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MeFi post: On royal curiosity and language deprivation experiments
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MeFi comment: "You actually think mefites give a damn? That they possibly have existential, meaning of life moments? Fuck no. They're getting serious internet snark whenever and however they want it. You think they want a conversation? (and that goes for..." [more]
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MeFi comment: "How odd, he actually provided the rebuttal to his own argument as part of the argument: There is no branch of government with the authority to redefine marriage. Marriage is older than government. Its meaning is universal: It is the permanent or..." [more]
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Ask post: How to get rid of bad dreams?
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MeFi comment: "Jon_Evil: ...this "counterculture" movement isn't really counter to anything, or have any agenda whatsoever. Actually the author did make the point that these kids are extremely observant of pop culture, and if something that they like..." [more]
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MeFi post: What is your aim working as a detective? – To shew the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.
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MeTa comment: "...since Leibniz so freely admits to the relationship in the Ask.Me, it seems like he either didn't read or doesn't quite grasp the spirit of the guidelines. His problem is actually that his grasp of symbolic logic is lacking. You see, Leibniz..." [more]
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Ask comment: ""According to the late philosopher and logician George Boolos, who was a professor at MIT, the hardest logical puzzle is one that was invented by the logician and puzzle-master Raymond Smullyan, and modified slightly by the computer scientist..." [more]
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MeFi comment: "Excellent post title." [more]
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MeFi comment: "Turns out, there are intelligent people in the world who hold different views from your own. Replace a few few words in this thread with their liberal counterparts and you will see a startling similarity to the vitriol spewed in many a conservative..." [more]
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MeFi comment: ""Died Tragically Rescuing His Family From The Remains Of A Destroyed Sinking Battleship"" [more]
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MeFi comment: "'That saying of the Teacher is a far-famed one, which says, "Except ye eat my flesh and drink my blood, ye have no life in yourselves." Truly this saying is not merely beast-like and absurd, but is more absurd than any absurdity, and more..." [more]
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MeFi comment: "You disgust me, ornate insect. ... I honestly can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not." [more]
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MeFi post: スズメバチが花にとまった。
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MeFi comment: "The emerging meme of this campaign is that the voters no longer care what the press says, because the majority believe the press is biased. They care. It's just that they want to see negative things happening to their celebrities. There's been..." [more]
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MeFi comment: "i do think there is something that differentiates the sexes chemically inside the brain. Why would it be the only part of our makeup that is immune from hormonal delegation? Yes, I'm inclined to agree with you, but I think you've missed the main..." [more]
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MeFi comment: "Very interesting, I wonder how this will affect the charitable organizations dedicated to fighting AIDS. Also... Dr De Cock, an epidemiologist who has spent much of his career leading the battle against the disease... How droll...." [more]
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MeFi comment: "The flaw here is that the same logic would apply to those things that virtually everyone agrees are relative. Terrible example. Use ice cream flavors instead, next time...." [more]
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MeFi comment: "I'll never forget the time my friend Brian (baphomet), some other friends, and I went to see Chuck Palahniuk speak at a bookstore in St. Paul. He brought his copy of the 2nd ed D&D player's handbook for Palahniuk to sign. If you've never met..." [more]
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MeFi comment: "I'm no physicist, but I seem to remember that hidden variables have been ruled out. (The author puts it this way: "in QM there exist rigorous no-hidden-variable theorems. ... However, each theorem has assumptions. ... Thus, what these theorems..." [more]
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