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I think the problem is that while there are quite many fans in quite many fandoms who make their franchise out to be very much more serious than it is (of course, Bronies are most notorious for that), there are in my estimation also quite many peopl…
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The crisp/chips confusion is one of those more annoying aspects of the English for outsiders Ah, damnit, I think I caught one of the illnesses going around...
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I feel almost bad about answering to such a lengthy OP in such a short way, but oh well: Of course social structures exist. But to get rid of them you have to attack them, and the nodices, so to speak, of those social structures are the people who h…
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Those lines seem to rather fit to AM. Though I have no doubt AM and GLaDOS are good chums.
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Because honestly, fascism apologia or not, most Black Library stuff is just not fun to read at all. GW employ some true hacks who appear, unsurprisingly, to have been thrown forward in time from the 70s and 80s heydays of pulp high fantasy. WH…
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You said it yourself: "leadership, militarism, discipline etc.", so there's more than just the fact that there is a single guy at the top. If we focus on the authority alone we may as well expand fascism to include monarchies. It's not just le…
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That's the problem with the franchise taking itself ever more serious. The line between "hilariously over the top" and "apologia for fascism" is a very small one indeed.
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Massive reply to various stuff from the last two pages: Programmer gets a guy fired because she overheard him making dongle jokes with a friend, snapped a photo, uploaded it to twitter (without giving him any warning) and publicly shamed him, re…
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Eh, okay, I see, my tone was probably a bit too abrasive again. Sorry about that, could've formulated that better. But true, I suppose European anti-trust regulations actually do work pretty well, even outside the famous Microsoft case.
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Yeah right, and that's why they want everybody to privatize their water networks now. Brussels is a heaven for lobbyists even more so than national capitals, I'd say. Probably because it adds another layer of indirectness between decision making and…
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Only appearing when the stars are just right. I like my women how I like my forum games threads.
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Sure, I agree, if the legal framework is sound, then that's nobody's business but the volunteers' own. If the legal framework is in fact sound, that is. And that only goes so clearly for adults who can give informed consent. Minors and people with m…
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^^It should have come up now and then in the less important parts of the news in recent months; it's still in the planning/negotiation phase and particularly Germany and the European Parliament are heavily set against it. Still, given that Germany h…
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As it so happens, the EU is in fact currently planning to loosen restrictions on medical research on humans. Yeah. Including doing away with the ethic commissions, and scrapping some protection rules for minors. It's some scary stuff.
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It's up. Click on links to it (Google for example) to see. There might still be some DNS problems or problems with cache/cookies on local machines.
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Seems like a badger, actually. Which is not an animal I'd associate with South East Asian fauna. Then again, neither would I associate Latin with the region, but there you go Eh, for all practical (and also official/legal/institutional) purposes M…
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But 'Imma chargin' Malaya' just doesn't have the same ring to it.
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(look at Butler's description of the master gen controversy-a gen which would determine sex was labeled 'active' in men and 'passive' in women, which were arbitrary labels not validated by the scientific evidence) ...which would make this lack…
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So, not being a redditor myself, what's so bad about that subreddit? Is it really that bad, or are people just dismissing it with the same ease as they dismiss Dawkins, for example?
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^^^"Strict positivism" is the base of every science. If you truly want to elevate social sciences on the same level as natural sciences you must apply the same scrutiny. Trying to find the reasons for injustices is a good cause, but you're only trul…
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Yes. That does sound just like Marxism: Get the historical facts as such right and then draw the craziest possible conclusions from it in order to establish a historical narrative over the span of millennia, something no sane historian would do :P
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monogamy historically represented the culmination of the patriarchal subjugation of women to men Lolwut? In any case, polygamy just means multiple marriages. Historically, this has nearly always meant polygyny, yes, but it doesn't necessarily…
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Conclusion: Non-Europeans live in Bizarro World. I say. You know what's really frustrating about this "And if we allow gays to marry what's next? Polygamy?" 'argument? That the rational counter-argument would in fact be "So what? What's so ba…
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Geeze, are you guys being strongarmed by the pizza mafia or something? You can get a 12'' pizza for a fiver here, and that's not just cheese. Well, a pepperoni pizza is 4.50€ at most places I order here. I have no idea about measurements, just…
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Geez. It's four to eight Euros here, depending on toppings. Mind, Italian style pizza, what you call New York style, which I guess does tend to be cheaper. The only restaurant or chain that carries Chicago style here is Pizza Hut...
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Based on my memories of playing Skyrim, I doubt the Thalmor could take it either way. If you mean by that the scenario Nova and I discussed, then that is only true if Skyrim is openly, militarily resisting. In which case the Empire would get i…
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But that would deny you the satisfaction to stab a Thalmor! Surely it's a pleasure to rid Mundus of those people yourself? (it's kinda funny. Arguments as to whether Empire or Stormcloaks are better are numerous. But I've literally nobody ever seen…
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Eh, my point was that 'keeping in touch' for me means talking to people. If I don't talk to them, why should I be interested in their updates? I don't care. And really, I wouldn't care to post mine, either. If my friends want to know what's up with …
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That is definitely a big minus for me, and nothing good. I can understand wanting to keep in touch, but to me that means talking to each other and not screaming one's information out to the whole world.