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@MidLifeVirus @CollinRugg Not to mention that, in many jurisdictions, the "shod human foot" kicking or stomping someone who is down is considered *deadly force*. Just like shooting or stabbing.

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@campbelIbain @elly_bangs I've read and heard many a story about straight men not realizing they were being flirted with until too late.

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@Zooophagous He did it for the insurance money. (Yes, he had life insurance on his son. No, his son wasn't a child star or anything like that. Was the agent who sold him the insurance out sick the day they taught about insurable interests?)

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@AutisticCallum_ I think that's a human trait. Maya Angelou hit it on the nose. Even when people forget precisely what you said or did, they'll always remember how they felt about you. (Neurological experiments confirm this too.)

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@TrioladeJ @CuddlePotato @jeanphil50 @Gritty20202 "Unlimited income potential" is a common phrase in sales job ads.

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@middlecground @ijustwanabethe1 @jennelikejennay "Well if you don't understand I'm certainly not going to explain it!" Assholes.

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@seaphilia @Theholisticpsyc @intelligent_eat Even when dealing with a narcissist, it's only courteous to just send them a message telling them the relationship is over. Feel free to (1) just leave it at that, (2) tell them not to contact you again, and (3) block them immediately.

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@shoutingboy @eeveeallergy Four that want to own you, two that want to stone you, and one who says she's a friend of yours?

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@larson10_jenell @pnkrokhockeymom People in a position of power "encouraged" people to give up their right to the secret ballot. That's a big problem.

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@highmetallicity @DrPsyBuffy Maybe every day starting the first day of class you can announce "I haven't gotten any indications that anyone's tested positive!" And then on certain days you could...forget to make the announcement.

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@midgetmoxie @bales1181 Stripes. "Well sir, we were on our way to the Bingo parlor, but then one thing led to another..."

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@SharylAttkisson *sigh* The vaccines don't guarantee any particular individual total protection against COVID. Vaccines work collectively, not individually. They're only good if most people get them. 1/2

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@BeingCharisBlog Speaking as a staunch pro-masker, who spent all day Friday (including out in the hot sun) wearing an N95, I'm sorry to disagree. Mask wearing, especially for an entire working day, *is* uncomfortable. And if we deny that we won't be taken seriously.

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@oldJavaGuy @MarieSnyder27 I wonder how their instructors feel about this policy.

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@Alicia_Bittle_ I did. At 35.

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@bootleg_gene You can support a movement without supporting everything, or even almost everything, that it does. You can both see threats to women's safety at the hands of certain powerful men and also understand that not all or even almost all women who claim to be victims actually are.

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@autienelle Speaking as an Aspie, I've found it no easier to socialize with other Aspies than with NTs. When you know one Aspie, you know...one Aspie.

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@davidhogg111 @VitoMannone77 In other words, harassment is anything coming from someone you suspect disagrees with you. Got it.

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@DavidWoycechow2 @Rochell32834185 @datepsych Not to mention "unwanted" contacts. Uh, what if my mind-reading helmet is in the shop that week?

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@kylascan really kicked it on @Marketplace by deftly balancing the emotional implications of market changes with historical perspective -- great point about the Panic of 1907!

Trying to explain the bank runs? Maybe blame the "takeconomy" - Marketplace

Many factors led to Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse, but content creator Kyla Scanlon says "social media risk" accelerated the slide.

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@GoldwagNathan "It is 1863, at Gettysburg, and elite warriors are being defeated by shopkeepers." Including a significant number of immigrants.

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@0xgaut @JoFromPe Uh no. You don't get to force people to tip, let alone a minimum amount, unless you've already announced it in advance and gotten explicit consent.

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@wil_da_beast630 @AmanurlGbt60934 Not to mention that Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and Imperial Japan claimed to be oppressed "have-nots".

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@DesertedLookout @Cocolh44 I see your point. Please note that the delivery charge doesn't go to the driver. It's just a selective price increase. Also, drivers use their own cars (and pay for their own gas, maintenance, insurance, etc). And as far as I know they don't even get mileage.

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@lokkju @mekkaokerekebye Of course. Because when you use a piece of software you need to be a complete authority on said software. Even the other person's version! Being ready an hour ahead, and testing everything 15 minutes ahead, shows foresight.

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@_faeriedust_ Wait to disclose until after you get a firm offer (or start on the job). If applying for a US federal government job, get a "Schedule A letter" from a vocational counselor or similar professional. The letter doesn't specify your disability, and you can use it to get preference.

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@RHolemanWrites I'm so sorry. If you feel comfortable saying, how did you find out?

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@RHolemanWrites I'm glad s/he thought to call you. Again, I'm so sorry.

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@DuckieLouise @EarthIsMyName "He's a man so he should just take it or turn his back and get it worse" = VERY not good.

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@men_are_human By the way, if men didn't fear being laughed at or humiliated more than being killed, very few would fight in a war. Not to mention emotional damage is often far worse than physical damage. Ask any young woman (or man) who self-harms.

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@SethDillon @daveweigel Can you pay Mr. Weigel, say, 25-30 years' salary? Because if he does what you suggest, he may never work anywhere near his current level again. And he's got decades of working life ahead of him.

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@eigenrobot Everyone should learn, by early puberty, about Chesterton's Fence.

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@ROTTENLOVR @MeddlinMegs @AdmiralMemo @julieruble @ZeitgeistClown @DiaryofaSickGrl It's an arms race, really. Precisely because some people disregard consent, some people feel they have to call it an allergy. Well, next step: The assholes actually disregard allergies now. I don't give a fuck. Preference, allergy, whatever. No means no -- how hard is that?

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@DrProudman And...given the British "racism, discrimination, poverty & a 'hostile' environment"...how many refugees do you see going the other way?

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@CathyYoung63 Mr. Sacks: Tell me you've never heard the word "Pyrrhic" without actually saying you've never heard the word "Pyrrhic".

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@men_are_human And yes, other men. Almost like men act as individuals, not as parts of a gender Leviathan.

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@bookwyrm102571 @samanthamarika1 People can tell your personality through your acts.

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@DrProudman You mean besides sending him to prison for years?

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@hoovlet @Harvard Professor Hooven, one thing that makes me really uneasy is all the graduate students somehow agreeing on throwing you under the bus.

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@ABlotcky Or unless said parent abuses or mistreats them.

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@NGrossman81 I think the point here is the "aspect," as you put it, was the atomic bomb, which as you know was dropped only on Japan.

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"Under international law, Israel is not obligated to safeguard the lives of civilians when they are in close proximity to legitimate terror targets. Nonetheless, Israel goes above and beyond to protect their lives."

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The beautiful but ultimately terrible delusions are no more: "We thought we could build a high wall and inflict some losses on Hamas each time they fired rockets at the Israeli civilian population, believing that they valued their lives and wouldn't try too hard. We believed

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@lokkju @mekkaokerekebye Presumably Ms. Qi deleted it because she knew how callous this made *her* look.

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@QueerlyAutistic On the one hand, many of us come off as "Little Professors" starting in childhood and adolescence. On the other hand, many of us have people routinely underestimate our ages. By quite a lot sometimes.

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@NicoleLewisLCSW @jcrawfordtv Not to mention you need a diagnosis for educational and employment accommodations.

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Oh and by the way, according to studies, 2-10% is how many accusations are *proven* false. Big difference between false and proven false. And also between false and true -- there's also wrongful/mistaken. (Unless of course you believe in guilty until and unless proven innocent.)

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“I had someone say to me at a public event ‘I know you’re innocent but why don’t you just fall on your sword in order to help the #metoo movement?’” Alan Dershowitz #InternationalWomensDay

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@michelletandler "I am not advocating for public hangings." "I'm not racist, but...."

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@gas_biz And get better sandwiches! Sincerely, Clark W Griswold

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@a_centrism It's even more nuanced than that. In 2003, I read about a study of European bill-paying habits. English, Dutch, and German folk were best at paying on time. Mediterraneans were the worst. (The French were in the middle.)

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@AutisticCallum_ Major pet peeve: I ask a yes/no question, the other person gives a voluminous answer (and doesn't *introduce* it with "yes" or "no" so at least I have a context). Bonus points if they deliberately try to talk around it. 1/X

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@MediClit "It would be helpful if men did not frame the fight for female equality and liberation as a threat to males." It would be even more helpful if the more radical feminists refrained.

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@_ali_taylor So, let me get this straight. You went through abuse. So no one else's fears or disasters count. Am I missing something?

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@emrazz If a man is accused of sexually assaulting someone or abusing a woman, people tend to believe it. If a woman is accused of sexually assaulting or abusing a man, people tend to figure, respectively, he was a lucky guy or he must have deserved it.

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@saermer What you said! We can learn, say, how closely to approach someone you don't know well. It's still hard to know when someone wants to leave, especially if they don't explicitly turn away. "THEY'RE TRYING TO BE SUBTLE AND NOT HURT YOUR FEELINGS!" Doesn't make it easier for us.

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@DrProudman (1) How the heck do you know exactly how many complaints are false, or how often men get raped? (2) Did you know complaints can be incorrect even if they aren't (deliberately) false? (3) Did you know up to 10% of complaints are *proven* false? 1/X

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@earth7ing @Theholisticpsyc Sometimes, the right thing to do isn't the thing you feel like doing at the time. One can send a simple email / social media message / text: "I feel our relationship has run its course, and it's best to end it. Please don't contact me any more. I wish you the best."

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@SophieShay @sumair_shirazi @Oneiorosgrip @Powerful_Memes In case you weren't aware, many if not most men have erections at some point while asleep. In fact, the lack of such erection is considered a sign of physical (not just psychological) impotence.

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@FreeBlckThought For heaven's sake, "hip hip hooray" was on the list -- because a Nazi chant way back when was based on a variant of it.

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@psyctriper @MarieSnyder27 *sigh* Do you seriously think all good social norms should be codified in law?

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@itsthedogsfault @billybinion @jennylynegan "Accuracy in reporting is probably something a journalist should be concerned with." You found this out...presumably from Mr. Binion's own article. Which Mr. Binion himself had linked to.

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@GwenEvaBearLuvs As you know, nothing new about this. Old trope: Long-suffering wife at o-dark-thirty waiting at the front door with a rolling pin. Or a frying pan.

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@mykola Many autistics feel that way and thus prefer condition-first language. Many other people with autism feel they should be seen as individuals, not through the lens of their condition, and thus prefer person-first language.

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@men_are_human Sooo...sexually molesting a stripper is being sexual? But only when a *woman* does it, right?

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@igarglewithfire I'm married to the only girlfriend I ever had. Whom I met at the tender age of 29 1/2. Now our marriage is old enough to vote. I was a virgin on my wedding night... ...wait for it... ...and I'm just fine with people not being virgins on their wedding nights.

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@TheRealDudish But, aibohphobia (fear of palindromes) is one.

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@obi_dawn @AutisticCallum_ Such people tend not to make that mistake with me twice. Probably because I show exponentially more annoyance each time I have to repeat "no". People like that are boundary testing and need to be shut down.

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@jrfwitty @brclothwrites Uh, great way to get a visit from (1) the cops or (2) an angry male friend or relative. You're absolutely right about ghosting. But two wrongs don't make a right. And not only continuing to try contact but also upping the ante sends a bad message.

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@HoneyBadgerBite @KrongarB "Also, IME, most men don't want casual sex, they want a relationship." Louder for the people in the back!

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@sey_mour_butts @juliavkril Which would explain why no fascist regime ever signed a pact with the Soviet Union, and certainly no fascist ever served a Communist regime even after WWII. Oh wait....

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@mensrightsbunny Dear G*d. If an allegation is false it's false. Any abuser can cry they were abused in the past and often that's true. So what?

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@stewdotart @HumanbeingAwk @inmyhauntedhome Closely related to "no common sense" and "book smarts but no street smarts".

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@HoneyBadgerBite Because of course, if women knew some safety advice actually works much of the time, there'd be far fewer victims for Dr. Taylor and her crew to (1) "help" and (2) use as political and cultural cannon fodder.

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@SarahTheHaider Among other things, in the US pay is often negotiated. However, women who try to negotiate are more often seen negatively than men who do so. Women know this, and tend to accept the first salary offer because negotiating more pay may not be worth the risk of being disliked. 3/X

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@karenwhybro @giulivo72 As opposed to, say, anti-rape activism, which is never co-opted by, say, women out for revenge or power.

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@SarahTheHaider A law which holds employers strictly liable for equalizing pay -- which doesn't accept "But the men just happened to negotiate more! as an excuse -- can solve that problem. 4/X

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@NoNonsenseND That's like saying a car runs too fast to have engine or steering trouble.

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@DrProudman So this of course also means no waving women's safety around as an excuse for anti-male bigotry...right?

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@AutisticCallum_ Or, bare minimum, first *read* what the person took such time and effort to write. You want to respond on your own terms, at least let the other person initiate on theirs.

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@Aella_Girl Food is food. It's at the expense of other living creatures, without their consent. Every living creature works this way (with the possible exception of vultures and other pure scavengers). Crops and trees don't consent to give us their products either.

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@DrProudman You just repeated, uncritically, an accusation by a woman. Tell me again men don't need to fear false or wrongful accusations by women.

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@heyitsalexsu At my wife's law school graduation, Chief Justice John Roberts -- in his keynote speech -- quipped that he would tell no lawyer jokes. Because the lawyers don't think they're funny, and the non-lawyers don't think they're jokes.

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@Feminist_Incel @men_are_human @NeoWakti @ItsMyIsland712 Victim blame much? (Only if the victim is a man and the aggressors are women, right?)

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@men_are_human "Your personal experience with abuse from a woman isn't a serious societal problem." Perhaps not. But deliberately sweeping that gendered abuse under the carpet, IS. Has Upgrade_U learned nothing from the experience of abused *women* as recently as 50 years ago?

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@Jebediahknox @The_RomaArmy Jebby, as long as you're living there's hope. Things can get better if you make them. You can only do so while you're still breathing,

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@Aella_Girl Meat is necessary to us in ways that sex -- let alone sex with animals -- isn't. No one cares about the consent of our food sources. Good people care about the consent of sexual partners.

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@Drazinononda @AutisticCallum_ Sometimes they stop asking you in the course of dumping or firing you. Not necessarily a win for you.

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@SarahTheHaider Your argument is much more popular among right-wingers than it is correct. Like much formal Economics training, it assumes away common human irrationalities -- like gender-based prejudice. 2/X

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@men_are_human They said "sexual harassers and rapists". Sexual harassment -- at least as legally defined, rightly or wrongly -- is quite broad.

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@stacygyoung I assume you mean to make "American Indian" costumes. If so, wow. Just yesterday, my daughter's preschool teacher told me they don't even say "the I-word [Indian]". (They'd just discussed how the Wampanoags had greeted American colonists.)

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@PaulTonkinson @goinggodward Even if true, so what? There's a maximum BAC to drive, not to defend oneself. And being big just means you have to be more careful -- doesn't mean you have to stand there and take it.

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@datepsych The husband didn't just ask for a paternity test. He refused to help care for the baby in question until the test confirmed he was the father. And the husband and wife are cool now. It's the husband's family who mistreated her and didn't apologize.

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@loopylou1000 @MsEisenband @heartofhonor231 A little inclusion would be nice too. Like not establishing a dominant religion -- especially not in a public school classroom.

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@Oneiorosgrip Kelsey Jay must not have heard of: (1) "Morning / nighttime woodies". (2) Involuntary (stress- / fear-related) erections. (3) Involuntary arousal/orgasm with female rape victims.

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@ScottGreenfield Could be considered threatening (yes, a true threat) and/or harassment.

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@HistoryBoomer @ayagruber @justinamash @lizrhoffman @RemyCRH @ClaireBerlinski @FreeRangeKids @Laurie_Garrett @alexstubb @Yascha_Mounk @larabazelon @WarintheFuture @samk_harris @sapinker @TheFIREorg @glukianoff @MaxBoot @SarahTheHaider @asymmetricinfo @CHSommers @barrydeutsch @amyalkon

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@mylifeisabiglie @Gritty20202 Always gotta watch out for that "up to".

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@AS_Protestant *Have* her get an abortion? Which century marriage are we talking about here? 18th?

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@drkateperry In 2006, I taught an online MBA course. From Day One, every student had access to every week's work. I was asked how I felt about emailing students each week to alert them of the next week's assignments. I said I disagreed, but would do it if ordered. They fired me.

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@zunguzungu Or it might be the people who have been firing rockets from Gaza. Rockets that sometimes misfire.

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