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  • What Hamas Called Its Female Captives, and Why It Matters

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  • Remember a few years ago when Connor mcgregor was going to fight Floyd mayweather? Those two native English speakers had entirely different theories about the word “boy.”

    Just because some Arabic speakers use a different word for a different thing, does not mean that these Arabic speakers are. Imagine for a moment, that this is a horrible coincidence: what would you need to see to prove it to yourself?

  • What Hamas Called Its Female Captives, and Why It Matters

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  • The NYT is not credible regarding Israel. They’ve done very shoddy journalism there (with complete amateurs who don’t understand ethical journalism codes), but stand behind their work in a way that discredits them.

  • Russia is waging a shadow war on the West that needs a collective response, Estonian leader says

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  • Why would you consider that removing Russia? Russia will still be around long after those traitors are gone :)

  • The future is here

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  • Yeah, my dad’s doctor told him to drink lemonade, but I don’t think the soda bit’s really the worst part.

  • What's the most ironic thing about you?

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  • I’m a type-A personality with ADHD.

  • Pills (Take Two)

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  • Sell them. You’ll make more than $4M, if you don’t get killed for it

  • Russia is waging a shadow war on the West that needs a collective response, Estonian leader says

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  • But what does that practically mean? Do you think Putin should be executed? Everyone in the Russian government? Everyone in Russia?

    It’s the internet, you could mean anything.

  • Russia is waging a shadow war on the West that needs a collective response, Estonian leader says

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  • What do you mean by that?

  • Not cool

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  • The day I discovered that I could make the Mac and cheese sauce and put it all over the kale I got from my farm share, was the day I stopped trying to pretend to be healthy.

  • Lord of All That is Paper

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  • I believe in you. Go ahead, make yourself a packaging paper bed

  • We were in a discussion about preffered standard salt (Sea Salt) when..

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  • Sea salt does that too; the tiny shellfish remnants that prevents it from being kosher have a bunch of iodine.

  • Teacher accused of having sex with two students says she ruined her 'dream job' with stupid 'mistakes', jury hears

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  • Ohh! It’s just your reading comprehension, not that you’re really suggesting that it’s cool for a teacher to fuck their fifteen year old students and former students. If you care about what the children said, there’s this from the older one:

    Boy B claims he tried to end the relationship but did not know how to, called her a "paedo" and told her to find someone her own age but claimed emotional pressure came from Joynes to keep their relationship going.

  • Teacher accused of having sex with two students says she ruined her 'dream job' with stupid 'mistakes', jury hears

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  • Joynes denies six counts of engaging in sexual activity with a child, including two while being a person in a position of trust.

    The defendant, pleading innocence, said that. The case is about sexual activity with children.

  • Can you name any objectively unique human creations or thoughts that were not derived/inspired from another source?

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  • I think the problem is (ironically) exacerbated by lacking better language to describe things. Einstein was trying to describe the world, not come up with something new. I think that does involve “creativity,” but I’d argue that it’s not the same impulse.

    Children absolutely come up with things that don’t seem to have any relation to what they’ve experienced, but it’s not useful creativity, like what Einstein possessed.

    This comment somehow feels insulting to both Einstein and children, but I don’t mean it like that.

  • We were in a discussion about preffered standard salt (Sea Salt) when..

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  • It’s not a bad thing to allow members to all communicate with everyone. If I joined a discord server and didn’t have permission to participate immediately (or after filling out the survey/age verification/etc.), I’d leave. If I was that shameless a streamer, I’d lie on the survey.

  • Teacher accused of having sex with two students says she ruined her 'dream job' with stupid 'mistakes', jury hears

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  • I honestly think that’s more about ensuring that they can charge trans women with rape (which they obviously should, when relevant). It seems like the thing they’re commenting on is the pronoun, not the noun.

    Where I am, penetrating someone with an object counts and they phrase it very differently

  • What horror story/movie/game/whatever terrifies you even though it's fictional?

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  • I read it like that too, and wish I hadn’t, but I was mostly joking. People in this thread should be more prepared than I was from the context anyway

  • What horror story/movie/game/whatever terrifies you even though it's fictional?

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  • Go in cold, no spoilers.

    That’s just mean

  • How might perspectives on race change in a hypothetical fully-egalitarian future?

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  • Is there way more validity/importance to race than phrenology? Some folks seem to love connecting with their culture, their ancestors, and race plays a part - they’ll take pride in all of it.

    Culture is a good thing to compare it to, because they’re both sociological, rather than biological distinctions. People want to connect with their culture, but I think if race were truly irrelevant, they might base it on different things. I’ve heard my stepsister attribute her loudness to being Jewish, Italian, and a New Yorker- I’d expect more of the latter if no one else had told her that Jews or Italians are loud.

    If there’s not a connection between a behavior and a race (or ethnicity), I don’t know how one could take pride in it. I also don’t really see how the world can be fully egalitarian if they still exist- would someone who believes Italians are inherently louder than, say, Japanese people give mr. Policetti and mr. Yamamoto the same chances when hiring an academic dean or a DJ for a kid’s party? I can’t see how they would.

    Maybe I’m missing something, but if that thought is somewhere in peoples heads, I think it’s got to have an effect.