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Topic | Trump signs bill where Americans MUST get JOBS to get FOOD STAMPS!!! |
_AdjI_ 12/21/18 1:00:41 PM #38 | papercup posted... In principle it's not a terrible idea. But in practice, it's going to be a disaster. I mean, it'd be fine if it also addressed the root causes of unemployment, thereby ensuring that everyone who needs food stamps also has access to a qualifying job. That'd be great, even. As it stands, though, this is more likely to cause a rise in crime as people who can't find work resort to stealing in order to eat. |
Topic | Trump signs bill where Americans MUST get JOBS to get FOOD STAMPS!!! |
_AdjI_ 12/21/18 12:04:10 PM #33 | Troll_Police_ posted... eating disorders? yep. you self inflicted that one too. The rest of the post is also staggeringly ignorant, but I'm going to single this one out because I'd absolutely love to hear you try to explain this. |
Topic | Trump signs bill where Americans MUST get JOBS to get FOOD STAMPS!!! |
_AdjI_ 12/21/18 12:01:38 PM #31 | Troll_Police_ posted... if you honestly believe that is anything other than a tiny minority of homeless you are just dumb. Estimated incidence for mental illnesses in the general population tend to be in the 20% range, and that's just the ones that are bad enough to get a concrete diagnosis instead of simply needing help with more vague "mental health problems." 20% is already more than can be considered a "tiny minority," even without considering the fact that that number is very obviously going to be higher in a population that's already demonstrating an inability to function at a normal level (to say nothing of not being able to get diagnoses because you have to be rich to get any sort of health care in the US). Mental illness goes beyond the ones that are rocking back and forth while grunting, you know. Troll_Police_ posted... I'll tell you right now their attitudes are s***. the vast majority of them are able bodied people who realized they can get by without working. Is that what you observed yourself by watching them work comfortably and successfully for a time and then decide not to, or is that what they told you? Because most people - especially guys - are going to be far more comfortable boasting about laziness than attributing their reluctance to work to something like social anxiety or depression, and that means you can't take boast at face value. Even if it is "just laziness," there's an entire class of psychopathology called "disorders of diminished motivation" that identifies "just laziness" as a symptom of multiple definite mental disorders. The term "avolition" exists for a reason, you know. Troll_Police_ posted... bro, when you were in school, how many fingers were you taught a person has on each hand. Actually, I'm pretty sure that the only time I was ever taught anything in school about the number of fingers people have, it was talking about polydactyly in high school biology. So even your poorly-chosen analogy is wrong. How embarrassing. |
Topic | Trump signs bill where Americans MUST get JOBS to get FOOD STAMPS!!! |
_AdjI_ 12/21/18 11:13:41 AM #27 | Noop_Noop posted... kangolcone posted...Noop_Noop posted...In denver you cant go 5 blocks before seeing at least 1 vagrant and at least 20 help wanted signs. Fuck, its not at all uncommon for them to beg outside a building next to a sign hanging in the window or posted on the lawn. Weve got more jobs than people here,and a lot of places are so desperate they will literally hire anyone. Do you seriously believe that mental health issues are self-inflicted? Because of all the clueless, ignorant things you've said about the world, that might just be the most idiotic. |
Topic | Trump signs bill where Americans MUST get JOBS to get FOOD STAMPS!!! |
_AdjI_ 12/21/18 12:27:14 AM #3 | Did he also sign a bill to ensure that jobs exist for everyone currently on food stamps? |
Topic | Once I was afraid, I was petrified |
_AdjI_ 12/20/18 8:59:27 PM #9 | That song's been stuck in my head for the past five minutes because I saw this title in the topic list. Thanks for that. |
Topic | NY's nunchuks ban ruled unconstitutional |
_AdjI_ 12/20/18 8:42:30 PM #31 | Krazy_Kirby posted... Oops_All_Berrys posted...Swords are okay but you might hurt yourself with nunchuks never got that What about double-edged swordchucks? |
Topic | A child can literally make a bump stock out of a box of Cheerios in five minutes |
_AdjI_ 12/20/18 7:27:09 PM #21 | Noop_Noop posted... Rather than just letting him buy one so that you actually know for sure that he owns one You'd rather put everyone that buys one on a watch list? And then not have anything to arrest them for if a subsequent investigation turns up supplies that have no use outside of committing a massacre? The aim is to arrest would-be mass murderers before they commit mass murder, and that's not going to happen unless you make some of the things that go into planning a massacre illegal. |
Topic | David Hayter and Cam Clarke read a Metal Gear themed Christmas story |
_AdjI_ 12/20/18 12:18:18 PM #8 | GTurtlte posted... _AdjI_ posted...faramir77 posted...Even Kojima screwed Hayter over. They remove him from the role of Snake only to give Kiefer Sutherland virtually zero lines. Huh. Go figure. I guess it wasn't executive meddling, then. |
Topic | A child can literally make a bump stock out of a box of Cheerios in five minutes |
_AdjI_ 12/20/18 11:51:14 AM #3 | Because when that child googles "how to make a bump stock," they end up on a watch list, making it easier to stop them before they do anything with said stock. |
Topic | What's your opinion on this heavily biases Canadian news article? |
_AdjI_ 12/20/18 11:49:31 AM #4 | I think "all genders can menstruate" is a bit of an awkward, misleading way to phrase it, but "menstruation is independent of gender identity" is a fine thing to be teaching. |
Topic | David Hayter and Cam Clarke read a Metal Gear themed Christmas story |
_AdjI_ 12/20/18 10:38:27 AM #3 | faramir77 posted... Even Kojima screwed Hayter over. They remove him from the role of Snake only to give Kiefer Sutherland virtually zero lines. I suspect that was more a matter of pressure from higher up in Konami than Kojima's creative choices. Paying to shoehorn a big-name actor into an established series for publicity's sake is more a corporate-level move than something you'd expect from the series' director, especially when the actor in question has a relatively small number of lines (which suggests they were too expensive to give a bigger role to). |
Topic | hacker uses man's security camera to talk with him in his home |
_AdjI_ 12/20/18 8:08:13 AM #19 | DPsx7 posted... So many people toss this tech into their lives never thinking about how it can be misused. At the same time, though, that risk is often somewhat overstated. I remember an article from a few years ago talking about how "smart locks" (which open by touch when the correct smartphone or hob is within a certain range) could be broken into just by buying some ~$70 black market software and hanging out there long enough to intercept one of the bluetooth packets. While that's true, it kind of ignores that non-smart locks can be broken into with a $20 set of lockpicks and a bit of off-site practice (to say nothing of the crowbar option). Tumbler locks haven't been truly secure for centuries, yet many technophobes were happy to look at that article and say "nope, too much risk for me, I'll stick with my trusty tumbler lock." Are there security concerns with any of these technologies? Of course. But it's still important to balance those with considering the security benefits they can yield, rather than just swearing off of anything more advanced than a deadbolt. |
Topic | NY's nunchuks ban ruled unconstitutional |
_AdjI_ 12/20/18 7:40:36 AM #9 | VeeVees posted... Banning exotic weapons is fucking stupid. A simple baseball bat is a more effective weapon. It is harder to conceal, though. Granted, a baseball bat is such a mundane object that you don't necessarily need to conceal it anyway, but it's still a point. |
Topic | West Virginia Man has SEX with his 3 y/o DAUGHTER but says it was a MISTAKE!!! |
_AdjI_ 12/19/18 4:33:49 PM #21 | VioletMassacre posted... Even though this is bad I can't help but find much of this hilarious. I mean, what the fuck? Incest is a separate charge, regardless of whether or not the sexual contact in question is abusive (which I personally find kind of dumb, but that discussion gets a bit more complicated). Sexual abuse is also its own charge, with the fact that it's a parent doing it being an exacerbating factor. |
Topic | I bet mine's bigger than yours |
_AdjI_ 12/19/18 4:28:48 PM #18 | TV's 32", monitor's 21", laptop I'm currently using is 15.6". |
Topic | Principal tells 15 y/o Trans Boy to PEE in FRONT of him to PROVE he was a BOY!!! |
_AdjI_ 12/19/18 12:25:57 PM #65 | Kyuubi4269 posted... They suffer higher violence, higher sexual violence occurs in bathrooms, the smart money is comorbidity takes effect. Prove me wrong. That's your own job, actually. That's how science works. You come up with a hypothesis, you conduct some sort of experiment to test it, and if you fail to prove yourself wrong, you're left with a hypothesis that is as credible as your experimental method. If you haven't even arrived at something credible enough to pass peer review, why should anyone else put effort into disproving you? That said, I can poke a rather large hole in your logic by pointing out that trans students still use a bathroom, regardless of what policies are in place. All your train of logic would lead to is "trans students will suffer higher rates of violence in bathrooms," not "allowing trans students to use their target gender's bathroom will increase the rate at which they suffer violence." You might want to come up with something a little more relevant to the discussion at hand. |
Topic | Principal tells 15 y/o Trans Boy to PEE in FRONT of him to PROVE he was a BOY!!! |
_AdjI_ 12/19/18 11:21:17 AM #54 | Kyuubi4269 posted... Kungfu Kenobi posted...This is a completely unacceptable way to treat a student regardless of their gender identity, but is an especially egregious invasion of privacy on a person who is likely even more body conscious than your average 15 year old. Apparently Kyuubi thinks that punching a 25-year-old bodybuilder and punching an osteoporotic 90-year-old with the same force are comparably severe actions. Their reaction doesn't change it, after all. |
Topic | Forever 21 causes Outrage after they used a WHITE MODEL to promote WAKANDA!!! |
_AdjI_ 12/19/18 1:42:33 AM #17 | Revelation34 posted... _AdjI_ posted...They're stupid for removing a marketing image that was generating more bad publicity than good? And here I thought that was just basic business sense. Except that Forever 21 doesn't care about sticking it to SJW's. They care about making money. They made a mistake that cost them some publicity, so they took it down to mitigate the impact of the mistake. They couldn't care less about your inane Internet principles. They're only concerned about their bottom line. |
Topic | Forever 21 causes Outrage after they used a WHITE MODEL to promote WAKANDA!!! |
_AdjI_ 12/19/18 1:41:04 AM #16 | Zeus posted... _AdjI_ posted...Revelation34 posted...They're fucking stupid for removing the image. Nike made a deliberate decision to use Kaepernick as a spokesman, and I also wouldn't be at all surprised if the whole thing generated net positive publicity. I guarantee they were expecting the backlash they got, and gambled that the support would end up compensating for that. This? I'm pretty positive that this was a simple matter of hiring a model and handing him a pile of shirts to wear, one of which happened to be representing a movie about Africans and therefore not something people necessarily want to see modeled by the whitest kid they could find (especially where the movie in question was so highly praised for featuring so many black actors in a major film). This was carelessness, not anything deliberate, and without any sort of plan to compensate for the backlash, erasing the mistake is the most sensible way to move forward. |
Topic | Forever 21 causes Outrage after they used a WHITE MODEL to promote WAKANDA!!! |
_AdjI_ 12/19/18 1:26:28 AM #12 | Revelation34 posted... They're fucking stupid for removing the image. They're stupid for removing a marketing image that was generating more bad publicity than good? And here I thought that was just basic business sense. |
Topic | Principal tells 15 y/o Trans Boy to PEE in FRONT of him to PROVE he was a BOY!!! |
_AdjI_ 12/18/18 11:16:49 PM #2 | Forcing a student to pee in front of him sounds like sexual assault. Shouldn't be too hard to make criminal charges stick, let alone get him fired. |
Topic | Unpopular opinion: the world would be a more professional and better place if... |
_AdjI_ 12/18/18 9:49:33 PM #79 | Zeus posted... You mean there's no correlation between somebody not wanting to put in a minimal amount of effort to their willingness to put in a lot more effort? A minimal amount of effort when the alternative is having fun, versus a larger amount of effort when the alternative is being unemployed. Work and school are very different environments. Zeus posted... Because being able to coherently express your thoughts and demonstrate an argument has no correlation with anything in a professional setting? In a formal academic sense? Not really, outside of research positions or other jobs where publishing academic works is the focus. Written professional communications follow different rules, as do informal discussions. Arguing on the Internet like this develops more useful professional communication skills than academic writing does. |
Topic | Bump-fire stocks on guns now illegal. |
_AdjI_ 12/18/18 9:17:21 PM #34 | I'm guessing that bit of leniency is acknowledging that such weapons are more treated as collector's items than actual weapons, with a price tag to match. That makes them considerably less likely to be used for nefarious purposes, as well as considerably more likely to be owned by innocent people. |
Topic | Bump-fire stocks on guns now illegal. |
_AdjI_ 12/18/18 8:48:00 PM #30 | The only gun owners the NRA is a mouthpiece for are the ones that have bought the NRA's propaganda thoroughly enough to say the same things the NRA would already have been saying. |
Topic | Unpopular opinion: the world would be a more professional and better place if... |
_AdjI_ 12/18/18 8:45:47 PM #76 | Zeus posted... This just in -- You can work hard without working hard! Being willing to work hard to memorize material for an exam has very little predictive ability for being willing to work hard in any actual job, especially when you consider that studying for an exam is done entirely on one's own time and the only consequence for slacking off is a lower GPA (which, as this topic has established, isn't much of a consequence). Zeus posted... Not at all, they'd either need to operate more efficiently than the self-checks Which is largely beyond their control because of their need to be paid enough to eat. I said this already. wolfy42 posted... Most classes post AA require writing papers, creating programs etc (depends on the major obviously) and it's not just memorization at that point. Exams are still a pretty huge chunk of GPA, and getting a good grade on a paper is more a matter of being able to write well than any other skill that would be applicable in a professional setting. In the case of something like computer science, the course work does actually reflect what's being done in the field (to a certain extent), so that is a notable exception to this. Many trade schools would be similar in that regard. Basically, unless you feel you could cite some of your course work as experience in applying for a job, it's kind of dumb to act like your grade on that course work has any bearing on your ability to perform in said job. |
Topic | I may be a mammal |
_AdjI_ 12/18/18 8:27:11 PM #14 | captpackrat posted... There's a company that makes an ovipositor dildo that injects you with gelatin eggs. Though as I understand it, the gelatin ones aren't that great. Suitably-sized plastic ones are better both in terms of durability and in sensation. |
Topic | Bump-fire stocks on guns now illegal. |
_AdjI_ 12/18/18 8:19:19 PM #26 | Troll_Police_ posted... this does absolutely nothing. it is completely f***ing meaningless. It means that googling "how to make a bump stock" will attract attention, as well as that somebody can be arrested for owning it if one turns up while investigating a tip (whereas simply owning a bunch of guns and ammunition isn't enough for that). Will it solve the problem altogether? Of course not. Will it make it a bit harder/less convenient for would-be mass murderers? Yes. Will it inconvenience any law-abiding citizens? No. Ergo, it just makes sense to push it through. DPsx7 posted... Find out 'why' people act out, that's the only answer. Convincing republicans to permit/enact gun control its hard, but at least it's possible. Convincing republicans to increase the availability of mental health supports, not so much. |
Topic | Bump-fire stocks on guns now illegal. |
_AdjI_ 12/18/18 8:05:26 PM #18 | Bugmeat posted... _AdjI_ posted...It doesn't really matter if the criminals care or not if the product stops being sold altogether It's still another hoop to jump through. Will people work around it? Absolutely. Will some people find themselves unable to get one? Also yes. |
Topic | nintendo is getting a lot of shit for this video, ok? |
_AdjI_ 12/18/18 7:59:16 PM #23 | I mean, I think technically it's the same number of total buttons if you count Start and Select and ignore the +/- buttons on the Joycons, but Start and Select aren't exactly positioned well to use as face buttons, and ignoring the +/- buttons isn't altogether reasonable (they tend to be used for pausing and such). |
Topic | nintendo is getting a lot of shit for this video, ok? |
_AdjI_ 12/18/18 7:50:36 PM #21 | Given that they're missing two face buttons and the analog stick, I don't see how they could be. They could end up as a control option for some indie game or other 2D platformer that comes out later, if they prove popular enough to justify implementing that, but until that possibility comes to fruition, there's really no reason for non-subscribers to want them (except collectors, as mentioned before). |
Topic | Bump-fire stocks on guns now illegal. |
_AdjI_ 12/18/18 7:46:59 PM #14 | DPsx7 posted... the criminals aren't going to give a damn. It doesn't really matter if the criminals care or not if the product stops being sold altogether. As Schmen's saying, homemade ones are still possible, but this will definitely take them out of stores, which means the only way to get one will be to buy it on the black market (an extra step that can be punished) or make their own. The more hoops there are to jump through, the less likely it is that criminals will end up with them. |
Topic | nintendo is getting a lot of shit for this video, ok? |
_AdjI_ 12/18/18 7:42:05 PM #19 | Mead posted... Why on earth would they only sell them to subscribers that seems totally boneheaded Because they're utterly useless without the subscription. The only things they can be used for are the NES games that come with the online sub. Not selling them to anyone else means they miss out on the people who don't have a sub but want them for collection purposes, but those people are pretty significantly outnumbered by the number of people who don't realize that they're useless without the subscription and would whine and demand refunds after buying them and being unable to use them. I agree that restricting the sale of a physical product based on a digital subscription is kind of weird, but it makes perfect sense if you think it through. |
Topic | Bump-fire stocks on guns now illegal. |
_AdjI_ 12/18/18 7:33:04 PM #11 | Troll_Police_ posted... _AdjI_ posted...But how will those poor, starving subsistence hunters shoot 200 deer in under a minute now? But then the government could take it away from them if they're caught! They're going to starve because of this flagrant overreach! |
Topic | Bump-fire stocks on guns now illegal. |
_AdjI_ 12/18/18 7:28:00 PM #8 | But how will those poor, starving subsistence hunters shoot 200 deer in under a minute now? |
Topic | Unpopular opinion: the world would be a more professional and better place if... |
_AdjI_ 12/18/18 7:23:08 PM #73 | Zeus posted... Which is the same thing as being more effective. No, it's one element of effectiveness. Specifically, cost-effectiveness. Most of the time, they don't do the job any faster or more accurately than a human cashier would. They just do the job well enough, such that employing them to cut costs is appealing for managers. Furthermore, regardless of how we're defining "effective," you need to look at the context. TC suggested that cashiers should operate more effectively in order to avoid being replaced by self-serve ones. Therefore, any facet of effectiveness that a cashier can't improve on (no matter what they do, they're still going to need to eat) is irrelevant. Try to pay attention. Zeus posted... "Smart" people who aren't willing to work hard don't exactly bring much value to the table. And GPA doesn't particularly reflect how willing somebody is to work hard. It mostly just reflects how willing somebody is to put in the required effort to memorize material for a one-time exam, which is a very specific task that they're choosing to work hard on (one whose only reward isn't particularly valuable, no less). Greenfox111 posted... yeah group assignments need to go out the window If you want new professionals to never have had experience working in a group before, sure. You may be surprised to find out, however, that collaborative work is pretty common in most professional fields, and not knowing how to work effectively with other people makes an employee pretty useless. |
Topic | Egyptian actress sued for wearing dress that "invites debauchery" |
_AdjI_ 12/18/18 3:52:52 PM #198 | Revelation34 posted... _AdjI_ posted...Oh really? Do elaborate. And do you think that liking a game because the the specific people you get to kill is the only reason somebody could like a game? And that "red flag for potential future violent behaviour" is synonymous with "they're currently a murderer"? Because that's what your statement suggests you believe, despite the fact that those are very silly things to believe. |
Topic | Is the act of opposing Israel inherently anti-semitic? |
_AdjI_ 12/18/18 12:09:55 PM #7 | "I disagree with Israel's actions in their conflict with Palestine" is not anti-Semitic. "I hate Israel and want them to be crushed by Palestine" is anti-Semitic. |
Topic | Is Japan Racist? |
_AdjI_ 12/18/18 12:41:49 AM #28 | This is a weird topic. |
Topic | Egyptian actress sued for wearing dress that "invites debauchery" |
_AdjI_ 12/18/18 12:25:41 AM #196 | Revelation34 posted... _AdjI_ posted...Revelation34 posted...So then by your logic anybody who has ever played a violent video game is a murderer. Oh really? Do elaborate. |
Topic | Egyptian actress sued for wearing dress that "invites debauchery" |
_AdjI_ 12/17/18 11:44:30 AM #194 | Revelation34 posted... So then by your logic anybody who has ever played a violent video game is a murderer. _AdjI_ posted... Remember that this is not simply a matter of somebody enjoying a game where they kill Y people. |
Topic | Egyptian actress sued for wearing dress that "invites debauchery" |
_AdjI_ 12/16/18 9:53:03 PM #191 | Revelation34 posted... If somebody specifically mentions fiction then that's as far as it goes. You don't think that "I like X game because I get to kill Y people" should be considered a red flag for potential future violent behaviour? Or that Y people should feel threatened by such a statement? Remember that this is not simply a matter of somebody enjoying a game where they kill Y people. It's a question of motivation and the statements of hatred and violent desire that are concerning and discouraged. |
Topic | Do you get aggrivated when driving? |
_AdjI_ 12/16/18 9:19:58 PM #35 | zebatov posted... If I'm following the rules, then it isn't me driving dangerously. If you're deliberately doing something that you have reason to expect will cause an accident, you're driving dangerously. The fact that somebody else would be found at fault in court doesn't change that. If you can avoid an accident, and you choose not to (or worse, you seek one out), you suck at driving. zebatov posted... And just so we're aware, the first time I took my Class 4 test and failed, it was because I was driving "too defensively". I came to a T intersection with no signs, and the instructor asked me to turn right. I was going about 8 km/h. I stopped because I couldn't see to my left (vehicles, foliage obstructing view) on a road where cars will already be going 50 km/h. The instructor said because I was on the right and there is no sign, I should have kept going because I could have been rear-ended, as the person behind me would be under the impression that I have the right-of-way. Honestly, I've always found the "you'll get rear-ended if you slow down" thing to be utter nonsense. You shouldn't do a crash stop right before coming to the intersection, obviously, and you could probably get a sense of whether or not you were clear to proceed without going quite as slow as 8 km/h, but slowing down reasonably to be able to stop more readily if the need arises isn't going to cause an accident unless the person behind you is paying no attention at all (in which case, they're causing the accident). Part of defensive driving does entail being aware of and taking into account anyone that's behind you when you slow down, but not to the point of presuming they're going to ram into you the instant you stop going faster than them, as attitudes like your tester's would suggest. |
Topic | I still really don't understand the love for Breath of the Wild |
_AdjI_ 12/16/18 8:33:18 PM #30 | The weapon degradation system got a little annoying in practice, but I did appreciate the basic theme they were going for with it (starting at a major disadvantage and having to scavenge to survive). I was also pretty disappointed in the number of combat shrines, especially once I got into late-game gear and even the major trials were kind of a joke. Otherwise, I quite enjoyed the game. The Zelda-style puzzle-solving was still there, it was just broken up into Shrines and smaller dungeons instead of larger dungeons. It was different, but it was fun. man101 posted... I picked it up and played it from a file that was already started. Some really long, story heavy games can get away with not being super interesting for the first two hours. NO game should ever be boring for two hours in the middle. What? That's not remotely true. Plenty of games - especially big ones with stuff to grind toward and lots of optional content to do - can be boring for 2 hours in the middle. That's particularly true when you have no context, background, or direction to work with, as happens when you pick up somebody else's file. |
Topic | Do you know what Ikea is? (Without Googling, obviously) |
_AdjI_ 12/16/18 12:12:41 PM #13 | Probably about half the furniture in my apartment is from IKEA, so... |
Topic | Call me crazy but I think video games are pretty cool |
_AdjI_ 12/16/18 12:10:14 PM #8 | They really are kind of mind-blowing if you think about just what's happening to produce the final experience, especially where our impressions and assessments are based on something so far removed from those fundamental processes. |
Topic | Charges have been DROPPED against a Sexy 20 y/o BLONDE Girl who PUNCHED her BF! |
_AdjI_ 12/16/18 12:08:27 PM #22 | It is, but when both things rhyme, that levels the playing field such that you need to look at other criteria to determine awesomeness. |
Topic | Unpopular opinion: the world would be a more professional and better place if... |
_AdjI_ 12/16/18 12:07:07 PM #68 | More specifically, though, you've definitely made topics on the subjects of dating, gender roles, and women in general that I'd say were about as clueless as this one. Enough that I'd call it a schtick, at least. |
Topic | Unpopular opinion: the world would be a more professional and better place if... |
_AdjI_ 12/16/18 11:32:32 AM #66 | Greenfox111 posted... You know damn well what i meant Do I? Being a poor simpleton with less than a 4.0 GPA, how could I possibly comprehend the inner thoughts of such a brilliant mind? |
Topic | Unpopular opinion: the world would be a more professional and better place if... |
_AdjI_ 12/16/18 11:09:50 AM #63 | Not being able to find a statement you were able to defend does not indicate that your schtick isn't making statements you aren't able to defend. |
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