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03-05-2023
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Re: Teaching Sex in School: Education or Indoctrination?
What is indoctrination? How does one identify it? Is it teaching and influencing a child to uncritically accept and adopt a given set of beliefs? One might urge a class to uncritically accept the...
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07-24-2022
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Re: HungAngel impregnates Lifer in women's prison
At least the sex was consensual…that’s above par for prison isn’t it?
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07-22-2022
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Re: Climate change could mean the extinction of our species
The article MrFanti posted is about the exploitation of Congolese cobalt miners. I’m surprised to find MrFanti is concerned with worker exploitation anywhere. He must’ve thought the article was...
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07-21-2022
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Re: Climate change could mean the extinction of our species
I may respond to any post that appears in these forums, because I don’t have anyone on ignore. But I can only write for those, like you dear reader, who read those responses: those whose egos and...
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07-20-2022
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Re: Climate change could mean the extinction of our species
The actual Malthusian argument is that the human population grows geometrically whereas we can only produce food arithmetically. We’ve already demonstrated that humans, by their own choice, can and...
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07-19-2022
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Re: Climate change could mean the extinction of our species
It doesn’t help that the U.S. just overthrew Roe vs Wade, and many states are on the brink of outlawing contraception. In 2019 the U.S. birthrate was 1.7 births/woman; i.e., below replacement. A...
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07-19-2022
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Re: Climate change could mean the extinction of our species
I’m not disputing (neither do I believe is broncofan) that seven billion people driving cars, heating and cooling their homes, and using products manufactured in factories all powered by fossil fuels...
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07-18-2022
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Re: Climate change could mean the extinction of our species
Clearly if there were only ever a few hundred thousand people on Earth burning fossil fuels, we’d never gather enough inertia to budge the planetary heat engine that drives its’ atmospheric and...
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04-27-2022
Thread: Thought for the Day
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Re: Thought for the Day
Sometimes people are so desperate to persuade others that they resort to lies, slander and deliberate misinformation. They say things they don’t even believe because they think those lies support...
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04-26-2022
Thread: Thought for the Day
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Re: Thought for the Day
also that it doesn’t include the freedom in incite insurrection or violence.
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04-25-2022
Thread: Thought for the Day
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Re: Thought for the Day
Not sure in this life if every choice isn’t one between two or more evils. Acting too slow or too little on climate change can have dire consequences, but the actions required to slow or halt the...
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04-25-2022
Thread: Thought for the Day
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Re: Thought for the Day
So relieved to wake up and find out Macron won. Democracy’s not entirely lost…yet. Now I can go about my day in ‘relative’ peace, only worrying about Ukraine, the state of LGBT people in Florida,...
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08-29-2021
Thread: Covid-19 Politics
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Re: Covid-19 Politics
It’s no longer about science, masks, vaccines, politics nor issues. The Trumpizoids are a tribe. Their identity is at stake. To make a turn-around on any of the ridiculous stands they have taken...
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06-13-2021
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Re: Science and Stupidity:When Opinon replaces facts
Clowns like Gohmert don’t trust the federal government to do anything, neither about the environment nor managing us through the pandemic. But changing the orbits of the Earth and the Moon (as if...
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01-30-2021
Thread: Thought for the Day
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Re: Thought for the Day
The conspiracy claims against left are daft, crazy, horrendous and hateful. (Okay, I may occasionally enjoy feasting on a human baby, but I definitely do not worship Satan. I don’t even believe in...
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11-08-2020
Thread: US Elections 2020
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Re: US Elections 2020
We failed to take the Senate, failed to remove Mitch McConnell and Lindsey Graham, we lost seats in the House but still retain it my a small margin. Nevertheless, I am so fucking relieved.
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08-25-2020
Thread: Institutionalisation
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Re: Institutionalisation
Chin up girl. Get better.
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07-09-2020
Thread: US Elections 2020
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Re: US Elections 2020
We are effectively a two party nation. If you don't vote Democratic, then you're handing the election to the Republicans. If you want representation you've got to take over a major party or at least...
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07-09-2020
Thread: ultra liberals
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Re: ultra liberals
The statues in question were erected in the Jim Crow era to put black people 'in their place'. They were erected to whitewash history, not remember it. Removing them from the public square is to...
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06-22-2020
Thread: Thought for the Day
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Re: Thought for the Day
My prior post was more joke than opinion. Still, now that I’m thinking about them...really really hard...flags that is...I’m not getting at all erect. Sorry.
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06-21-2020
Thread: Thought for the Day
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Re: Thought for the Day
I'm told that a true patriot would stand erect for the National Anthem. I for one, never found any flag to be all that arousing. Personally, I think standing erect for the flag is a disgusting...
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06-11-2020
Thread: Coronavirus
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Re: Coronavirus
For the sake of argument, let’s accept your 370,000 number for deaths per year in the U.S. due to flu, pneumonia and other respiratory illnesses. I assume this is a pre-covid-19 statistic. Divide...
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06-11-2020
Thread: Covid-19 Politics
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Re: Covid-19 Politics
Just want you to know that I do wash each eggplant thoroughIy before use.
I streamed The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey the other night. The scene (spoiler alert) where Conner is discovered to... -
06-10-2020
Thread: Covid-19 Politics
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Re: Covid-19 Politics
Between working on physics and mathematics, or playing music, or hiking, biking or just plain sitting on my porch reading it has always been pretty easy for me to find ways to occupy myself without...
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05-19-2020
Thread: Coronavirus
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Re: Coronavirus
Mission accomplished
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