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Alto

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I have a math degree and still can't do basic addition

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Isn't that due to stricter data collection/retention regulations in the EU?

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IMO homemade ice cream is primarily for making flavors you can't get otherwise.

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Agreed. I'll gladly spend the extra buck for kerrygold. Not quite as good as homemade with high quality cream, but more than close enough (and cheaper depending on just how high quality were talking with the cream).

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I like occasionally making some really weird stuff, tends to be very hit or miss. Totally wouldn't do it if I didn't have an ice cream machine though. I've done it fully by hand before. Never again.

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Mental illness is not your fault, but it is your responsibility.

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I'll be honest that's the way I read it too, probably because that's the general response you tend to see.

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SELL THEIR HOUSES TO WHO BEN? FUCKING AQUAMAN?

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It's probably a mix, but I'd wager it's primarily a side effect of the existence of the internet. Before you'd hear the bad things in your immediate community, the really bad things from your country/region/whatever, and really only the truly horrible stuff from the world as a whole. Now you can have a constant feed of every bad thing that happens everywhere. As you see more of it, you're bound to get desensitized.

But hey on the otherhand I have unlimited videos of cute puppies and I'd be lying if I said that wasn't a pretty big upside.

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Did the same thing with King Gizz this year as I did QOTSA in 2020. Find them around September, listen to them almost exclusively for the rest of the year, and end up in the top 0.5% or better

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Working overtime to keep that social credit score high I see

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Well yeah, that's because it is. Performing human sacrifices for the profit gods, which is what we are currently doing, is bad.

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And for plenty of policy points that's not an issue. When we're on the topic of basic human rights, I'm not entirely sure how you* can handwave those abuses away because you want lower taxes.

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If there's an answer that isn't basically "well they're not on my priority list so they can get fucked", I'd love to hear it. We're not talking about some relatively benign issue like zoning laws or whether or not we should introduce a new sales tax to fund the park system. Sitting by complacently is actively tacitly supporting the policies trying to further these abuses, and it's not some trivial issue that doesn't matter.

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I'm aware of that first part, but I'm not quite sure how it's possible to make a moral argument that basic human rights shouldn't be towards the very top of your list. The unfortunate reality of the matter is that even in the off chance your local R isn't completely awful, the policies that will be implemented on a national level if they manage to take control of the presidency again are. Voting for an R is a tacit endorsement of those policies.

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Australia also had a peak gun ownership ratio of 6.52%. America's is closer to 125%. Literal order of magnitude of difference there

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Honest question. How do you reconcile your claim about not being anti-lgbt when the GOP is very vocally and openly pushing anti-lgbt messaging and legislation.

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the rest follow naturally.

You must have a much higher tolerance for glacial paced change than I do.

As someone who is aggressively pro-2a (although almost certainly for different reasons than you), I might have been able to legitimately see your point 10 years ago when the GOP was less actively hostile to the very existence of gay people. Unfortunately we don't live in 2013 anymore.

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Not OP but I think women are people, so yeah they should have basic bodily autonomy. Might not jive that well with the folk that view women as nothing more than property though.

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I promise you the amount I save on my payment + gas is far more than the amount it costs me to rent a truck the very, very rare occasions I need one. The same goes for the vast majority of American suburbanites.

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Probably because of just how much death they directly cause

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You can just say you haven't actually read about what happened

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Imagine getting this worked up over someone's hair color

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Considering it usually coincides with Lyme disease, I'd say it's still pretty damn bad

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Eczema

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5 years ago sure. Not sure I really agree nowadays.
Granted, that has as much to do with Google getting much worse as it does DDG getting better.

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