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sassassin posted:Personally I would prefer everything be labelled and would choose non-halal because the animals suffer less. non-halal and halal meat are killed exactly the same way except for the presence of someone/a-recording saying 'allah' when the animal is killed. You (and many others) are conflating "dhabihah halal" and "halal", "dhabihah halal" meat cannot be stunned. When meat is sold as 'halal' is it almost always NOT dhabihah halal, and thus has been killed exactly the same way as non-halal meat. It can be convienient to conflate the two forms of halal, because it makes muslims look worse, when most muslims do not care about the super strict fundamentalist definition of halal.
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Darth Freddy posted:So the fact that I like V8 juice means that I will never get sick or get cancer? Liking V8 is its own sickness
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May 8, 2014 23:11
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Serperoth posted:Please tell me you showed him the works of Erich von Däniken. He wrote similar stuff to that, about ancient aliens and the like, and from what I know it was considered bullshit even in his day. Most of the recent 'Ancient Aliens' stuff IS essentially von daniken - he runs the institute that the crazy-haired guy is from, and it's all funded by EvD as well.
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May 9, 2014 23:44
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Alien Arcana posted:It doesn't matter anyway - even if there were restrictions, they'd never be good enough. One person told me that we should only be allowed rice or potato - "they're called subsistence foods for a reason" - and we don't even have food stamps here (although Walmart/ASDA are trying to lobby for them - with restrictions on which supermarkets they're valid in, of course).
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May 14, 2014 20:58
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Doomsayer posted:I don't know why I engage with stuff like this, Sorry, but not everyone does subtraction like that, and yeah, it seems a pretty absurd way to do it me. Using your '63 - 27' example, my thought process is '60 - 20 = 40' '43 - 7 = 36', the idea of adding poo poo up never really springs to mind at all.
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May 15, 2014 19:22
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Pilchenstein posted:Hark at loving future boy over here, my first mp3 player was 32 megs. I still have one somewhere that can hold 32MB of mp3s or 64MB of WMA. And no, that's not some magical compression, it just only lets you use the full memory if you use protected WMAs from some obscurely old version of WMP.
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May 15, 2014 21:03
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Grraarrgghh posted:This is a two-fer. Both "The world is becoming scary to me!" There's also the  of posting a screed about technology ruining human interaction TO loving FACEBOOK
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May 17, 2014 15:53
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ScarletBrother posted:I semi-agree with not eating preservatives-laden food, but fungus != bacteria. Wasn't that whole 'happy meal never gets moldy' experiment debunked pretty hard and it shown that McD's food will happily go moldy, anyway?
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May 21, 2014 19:02
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Here's the wonderful BNP leaflet we got:  In particular, note the 'UKIP aren't racist enough!!' and 'vote for us to protest the real parties' points
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May 21, 2014 20:52
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Because it's not like there was ever a blockbuster movie that had an image a bit like that as one of it's poster images...   oh.
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May 22, 2014 15:26
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canyoneer posted:People overuse OCD as a punchline. "Even when I was a kid, I liked having my crayons in order by color. I'm so OCD, tee hee!" is different than "I will have an anxiety attack unless I am able to fix those out of order crayons right now" At least that's an opening to being super autistic and explaining the difference between OCD and OCPD 
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May 22, 2014 18:39
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Ninjasaurus posted:I always wonder what their criteria for "destroy America" is, because I'm not seeing any fireballs going off at regular intervals, roving packs of Reavers or internment camps around my neighborhood. That's because you're asleep, sheeple!
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May 23, 2014 16:06
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Given whoever posted it has the option to delete the 'WW can't be raped' poster's tweets, I'm guessing it's someone trolling - who the hell would post an image with the premise of 'look how lovely a person I am!!'
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May 23, 2014 18:33
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Thankfully, almost all vorephiles are just about the 'fantasy' and fanfic. There's been like 2-3 cases worldwide where cannibal victims have been vore fans. I used to work with a vorephile and he was odd but harmless (at least, physically, dealing with him was often mentally traumatic, and he was a furry as well, they often are)
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May 23, 2014 23:38
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Apogee15 posted:And obviously since the government gave them a loan, anything GM does now reflects badly on the government too. lol The US government held 61% of the shares for a while (2008-2010), it was a partial nationalisation, not just a loan. Because it happened around the time of the elections, many didn't notice. The US Treasury still holds 1% of their stock, AFAIK.
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May 25, 2014 00:04
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Mr. Bad Guy posted:When the hell did Tranny become a "horrible slur"? Around 1970 or so
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May 26, 2014 12:39
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Toriori posted:Sorry to further this, but I was really confused about this whole thing, because wasn't it like season 6 when people started freaking out about it? RuPaul has contributed SO MUCH to the gay community and I never took she-mail as a slam against trans* people because the whole purpose of the show is gay men, dressed as women, and it was their daily mail. I'm fully supportive of lgbtq or however it is preferred to be written currently, but was it like, many trans people who took offence to it? Or is mostly like, a loud minority? People have been telling RuPaul that he shouldn't use 'tranny' because it's offensive since sometime in the 90s. And yes, it's a loving offensive word.
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May 26, 2014 13:06
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Sodium Chloride posted:Hotdogs are made out of dead soldiers? I assume the implication is that the hotdogs were really cooked in oil.
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May 26, 2014 17:23
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Vintersorg posted:*posts status about zinging a subway employee over cheese* Well, clearly, you made a whole 2 posts, that's obviously more invested than the 6 he made.
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May 26, 2014 19:13
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Lazy_Liberal posted:One time I got an anti-Semitic comment removed on the first try! Good luck with sexist/racist/anti-indigenous stuff though. Hey, when 'Mark Zuckerberg' is a black woman's name, THEN those things will matter 
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May 27, 2014 16:53
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PaganGoatPants posted:Want to know why the world is hosed up? Audio books. In my experience/findings of talking about the subject with people, it seems there are different ways that people experience audio books, and for one group of people, of which I am a member, that find it utterly impossible to fully absorb the story or characters via audio, it just isn't as deep as reading the words ourselves. So I can see why someone would say that it promotes illiteracy, if you were a member of that group, and didn't realise that not everyone experiences audio books that way.
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May 27, 2014 19:42
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Atmus posted:Depleted Uranium Bomb Residue? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depleted_uranium#Contamination_as_a_result_of_the_Afghan_War It is *a thing*, but the stuff about it spreading via weather patterns is likely crazy talk.
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May 29, 2014 14:30
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Nibbles141 posted:Does no one point out that if everyone was armed and an incident like this happened there would probably be 1000x the casualties as everyone would start shooting at everyone as who the gently caress would be able to tell what was actually going on. Collateral damage is as american as apple pie, bombing wedding parties, and ignoring science.
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May 30, 2014 13:51
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CharlestheHammer posted:Or something about sample sizes, could be either. Observer bias too - had Commubot died, he'd not be here to retell the anecdote
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Fatkraken posted:also calling it Soylent is stupid unless it's either made from people or from a mixture of soy and lentils (which was the etymology for Soylent in the movie and what it was purported to be made of) The original "soylent" was soy+lentils, but 'soylent green' specifically was supposed to be some green water plankton sludge that's been solidified. I can't remember what red and yellow were supposed to be, but I think those had already progressed away from the soy/lentil base too.
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Jun 7, 2014 17:41
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I just love how people are calling for her to resign/not be re-elected based on something taken entirely out of context that she corrected within minutes. the ... part read ' based on where they were born', and thus is making the claim that reducing prejudice is a good thing I mean, I don't know poo poo about her politics, and don't give much of a poo poo about SC either way anyway. Just seems a bit sleazy to do all the same.
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Jun 10, 2014 14:50
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Pilchenstein posted:This just makes my head hurt. Why is she censoring the word "black"? Because these types of people honestly believe that as long as they don't say certain words, they are not racist, thus she can say things like 'send them back' but as long as she doesn't specifically say 'black' or words like that, it's 'ok'.
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Jun 10, 2014 19:18
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Nibbles141 posted:Isn't there a legit condition or something where people experience no fear and it fucks up their lives cause they'll just walking into traffic and poo poo like that? Some psychopaths have no emotion of fear, but they don't do stuff like that usually.
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Jun 11, 2014 14:16
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Tunicate posted:It's true. Studies have shown that the legibility of students' handwriting drops after they're given the public school instruction for cursive. We had a math teacher from eastern europe that wrote the letter 'z' the same as the cursive cyrillic 'ze' character ('З'), which made her algebra loving awful to read - I bet poo poo like that doesn't happen in posho schools.
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Jun 12, 2014 20:35
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Grrl Anachronism posted:Shared from the Tea Party. Numbers-wise, how does this even make sense? They usually go by the republican talking point of 50-some % of americans receiving some form of welfare, ignoring that the vast majority are either retired people or people working but not 'well off'.
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Sexual Aluminum posted:I call her my mom. Wha? she gives it out for everyone else.
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Jun 27, 2014 16:55
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I've seen loads of people die, the only beliefs that it's made stronger in me is 'it's a bloody stupid idea to race motorbikes' and 'don't point guns at people unless you want them to cease existing'
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Jul 1, 2014 13:47
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Who the hell *can't* fire a gun, they're not rocket science. My first use of a real gun was a No 4 rifle when I was like 10 or 12, I managed 8 out of 10 on the target. I mean, really, 'aim, breathe in, hold breath, squeeze trigger' it's not hard ffs. If a kid can do it, you can.
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Jul 3, 2014 19:26
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Excels posted:it's only dumb if you're not in the best tribe. Because you know, once you've signed up for one site you can't use or sign-up for any other sites.
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Jul 7, 2014 17:37
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HonorableTB posted:I've always wondered how employers or insurance would know if you're a smoker in order to charge you more. Unless you're smoking at work like a chump instead of using smokeless tobacco that doesn't affect other people, anyway, how would they know what you're doing on your downtime? They force you to take an annual medical as part of the coverage, if the notes they get say you're a smoker, bam. I mean, you COULD lie to your doctor, I guess...
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Jul 8, 2014 19:40
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Note how the 'gamers' portion has a 'dreamlike' quality to it... yeah.
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Jul 8, 2014 23:27
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Breaky posted:And we didn't get in until the last month of 1941. Not that it didn't help things bounce back faster but the trend had been coming down for years already, I wouldn't say that WW2 was responsible for anything more than speeding the process / making the recovery even better in the end. Anyway sorry for the derail. Lend-Lease, and the "Arsenal of Democracy" before it, was pulling US unemployment down already though, which like it or not was an affect of WW2.
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Jul 11, 2014 15:03
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Strange that this would happen the same day as someone posted this: http://www.reddit.com/r/tifu/comments/2azwsy/tifu_by_making_myself_into_a_dick_unicorn_using/ It's almost like someone (everyone) is lying.
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Be grateful it wasn't a 'they stole that from duke nukem' post.
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newreply.php posted:Yeah I forgot to specify that eating meat isn't at all similar to watching kiddie porn, just that it's the exact same justification train of thought. Have actually heard that argument used for it too, along the lines of 'they should let admitted/convicted pedos use confiscated kiddie porn because that way they'll be able to sate their urges on material that's already done all the harm anyway'.
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