I'm safe, I drink 10 or so

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+134 polled. still not enough, there's more than enough people alive that you could poll on this

Thank you. Well said.

My favorite part of posts critical of group think/faith/religion/etc is that inevitably some religious person will get so triggered that they will unwittingly prove the point made by the critics. Its like clock work. They cant help themselves.

Your chances are probably not very high then. Obviously, it’s not a foolproof way of approaching things, but these cancers very very often have a generic component to them.

If your parents have been tested for genetic markers, at least that tells you some of the story

I think you're confusing some agencies. Stasi was a post-war agency in UDSSR occupied East Germany.

Gestapo was what you're writing about.

Laws are easily circumvented.

The only possible solution is through collective consumer action, especially first world consumers.

I always found it amusing how people scream " individual actions are meaningless compared to corporations!" But in the same breath they'll tell you voting is important.

You can't have both. Either collective action (voting and consumer choices) can be effective, or they can't. You can't have one without the other. It's called supply and demand. Consumers demand from companies. If everyone stopped buying stuff on Amazon, Amazon would go out of business.

Most first worlders are aware of this, but they're so entitled and fat that they think everyone else should have to change while they don't.

That's human nature for ya.

"Overall, this study provides evidence hinting at the remarkable capability of the human brain to understand and synchronize with others’ when the situation calls for it"

Or that both brains synchronise better with the fundamental universal dimension: consciousness

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You’ve been fooled by the corporations, corporations PR(successfully executed) has shifted blame away from them towards consumers.

Which, I do agree is a bit of an issue with rampant materialism and consumerism too extreme. But think about the amount of pollution from cruise ships. There are many, but not THAT many and they pollute some obscene percentage of the total populations emissions. Funnily enough, they don’t even mention the mega cargo ships, and I don’t know the number, but my logic says there are WAY more cargo ships then cruise ships.

Yes, I know less cargo ships would be used if the population didn’t want as much useless stuff so regularly.

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This is exactly why I never look at the fingernails of the waiter. I look away. I just don't want to know in what condition they are.

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It’s actually totally fine and probably better than two standard cups. As long as you brew them with the same amount of coffee.

Those are 40 oz cups right? Tell me they're 40oz cups

Indeed. Faith is not wanting to know the reality.

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Well, guess we start looking for kidney donors now or….

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Not that I know of...

The point was they knowingly chose not to find out if someone they knew was not trustworthy to avoid being unable to trust them.

The conflict is between believing they are trustworthy and knowing they may not be.

Gotta do more than that.

Well, not with the current population.

I have empirical evidence not enough people care.