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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...

I might be wrong, but based on the first chapter, Tolkien writes way longer chapters than many authors so far. Pretty sure it was over an hour to read that chapter out loud.

Why would the rocky mountains suddenly be under the ocean?

The thing is, whether you have a multi-generational home is extremely cultural, and so you have lots of different cultures that do that but many don't.

One of the reasons that many cultures have the multi-generational home is that there are obviously benefits to it, including being able to aggregate wealth, but it also has some negative sides such as aggregating a lot of power in the hands of whichever family member happens to own the house, a lack of flexibility since individuals are tied to their extended family.

Here's my favorite video on the topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RFFwhbVqeU

Quite a while back I just started referring to the dollar store as the dollars store, because anything that you buy is going to be several dollars.

In the 1990s, almost every little girl that you talk to wanted to become a marine biologist.

Which makes it really funny that those girls are now grown up and they hate fish so much that men showing fish in profile pictures on dating sites is banned.

https://youtu.be/WuJs22fRlQk

"Why do so many dumb stupid idiots think things are getting worse when everything is so clearly getting better?"

"but these guys say they're the resistance against the horrible, terrible normal people who just want to be left alone! I sided with them like I was supposed to!"

I figured I would illegally immigrate and vote in the federal election for Trump. I've heard Democrats love it when illegal immigrants vote.

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.

"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.

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