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More like what you can hold as a single entity in your head. The sum of your knowledge is vastly more than that.

You must agree that, by the standards of this paragraph, most wars waged by people should first be against their own current leaders.

I think this was unneeded. Nobody singled out Microsoft, it's just that the discussion is about Microsoft, which happens to still practice this strategy. I think nobody would argue against the strategy being practiced by other corporations too.

You talked past each other here.

What is a bit saddening is that there was a placebo percentage that died... which could have been saved if given the actual drug.

It also has a chat, and for many it has become the main channel to stay in touch with each other. I'm not sure why either, I guess it's because they spend more time in the app than other messengers, so they might as well chat on it too.

Mental health problems, as said, is not a race. And not everything is prejudice. Racism is supposed to be prejudice because "You can't say there's causal relationship between the race and another specific trait". It is prejudice because it is deemed IRRATIONAL i.e. logical conclusions involving race fail at their very foundational base, race, and are thus logically incorrect. Mental instability though? It is the trait itself. It IS a valid base for logical conclusions regarding the human affected by one. You can claim one does not know enough of a mental illness to make conclusions for one's behavior. But one who does know, can then judge (not pre-judge) accordingly, and logic and truth are by definition not offensive.

Would that be a bad thing?

I'd be interested to know how you concludes the military would have no luck against armed civilians.

I am not a native English speaker. I am a Greek speaker, and there is no equivalent to the gender-neutral "they", you have to choose "he" or "she" and "he" is the most usual choice. So, here I let my native-tongued thinking interfere with the ideal English interpretation of what I had to say. And, I did not read your username :)

He probably means that the word itself would not be used in that phrase, had it not be used in the testament first. It is used in that everyday phrase merely copying (and referring to) the New Testament, without the speakers necessarily having full awareness of its true meaning.

Liberal as in "liberal" with the contemporary meaning, as understood in US culture, not as allowing liberty of thought.

They did promise that, though. One lie leads to infinite more.

Perhaps it should just be rephrased in "I don't want to PRETEND to be like family...". The essence is the same. She does understand what is going on - that the "family" thing is utter BS and eats up uber valuable free and work time.

Of course if you scream you are a bully. Because you can only scream to someone in a lower position than you, by definition, and that is cowardice. You become outright hostile and let loose your childish immature selfish self because you feel safe and powerful enough to do so. That, is dysfunctional and unhonorablr and that's why I never scream.

And they're few.

Are you sure he had no money? Was he born in a low or middle-class family?

Oh it most likely did jump from animals to humans. Lab outbreak theory does not refer to the virus being artificial, but on that the jump occurred inside the lab due to bad measures and then leaked outside.

The stars can be seen too. Except if you mean "only" a billion stars.

You know, China's system made wonders. Maybe everyone should follow it? No other system achieved such an unprecedented economic growth and lifted so many people out of poverty. Freedom? No need, you don't have more in the US anyway. US is just better at PR towards some of its own citizens.

Dismissing criticism about our system,in which the officials just do whatever they want without checks and lie every four years to keep doing it, by saying "tell me a better system", implies you have given up. Good for you, but at some point the "best system in the world" was monarchy because the question "can you tell me a better system" had no answer either.

She was given a speaking position in many events and fora, including the UN, where, correct me if my memory is weak, no other environmental activist has set foot. She has rich parents who sponsored and organized her "career". Something does not smell right here. Someone is taking advantage of her to let the steam about the environment out, by concentrating all the spotlight on that regard to a little girl who speaks big and innocently, but ultimately failing to point fingers to the people responsible - undirected shaming has been proven to have no effect anywhere ever. That someone might as well be her own parents who let her live the dream and maybe make some money out of the situation while she's at it - ASP together with her age maybe does play a role here as Greta herself is unable to understand what role she may be actually playing, taking the social "mission" given to her seriously and at face value. In time, the world's biggest climate change advocate will be a little girl that briefly made headlines, elegantly kept in check by the ones who brought her up to speak in the first place. And the rest will be given no attention - and no one will notice, if we want to learn how things are going we got Greta, after all!

In a representative democracy, do you have a say, control or checks in what decisions those representatives you elected make? Or do they do whatever they want and, tough luck, wait 4 years? Or do they do the opposite of what they promised and tough luck, 4 years again? And the same 2 parties which are essentially the same can get elected and none else, so... tough luck in general?

Does one have to undergo surgery and hormonal therapy to be a trans woman?

Can one change their mind about whether they are a man or a woman whenever they want?

Which is the third party who should have the right to judge if you are a man or a woman?

Can a male self identify as a female when they wish and enter a women competition?

You don't need to "feel" something towards poor people to advocate in favour of them. It is practically impossible to really feel anything for people who are not in your very inner personal circle. But trying to help society progress and reduce inequalities is a net benefit for everyone.

Religious people asking others to judge the Word Of God by whatever standards humans happened to have at the time the books were written is an implicit acceptance that their religion is completely made up. What happened, God Changed their mind in the meantime?

Free will implies non determinism, that is the important part.

Maybe I do not understand something. But you get these readings, through all these conditions, with the help of the present, powerful and energy hungry satellites. A mini, less powerful satellite would not perform the same under the same conditions.

I believe missiles have a certain range at which, when fired, the kill is ensured. The F35 would not need to fire the missile at the absolute possible range the missile can fly to, but at the range the kill is guaranteed.

What is their revenue source? And what is the reason cash flows from that revenue source if not Firefox? If Firefox did not exist, Mozilla would have no reason to be considered by anyone about anything.

It goes against the very reason of Protonmail existing. If you are to accept privacy leaks by design, you have no reason to use what Protonmail claims to offer in the first place, and just stick with gmail.