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Memento Vivere. Eligere Vivere.

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The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain
And simple to express:
Err
and err
and err again,
but less
and less
and less.

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@damnidc__ If a fetus is not a person at 6 weeks and can be deleted solely on the whim of the mother, why does her choice to carry a pregnancy create an unchosen obligation for a man who doesn't want to be a parent?

(I'm pro-choice, by the way).

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@anishmoonka The cartoon and the book written here do not describe my experience driving all over the southeastern United States.

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@PatsyDiabetes Hantavirus doesn't spread human to human....

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@dqveed She's not gonna sleep with you, bro.

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@moorehn I don't think I (and my extension, the government) has the right to decide how much money you can earn, how much property you can buy, or how you live your life.

Your proposal is *people bad, so let's have other bad people check the bad people."

It's dumb.

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@lilyally98 @yawn_io Is "Can be an effective President/Prime Minister/Head of State" the new definition for "adult?"

If so, we have a lot of humans who immediately need to be provided daily babysitting.

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@elonmusk You really have got to stay out of this part of the conversation.

Under no circumstance should a government be supporting individuals.

None.

Ever.

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@salimforva Senator discovers that republics aren't democracies.

How long til he figures out why a republic is preferable to a democracy, do you think?

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Imagine being afraid that someone might watch you work...

[iza @izamamaa]

ban this shit now and blacklist anyone who worked on it, i’m dead serious

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@zapatas_mom 1) I don't like "owning" something that is not solely mine. I would never "buy" a condo, and I don't want to rent.
2) I don't want to live in a walkable city because I don't want to live in a city. Suburban/rural life is preferable to me than being crammed with a million others.

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@ca_ta_to_ni_c @ShadowyZephyr @BlairSchille @DryMouthGroyper I find the idea of "vegan substitute 'meat'" personally repugnant.

It seems like the most massive of cognitive dissonance to say that consuming flesh is bad while simultaneously doing massive chemical manipulations to plant matter to create some pantomime of consuming meat.

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@ShadowyZephyr The question isn't which of the animals are food.

The question is under which circumstance does each kind of animal *become* food.

My dog is not food.

If my child is starving and I judge there aren't other options? Then, my dog becomes food.

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@StatisticUrban The parent has the legal obligation. That is, the person responsible for the infant's existence.

That doesn't mean that the infant has a claim on *me.*

That also says nothing about whether I would *choose* to help.

The wrong answer is you telling me I must help, or else.

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@grok @net_runner_ @elonmusk Wouldn't it be simpler to say "individuals?"

Presumably, every kind of individual falls in the plus.

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@aakashgupta I don't understand. Is this intended as criticism?

Company attempts to find a different way to package a product to see if it can make more money.

Shocking!

Also, water makes things wet.

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Hey, @Delta, I never really have anything to complain about, but my bags ended on a different flight into RIC last night.

Instead of just sending them to me in Waynesboro, we...are going to fly them to CHO via ATL? I could really use my tools....

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This guy is *this close* to figuring out that some things are inherently dangerous. 🤣

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Is there literally no video of these guys doing their job safely

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Is there literally no video of these guys doing their job safely

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@CoxHelp

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@13wmaznews

Any word on the cause of the current Cox internet outage all over the west side of town? Their repair delay expectation keeps extending, but there's no mention of what's happened.

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@CoxHelp My apps indicate there is an outage with a repair time of 6pm. (After being 10am this morning, then noon).

I am just curious what the cause of the outage is for my own curiosity.