What is your favorite obscure or foreign soda?

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Birch beer. Not obscure at all in New England; not very findable elsewhere.

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What kind of decent bike can be had for $100? A used one. This is what Craigslist is for. Try not to get a stolen one.

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Intel keep re-using the brand name though.

My laptop has a U2300 "Pentium" processor: a dual-core, hyperthreaded, 1.2GHz processor with 1Mbyte of cache on each core. A bit of a ways from the original P5 "Pentium", which was a single-core 60MHz processor with 16Kbyte of cache.

Intel seems to have pretty much maintained the Celeron, Pentium, and Xeon names for the past several years: Celerons are low-budget processors with no cache to speak of, Pentiums are mid-range, and Xeons are the heavy-duty server stuff.

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"Trolling" is short for "trolling for newbies", as in, posting obviously wrong things so that newbies will respond with corrections and sound like dorks. Most of what is now called "trolling" would have been called "flamebait" then, as it tends to be intended to elicit rage rather than dorkitude.

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It's spelled "coproation".

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Fox will shit a brick regardless of what happens. They're in the business of building walls to divide people apart and weaken our society. Those walls are made of ... oh, you get the picture.

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Sounds like the difference between copyright infringement and plagiarism ... which are, in fact, completely independent of one another: you can do either one without doing the other.

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Umm ... the idea of a person not being aware of their own desires is a lot older than Freud, sufficiently so that Shakespeare makes passing reference to it in "Much Ado About Nothing" regarding Benedick and Beatrice's suppressed attraction to one another.

Freud wasn't very original. What he did was to present a combination of commonsense and speculation in a compelling way ... and to invent (with the help of many admirers) the myth of his own originality.

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Most people are not interested in having their beliefs corrected if wrong. They are, however, very interested in having their beliefs confirmed if right. This is called confirmation bias. It means that people are more skeptical and forgetful towards evidence that disagrees with their beliefs, and more credulous and likely to remember evidence that supports their beliefs.

Most people are more interested in holding on to their beliefs, defending them the way they would defend their own house or family, than in finding out whether those beliefs are really right or wrong.

People are especially protective of their beliefs regarding other people and society, because revising those beliefs means that you have to change the way you actually behave towards others -- which can mean revising your social role, which is difficult! (People try to avoid believing things which imply that they need to do something difficult. That's why they often try easy-but-unlikely-to-work solutions to a problem before difficult-but-certain ones.)

As such, it is unsurprising that studies which disconfirm generally-held beliefs receive little press and do not make it into the public conception of the world very readily.

What do we do with this?

Study the methods of rationality; encourage others to do the same.

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MKULTRA was the CIA project to use psychedelics to develop brainwashing and interrogation techniques. It wasn't "trauma-based mind control", it was a rather mad-scientist project involving lots and lots of drugs and some fucked-up situations.

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It's also worth noting that female-on-male violence tends to be portrayed in the media as justified or excusable -- in exactly the same manner that male-on-female violence once was. Maintaining the notion that domestic violence is OK for anyone is anti-feminist.

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So, you versus SCP-682?

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Umm ... that's what urgent care clinics are for: when you need to be seen today, but don't have a severe or life-threatening condition.

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No, I'm too busy being appalled by the posters who assume that their entire audience are heterosexual males, and rather uninsightful and bigoted ones at that.

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I did say "rich kids", didn't I?

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This resembles my impression of truffles -- the fungus kind, not the chocolate kind.

I like mushrooms, especially wild mushrooms -- finding wild morels is an awesome feature of spring where I live. But as far as I can tell, truffles, and anything with truffle in it, all taste like dirt.

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Especially when there's Irish whiskey, like Bushmill's Black Bush.

But seriously ... there are Scotch whiskies which are not vile concoctions of smoke and methanol, and are in fact rather pleasant. I'd note Glenmorangie, Aberlour, and Balvenie as three of 'em.

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But he did not screw the deputy.

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Suggestion: Ask in /r/feminisms instead; you're likely to get more helpful answers and fewer "omg crazy girl boobies" comments.

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Egg mass. If they're really tiny and orange, could be ladybug.

Otherwise, possibly a weird orangey lichen?

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Where are you? From what I can tell, you're probably in a school for athletic rich kids. So, transferring is a good idea.

A friend of mine went to Amherst College for one semester and hated it -- she was scholarly and interested in classes and discussing ideas, while most of her classmates there were interested primarily in sports and booze -- then transferred to a better program at another school and was much happier.

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I'm not so sure. He refers to a voluntary free society. This tends to presume some level of equal participation.

It's worth noting that in actual American history, white racists did not rely merely on voluntary exclusion to keep blacks down; rather, they used both private and governmental force and violence.

For instance, the infamous Montgomery buses did not discriminate against blacks on the basis of private prejudice by the bus company (which was owned by General Motors and didn't give a shit either way) but rather because of local law: it was illegal to operate a non-discriminatory bus service in Montgomery. If the bus company had chosen to accede to the protesters and operate without discrimination, it would have been prosecuted for breaking the law.

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Most of the cases I've read about suggest that with a few exceptions, "child porn" is not made to be sold, but rather it is made by individual child-abusers recording their acts and sharing or exchanging them with others.

In other words, its creation is more analogous to "happy slapping" (bullies committing acts of assault and battery and recording them for later entertainment and sharing) than to commercial pornography. While the assault is more severe, the economics are the same: it's not a commercial endeavor, it's a bunch of creeps committing crimes and recording them to show each other.

The exception seems to be a very small number of commercial child-porn outfits that operate under the guise of modeling agencies, e.g. the one that was busted in Ukraine in 2004.

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This ad has failed utterly, for me. The only thing that it has shown is that people are able to be happy even when they're poor.

Maybe that's the point: that poor and hungry people have hopes and dreams and are trying to live their lives -- they are not a bunch of stupid animals, or monster criminals, or brainless addicts, or just a faceless Social Problem.

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Well, the license plate doesn't any more.

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