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  1. Re: Teaching Sex in School: Education or Indoctrination?

    What is indoctrination? How does one identify it? Is it teaching and influencing a child to uncritically accept and adopt a given set of beliefs? One might urge a class to uncritically accept the...
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    Re: HungAngel impregnates Lifer in women's prison

    At least the sex was consensual…that’s above par for prison isn’t it?
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    Re: Climate change could mean the extinction of our species

    The article MrFanti posted is about the exploitation of Congolese cobalt miners. I’m surprised to find MrFanti is concerned with worker exploitation anywhere. He must’ve thought the article was...
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    Re: Climate change could mean the extinction of our species

    I may respond to any post that appears in these forums, because I don’t have anyone on ignore. But I can only write for those, like you dear reader, who read those responses: those whose egos and...
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    Re: Climate change could mean the extinction of our species

    The actual Malthusian argument is that the human population grows geometrically whereas we can only produce food arithmetically. We’ve already demonstrated that humans, by their own choice, can and...
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    Re: Climate change could mean the extinction of our species

    It doesn’t help that the U.S. just overthrew Roe vs Wade, and many states are on the brink of outlawing contraception. In 2019 the U.S. birthrate was 1.7 births/woman; i.e., below replacement. A...
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    Re: Climate change could mean the extinction of our species

    I’m not disputing (neither do I believe is broncofan) that seven billion people driving cars, heating and cooling their homes, and using products manufactured in factories all powered by fossil fuels...
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    Re: Climate change could mean the extinction of our species

    Clearly if there were only ever a few hundred thousand people on Earth burning fossil fuels, we’d never gather enough inertia to budge the planetary heat engine that drives its’ atmospheric and...
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    Re: Thought for the Day

    Sometimes people are so desperate to persuade others that they resort to lies, slander and deliberate misinformation. They say things they don’t even believe because they think those lies support...
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    Re: Thought for the Day

    also that it doesn’t include the freedom in incite insurrection or violence.
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    Re: Thought for the Day

    Not sure in this life if every choice isn’t one between two or more evils. Acting too slow or too little on climate change can have dire consequences, but the actions required to slow or halt the...
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    Re: Thought for the Day

    So relieved to wake up and find out Macron won. Democracy’s not entirely lost…yet. Now I can go about my day in ‘relative’ peace, only worrying about Ukraine, the state of LGBT people in Florida,...
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    Re: Covid-19 Politics

    It’s no longer about science, masks, vaccines, politics nor issues. The Trumpizoids are a tribe. Their identity is at stake. To make a turn-around on any of the ridiculous stands they have taken...
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    Re: Science and Stupidity:When Opinon replaces facts

    Clowns like Gohmert don’t trust the federal government to do anything, neither about the environment nor managing us through the pandemic. But changing the orbits of the Earth and the Moon (as if...
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    Re: Thought for the Day

    The conspiracy claims against left are daft, crazy, horrendous and hateful. (Okay, I may occasionally enjoy feasting on a human baby, but I definitely do not worship Satan. I don’t even believe in...
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    Re: US Elections 2020

    We failed to take the Senate, failed to remove Mitch McConnell and Lindsey Graham, we lost seats in the House but still retain it my a small margin. Nevertheless, I am so fucking relieved.
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    Re: Institutionalisation

    Chin up girl. Get better.
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    Re: US Elections 2020

    We are effectively a two party nation. If you don't vote Democratic, then you're handing the election to the Republicans. If you want representation you've got to take over a major party or at least...
  19. Thread: ultra liberals

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    Re: ultra liberals

    The statues in question were erected in the Jim Crow era to put black people 'in their place'. They were erected to whitewash history, not remember it. Removing them from the public square is to...
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    Re: Thought for the Day

    My prior post was more joke than opinion. Still, now that I’m thinking about them...really really hard...flags that is...I’m not getting at all erect. Sorry.

    I can understand that flags are...
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    Re: Thought for the Day

    I'm told that a true patriot would stand erect for the National Anthem. I for one, never found any flag to be all that arousing. Personally, I think standing erect for the flag is a disgusting...
  22. Thread: Coronavirus

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    Re: Coronavirus

    For the sake of argument, let’s accept your 370,000 number for deaths per year in the U.S. due to flu, pneumonia and other respiratory illnesses. I assume this is a pre-covid-19 statistic. Divide...
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    Re: Covid-19 Politics

    Just want you to know that I do wash each eggplant thoroughIy before use.

    I streamed The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey the other night. The scene (spoiler alert) where Conner is discovered to...
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    Re: Covid-19 Politics

    Between working on physics and mathematics, or playing music, or hiking, biking or just plain sitting on my porch reading it has always been pretty easy for me to find ways to occupy myself without...
  25. Thread: Coronavirus

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    Re: Coronavirus

    Mission accomplished
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