, it seems to me like an irc chat client should be a pretty stable codebase anyway.

@binkle And ill do it again

"you said you trained this on big tech posts, why is it doing this?"

>tfw nobody has a cdrom drive

Fair enough, both are existential threats our kids pay for because we don't want to. However, most other things just aren't actually important.

Balance the federal budget. That should be priority #1.

I have a son, he's 2. What did he do to deserve a trillion dollars in debt(Canada's national debt was 458 billion in 2008, 591 billion in 2012, and is 1.17 trillion in 2024)?

His job is to grow up healthy and to learn to speak and listen, to read and write, to use numbers. He's doing his job.

His job is not to pay for a bunch of goods and services I want "someone else" to pay for.

Americans have a similar story. In 2000 the federal debt was 4 trillion. Today it's 34 trillion.

All the people whining about the boomers should remember that millennials were a big part of the voter base through most of those trillions and it went to programs pandering to you, so don't act like our hands are clean.

"stand back, I am a *very* powerful reddit moderator!"

Sort of like if you stay a virgin until you're 30 you become a wizard?

Minor changes related to world war 2 being definitively the biggest conflict of the past 200 years. By body count there's a number of Asian conflicts that were comparable such as the Taiping rebellion, so I'd probably call it among the biggest conflicts. My note about relative non-combatant nations faring the best after the war still stands. Later on when I mention that sometimes you should fight anyway I probably would have wanted to mention that world war 2 nonetheless is widely seen as a moral war and although non-participants fared better it's still the right thing to do regardless if you personally benefit.

Of course the point I was making is that fighting doesn't magically confer benefits on the fighters, which I think remains.

I see a lot of people.talking about water consumption by data centers.

Big question is whether the water is consumed or just used.

Water is a renewable resource, so you can take it out if a river, run it through a heat exchanger, and return it and the water isnt consumed, it's just used and returned.

It seems that one major way of cooling is evaporative cooling. So the water is evaporated into the air, and eventually will fall as rain, and whether that's consumption becomes really complicated since it depends on local weather patterns and the like.

I do think there's an argument to be made that there's environmental effects from injecting Olympic swimming pools worth of water into the air every month. I would fully expect that to change the local climate.

Rest assured everyone that the parts stolen from a roadside sign that run my social media empire use not a drop of water for cooling!

Once again proving that websites like these lack any sort of wisdom...

Ironically, I was finding the me who has spent 3 more years deep diving into history was debating the me who wrote that. It's not totally wrong, especially in context, but it could probably be phrased more accurately.

Thanks. I couldn't remember where I was talking about that so I went back and found it in the Chapter "basics" where I was explaining that violence is a last resort and that it often isn't benefical to you. It kind of reminds me of the Sun Tzu quote: "He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight." -- I do say that sometimes you do have to fight, but especially when you're teaching a child it's often not that time.

The greatest conflict of the past couple centuries was called World War II. What most people don't realize is the countries that made it out of World War II were the strongest or the ones that either didn't fight or didn't have to fight much. The United States of America became a superpower on isolationism. Yes, they eventually joined the war but in a very limited capacity. There were only two battles on the mainland United States. Switzerland was neutral and ended up becoming the world's bank, Sweden was neutral and ended up becoming one of the most powerful nations in Europe for a very long time. Meanwhile, all the Nations that participated were great powers and after the war were no longer great powers. --The graysonian ethics

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