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Sandweed posted:ISIS is doing a lot of hosed up poo poo though, the news ain't gonna cover it all because it's not getting views. Yeah, in a vacuum it's a really good thing for him to be letting people know about but it's hugely hypocritical and ridiculous coming right at the end of a week of posts about how Israel is actually right to have killed hundreds of innocent people.
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EL BROMANCE posted:re: the pretty good breakdown of why 'nice guys' are overlooked I don't think he's saying it's stupid, he's just emphasising the argument that best refutes the whole Nice Guy mindset.
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EL BROMANCE posted:re: the pretty good breakdown of why 'nice guys' are overlooked The article's rules are pretty good advice for everyone, regardless of gender. But there are parts of the article where he gives examples directly to "nice guys" because he's tired of seeing them bitch on the cracked forums. This reply isn't actually to you. I thought about replying to White Dragon yesterday, but decided to just ignore the post since it sounds like he got it off of tumblr, out of context. quote:Let's try a non-money example so you don't get hung up on that. The demographic that Cracked writes for is heavy on 20-something males. So on our message boards and in my many inboxes I read several dozen stories a year from miserable, lonely guys who insist that women won't come near them despite the fact that they are just the nicest guys in the world. Cleretic posted:I don't think he's saying it's stupid, he's just emphasising the argument that best refutes the whole Nice Guy mindset.
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Jul 24, 2014 13:10
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 Resident drug fiend friend posted this. I can't really be mad at him since he's too stupid to understand anything related to cancer beyond "It bad, Weed make good, medicine BAAAAD!". He's just decided he's in the pseudo-hippie camp of naturopath healing with drugs so he blindly shares anything related to it. He's basically the liberal version of a Tea Partyer. I want to try and explain that there isn't a single cure for "cancer" because each type of cancer is very different and some are curable while others are potentially incurable. But it'll all just go over his head and I'll get "blaze it human being, weed cures all that's why illegal". 
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Jul 24, 2014 15:11
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  Public advertisement comments are always a fun read. A surprising amount of people mentioned nothing but the woman in the front.
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CrowsNestMutineer posted:This looks like fun! No illegal drugs? Sounds like a poo poo party
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Jul 24, 2014 16:30
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When I signed up for the Ride to Conquer Cancer (just finished my fourth year on crew) I remember grilling one lady about stupid conspiracy theories like this and she gave me a really good response; "If cancer did have a cure, then our goal would be to make an affordable cure for everybody and not just the rich."
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Jul 24, 2014 16:33
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Crain posted:I want to try and explain that there isn't a single cure for "cancer" because each type of cancer is very different and some are curable while others are potentially incurable. But it'll all just go over his head and I'll get "blaze it human being, weed cures all that's why illegal". These guys bug me. I smoke weed, but to pretend I do it for reasons other than recreational is blatant lying and a disservice to those who need it for legit medical problems. I feel like people who pretend it has more medical value than it does hurt the fight for legalization.
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razorrozar posted:These guys bug me. I smoke weed, but to pretend I do it for reasons other than recreational is blatant lying and a disservice to those who need it for legit medical problems. I feel like people who pretend it has more medical value than it does hurt the fight for legalization. i love living in ontario because drug culture is pretty much open season. they had a big gaming con at the ontario science center, everyone was on acid during the rave and none of the security guys cared, they were really chill about everything and nobody gave anyone else a hard time. i've toked while walking around with friends at a theme park. really they will only get pissed if you act like a douchebag about it.
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Jul 24, 2014 16:55
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Excels posted:When I signed up for the Ride to Conquer Cancer (just finished my fourth year on crew) I remember grilling one lady about stupid conspiracy theories like this and she gave me a really good response; The thing that baffles me most is how so many people screaming about the cure for cancer being deliberately hidden thoroughly fail to understand cancer at all. Cancer is not one disease that a magical cure exists for. Some cancers respond to treatment A, some respond to treatment B. Aside from that we have, in fact, actually cured most cancers in that we have working treatments that fix the patient almost all of the time, especially if cancer is caught early. Hell I used to work with a guy that was in his 90s and had cancer four times. Each time it was an easily fixed version that they caught really early. A few pills, a day or two in the hospital, maybe some minor surgery, and dude was good to go. Nobody was intentionally making him sicker just to profit. But you can't tell them that, it's always "but this person I used to know paid $500,000 in medical bills then died anyway!" Well, no poo poo, medicine is hard and nothing medical ever has a 100% success rate. Doesn't mean that it's all useless.
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ToxicSlurpee posted:The thing that baffles me most is how so many people screaming about the cure for cancer being deliberately hidden thoroughly fail to understand cancer at all. Cancer is not one disease that a magical cure exists for. Some cancers respond to treatment A, some respond to treatment B. Aside from that we have, in fact, actually cured most cancers in that we have working treatments that fix the patient almost all of the time, especially if cancer is caught early. Hell I used to work with a guy that was in his 90s and had cancer four times. Each time it was an easily fixed version that they caught really early. A few pills, a day or two in the hospital, maybe some minor surgery, and dude was good to go. Nobody was intentionally making him sicker just to profit. They basically think there is a loving potion out there that just gets rid of any cancer you have and makes you immune to it from then on. So what they really want is a vaccine.
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I should preface this by saying that while I am not an oncologist, I am a surgeon and I have experience with cancer. People don't seem to understand that a large part of cancer treatment can be preventative; eating healthy, exercising, not doing drugs (or smoking), and not being massive idiots about what you do and put into your body can all significantly decrease the likelihood of developing cancer. There are more than 100 types of cancer, and barring some rare and exotic types, most have success rates approaching 100% if caught early enough! So please, take care of your body, and deal with the colonoscopies and prostate exams, because the best way to stop cancer is to catch it early and kill it fast.
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Jul 24, 2014 17:48
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Crain posted:They basically think there is a loving potion out there that just gets rid of any cancer you have and makes you immune to it from then on. Ahahahahahah. Yeah, that would go over well. Of course, they already have a vaccine for cervical cancer (I know HPV but it amounts to the same thing) and look how well that's worked.
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Jul 24, 2014 17:59
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Also if they discovered a cure for cancer, our overpopulation problem on Earth would get serious pretty fast. Disease is sort of a thing that has to happen if we want to conserve our planet's resources.
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Jul 24, 2014 18:02
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Excels posted:Also if they discovered a cure for cancer, our overpopulation problem on Earth would get serious pretty fast. Disease is sort of a thing that has to happen if we want to conserve our planet's resources. Or we could, you know, make fewer babies. I'm pretty sure that would work.
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ToxicSlurpee posted:Or we could, you know, make fewer babies. I'm pretty sure that would work. There's no way to control that short of making it law to only have one child per household like China or something.
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Excels posted:There's no way to control that short of making it law to only have one child per household like China or something. If you look at the numbers increasing educational opportunities actually makes that irrelevant. Developed, highly educated countries tend to develop much lower birth rates over time. I don't think it would be a horrifying idea to make birth control free and cap the number of children people can have. Or give some sort of incentive to not have 15 children.
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Excels posted:There's no way to control that short of making it law to only have one child per household like China or something. The best way to lower population is generally agreed to be providing educational and career opportunities for low-income people, especially low-income women. Cheap or free contraception is the second most effective way.
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Jul 24, 2014 19:06
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Get rid of cancer and some other disease will take its place. Basically, we're hosed regardless so go get wasted or high or whatever.
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Jul 24, 2014 19:12
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I've got a statement to make. Better bust out the ol' scotch tape!
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DemeaninDemon posted:Get rid of cancer and some other disease will take its place. Basically, we're hosed regardless so go get wasted or high or whatever. I think the funniest thing is when people post stats like more people are dying of cancer now than ever in history. Well yeah, no poo poo, it's because we cured all the other poo poo that would have killed us before we got cancer. On top of that record keeping is better now and a lot of cancer deaths were written up as "old age" and left at that.
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Destroying cancer would upset the delicate balance between good and evil. A worse disease would surely take its place. Here's a bad blog: http://ask-fury-belle.tumblr.com/ 
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most cancers occur after childbearing age anyway. That 1 in 3 figure that's always bandied about is heavily skewed to 50+ people, like 80-90% of cancers occur in this age group
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ToxicSlurpee posted:I think the funniest thing is when people post stats like more people are dying of cancer now than ever in history. Well yeah, no poo poo, it's because we cured all the other poo poo that would have killed us before we got cancer. On top of that record keeping is better now and a lot of cancer deaths were written up as "old age" and left at that. Get rid of Cancer and there will just be another #1 killer of people (in XYZ demographic). Eventually you're going to start hitting the upper limit of cell life anyway. You're going to start having your genome run out of junk DNA to lost on replication and it'll start forgetting how mitochondria are supposed to work or something. Humans aren't meant to live forever, something will eventually kill us (outside of accidents and purposeful death).
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Who wants to live forever? When love must die o/~ o/~
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Christmas Present posted:so I'm about to defriend this dipshit; can't really remember why we're Facebook friends. I'm involved in local standup comedy, so it's probably a friend of a comic or someone who came to a show or whatever. There's something about this guy that goes beyond the usual idiot. If your scene is like mine, it was one of the comics. And it will be his closer.
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I would totally want to live forever, assuming I got to keep my mind and can still move around and do things.
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Tetracube posted:Here's a bad blog: http://ask-fury-belle.tumblr.com/ I haven't reached the point yet where sexualizing My Little Pony doesn't faze me so... UGH.
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FouRPlaY posted:If your scene is like mine, it was one of the comics. And it will be his closer. yeah Kansas City isn't exactly the most progressive scene, and this guy's from Independence, MO, where he's practically a bleeding heart. That said, I don't think this guy was a comic; he never struck me as the kind of guy that has the guts to get behind a microphone, and he's just too bland. I have another Facebook friend (also from Independence) who is a local comic, and posts chemtrail/NWO/Dees/WAKE UP bullshit, but is also funny enough to keep on my feed.
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Jul 24, 2014 20:32
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How many things can one image be wrong about?
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Tetracube posted:Destroying cancer would upset the delicate balance between good and evil. A worse disease would surely take its place. He (she? no, definitely he) unironically typed "maregina."
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Gimnbo posted:He (she? no, definitely he) unironically typed "maregina." I was going to reply that I'm pretty sure there's some irony here like they could be really into ponies but are clearly mocking the fandom nonetheless but then I clicked on the blog quote:More Checked Privilege art - and Sweetie’s really going to hate this one! It’s censored for the sensitive, so if you want to find out the real cause of CP’s gender confusion follow this NSFW link! http:// HAHA NOPE
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I finally have something to share! Not sure if I'm being the idiot on facebook or not here, but someone certainly is. My stepsister is Will Power, I'm (appropriately) Greta Life. The rest are all her friends who started out reasonable enough  Then it kinda gets worse from there.  And worse, and worse, and worse.  Then you have someone who thinks the IDF is being too humane, of all things.  I do political analysis work. I... kinda got annoyed.  I don't think I was too outta line, was I?
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ToxicSlurpee posted:I think the funniest thing is when people post stats like more people are dying of cancer now than ever in history. Well yeah, no poo poo, it's because we cured all the other poo poo that would have killed us before we got cancer. On top of that record keeping is better now and a lot of cancer deaths were written up as "old age" and left at that. Whenever I've heard someone say "more people are dying of this than ever before!" I've always thought "well yeah, there's a few billion more people living today than there was back than, it's bound to increase," and have never understood the logic behind what they were saying.
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casual poster posted:Whenever I've heard someone say "more people are dying of this than ever before!" I've always thought "well yeah, there's a few billion more people living today than there was back than, it's bound to increase," and have never understood the logic behind what they were saying. Usually I hear it in the idea of "a higher percentage of people die of cancer now than 100 years ago, it's because of X" but yeah that's just as stupid. It's also usually heaped with pseudoscience and bullshit like raw foodism and what have you. Sure contemporary eating habits are frequently horrifyingly awful but it's used to convince people that refusing to see a doctor, ever, while using milk thistle and eating nothing but broccoli and oranges will make you literally immortal.
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If you avoided everything that supposedly causes cancer you'd probably die of starvation if you didn't already die from suffocation or thirst.
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Hihohe posted:If you avoided everything that supposedly causes cancer you'd probably die of starvation if you didn't already die from suffocation or thirst. Fact: Everyone that has had cancer has had a drink of water. What isn't the government telling us? #Illuminati #flouride #sheeple From Grandma-in-law (in this exact order all within a few hours of each other):   
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Nothing gets me more motivated to start doing more for my country with my brothers than a nice, hearty facebook image!
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What's all that nitrogen doing in the air? That's right causing cancer. There's even an n in cancer for nitrogen.
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Hihohe posted:If you avoided everything that supposedly causes cancer you'd probably die of starvation if you didn't already die from suffocation or thirst. One of my favorite books ever was called "Everything Is Bad For You." You can prove that literally anything is, in fact, bad for you and wow did that book accomplish that.
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