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Oh, fun! Just in time for the 100-year anniversary
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8:16 I think that makes me the saddest. This guy could have had 8 happy years of marriage if steroids and his own insecurities/obsessions didn't get in the way. It seems defeatist to say but, damn he wasted a lot of his life.
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@ddrury1579 No, but throwing addicts in prison for 30 years without proper treatment won't do a damn thing either, and it costs a lot of money for the lucky unaffected Americans (who ironically are the ones paying) to feel morally superior to the addicts.
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Jess Bow It's not 80%, but is is over 30% now, a 10%+ rise since 2010. It's very concerning and is a symptom of a dysfunctional society. Women may be shackled in the future, but right now, they do have advantages in many social areas. Much easier to open up about mental health issues and insecurities as a woman, women tend to have on avg. more friends than men, etc
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hmm yes, the floor here is made of floor
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@an0maly5k27 I was with you until the very end. Why deny the peninsula it's right to self-determination? Humoring the idea that the elections were 'false', Crimea is 60%+ ethnic Russian, and already tried to separate from Ukraine without Russia's involvement in 1994. So if a 'real' referendum were held, it's likely they would have voted to join Russia anyway. What exactly makes Russia in the wrong here? Crimea never voted on a decision whether to be re-incorporated, stay, or become independent (they were 'given' to Ukraine in 1954, when national borders weren't a problem).
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Conservatives don't care. Drugs = bad, Patron Saint Nancy Reagan said so!!!
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@XiBMCiX ...Um, what? The most direct route to cleaning solving the war on drugs is to elect someone who can actually work on it. That, for me, means voting in both federal and (more importantly, I think, since my state has already made baby steps) local elections, for candidates who support decriminalization. Are you expecting everyone who supports something to devote their free time to personally march on DC? During a pandemic? How would my individual efforts even matter? It won't be me who pressures Congress to change the law- I'd need to join a massive protest. One person is not enough.
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@ДмитроКохан-ф2ж Volkswagen tries to hide its Nazi past, so yes, you're right. You "can't"
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The government needs to wise up and learn the eternal lesson: if you can't beat 'em, join 'em. Start selling medical-grade everything, out-compete the drug dealers and drain their profits dry. Open up, at the same time, clinics in problem areas that give people clean needles and a path to wean themselves off whatever drug they've taken. Basically, just copy Portugal.
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That's capitalism! Poor people don't like it, tough shit. The rich Chinese own your city now. This is what you wanted, right? Equal opportunity? Pull yourself up by the bootstraps? Well these hardworking investors are just playing the market. Simple.
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I admire him greatly, and his honesty is endearing, but he seems too much like a boyscout to be working there. Doesn't seem to understand, or is too optimistic to accept, that the Afghans are working from square 0. Especially the part with the boys being raped. It's awful, but they are all the country has, and they need to pick the cream of the crop in terms of how well they police, not how few human rights they violate.
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I can't speak for England but in most European countries, the farther out from city center you go, the shadier it gets. Cheaper, to be sure, but not really worth the cost of safety. Also, why would you give up a massive hub of job opportunities like London for some marginally larger flat 30 minutes away, in some dump?
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@frankjones43 That hasn't worked before. We tried making weed punishable by mandatory minimums (25 years, up to 55 depending on state law and circumstance) during the Reagan era, up from 2-10 years in 1952 (Boggs Act). Neither cannabis sale, nor use, went down as a result of this. Sorry, but your idea of justice clashes with basic human psychology. Threat of punishment will not "snap them out of it", it won't deter them, and it won't make otherwise "bad" people behave. We're animals with irrational behaviors, let's start legislating with that in mind.
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@legodfatherfrog3253 Like I mentioned in my other comment on this thread, you can counter the drug lords by draining them dry. For every one you lock up, 5 more will spring up. Only a fool keeps doing the same thing over and over expecting a different result. Governments that fight drugs are just pandering to their socially conservative base to make them feel "big and strong!" and feel like they're tackling drugs head-on! Kill the bad guys, like in the tv shows! That's not how real life works. Make getting off drugs (once you try them) as easy as possible. Open rehab clinics that wean you off anything- no jail time (if you've only affected yourself), just recovery. Most people do drugs (that can ruin your life- weed, alcohol, psychedelics don't qualify, but opium derivatives and synthetics do) because something's wrong in their life. Make access to social services more widespread, and give re-vitalize the economy by investing in blue-collar jobs that even poor people can get into. Essentially, drugs are the symptom of a shitty life, and sometimes no amount of good decision-making will fix that. There needs to be help from the outside. When your life is great, why would you take drugs? To numb yourself... from your amazing life?
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@ДмитроКохан-ф2ж Different symbol. Slavic one has "feet" at the end of the lines from the center, does not have the spiky shape on each line. This symbol is not the Slavic rune. It is modern, designed by Himmler. You know the difference.
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He's in a legal grey area, and I really don't think he'd give a fuck even if he wasn't. We've got them in the U.S. as well, and they've been on national TV. As long as you don't do anything crazy on camera, you're fine.
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No! Fleming's lab was unorganized, and he left his Petri unwashed overnight, leaving the bacteria we now call penicillin to him when he came back. Invention ideas aren't usually created through research- but their refinement into usable tools and services, are.
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This kind of reminds me of America... I guess this is what happens when you try to be like them
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@Constitutional Conservative It's because he refused to accept Hurricane Harvey victims. People who lost everything just needed a place to stay until the floodwaters receded, and he was worried about getting his carpet wet. Some Christian he is.
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Their president looks like a Polish George Bush!
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@Snow White This has to be a troll, right? Drug dealers oftentimes do it because there's no other opportunities in their community, or the place they grew up in idolized drug dealers for the money they made. Either starve to death or sell. Drug users, on the other hand, often start on legal drugs, as prescribed by their doctor. But because those doctors were bribed to prescribe lots of oxys, they get their patients addicted to opioids. Are the users bad people for trusting their doctors and not knowing they'd get addicted to what they were legally given? You're living in fantasy land. Get out, now.
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@Snow White No, I'm afraid you're wrong. They're not the worst people, and you just ignored the fact that what I said was true. Even if it's only some of the people, do they deserve the worst punishment because they listened to their doctor for medical advice?? Also, you're wrong about who's taking them. America is 5% of the population, but takes 80% of its opioids. Most of the people using hard drugs were first legally prescribed opioids- not getting them from parties. You're just plan wrong, bud. https://www.drugabuse.gov/drug-topics/opioids/opioid-overdose-crisis You can buy food, but not nutrients. Fast food will leave you tired and malnourished (even if you get fat, your body won't have the vitamins it needs to function), and many places (inner cities) don't have any grocery stores, unless you want to make a 3-4 hour trip to the suburbs every week. Also, doctors can and do prescribe cocaine- they're used as anesthetics. And they're legal. Same with meth: amphetamines is just the scientific name for Adderall. Get your head out of your ass.
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@Relaxatihon 1) Tech has improved, meltdowns are near-impossible now with alternatives to depleted uranium being developed. It happens very rarely and it literally goes off with a bang, which news media loves to report, that's why people are so afraid of it. Car crashes happen every second, yet we accept them as normal. Plane crashes are very, very rare, but lots of people are afraid to fly for that reason, despite air travel being many, many times safer than cars. Same issue here- meltdowns are big and scary, yet no one bats an eyelash at the number of people dead from black lung or explosions. Nuclear isn't actually less safe, human psychology just isn't rational. 2) The waste is a good thing- I think I'd prefer having to decide where to put it then watch it all dissipate into our air (coal, oil, natural gas). The waste is compact and we can store it. It's infinitely easier to manage than fumes.
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@kylesdraftvideos Not in this case. The more, smaller, insurance companies there are, the less power any one of them has to negotiate prices. If an insurer has a significant number of people under its plan, it can ask for lower prices from medical and pharmaceutical companies... or else. That doesn't exist with "more options." So people have to pay premiums out of pocket instead of having the whole system running efficiently. It's a patchwork and it's messy and expensive.
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@Jekyll Won't Hide Devil you know vs the one you don't. At least this way, you have solid numbers and can safely reach and help those in need. When it's illegal, no one's fessing up even if they're being abused, because that would come with charges. It just makes things murkier and harder to track. But I'm sure those old wrinkly fucks know exactly what they're doing when they make the laws! After all, they told us so!
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@jenniekelly571 Can I have some of what you're smoking? If it were that easy to get citizenship, there wouldn't be any illegal immigration. Getting a work visa, let alone full-fledged citizenship, takes years, and that's if you're coming from your country as an educated person. Once you make it in, your medical care and housing is... just meh. Average, really. Food stamps are fine, but it all depends on how you use them. Healthy food costs more, so most people use it up fast. It's nothing at all like you describe. Have you ever even spoken to an immigrant in the U.S., to find out what their life is like? Or did you hear some buffoon tell you what he thinks of immigrants instead?
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I don't think it's worth it. You can't have a democracy when you're dead. You know Ben Franklin's quote, that people who choose safety over liberty deserve neither? That's an example of how sheltered the US has been its whole history. Guarded by two oceans, it's easy to stand for "higher ideals"... at least with Qaddafi, there was infrastructure. Electricity. Schools. Little blooshed. I wonder if Americans had to do this, how willing they'd be to fight to the bitter end for something that barely exists in their country anyway.
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CAVKING19DELTA TEXAS White Rhodesians built those mostly for themselves... or did you forget what happened in Africa since 1500? Africans would have developed organically, the tribes would slowly come to agreements, instead of Europeans drawing country borders that result in the Rwandan genocide and the split of Sudan. Instead, they took it over and turned it into their personal toymaker, and playground.
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Because (speaking as one myself) Leftists and/or Liberals are HORRIBLE at naming things. "Defined the police" "toxic masculinity" "I hate men" "you're being problematic" "she's an icon" They just have a flair for the dramatic and tend to over exaggerate. And it makes the whole group look bad.
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Mykel Hardin That's a generalization, and reflects poorly on your own intelligence. While high-earning conservatives tend to be more educated than liberals, liberals as a whole are more educated than conservatives as a whole (because conservative areas tend to have fewer people, less money, and poorer services like education, healthcare, and nutritional options). Not to mention the fact that conservatives scanned under MRIs tend to have larger amygdalas- they are more prone to fear and distrust. This also makes them more loyal, but at the cost of emotional reactions to adversity. This stems from the simple fact that liberalism, as a mindset, tends to develop in areas where people are more exposed to other cultures and ways of thinking; cities. They shed the primitive evolutionary tendency to fear the unknown group, because they realize that there's nothing to fear (the Puerto Rican at the bodega just isn't trying to rape your kids, sorry Cletus). Rural people, on the other hand, aren't as exposed to ideas and people from outside their little town, which is why poor, isolated areas tend to be more conservative. Switch places, and the political mindsets will switch too.
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Mykel Hardin Yes! I hope you got it: in this case, generalization = wrong! Conservatives occupy the farthest ends of the spectrum. You have a pocket of highly educated people— and a bunch of Bible thumpers who can't tell their ass from their elbow. So, saying us=good! doesn't cut it. The world isn't black and white, sorry pal. Offended? Where in my first comment did I express offence or even emotion at what you said? Show me specifically where. Sounds to me like you're projecting.
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Kinky Bartender What he means is, nothing foundational. History, sure. That's distinct. But no food will ever be truly American, not unless it changes so much that it's unrecognizable from its predecessor. Example: apple pie is from England. Hamburgers are from Germany. Pot pie is from Greece. Pizza is Italian. Same with activities: Football is somewhat American, but it's really just rugby. Baseball is British too. Democracy isn't uniquely American. All of its foundational principles, by necessity, were borrowed. Because America's original inhabitants were massacred, and Europeans had to create their own culture. But it can never be unique. It never developed independently. Never in close relationship with geography, or human development. Sorry.
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@rallyeredb Nope. That's what you think it looks like. Doesn't make it true.
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Islamic tradition dictates that families amass power among themselves. There are even separate words for cousins that you can and can't marry. It is sadly true. But even then, it's not because of genetics. These guys have just gotten spoiled.
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Probably off-camera with the Tea Lady...
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17:20 "You don't need money for this... it's healthcare." (Me, an American:) O Canada! Our home and native land! True patriot love in all thy sons command!
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@OatmealTheCrazy Gotta love the honorable South yee yee
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@timurhant469 The healthcare there has gotten worse in the last 10 years after the EU stopped paying for Poland. I'm speaking from experience, Poland has a long way ahead economically
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