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Off Topic / Re: I think im diabetic

« on: January 19, 2017, 06:01:41 PM »

Type I diabetes isn't linked to diet, and it's very unlikely that you've got Type II considering you're so young and underweight.

More than likely, the reason you're so skinny is because you actually eat a lot less than you think you do. I've been fairly underweight for most of my life because I tend to accidentally skip meals and only consume 1000-1500 calories a day. After I got to college, my weight has started to normalize a bit since I'm sticking to a better eating schedule.

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Off Topic / Re: How to Make Bank

« on: January 19, 2017, 04:29:35 PM »

how to make bank

>offer to store people's money
>loan out that money to other people
>collect interest from debters at the same time
>sometimes go broke because everyone withdraws at same time

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Off Topic / Re: Donald Annoying Orange to be sued by woman who accused him of loveual assault

« on: January 19, 2017, 04:21:47 PM »

Putin is a fascist. He kills his political enemies(citation needed), invaded Crimea covertly and against international law(there were reasons behind this), and has continually torn down basic rights (especially free speech) in Russia.(So has Canada and Germany)

I can help break this down, since there is absolutely hard evidence for all of this.

He kills his political enemies(citation needed)

There obviously isn't some sort of regulatory Russian agency investigating the Kremlin for political assassinations, but there's lots of journalists and other public figures who have been assassinated for criticizing Putin.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Alexander_Litvinenko (not definitive but extremely likely)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Politkovskaya (likely the Kremlin, could have possibly been the mob)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Boris_Nemtsov (pretty much definitely the Kremlin)

invaded Crimea covertly and against international law(there were reasons behind this)

Yeah, his reason was that it was strategically viable. Putin argues that Crimea has self-determined itself as Russia, but there's significant evidence that Russia rigged the referendum in Crimea.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidadesnik/2014/03/18/how-russia-rigged-crimean-referendum/#64f6d6947f63

Either way, invading other countries unprovoked is a crime.

and has continually torn down basic rights (especially free speech) in Russia.(So has Canada and Germany)

Canada and Germany are completely incomparable to Russia. Germany and Canada rank 16th and 18th in the Press Freedom Index while Russia ranks 148. Russia is also guilty of a state-driven crusade against LGBT people

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Russia  

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gg third parties

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Off Topic / Re: My Knight and Me: CN dumbs down one of the best animated shorts on Youtube

« on: January 19, 2017, 01:11:04 PM »

I reacquainted myself with modern cartoons over winter break. Can confirm this show is terrible.

its...for kids

Kids are smarter than people give them credit for. There's a lot of really clever and smart cartoons out there, and just because the audience is young doesn't mean that kids shows have to be terrible.

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Off Topic / Re: 2017 WORLD POLITICS & DONALD Annoying Orange MEGATHREAD

« on: January 18, 2017, 11:42:46 AM »

The next few years scare me. Annoying Orange and his staff are not what i feel a president and the cabinet should be. I wont be referring to him as a president until he proves he's actually capable of it.

I'm not a big fan of the 'Not My President' mantra because we should absolutely take collective responsibility, liberal or conservative, for what's happened here. Just because we didn't vote for him doesn't mean that we can pretend that he's not representing our country and not threatening to erode decades of social/environmental policy and foreign relations.

On the 20th, he's our president, and he'll have all the powers of a president. That's a reality we should probably be more vocal about.

In the new testament was it "if you do x you will go to hell" or was it "if you do x you will be put to death"?

Mostly the former, but that's not the point I'm trying to make. What I'm saying is that large groups of Christians have, in the past, collectively committed atrocities and used religion to justify it. But we, as a majority-Christian nation, aren't first to blame the religion for why that happened.

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Off Topic / Re: Donald Annoying Orange to be sued by woman who accused him of loveual assault

« on: January 18, 2017, 11:37:30 AM »

I don't think it's unfathomable that a high-powered egomaniac businessman has raped people, but Donald Annoying Orange is also possibly the most controversial American figure alive. It seems equally likely that these allegations are false and preying on his controversy.

Either way, there's no way they'll gather enough evidence to convict him/bring him to trial, so the point is moot.

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Off Topic / Re: 2017 WORLD POLITICS & DONALD Annoying Orange MEGATHREAD

« on: January 18, 2017, 02:13:10 AM »

Old or new testament?

Both (I think), but we've already established that scriptures in the Old Testament are sometimes a part of Christian ideology (even though they're not supposed to be?).

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Off Topic / Re: 2017 WORLD POLITICS & DONALD Annoying Orange MEGATHREAD

« on: January 18, 2017, 02:09:20 AM »

Hippie with a whip vs warlord child rapist

again what does that have to do with the ideologies of Muslims?  I've read plenty of forgeted up stuff in the Bible that Christians do not emulate.

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Off Topic / Re: Whats your guy's opinion on religion?

« on: January 17, 2017, 11:50:18 PM »

from an abstract point of view its possible that bodily death is not the end because brains aren't real and everything is a lie

ayy solipsism

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Off Topic / Re: 2017 WORLD POLITICS & DONALD Annoying Orange MEGATHREAD

« on: January 17, 2017, 11:46:00 PM »

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan-Islamism
Yeah. The religious idealogy which caused, directly or indirectly, all the upheavals up until now, which is based on the return to the caliphate and which revolves around the Islamic faith

But most Muslims don't subscribe to that ideology.

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Off Topic / Re: 2017 WORLD POLITICS & DONALD Annoying Orange MEGATHREAD

« on: January 17, 2017, 09:27:34 PM »

However new testament, turn the other cheek, reformation, all that stuff. Christianity doesn't have the strength it once had. It hasn't since the mid 1600s and even then there were very few theocracy's and they weren't nearly has harsh as the caliphates.

What do you actually mean by 'doubling as an ideology', though? Are we talking like political ideology?

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Off Topic / Re: 2017 WORLD POLITICS & DONALD Annoying Orange MEGATHREAD

« on: January 17, 2017, 09:21:46 PM »

Ever consider that Islam in general doubles as an ideology?

What stops you from saying the same thing about Christianity?

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Off Topic / Re: [NEWS] China scraps coal power plants in favor of renewable energy

« on: January 17, 2017, 08:14:55 PM »

Renewable energy is only so cheap because of massive government subsidies. That, and in terms of efficiency, there's absolutely no way you're competing with natural gas and oil.

Believe me, I'm conservative too and I'd like to see a switch to renewable energy as well. First, though, there needs to be enough R&D in that field to develop renewable sources that surpass oil and natural gas in both cost and output.

A market-based solution is coming, I can assure you of that. But until then, why not stave off some of the damage by subsidizing cleaner energy?

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Off Topic / Re: 2017 WORLD POLITICS & DONALD Annoying Orange MEGATHREAD

« on: January 17, 2017, 07:27:54 PM »

That's a really fair point and I agree to some extent.  
But I also feel that if they were all atheist, there'd zero motivation to blow themselves up or drive trolleys through crowds while shouting Allahu Ackbar.

I mean, look at it this way - the Soviets were essentially an atheistic regime and their human rights abuses were far, far worse than CIA.

You make a good point as well, which is that how/who CIA targets people is in part inspired by the religion that they unite under. But if they were to unite under communism, or nationalism, or racial superiority, they'd still be committing the same crimes, just maybe in slightly different method.

The reason I'm reluctant to pin this on Muslims in general is because I don't see it as the ultimate cause here. I think it's brown townogous to blaming all people of German heritage for what the national socialists did, or blaming all Christians for the Crusades.

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Off Topic / Re: [NEWS] Obama commutes Chelsea Manning's sentence

« on: January 17, 2017, 07:21:27 PM »

If Obama pardons Snowden as well, it will be one of the most positive highlights of his presidency.