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If a dictator like Mao genuinely managed a feat like breaking a world record in swimming, it would feel devastating because their own propaganda would guarantee everyone thought it was fake.

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u/eesahe — 1 day ago

Family guy actually has a very diverse main character lineup

Family guy's main cast actually checks every diversity box: Black guy Fat guy Bisexual guy And cripple

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u/Ok-Whereas-1313 — 2 days ago

If you drink your own urine, does it come back out as as the same liquid, or is it “new” urine?

For context let’s say you drink some orange juice and it comes out as orange juice, same kinda thing here, if you drink your own urine, is it the same urine, or does your body make “new urine” to come out?

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u/Unusual_Season_7130 — 6 days ago

There is no singular word to specifically mean grown daughter or son. There's just child (which makes them sound young) or specifically saying daughter or son (which doesn't say anything about age).

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u/Beautiful-Cake8922 — 7 days ago

Why there is no afterlife

We've always been focusing on contacting the afterlife. Because we consider ourselves the most capable of doing so.

But why, by now people like Einstein, Oppenheimer, Tesla, Socrates, Curie, Hawking and so on and so on are on the other side.

If they still exhibit consciousness, such minds would surely attempt to contact us. They haven't, so far.

Where is the pivot point, at which point do we concede its just not there. How many brilliant minds need to be on the other side for us to figure out the obvious answer, they aren't there any more

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u/eri- — 9 days ago

Did Hitler ever swear? I just now realized I’ve never seen a clip of him with anything bleeped out nor anything censored in the subtitles. Apparently you can murder six million minorities and still think of going beyond “oh my gosh!” as a bridge too far.

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u/Illustrious-Lead-960 — 10 days ago

We're currently in the era BEFORE all AI services get ensh*tified by companies trying to monetize the product.

Think things are bad now? Imagine a couple years from now when shareholder start demanding to see growth on their investment.

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u/RengieOcat — 10 days ago