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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: I'm losing my faith in the fight against US obesity |
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Posted: 07 Jan 2015, 4:55 pm
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Replies: 46
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| To be clear the use of CAPS, in modern cutting EDGE online communication, is NOT shouting and ONLY a literary device used to retain reader attention, in an increasing 140 character limit Twitter world, where humans, generally speaking, are now assessed by science, with the literal attention span eq... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: I'm losing my faith in the fight against US obesity |
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Posted: 06 Jan 2015, 1:23 pm
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Replies: 46
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| I'm losing my faith in the private sector or market in the US on the fight against American obesity. Honestly, why do you even care about the choices other people are making freely? Eat the way you want, let other people worry about their own health choices. It isn't yours nor the goverment's job t... |
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Forum: Games and Video Games Topic: What are you playing right now? |
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Posted: 02 Jan 2015, 2:59 am
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Replies: 4,402
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| ^^^ What I'm enjoying about Dead Money is the frustrating difficulty. The entire villa is literally a dark dungeon filled with poison gas, with bear traps and mines all over the floor. In Old World Blues, there is nothing to stop me from importing hundreds of 25mm grenades and watching pieces of ro... |
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Forum: Games and Video Games Topic: 2014 for Gaming: The worst year since '83? |
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Posted: 02 Jan 2015, 12:10 am
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Replies: 27
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| As far as I'm concerned, it was bloody fantastic. ....but then, I'm mostly a PC gamer, and one that tends to dislike mainstream AAA games. I agree on both counts. I don't get what was so bad about the year, and I don't generally give two s**ts about AAA games nor do I think they're a useful metric ... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Need some help installing Gentoo from a chroot in Xubuntu |
| drh1138 |
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Posted: 27 Dec 2014, 5:28 pm
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Replies: 6
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| I have no specific goal in mind, other than to build a super-fast operating system while learning a few things along the way. Xubuntu is nice, but I'm sure that I can come up with something that suits my needs without all the unnecessary bloat. I've always wanted to try a Linux From Scratch system,... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: why such huge veneration of science? |
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Posted: 25 Dec 2014, 3:00 pm
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Replies: 331
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| There is no 'veneration' and science is not some "god"; empiricism, skepticism, and rationality are merely methods of viewing the world, which happen to lead to desired outcomes and a minimization of incorrect assumptions. The scientific method produces useful results and accurate predicti... |
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Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Should I give up gaming because it's too expensive? |
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Posted: 22 Dec 2014, 5:00 am
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Replies: 16
Views: 1,818
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| Gaming (at least on the PC) isn't necessarily expensive; in fact when considering use cost averaging, it can be cheaper than many other forms of entertainment. Take advantage of sales, check out older or open source games, ones with large modding communities, or genres which are less demanding on ha... |
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Forum: Games and Video Games Topic: What Do You Build In Minecraft? |
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Posted: 21 Dec 2014, 3:46 am
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Replies: 20
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| Generally, on my friends' server, my initial goal is a functioning energy plant; as low-maintinence as can be had. Lately my standard procedure has been using a Forestry multifarm and a Railcraft steam boiler in conjunction to produce energy. A Minechem chemical decomposer/synthesizer bank reassembl... |
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Forum: Games and Video Games Topic: Paradox Interactive Community? |
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Posted: 15 Dec 2014, 1:31 pm
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Replies: 8
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| I have a few of them, Victoria II, Hearts of Iron III, and I played quite a bit of the HoI II variants Darkest Hour and Arsenal of Democracy. If money permitted, I'd also have the latest Europa Universalis and Crusader Kings II. Vicky II I mostly play Sweden and play to form Scandanavia, or Equestri... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Are there any sites for someone like myself? |
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Posted: 02 Dec 2014, 7:38 pm
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Replies: 9
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| "corporatocracy" great word. “The definition of fascism is The marriage of corporation and state ” ― Benito Mussolini “Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power” ― Benito Mussolini 'Corporatism' as used in Fascist theory an... |
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Forum: Television, Film, and Video Topic: Star Wars the force awakens teaser your thoughts |
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Posted: 02 Dec 2014, 1:42 pm
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Replies: 40
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| Seeing the Falcon and the X-Wings flying so close to the deck leads me to believe that there will be some truly amazing CGI effects! My worry is that it will be at expense of genuine storytelling, but I remain cautiously optimistic. Personally I think the "broadsaber" is ridiculous (the i... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Are there any sites for someone like myself? |
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Posted: 02 Dec 2014, 1:37 pm
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| Well in his defense you can be anti-corporatist and libertarian. After all a corporation is a legal construct. Other libertarians (myself included) see corporatism (or 'corporatocracy') as merely the flip side of socialism (government and big business getting in bed with one another), and oppose it... |
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Forum: Games and Video Games Topic: What are you playing right now? |
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Posted: 02 Dec 2014, 1:11 pm
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Replies: 4,402
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| Recently I've been playing: Tropico 5 (a wonderful construction and management sim if there ever was one) The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth (played the original, watched some BOILeR races with my friend, but only just now have really started to clinch down on identifying items and formulating a build st... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Your thoughts on power? |
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Posted: 02 Dec 2014, 12:43 pm
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Replies: 30
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Myths about transgender regrets |
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Posted: 24 Nov 2014, 1:30 pm
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Replies: 50
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| Also, check your NON-CIS privilege. You are very sexist if the first argument you can bring up against some is that they are not apart of your special social group. You are the sick sexist individual as you see their so called privilege before the person. http://cdn.meme.am/instances/500x/55082383.... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Myths about transgender regrets |
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Posted: 21 Nov 2014, 1:50 am
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Replies: 50
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| I myself have been a medical professional for 30+ years. After decades of struggle I finally accepted myself and transitioned about a decade ago. The years since have been the best ones of my life. It's hard to put into words what it's like to struggle through life as something you're not. It was d... |
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