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Jeff250

Maybe it doesn't even make sense to have male versus female sports. If gender is on a spectrum, then how is it any different than height? Why not have an NBA for short people too?

Jeff250

It's funny how they thought that bot was cool enough to make the limited space of the advert but somehow was not cool enough to make the cut of the game.

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Well if you took some kind of height enhancing drugs…instead of it being completely natural… If you were born with your advantage, or worked real hard on it...I don't see a problem...that's what competition is all about. I agree, but in this case the drugs that she takes are performance inhibiting,...

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Leftists only see the color of someone's skin or a "group" someone supposedly belongs to than an actual individual human being. You attack people of certain groups all the time. It's only when someone tries defending those groups that you suddenly take issue with referring to people by gr...

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I suppose the ideal solution would be to, instead of having two categories, male and female, have four categories, male -> male, male -> female, female -> male, and female -> female, if not for the disproportionately small amount of people in male -> female and female -> male. It's strange how some ...

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Leftists only see the color of someone's skin or a "group" someone supposedly belongs to than an actual individual human being. You attack people of certain groups all the time. It's only when someone tries defending those groups that you suddenly take issue with referring to people by gr...

Jeff250

Could either of you post screenshots from the demo? I'm curious to see what y'all are referring to.

Jeff250

Republicans probably would have self-described themselves similarly after Obama was elected. In any case, if tolerance is something you really care about Thunderbunny, you could start by modifying some of your own behavior. But when people are intolerant, they always justify it with some excuse.

Jeff250

On the off chance that something here is salvageable, feel free to start another topic, but not one that's doomed from the very first post.

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Have you watched the new Bill Nye series that just hit Netflix? Most of what he does on the show is fine, but some of it is laughable. I haven't gotten through the season yet, but the most striking incident to me was his experiment comparing conventional medicine (science) against alternative medici...

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Nightshade wrote:

Why drag unicorns through the mud just to prove your point?

Jeff250

The term AI is currently used very broadly. In some problem domains, like writing an artificial opponent for tic-tac-toe, it might be a series of if's or rules. If you write a neural network that can tell the difference between a photo of a cat and a dog 80% of the time, many people would call that ...

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How does a human brain work?

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Yeah instead of getting rid of Daylight Savings I would prefer to just make it permanent.

Jeff250

H.R.1275 - World's Greatest Healthcare Plan of 2017

Short title.—This Act may be cited as the “World’s Greatest Healthcare Plan of 2017”.

Jeff250

The right to vote is a notable positive right (the government has to provide elections for you, has to count your vote, etc.). In truth though, I think that arguing negative versus positive rights is just arguing over semantics. Everyone agrees that one role of government is to provide national defe...

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I realize that young earth creationism is easy to dump on... okay - but is young earth creationism explicitly taught in the Bible? Furthermore, given a God who can create everything literally from nothing, is creating the appearance of age really logically incongruent? (For the record, I tend to go...

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snoopy wrote:rather than sliding so easily into partisanship or logical fallacies.

Or stupid image memes, or youtube videos that no one will watch. Even the image memes that I'm supposed to ideologically agree with make me cringe almost all of the time.

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Sounds like a self-fulfilling prophecy if I ever heard one. It's worse than that because not only does the market fulfill its own prophecies, but it creates a feedback loop where people upon hearing that the prophecy is being fulfilled are further encouraged to invest in a way that will fulfill the...

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callmeslick wrote:Or, do you not care that you might be handing the keys to someone working for a foreign power?

He might be working for a foreign power, but the much more likely and just as damaging prospect is that he is working foremost for himself.

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woodchip wrote:Already shown to be fake news.

Where?

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I'll be making some mulled wine this weekend to keep warm. Merry Christmas y'all.

Jeff250

Poor journalism is not fake news. thank you!! It's that all or nothing argument in another form. Since a report is imperfect, or an outlet has made errors, all subsequent reports are immediately to be discounted. Except, when it suits. I think it's more about motive. There are news sites that 1) ma...

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To use such a twisted logic to make cheap political points exposes the lack of morality that NS brings to the table here, daily, and you, Woody seem to be cheerleading. You must be SO proud of yourself. So by linking points in YOUR link I somehow seem to be cheerleading. Are you proud of your disjo...

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what can be done about it Short term (easy): register as an independent or unaffiliated. Long term (hard): remove party affiliation when registering to vote for everyone. Party needs to be removed from personal identity. In the U.S., people will say "I'm a Democrat" or "I'm a Republi...

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Democrats aren't given a free pass either. For instance, for a long time they decried regime change and overseas interventions when it was a Republican in the White House, but when Hillary Clinton was championing it, most were silent on the issue. So did they really have strong feelings about regime...

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I can't even tell how much of this sort of thing is genuine fear or people just reinforcing their political party. It's ironic how Republicans criticized Clinton for being aggressive toward Russia when up until Trump that was a historically Republican position and it didn't cause them any "fear...

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I don't know why people were so stirred up by the recount. Unless you gave money, you didn't lose anything. Even Trump must have believed that there was a nontrivial chance of something being found in the recount or otherwise he wouldn't have spent so much time hedging against it.

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HAXMED32 is 16-bit?

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I didn't vote for Clinton either, but because of her foreign policy. I don't understand the Republican "I hate dishonesty/corruption, so I'm voting for Trump" mantra though. It's a "smell of your own farts" kind of thing I suppose.

Jeff250

I know I'm a mod, but please ban me for two weeks.

Jeff250

Regarding Jill Stein, I probably should have voted for her already this year, but if she runs again in 2020, barring either of the two major parties changing their foreign policy, I'll likely vote for her.

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I early voted for Gary Johnson. I know he's neither as knowledgeable nor as experienced as Hillary Clinton, but Clinton is bellicose, and I have grave concerns about her foreign policy. She pushed for arming the Syrian rebels, and she wanted to support the failed Green Revolution in Iran. We know ho...

Jeff250

Conservatives have more children than liberals.

Jeff250

1. Okay, but you're still responsible for you and not the other parties. If you want to claim to having no part in cartel violence then you have to abstain in your part. Yes other parties have their part, too... but it's also true that if no one broke the law by taking illegal drugs, the cartels wo...

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There are plenty of things that "people will always like" for which I doubt that you'd apply a similar argument. The bottom line: drug use isn't victim less and it's illegal. If you choose to do it (regardless of whether you think it should or shouldn't be illegal), you participate in and...

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callmeslick wrote:the Libertarian VEEP candidate throws in the towel and urges the defeat of Trump

Their campaign has always been primarily critical of Trump compared to Clinton, and so this isn't a significant change in direction. In any case, campaigning against Trump is the opposite of throwing in the towel.

Jeff250

There is a possibility that we (Homo) are aliens to Earth actually. No, there isn't. Why not? Do you understand biology and how evolution works? How exactly would our specific species (which is an arbitrary distinction anyway) come from a place other than Earth and have an exact evolutionary compat...

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Slick, pretty ballsy, considering millennials are subsidizing your generation's social security, healthcare, and wars.

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According to even the Old Testament the Israelis were occupiers.

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