Everything posted by zapatos
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Did Trump Steal the 2024 Election?
It often is if the difference in votes is below a certain threshold. A manual count was done in Florida after the Bush/Gore Presidential election in the US. It was a disaster due to issues like "hanging chads".
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Using computers strongly linked to erectile dysfunction
What has this article got to do with being asexual?
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I created a religion today
You seem not to understand the definition of the word "hope". It does not mean "believe everything will be ok".
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Why is having separate male and female bodies in the human species a good or even a bad thing?
Except of course where it is not needed in this world.
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I created a religion today
IMO your god is a douche. Who in the hell would prefer his children to be scared and sad?!?! Is that how you want your children to grow up? I've never before met someone with depression who said "Screw the meds, I'd rather be sad all the time!!" You and I have completely different views on how we want to go through life.
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I created a religion today
Sounds like a pretty good trade to me. And yes, I think god would be very proud of people for doing that. It is one of the major, and tangible, benefits of religion.
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Cuban Missile Crisis Hypothetical
Do you think you can respond without sounding like a pompous asshole?
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no free will = no reason to feel guilty
If you have no free will then you cannot decide how you want to feel or try to do what you think is good, or decide not to become a monster.
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Dark Energy May Not Be A Constant Force
Sorry, forgot to add the link... https://apnews.com/article/dark-energy-desi-cosmology-astronomy-7856ae96fab5cb42e6b4a6fd7c3555ec
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Dark Energy May Not Be A Constant Force
- Cuban Missile Crisis Hypothetical
Dig in your heels. I'll move on.- Cuban Missile Crisis Hypothetical
The OP did not specify if the missiles are nuclear or non-nuclear. Why is your assumption correct and mine is wrong? I'm not sure why you don't feel the OP needs some clarification. Surely it has confused more than one person here.- no free will = no reason to feel guilty
Just because you don't think you should feel guilty doesn't mean you won't feel guilty. Emotions are not something humans invented that can be turned on or off just by deciding to do so. Push your mother down the stairs then tell me if you are able to suppress your feelings of guilt.- Cuban Missile Crisis Hypothetical
Yes, thanks for the reminder. I'm unsure though why you are reminding me. I don't think you can assume this is about the 1962 crisis without further clarification from the OP. @swansont seems to be saying this only refers to 1962, in which case your (and my) answer may not be correct.- Cuban Missile Crisis Hypothetical
I remember but thanks for the reminder. (I suspect just about everyone in the world remembers.) The US has also NOT used them in all subsequent conflicts over the following 80 years. I stand by my comment.- Cuban Missile Crisis Hypothetical
Presumably none. You don't respond to non-nuclear weapons with nuclear weapons. There would be no need.- Resistance
I like the approach of Garrison Keillor, albeit one he proposed in 2016. America has a lot of inertia and it is difficult to move it in a completely new direction. We've survived plenty over the years, and while there are some scary MAGA proponents, I don't really believe that most voted for Trump due to brainwashing. Like has been happening since our inception, some people just need to be dragged into the future kicking and screaming, but each generation is better than the past. Just since my time on this site we've already dragged forward enough people to accept gay marriage that I don't ever see us 'making America great again' to the point where anyone makes a serious attempt to outlaw it. We'll be fine, IMHO.- What are you listening to right now?
Wow! That was terrific!! These fingers are going to burst into flames...- What does it mean for the US now? Like what does second term of Trump mean for the US now?
I may be mistaken but I don't think the House hearings were of a 'legal' nature. Had they found criminal acts they would have had to turn it over to the proper authorities who would have decided whether or not a crime was committed. I don't think 'grounds' are the issue. They can release the report or not at their discretion.- Harris vs Trump;
No, you fixed it for yourself so that you would not be shown to be wrong.- Harris vs Trump;
You have. However you provided no evidence of people being inept/lazy, only evidence of some level of being uninformed. Uninformed does not equal inept/lazy.- Harris vs Trump;
You being surprised is not evidence those people are lazy/inept.- Harris vs Trump;
While that article goes a long way toward showing how well voters are informed of politics news it doesn't provide a lot of information regarding why they are not better informed. We know old, rich white guys know more than poor black women but surely that could be due to who is more likely to have a subscription to the New York Times and the time to spend reading articles at night. One thing they did find was that: That sounds to me like generally people are reasonably good at sorting through the clutter. It doesn't feel to me like we yet have evidence that any voter set is generally lazy/inept.- Harris vs Trump;
How does one make a generalization about a population without having facts or examples from which to generalize? If you don't have any facts then the statement is simply bias. Sorry, I didn't intend to imply that you did. But Trump voters were at least a subset of the voters you were referring to.- Harris vs Trump;
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