@i_isbored_ @nocontextmemes The reason it lowers prices is *BECAUSE* it overloads the system. Price follows function.
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Aaron M. Long
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Aaron M. Long
@AaronMLong
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San Francisco, CA شامل ہوئے Ekim 2013
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@AaronMLong @nocontextmemes The post we're talking about literally says that the reason isn't because it overloads the system but because it lowers prices
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@Animalizum Why would you take training tips from some rando in sweatpants when you can watch one of the best boxers in the world?
youtube.com/watch?v=P3lcNP…
YouTube
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@OneBadDude_ SSRIs don't cure mental illnesses, they just alter them.
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“Just a little tidbit of information, at 44 years old, I have lots of eggs left. I’m very fertile, I got it tested.”
“I want you to know I’m not going to have any of your babies. I’m not going to reproduce my amazing genetic composition for this country.”
Got it 👍
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@553078693Meng Looks like poison ivy, or some other plant-based irritant.
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Ah this one again. To my dear rationalist friends who are so confused as to why anyone would press the blue button:
I don't want anyone's blood on my hands.
"But if everyone just presses red then everyone lives" yeah but that's also true for blue, plus no complicity in murder.
Tim Urban@waitbutwhy
Everyone in the world has to take a private vote by pressing a red or blue button. If more than 50% of people press the blue button, everyone survives. If less than 50% of people press the blue button, only people who pressed the red button survive. Which button would you press?
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Is it BAD for society that average looking women don’t find average looking men attractive? Can someone explain this female phenomenon?
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@thechosenberg The United States isn't a poor country. So we can afford to have climate control everywhere.
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@waitbutwhy The people voting blue need to be deprogrammed.
penny-arcade.com/comic/2016/10/…
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Everyone in the world has to take a private vote by pressing a red or blue button. If more than 50% of people press the blue button, everyone survives. If less than 50% of people press the blue button, only people who pressed the red button survive. Which button would you press?
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This brother doesn’t eat any meat, raw milk, or processed foods—just fruit!! How is he able to be so fit and lean without getting the recommended protein? Thoughts?
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@IterIntellectus Because I can't take the risk that you won't press blue. It's just a re-frame of the prisoner's dilemma. I press red, my survival is guaranteed. I press blue, it's not. It's literally that simple. Congratulations, you now understand why nations have militaries.
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why would anyone even press blue?!?
Tim Urban@waitbutwhy
Everyone in the world has to take a private vote by pressing a red or blue button. If more than 50% of people press the blue button, everyone survives. If less than 50% of people press the blue button, only people who pressed the red button survive. Which button would you press?
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@magattew Now I won't say that Africa can't produce beloved cultural exports which will be embraced by the West, as they become more affluent and prosperous. In fact, they're already highly influential in music and fashion, to say nothing of celebrated athletes.
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@magattew If you think that buying TVs and cars from Japan made Americans love Japan, look at how China is perceived when selling us those same things. There's nothing wrong with Chinese-made electronics. They aren't American cultural darlings like Japan.
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When Africa becomes prosperous, racism against Black people everywhere will drop dramatically.
That's not wishful thinking, you can actually watch this pattern play out in history.
The Japanese were heavily discriminated against in America until Japan became an economic power.
Then suddenly Japanese culture was cool, Japanese products were premium, and the hostility faded. The same happened with South Korea.
Prosperity rewrites how the world sees your people.
Nothing else even comes close.
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You guys realize audiences liking a movie more than we did doesn't make us feel we screwed up right? We aren't going to magically regret a bad review of a movie we genuinely didn't like.
🖤 Buy Physical Media 🖤@VHSDVDBLURAY4K
This might be the biggest L critics have ever taken
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“Correlation doesn’t imply causation!”
Okay, then what does imply causation?
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@miles_commodore Democrats have a long history of nominating uncharismatic technocrats in the primary and then reacting with dumbfounded amazement when ordinary voters go the other way.
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@miles_commodore Walter Mondale was a *TERRIBLE* candidate, and having a woman on the ticket didn't help when the average voter was born in the 1930's. Plus Reagan was killing it on the economy. Not that it was all his policies, lots of the recovery was due to Paul Volker, a Carter appointee.
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I was just a kid, so maybe someone can explain to me how Ronald Reagan won 49 states in 1984?
Especially when you look at where we are today.
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