mdk

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Hell, I just found this article about how, due to the sudden change in humidity, a normally harmless bacteria has now killed off two thirds of the world's Saiga, because of climate change. Literally 200,000 animals dropped dead over the course of a few days back in 2015, as the world grows hotter.

@POOHEAD189

I remember when that happened. BBC was following that herd for one of their Planet Earth series, don't remember which variant (or if it made the cut, I mean, that's sad shit).

It's absolute horseshit to link that to climate change. Genetic diversity in a global population of 600k is very homogenized (am I using that word right? It's an inbred species). They're vulnerable to pathogens and they caught one. Shit happens. To their credit, the real actual scientists who were on the scene said as much at the time. Apparently, now, someone's throwing that whole mass-death onto the altar of climate change, and the people who are pulling that BS are the reason why I'm skeptical of every climate-change headline ever. Because they're lying.

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unrelated...

interesting if true

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is the word nibba banned or are you just personally offended by it

@Normie

Mostly the latter. We don't ban words, but we do have policies against the (very) thinly-veiled meaning.

Mostly the latter though.

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The blue and non-white parts of Commiefornia can secede and they'd be doing the rest of us a favor.

@Normie

Classy.

nibba

@Normie

Yeah let's not.

In other news, Haiti is a shithole

Oh wait that's Detroit. Hang on.

Haiti is a shithole

Oh wait that's Baltimore. Hang on.

Haiti is a shithole

Oh wait that's St. Louis. Hang on.

Haiti is a shithole

Honorable mention to East Los, they don't put their dirty laundry on the internet. Also, Haiti legit is a shithole. Just ask, idunno, literally anybody. It's amusing that the sheer act of acknowledging this is grounds for impeachment -- meanwhile not a damn word about stealing billions from their recovery.

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Let's define "everyone that's posted in this thread" as a group. Who among us is the leader?

@catchamber

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let's change the subject

should we repeal women's suffrage, or just deny women the right to vote

@Normie

Is there some conceivable way we could do both at once?

Just, ya know, thinking ou.... um... outside the, uh.... box....

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<Snipped quote by mdk>
They loved her so much they voted for her multiple times! _{[citation needed]}

@POOHEAD189

My grandfather was actually a big-time Hilary supporter, like, huge. Voted for her in the primaries and the general election.

Of course he's been dead for five years, but that's the kind of popularity Hilary had.

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What actual human instances we have were in between having strong leadership and no strong leadership, people would willingly choose the latter category.

@SleepingSilence

Well yeah, a SHITLOAD of people voted for Hilary.

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um

I imagine that every instance of major technological progress, from the wheel to the cell phone, has been accompanied by the sentiment that life can now be a utopian paradise and governments are no longer necessary. Eventually that will be true. Wanna know how to spot it? We won't have governments anymore, because absolutely nobody would consent to that shit unless it were necessary.

Birds have democratic governments, their president is the Bald Eagle.

Fish are an anarchocapitalist dynastic meritocracy.

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@mdk Adam ate of the fruit because Eve convinced him, and she ate of the fruit and convinced Adam because the Serpent convinced her, and they convinced Eve because they rebelled against God out of a desire to surpass them. All of that happened because God created everything while knowing it would develop as such.

@catchamber

I was kinda going for the other.... but I take your point.

You want an obvious example of God violating free will? Go look up all of the times God hardened Pharaoh's heart when Moses asked him to let the Hebrews go. You obviously know how God "responded" to those "choices". It's not necessary for me to mention this to prove my point, because all you need to agree is to understand the consequences of God's described qualities and actions.

Well that was Moses' interpretation anyway, but yeah. God certainly can interfere. That's neat and all, I'm just much more fascinated that for the most part, he doesn't.

If we have free will, the Judeo-Christian God isn't omnipotent, omniscient, and the creator of everything, because those two conditions are mutually exclusive. You may feel like you have free will, but that could just be their will controlling your sentiments.

Could.