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FatalAccident posted...

I dont think anybody ever sets out to come across elitist or portray elitism. Theres usually good intentions behind it but sometimes it comes off as preachy at best and condescending at worst.

Think your op came across as a bit preachy but idgaf really do ur thing man

Im just saying if your goal is to get people to listen then you should probably avoid the "im better than all you" approach. Doesn't really tend to work. If someone tries to attack your personal workout habits then you can give them a nice slap down of how l33t you are.

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PK_Spam posted...

Aw, just let the gym bunny spread his advice

He could do it without all the ego masturbation though. He comes off less informative more elitist and self righteous.

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Flu like symptoms are expected "side effects." A good vaccine stimulates a potent immune response and generally speaking that doesn't make you feel like doing 1000 push-ups. If youre feeling sick take it as a sign of a good immune response and that you have responded to it. For some it is the first shot that does it for some it is the second. I'm a medical student finishing up the year and got both back in January. The first shot made me feel unwell for an afternoon. The second had me feeling like I was sick for 2 days.

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DirtBasedSoap posted...

everything looks the same

mmm things start looking a little more distinct as you go on in the game.

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Wanded posted...

that's different from what you initially said, which made it look like trump wanted to ban adopting for gays in general, then you supplied nuance which showed it was only for christian organizations

a far right approach would ban gay adoptions ignoring anti discrimination laws, a far left approach would force christians to do what they want them to do and what goes against their religious belief, ignoring freedom of religion laws

trump took the centrist route which is the only route not forcing anyone to do anything, basically letting organizations do whatever they want, i don't see an issue with the only route not using force to abide one sides outlook

The issue is...kids need to be adopted and denying on sexual orientation makes it unnecessarily more difficult for kids to get a parent all based on nothing more than biggotry. I would hope the catholic organizations also don't deny people who aren't also catholic. Not mention the whole thing pretty much makes no sense at this point with the current pope.

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Bible posted...

Ruined private insurance

You are so funny. It was ruined before he got there sweetie. If you call allowing sick people to actually be able to get healthcare ruining private insurance then you're just messed up. Also would like to add that his plan was actually going to reduce healthcare costs until the republican party continually undermined the mandate which was the core of the bills cost reducing power. When that happened insurance companies were forced to make up the losses with massive hikes in their monthly charges. Then republicans turned around and yelled "look how much worse insurance is now!" when they're the ones who engineered it to be worse in the first place.

Bible posted...

Poured gasoline on race relations and then threw a fireball at it

*roll eyes* Once again race relations were shit long before he got there. The fact that there was an entire conservative push to block everything he did was more of a spit on the face of him being black than anything. You can thank Nixon most recently and a few others before for him for that. If anything we thought we had moved past racism because we elected him and it ended up fermenting until we got our current fuck of a president.

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Sarcasthma posted...

That happened to me, too. Pet dander used to give me trouble when I was a kid.

The reason you get vaccination boosts is because antibodies don't last forever and need some antigen re-exposure for your body to not yeet it into killing itself. Same with allergies

On the other spectrum you can also trigger de-sensitization by constantly being exposed to the allergen in your blood stream making your body eventually recognize it as "self" ...eventually. If it doesn't kill you. ~Allergy shots yay

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I am the at risk population so yes

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GanonsSpirit posted...

I don't know why everyone acting like 29% is low. 3/10 is pretty good odds. And he barely won, too.

Yeah I'm confused too... He had a 1/3 chance of winning. That's pretty considerable. Compared to his current odds being like 1/8. He has less than half the chance he did of winning last time and that percentage is basically his odds that there's some sort of massive polling error or significant event in the next 2 weeks that completely flips the race for trump.

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I feel like real life is the meme now. No imagination required. Just take a clip of the president saying just about anything and you've got one.

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Also no one has addressed the whole...Biden has basically no control over whether court packing happens. The most he can do is veto such a bill. Though vetoing a bill that directly benefits his constituents isn't something most presidents would do. Asking if he's going to pack the court is a sort of pointless question because whether he wants (which btw he does not. Its goes against his moderate principles) to or not that will not be decided by him.

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Wanded posted...

what do you mean rise? obama left him empty seats, he filled them because it's his job to fill them, that's what he's supposed to do

p-cup said: "This, Trump has been packing the courts his entire presidency. Where's the outrage on the right?", then the other guy said "citation needed" in response, then you quoted him with "They have absolutely flooded lower courts with appointments that were held up under Obama"

this exchange shows me that you think trump filling empty court seats = packing the court, which is not the true meaning of the phrase

I mean...it did mean that at some point. It was a topic that was discussed that you apparently missed. Its just right now the supreme court is in the spotlight.

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Wanded posted...

what was i vague about? i asked them what they think "packing the court" means

In our current context it means expanding the Supreme Court so it has more judges. In the past few years people have also used it to refer to Trump's aggressive confirmation of new conservative judges to the court. Judges that prior to the Trump era even Republicans had been adverse to allowing to rise.

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OhhhJa posted...

Biden's playing politics. He won't take a strong position on almost anything because he's trying to wrangle the far left crazies while still keeping the moderate vote. He's doing a pretty good job of basically giving enough non answers to be the "im the whatever you want me to be" candidate

EXTRA! EXTRA! READ ALL ABOUT IT! THE POLITICIAN IS PLAYING POLITICS PAGE ONE. PAGE 2 DOGS. THEY LOVE PETS!

Obviously thats what he is doing but...who isn't playing politics in this whole charade ?

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Wanded posted...

they know, they googled the answer and found out they were wrong so now they're laying low

Strange...because to me it sounds like you are being vague so you don't have to concede your point.

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Wanded posted...

talk about a pivot lol
i commented on what you said there but if you insist on being obesessively deranged about it (which is really more of a lame attempt to cop out on this topic), i'll post there again. because would you look at that, i was correct and the guy was blm like i said, but we'll continue this there.

you didn't answer my response to you here though so that we can continue here.

I'm not sure any pivoting happened. If you feel your question wasn't answered perhaps phrase it so other people know what you're asking.

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Well obviously the republican party is trying to use the idea of possible court packing as a rally point against the democrats. I think what most fail to realize is that while most voters dont want court packing they also dont want Barret to be confirmed prior to this election. Barrets confirmation will drastically undermine trust the courts thus opening the way for many people to find packing the court permissive. The whole crux of the issue is basically going over the republican party's head in that the only reason we would need court packing is because they will have twice undermined the public's will on supreme court nominees in a short span of 4 years. Independents have not and will not be rallying around court packing to stop democrats for this election because repubilcans are the ones who continue to perpetuate the problem that requires packing said courts.

Tldr : ramble all you want about court packing its not going to make a lick of a difference.

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SantaKhala posted...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ovGPYZ2dBI

Pence to Harris: Are you and Biden gonna pack the court?
Harris: Regurgitates an incorrect story about Abraham Lincoln.

Pence: So are you going to pack the court?
Harris: Let's talk about packing the court. Let's talk about packing the court.

Pence: You gave me a non-answer. Biden gave me a non-answer. The answer is, yes, they *are* going to pack the court.
Harris: Let's talk about packing the court. Trump nominated a bunch of judges and not one of them is black.

Pence: *Shakes head*
Harris: You wanna talk about packing the court, let's have that discussion.

Yeah i don't think people care about this as much you think they do. Yeah there's a high probability that the courts will be packed but that basically is contingent on if Trumps supreme court nominee gets confirmed. The republicans denied garland citing a reason they're completely disregarding for this supreme court judge so its really not surprising that the dems are now going use cheap tricks as well. Clearly the game is no longer about actually representing the people. Its about who cheats best and the democrats have spent too long trying to play fair. Our democracy is dying at this point so might as well go out swinging.

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JigsawTDC posted...

Bravo well said

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ClarkDuke posted...

as much as i trust zeus' claim of working for the department of defense. which i don't believe, in case anyone was unable to sense my sarcasm, ok?

I believe he believes he works for the defense department though.

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wolfy42 posted...

I've never even seen it, don't know who was in it, surprised the is a big girl star, I thought it was about 2 dudes in the mountains who get jiggy with it.

said dudes had wives

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Revelation34 posted...

No it doesn't. He was dead. Disney just created a plot hole for no reason.

It really isn't a plot hole. Resurrection is like the whole reason Anakin goes Sith. It's also what his master was mentioned by Palpatine to be able to do. The plot had actual plausibility and background to work It just was poorly built up.

Kyuubi4269 posted...

If you refuse to write new characters, sure. But they should have, so...

I mean that's a whole other discussion. I would have loved to actually move past the god damn skywalkers but it was where they threw us so I'm just talking about in the context of the setting we had. It definitely was a weak choice to not to do just an entirely new set of characters.

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ForteEXE3850 posted...

He succeed at becoming ruler of the galaxy actually. He ruled it for what, like maybe 25 years before he lost his seat?

Given, his revival in the Disney trilogy doesn't make any sense, he had the means to sill rule the galaxy, but just decided not to, even though that was still his desire.

It makes plenty of sense. People are just dumb and want to hate it. He nearly or actually died and became very weak through whatever method he used to sustain his life. When this happened the empire crumbled and he lost grip on it. The first order was basically his fanatics regrouping where they eventually did succeed in destroying the new republic in the new trilogy. He ultimately decided to move out in episode 9 because no meaningful threat remained other than Rey.

I honestly think the whole Palpatine being alive all along is not an inherently bad idea. In the end Palpatine was the only villain that really made sense for the skywalker line. It was just executed like dog shit.

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Clench281 posted...

"I wasn't trying to prevent air from getting to his lungs, I was only trying to prevent blood from getting to his brain"

Yeah let's prohibit both

I mean fair. I would argue there are benefits to a stranglehold in limiting damage but our cops are only the most basic of trained. It is going in that direction but still kind of misses the point. Cops do a lot of terrible shit beyond just chokeholds. For example no-knock raids that result in civilian deaths. You would think these no knock raids are used with discretion but apparently such discretion is incredibly blurred. At the end of the day it becomes once again about accountability. Article below.

https://www.vox.com/2014/10/29/7083371/swat-no-knock-raids-police-killed-civilians-dangerous-work-drugs

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I was considering the recent events around Floyd and wondered why choke holds were even being used because as far as I knew you can actually press on both of someones carotids to knock them out without ever having to restrict their wind pipe. Turns out choke holds are being used to refer to both strangle and chokeholds. Many major cities have already long banned them.

Here an NPR article discussing it.

https://www.npr.org/2020/06/16/877527974/how-decades-of-bans-on-police-chokeholds-have-fallen-short

The problem comes down to failing to execute a technique properly that should actually not choke the person at all AND that these failures are something cops aren't held accountable to. I personally don't understand why everyone jumps to the defense of cops on this. This is something we already do with doctors. If a doctor is held accountable for completely botching a case why shouldn't a cop for excessive force? They are supposed to be professionals and a death should be considered a massive fuck up by all accounts instead of slipped under the rug like they are now. It seems to me the politicians are just trying to throw it under the rug to appease the masses with neck restraint bans.

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Zeus posted...

I'm sure ICO also feels that he's right about most things. As such, self-assurance probably isn't the most reliable metric =p

I listen to you, buddy. I frequently disagree with you (and often refute your arguments with multiple citations), but I listen to you.

Are you still hung up on me? No means no, Chaosbowser.

I mean no one has to be hung up on someone to criticize them but sure bud. Whatever tickles your pickle.

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DanPatrick posted...

Muscles

ah i get it now. y'all are trolling *Facepalm*

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are people seriously including Zeus? The man just uses a lot of large words that give the appearance of intellect but then it usually amounts to contradictory nonsense.

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dragon504 posted...

Puerto Rico needs to become a state, Guam as well. Didn't Puerto Rico finally vote for becoming a state last time?

Yeah but they didn't have enough people vote so the republican senate dismissed it. They are having another referendum this year so two states may be on the table now.

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