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andsoitis
29,384karma·9,781submissions·May 6, 2022
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"Speech is free, but lies you have to pay for," lawyers for the families countered in their opening arguments.
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> but I always sort of thought it was just a show Ah. Now think about the other people who you also think are just putting on a show ... No, this isn't acting, it is being.
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It's a refundable deposit.
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Thanks. The opening paragraph: "We sometimes talk about hunger in the world as if it
were a scourge that all of us want to see abolished, view- ing it as comparable with the plague or AIDS. But t…
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> "You can only text them in the app. Nobody will give you a number to call." Why does this person not go to one of their service centers and talks to someone in person? I've done it…
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> doodads needed to satisfy the regulators So you want to buy a car without these doodads but can't. What's an example of such a doodad?
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example?
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> celebrities and politicians tell me I cant buy the car I want What are you talking about? When has someone told you you cannot buy the car you want?
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> - Smoking has declined, but more because of the negative marketing (ugly pictures on a pack of smokes). It is also less "socially acceptable" and so young people dont pick up the habit.…
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> biggest contributors to climate change and pollution are developing nations that use carbon based energy (ie coal plants in China, Russia, India, etc). Apparently, the 5 countries that produce th…
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When you can make them believe anything, you can make them do anything.
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“For every parcel I stoop down to seize I lose some other off my arms and knees, And the whole pile is slipping, bottles, buns, Extremes too hard to comprehend at. once Yet nothing I should care to le…
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There's an infinite number of things you can say yes to. Saying no requires discernment, a sense of what's important and what isn't. It requires being intentional about what to do n…
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a) Even when you see can see the cartesian axes? b) Can this actually help younglings understand negative numbers more readily?
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Disney stock is down over the last 5 years. https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/DIS/
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Your tutorials remind me of Logo, which uses the cartesian coordinate system with (0,0) being in the center of the viewport. https://www.tutorialspoint.com/logo/logo_turtle.htm# …
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> People creating content to scratch their own itch -> people creating content to make money In both cases, isn't the driving force ultimately that of seeking relevance, attention, and/…
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> Music videos have multiple ads before and after now. The music videos are still watchable but it sucks to put youtube on at a party now. If you want entertainment that is not funded by ads, why n…
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> the thing you actually searched for after the first 10 or so videos. Isn't that a good thing? If you searched for something and the first 10 results aren't a match, why not introduce y…
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It sounds like you find near-zero value from YouTube, so you might as well stop using it?
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"In total, this server has 128 cores with 256 simultaneous threads. With all of the cores working together, this server is capable of 4 TFLOPs of peak double precision computing performance. This…
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I agree that "no" is not equivalent to "zero". Your example ("No. I have no bread"), however, uses "no" in two different ways.
The first is negation and the se…