No, I think you're the victim of Poe's Law, not its perpetrator.

If not being heartless is being a leftist, then I'm leftist. Letting children die so you can become even more filthy rich is just pure evil.

This is a drug that costs less than ten bucks to manufacture that stops children from dying a horrible death from a severe allergy. Charging six hundred bucks for it is beyond criminal and wel into Evil with a capital E. Satanically evil.

If taxes are punishment then the rich need their taxes tripled after all the unpunished evil they've done so far this century. The poor are being punished enough - by the rich. If having to pay for roads and bridges is punishment, then having to pay for food and water is, too.

As a Christian, I have no problem with taxes (Mark 12:17). Of course, if you worship mammon rather than God, taxes would indeed be punishment.

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What are you talking about? hate verb 1. feel intense or passionate dislike for (someone). "the boys hate each other" synonyms: loathe, detest, despise, dislike, abhor, execrate; More noun 1. intense or passionate dislike. "feelings of hate and revenge" synonyms: hatred, loathing, detestation, dislike, distaste, abhorrence, abomination, execration, aversion; More Please tell me in historical terms when hate wasn't a synonym for dislike.

Why would you assume that? It's a matter of degree, right? Maybe he is intense and passionate about his dislike of Apple. I mean, he's taking the time to canvas the internet about it. Don't try to rewrite the meaning of hate to only apply to certain causes or situations that you think are the worst. There are other words for that such as unconscionable, deplorable, inhuman or disgusting.

I feel like this is more like if you were walking by and accidentally dropped your pornography out of your folders on the street and a kid saw it. It's clearly not intentional behavior, there was no intent. I find it hard to believe you'd go to jail for accidentally exposing a kid to porn.

The trouble with long-term use of them is tolerance. The longer you take them, the less effective they are. That's why so many overdose right after rehab; they used the same amount of drug as before, and that dose which would barely give them a buzz is now fatal. Lately, research is showing that long term, their use is counterproductive.

The reason why "the left" is telling doctors to stop prescribing them is because the Oxycontin junkies have become heroin addicts. Why not just prescribe heroin in the first place? Oh, yeah, fewer profits for big pharma.

I do have friends with chronic conditions taking these medications and I worry about them. I have arthritis, and have had since I was a teenager. When I was stationed in Delaware the pain was so bad I had to literally crawl out of bed (worst possible weather for arthritis there) and spent a LOT of time in sick call. Odd, they never prescribed that junk back then.

It isn't about alleviating people's pain, it's about filling pockets and purses with more gold from the infirm and it's disgusting.

Only if you're interested in not sounding like a semi-literate.

This line of thinking perplexes me. Yes, they may be talking about things that we don't necessarily care about, but we almost certainly can tell them things they would like to know. Such as where danger is. We could possibly introduce new vocabulary and through the power of giving something a name, give them a new concept that they can relate to each other. We can make smarter dolphins to eat.

"...applications who is sole aim..." HUH? Is English a second language for you? I think the word you want is whose.

I hear they stopped teaching grammar in grammar school, is this true? I've certainly seen more grocer's apostrophes and misused homophones (like whose who's, there's theirs, etc) in the last ten years than in the previous half century.

And often the bar codes are on the bottom of the container (e.g., twelve packs of beer).

Dumb idea. And when Microsoft stops security updates when your fridge is only nine years old?

WTF are these idiots thinking?

Where's my fridge? How about not running the compressor when it's well below freezing outside? How about venting the heat outside instead of into the kitchen when it's sweltering outside?

Your milk and egg cartons are transparent? You keep paper towels and canned goods and spices in the fridge?

Indeed. Most IoT stuff, like his fridge, are really stupid. Like the IoT kitchen stove you can turn on with your phone... WTF??? You DON'T want the stove on when you're not home!

Adjust the A/C with a phone? What, you're too damned lazy to walk across the room? Stupid! If I can turn off the heat with my phone, so can the FSB.

I may have to buy a TV even though the one I have works perfectly fine, because it may not be long before you can no longer buy a dumb TV.

It's bad enough that my computers and phone are hackable, I don't want anything else I own on the internet at all.

People are stupid, though, "Ooh! Shiny!"