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Prove what? That you can't cite a law?
You're saying absolute goddamned nonsense.
If he's always on top of things, why is he doing this now and not sooner?
No, wrong. Or else teachers would be able to make copies of textbooks, and they're not.
Yeah, this is definitely wrong. Giving away something you don't own is still illegal.
This towel is warmer and bitier than usual.
There are whole-ass companies selling laptops with Linux preinstalled now. They work. Even with Bluetooth.
Unironically, they hate us for our freedoms.
We have the freedom to read and say what we want, and they can't stand to hear their beliefs challenged.
We have the freedom to have sex and not get sick or pregnant, and they can't stand their purity religion being disobeyed.
We have the freedom to be who we are, and they can't stand to see their simplistic notions of sex and gender disproven.
We have the freedom to not be religious, and they can't stand to see irreligious people living happy lives.
We have the freedom to ignore them, and they can't stand not being the center of attention.
Huh. In the UK, they just put them on waiting lists until they die.
It's a generation gap thing: If you're online, are you representing your employer and, therefore, must be on your best behavior, or are you only representing yourself, and everyone else ought to recognize that? NASA feels it's the former.
You can only go as high on that scale as your opponent did. For example, you can't refute the central point of an insult or an attempt at shaming without missing the point that it is simply meant to make you angry or meant to make others completely disregard you. Similarly, if the "argument" is incoherent babbling, you don't refute it so much as point out that it's nonsensical.
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weirdwallace75
joined 1 year ago
Stop whining.