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The good old days never were. In 10 years you'll be thinking about today convinced things were so wonderful.
December 27, 2018 at 21:38
Don't drink any water so that you'll have only dry heaves. Nurse the dehydration headache by squinting directly into the sun and aggressively rubbing ...
December 27, 2018 at 21:31
I'm going to try to discourage people.
December 27, 2018 at 21:26
The oath of the President is: "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will t...
December 27, 2018 at 20:23
Whether something is a legal defense isn't a matter of opinion, but is a matter of law. For example,, if I'm from Colorado where pot is legal and I sm...
December 27, 2018 at 18:29
But see: /uploads/resized/files/xd/ygoov50h43cweh3z.jpg https://fee.org/articles/americans-are-more-charitable-than-socially-conscious-europeans/ Educ...
December 27, 2018 at 16:48
I think that's true in most cases, but pragmatism isn't necessarily a virtue. We do all sorts of things that have no utility. An ethic of pragmatism s...
December 26, 2018 at 22:22
No, this isn't a great understanding, clever, or interesting. It's a reductio ad absurdum. The absurd argument presented is that true persuasion is th...
December 26, 2018 at 21:15
Yet you can't persuade anyone who has even an elementary understanding of your position, which is that you'll say whatever it is you need to to obtain...
December 26, 2018 at 21:05
Then the entirety of your argument would be "don't murder because I prefer people not murder." That doesn't seem at all persuasive. If you interject o...
December 26, 2018 at 20:55
The problem is that you don't articulate a specific principle here that determines morality from immorality. If you are deriving a moral principal and...
December 26, 2018 at 14:53
If you really adhere to Emotivism, you'll have to explain how it is at all rational to engage in ethical debate, considering you're admitting that you...
December 26, 2018 at 14:47
If you're going to say it's immoral to do drugs or immoral to illegalize drugs or assert any position on morality, you have to first assert what crite...
December 26, 2018 at 11:42
This ignores the accepted distinction between malum prohibitum (wrongs by virtue of statute) and malum in se (wrongs in themselves). The former might ...
December 26, 2018 at 06:00
Yes./uploads/files/uq/3b7cmwbh4x578az1.jpg All sorts of theories why they're triangular. Haman was the villian in the Book of Esther, read every Purim...
December 25, 2018 at 15:14
That does look delicious, but doesn't look like rugelach. Rugelach is rolled and often has nuts and cinnamon. Your kolachky reminds me more of hamanta...
December 25, 2018 at 15:05
No sound sweeter than the blues: https://youtu.be/rTVjnBo96Ug
December 25, 2018 at 04:21
Life is about experiences, and the value of money offers little if all you do is buy objects. Go do things, ideally, but not necessarily, with others ...
December 25, 2018 at 00:13
That's actually very inspirational. For real. :up:
December 24, 2018 at 23:58
Know how to make rugelach or mondelbrot? I've got a hankering with all this ethnic food talk.
December 24, 2018 at 17:41
When we needed potatoes peeled (like for latkes on Hannukah), we'd just hire Lithuanians to do it for us.
December 24, 2018 at 17:40
I eat kugel, not kugeli, a far more delicious Jewish food. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kugel
December 24, 2018 at 16:34
I've not yet been to Alaska. I'm going over New Year's. Santa knows I don't celebrate Xmas. He comes to me for financing.
December 24, 2018 at 01:29
I'm lucky in that I was both born into priviledge and lucky enough to feel entitled. I'm also lucky enough not to worry about those who feel guilty fo...
December 23, 2018 at 01:29
I think I'll send a picture of my foot to my brother while I wait for my son to bring home the Chinese food. Anybody got any ideas for later tonight?
December 23, 2018 at 01:23
To update you on my day, I returned home and let Fred inside and he had shit caked on his tail and reeked to high hell. I put on rubber gloves, put hi...
December 23, 2018 at 01:20
King to your mama.
December 23, 2018 at 01:14
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Not all of Europe is in the EU, like Switzerland, Norway, Iceland (to the extent that is part of Europe), to name a few. Why will Britain's departure ...
December 20, 2018 at 15:58
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Like I said, it's always been a matter of degree, which doesn't imply you have to accept the degree of autonomy that exists in N. Korea in order to be...
December 20, 2018 at 14:37
And the same can be said of anyone who has the spotlight on them, which is that they should limit their performance to their expertise and to what the...
December 20, 2018 at 14:30
In the 1840s, the House of Lords arrived at the McNaughten Rule, which states as follows: "the jurors ought to be told in all cases that every man is ...
December 20, 2018 at 14:12
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It's always been a matter of degree.
December 20, 2018 at 13:50
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The UK is steeped in tradition. It's not like they radically swing from one direction to the next. They have a monarchy for God sake. And it's not lik...
December 18, 2018 at 18:59
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This makes a number of assumptions: that the UK's free agent status won't allow them to negotiate better deals with other trading partners (like the U...
December 18, 2018 at 18:53
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First of all, if the birdies have no wings, then they're going to be eaten by those who do. It's just a matter of time. Second, yes, everything is goi...
December 18, 2018 at 15:35
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This figure has gained some interest as of late, making some question who's really gaining an advantage from the centralized Euro. I realize that the ...
December 18, 2018 at 15:31
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I've never seen a nation so in fear of independence. I know the world's a great big scary place little birdie, but take a deep breath, jump off from u...
December 18, 2018 at 04:25
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They could hold a second referendum, so why don't they? The democracy is obviously not allowing it. If polling shows my congressman no longer popular,...
December 16, 2018 at 21:36
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So your argument is that they shouldn't have used a referendum to determine whether to stay or leave. That's critically different than the argument th...
December 16, 2018 at 15:00
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Other than informing me of your hostility, little else is communicated in your post. It's fairly obvious that the purpose of the referendum was to det...
December 16, 2018 at 14:40
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Your response is nonsense really, with this global attack against the "science" of referenda, arguing they are meaningless exercises. You ignore the f...
December 15, 2018 at 13:43
Speaking of Santa, I just booked a trip for me and my boys to go dog sledding in Fairbanks, which is close to the North Pole I think. It should be fun...
December 14, 2018 at 22:17
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What the referendum tells us is that a majority of the people voting voted to trigger leaving and all who voted knew that was the consequence of the v...
December 13, 2018 at 20:17
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Ok, and a rerun undermines the legitimacy of the result as well. The question is what to do about violations. Lock the cheaters up, fine them, throw t...
December 13, 2018 at 17:00
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Sure, but what was written on the bus wasn't one of them. I pointed out the violation of the rules seemed to deal with spending more than the cap perm...
December 13, 2018 at 16:23
I don't follow your post.
December 13, 2018 at 16:04
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A lie, assuming it was one, isn't a campaign violation. It's just what happens in political events. If you overturned every election every time a lie ...
December 13, 2018 at 16:03
Let us assume that all transexualism is a delusional state, the question would then be whether there is greater harm in allowing these folks to live o...
December 13, 2018 at 14:46
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Sure, but it's not as you said, which was that Germany had economically propped up poorer European nations and that created an overall more prosperous...
December 13, 2018 at 14:23
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I'd like to think we still have an ideologically principled and spiteful Europe that hands out vindictive punishments that damages its own self intere...
December 13, 2018 at 14:16