...he's claiming mental disabilities not physical ones. PTSD...
I'm diagnosed with PTSD. You wouldn't believe the number of cases that appeared when it became a qualifying condition for buying cannabis. PTSD is a real thing and I feel for the people waking up screaming and all, but a whole lot of people just 'identify' as PTSD.
...they only stopped thinking of homosexuality as a mental disorder in 1987...
That doesn't imply that it WAS a mental illness before 1987. (I don't think you were trying to imply that.) Historically, a lot of the treatment of gays has been terrible. Turing comes to mind. If some woman wants to live as a man, that's entirely up to her. I'll even use a person's preferred pronouns regardless of genitalia. Doesn't hurt me at all.
Man: An argument isn't just contradiction. Mr. Vibrating: It can be. Man: No it can't. An argument is a connected series of statements intended to establish a proposition. Mr. Vibrating: No it isn't. Man: Yes it is! It's not just contradiction. Mr. Vibrating: Look, if I argue with you, I must take up a contrary position. Man: Yes, but that's not just saying 'No it isn't.' Mr. Vibrating: Yes it is! Man: No it isn't!
Yesterday, a friend of mine posted a meme on FB accusing one of the Parkland survivors of being a “crisis actor”. I talked reason to him and he took it down. An alternate strategy would have been to ignore it, but have an extra child that I raise not to do things like that. I like my strategy better.
You’re probably not going to talk a Muslim out of being a Muslim, but I’m not sure why you would. Most American Muslims are not trying to implement Sharia law. You’re definitely not going to talk an immigrant out of being an immigrant, but I don’t see why that’s a problem either. You might not like their general political slant, but trying to further your political beliefs by out-breeding your opponents instead of reasoning with them is stupid. Some “third worlders” are reproducing at rates that we’d be foolish to try to match. So what? Different people have different opinions based on different circumstances. Some of those opinions may be influenced by religious beliefs that you don’t agree with (Catholics & abortion come to mind.) If there are enough people whose opinion differs from yours, you might not get your way. Your country may differ from your imagined ideal. It happens all the time. Deal with it.
So your solution to the rise of segments of the population that you find undesirable is to have a breeding race? To quote some words of wisdom that may help your strategy, "Where all the white women at?"
...The white people have a low birth rate and the immigrants have a high one...the religious conservatives have a higher birth rate than secular liberals...The immigrants have larger families and may vote for the left...you've got fast breeding conservative Christians...In Europe the fast breeding religious conservatives are Muslim, and that is an issue.
You seem to be saying that the problem isn't that there aren't enough children, just not the right type of children. I asked why you thought the rate needed to be higher and you responded by describing the breeders.
If both parties are wasted it's much harder to negotiate consent.
Maybe, but I've had drunken sex that I wouldn't trade for the world.
You nailed the #1 most important quality for POTUS - Attractiveness. An ugly president is fine, but an ugly woman president? Unthinkable! I don't even give a rat's ass that our POTUS is obese; it just bugs me that he lied about it.
The rate of sexual assault is going up and the birth rate is going down because telling everyone to stay single means they spend their adult lives having drunken one night stands instead of having a family?... We just need to import third worlders to get the birth rate up!
You're worried about the birth rate? We're just a little under 2 children per mother, which seems just fine to me. Also, what do drunken one-night-stands have to do with sexual assault?
Of course it was. But why would they build this clock with an end? I'd imagine this clock is supposed to last at least 10,000 years, not exactly 10,000 years.
Yet it's not too hard to tell if someone was a pothead in college about ten years later.
It's not too hard to spot the kids that are GOING TO BE potheads either. Cannabis must be REALLY bad when it's getting to the kids that haven't even tried it.
Ps I'm Dutch, so don't tell me I don't know what I'm talking about.
Congratulations on being Dutch. You don't know what you're talking about.
That's a welcome switch. Typically when I say anything that sounds like a defense of CNN, I can guarantee at least one Foe addition. I've collected more than a couple. Look forward to discussing other topics.
There are reasons people don't join FB and there is no reason for Facebook to gather, store and track people that are not a member of their site/organization.
There's every reason to track non-members. You may not think it's fair, but your data is valuable and it's going to get collected, used, and sold whether you like it or not. There are steps you can take to slow that down (like not signing up for FB), but you're not going to stop it without help from the lawmakers.
A conservative website (The Washington Free Beacon) initially hired Fusion GPS to do the research, largely backed by Rubio supporters. Then Hillary & the DNC took over. Then Fusion GPS hired Steele. So, yes Republicans kicked off the Fusion GPS investigation. No, the GOP did not fund the Steele dossier.
Some people on the internet were trolls in the buildup to the election. Some of those people were Russian nationals
If the worst they've got is a misinformation campaign, they've got nothing. I have a FB account for a cat I had that died. I could easily turn him into a PETA proponent. Does that make me a criminal because I got political with a fake account? Some people don't realize that, just because something is typed into a jpeg, it's not necessarily true. The graphic DJT shared indicating that 81% of white murders are committed by blacks comes to mind. Filing charges for distributing FAKE NEWS seems silly if we ignore the most influential, home-grown perpetrator.
I tried promoting Opera here on/. for many years and as usual, nobody listens.
I like Opera, but you're not going to find many users here. The few there were abandoned it when it was sold to the Chinese in 2016. For some reason, people don't trust the Chinese. People have looked pretty hard at it and the code was even leaked last year, but for some reason people trust MS & Google more than "Golden Brick Capital Private Equity Fund I Limited Partnership".
I woulda settled for a "Whoops; my bad guys. CN*, huh?" But way to own it! What got me was that there's so much rabid CNN hate here that you got enthusiastic support for condemning them for CNBC's article. Sorry if I was ruder than necessary.
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...he's claiming mental disabilities not physical ones. PTSD...
I'm diagnosed with PTSD. You wouldn't believe the number of cases that appeared when it became a qualifying condition for buying cannabis. PTSD is a real thing and I feel for the people waking up screaming and all, but a whole lot of people just 'identify' as PTSD.
...they only stopped thinking of homosexuality as a mental disorder in 1987...
That doesn't imply that it WAS a mental illness before 1987. (I don't think you were trying to imply that.) Historically, a lot of the treatment of gays has been terrible. Turing comes to mind. If some woman wants to live as a man, that's entirely up to her. I'll even use a person's preferred pronouns regardless of genitalia. Doesn't hurt me at all.
Man: An argument isn't just contradiction.
Mr. Vibrating: It can be.
Man: No it can't. An argument is a connected series of statements intended to establish a proposition.
Mr. Vibrating: No it isn't.
Man: Yes it is! It's not just contradiction.
Mr. Vibrating: Look, if I argue with you, I must take up a contrary position.
Man: Yes, but that's not just saying 'No it isn't.'
Mr. Vibrating: Yes it is!
Man: No it isn't!
Yesterday, a friend of mine posted a meme on FB accusing one of the Parkland survivors of being a “crisis actor”. I talked reason to him and he took it down. An alternate strategy would have been to ignore it, but have an extra child that I raise not to do things like that. I like my strategy better.
You’re probably not going to talk a Muslim out of being a Muslim, but I’m not sure why you would. Most American Muslims are not trying to implement Sharia law. You’re definitely not going to talk an immigrant out of being an immigrant, but I don’t see why that’s a problem either. You might not like their general political slant, but trying to further your political beliefs by out-breeding your opponents instead of reasoning with them is stupid. Some “third worlders” are reproducing at rates that we’d be foolish to try to match. So what? Different people have different opinions based on different circumstances. Some of those opinions may be influenced by religious beliefs that you don’t agree with (Catholics & abortion come to mind.) If there are enough people whose opinion differs from yours, you might not get your way. Your country may differ from your imagined ideal. It happens all the time. Deal with it.
So your solution to the rise of segments of the population that you find undesirable is to have a breeding race? To quote some words of wisdom that may help your strategy, "Where all the white women at?"
...The white people have a low birth rate and the immigrants have a high one...the religious conservatives have a higher birth rate than secular liberals...The immigrants have larger families and may vote for the left...you've got fast breeding conservative Christians...In Europe the fast breeding religious conservatives are Muslim, and that is an issue.
You seem to be saying that the problem isn't that there aren't enough children, just not the right type of children. I asked why you thought the rate needed to be higher and you responded by describing the breeders.
If both parties are wasted it's much harder to negotiate consent.
Maybe, but I've had drunken sex that I wouldn't trade for the world.
...makes the crypt keeper look attractive.
You nailed the #1 most important quality for POTUS - Attractiveness. An ugly president is fine, but an ugly woman president? Unthinkable! I don't even give a rat's ass that our POTUS is obese; it just bugs me that he lied about it.
...hot grits down Natalie Portman's trousers.
Trousers? MY Natalie Portman is standing here naked and petrified.
The rate of sexual assault is going up and the birth rate is going down because telling everyone to stay single means they spend their adult lives having drunken one night stands instead of having a family? ... We just need to import third worlders to get the birth rate up!
You're worried about the birth rate? We're just a little under 2 children per mother, which seems just fine to me. Also, what do drunken one-night-stands have to do with sexual assault?
Of course it was. But why would they build this clock with an end? I'd imagine this clock is supposed to last at least 10,000 years, not exactly 10,000 years.
...how many will think it means the world ends soon?
Why would they design this clock to count down?
...instead of that stupid car...
There's no better place to play David Bowie than into a vacuum. And putting "Don't Panic" on the touch display was enough to win me.
Yet it's not too hard to tell if someone was a pothead in college about ten years later.
It's not too hard to spot the kids that are GOING TO BE potheads either. Cannabis must be REALLY bad when it's getting to the kids that haven't even tried it.
Ps I'm Dutch, so don't tell me I don't know what I'm talking about.
Congratulations on being Dutch. You don't know what you're talking about.
That's a welcome switch. Typically when I say anything that sounds like a defense of CNN, I can guarantee at least one Foe addition. I've collected more than a couple. Look forward to discussing other topics.
Cheers.
IIRC the lawmakers addressed that one.
Well that's fine and dandy for the Europeans. What about the people that matter? You know, Americans.
The question isn't "What right do they have?" The question is "What's going to stop them?"
There are reasons people don't join FB and there is no reason for Facebook to gather, store and track people that are not a member of their site/organization.
There's every reason to track non-members. You may not think it's fair, but your data is valuable and it's going to get collected, used, and sold whether you like it or not. There are steps you can take to slow that down (like not signing up for FB), but you're not going to stop it without help from the lawmakers.
Democrats commissioned the dossier.
A conservative website (The Washington Free Beacon) initially hired Fusion GPS to do the research, largely backed by Rubio supporters. Then Hillary & the DNC took over. Then Fusion GPS hired Steele. So, yes Republicans kicked off the Fusion GPS investigation. No, the GOP did not fund the Steele dossier.
Some people on the internet were trolls in the buildup to the election. Some of those people were Russian nationals
If the worst they've got is a misinformation campaign, they've got nothing. I have a FB account for a cat I had that died. I could easily turn him into a PETA proponent. Does that make me a criminal because I got political with a fake account? Some people don't realize that, just because something is typed into a jpeg, it's not necessarily true. The graphic DJT shared indicating that 81% of white murders are committed by blacks comes to mind. Filing charges for distributing FAKE NEWS seems silly if we ignore the most influential, home-grown perpetrator.
You're suggesting that "Golden Brick Capital Private Equity Fund I Limited Partnership" could be a shell? Surely you jest!
It's like they didn't even try.
I can call you Betty And Betty, when you call me. You can call me AI.
I tried promoting Opera here on /. for many years and as usual, nobody listens.
I like Opera, but you're not going to find many users here. The few there were abandoned it when it was sold to the Chinese in 2016. For some reason, people don't trust the Chinese. People have looked pretty hard at it and the code was even leaked last year, but for some reason people trust MS & Google more than "Golden Brick Capital Private Equity Fund I Limited Partnership".
I woulda settled for a "Whoops; my bad guys. CN*, huh?" But way to own it! What got me was that there's so much rabid CNN hate here that you got enthusiastic support for condemning them for CNBC's article. Sorry if I was ruder than necessary.
I have witnessed the complete transaction for a sheet of LSD delivered to New Mexico from Germany. See here.