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Comment Re:If you want the answer, don't ask people (Score 1, Troll) 146

I always like comments like these from men who blame women for not having babies. After all, the sole job of a man is inject and go. It's the woman who has to undergo nine months of an ever increasing blob taking nutrients from them, drastically altering their hormones, making them uncomfortable 24 hours of every day, and eventually causing pain and discomfort. Assuming they don't die in the process.

Who wouldn't want to go through all that?

If the day ever comes when men can become pregnant, birth control will be freely available and there will be a whole host of government programs implemented to make their lives as comfortable and safe as possible.

Comment Who will study the data? (Score 1) 23

The National Nuclear Security Administration just furloughed 80% of its workforce due to Republicans shutting down the government.

Who is there doing the leg work to get this approved? Depending on how long Republicans keep the government shut down, who will do the installation and configuration? They can't pay contractors to do this since there is no approved money.

Comment Re:They actually did (Score 1) 230

Yes, conservapedia exist(ed). It might still - but at least they were honest in how they were biased.

The reason these sites should exist is because, generally speaking, the opponents of a political ideology tend to be the worst sources concerning what the ideology actually believes, versus what its detractors say it believes. If the enemies of the state are not allowed to speak, how will the public at large differentiate tyranny from the rule of law?

Comment Re:of course it's these guys (Score 2) 230

So he has something to distract his constituents from why he fled Texas when the people were freezing to death due to Abbott's and Ercot's incompetence.

Also, because the Wikiepedia article about the battle at the Alamo explicitly states, "About one hundred Texians, wanting to defy Mexican law and maintain the institution of chattel slavery in their portion of Coahuila y Tejas by seeking secession from Mexico, . . ." To him, telling the truth is "liberal" bias.

Comment Re:Type of headline that should be prohibited (Score 1) 66

Oh fuck off. The headline is exactly correct. Something was worth X yesterday and today it's worth Y, where Y is substantially less than X.

If you had to sell right now, you would get far less than for the product than if it you sold it yesterday. Hence, erased market cap.

It's used every single day in the financial industry and is regularly quoted in headlines when a company's stock plunges.

Comment Ah, America... (Score 3, Insightful) 92

The land where the well-connected get pardoned for money laundering, but those who cross the border illegally or don't have documentation of the fact that they're American can be deported to countries they've never seen, where they don't even speak the native language.

Please, someone explain how this makes sense.

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