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So you agree that humans were not free then, contrary to what the podium in the image claims? Congratulations, we agree.

You didn’t own the phone. You had to rent it from Ma Bell, you had no choice.

The sugar also supplies a significant amount of the volume of the product. Artificial sweetener is significantly sweeter than sucrose, like hundreds of times sweeter, so just swapping the sugar for artificial sweetener would require them to use a bulking agent. The safest bulking agent that doesn’t change the flavor or texture would be sugar.

The importation of slaves had been banned in the US since 1808, about 60 years before 14th amendment. The vast majority, if not all, of the people that were granted citizenship by the 14th amendment would have been born in the US and been several generations removed from anyone that lived in Africa.

It’s the exact same mistake that racists keep making: Assuming that any brown person that they see is from some other country.

That’s a terrible argument, as expected from Barrett. I guess we’re just fortunate that the other guys are so stupid.

Bush supposedly referenced Gog and Magog when trying to convince French president Chirac to join his crusade against Iraq. The only difference is that the Trump administration is more open about their religious motivations. So, no, it is not ‘completely, totally unprecedented’. It’s the status quo for Republicans.

Satire Is Helping Spread Misinformation On Social Media

It doesn’t matter if it’s sarcasm or not, either way it’s misinformation.

A sub place called Penn Station.

Brutalism was just a style of that time. It’s not left wing architecture.

OK sure, which is why I voted for Harris. Now why are you telling me this? It seems to have nothing to do with mail-in ballots.

This conversation is about the advantages of mail-in ballots. Being able to research ballots ahead of time is not an advantage of mail-in ballots. In either case, you can have the ballot in front of you (either a sample ballot or a real ballot) and you are able take all the time you need to do your researching.

For someone to say that being able to research ballots ahead of time is an advantage of mail-in ballots suggests that there are people showing up polling places and realizing that they have no idea how they want to vote, resulting in them having to frantically research the issues and candidates on their phones at the polling booth or fill it out without being well informed. And that is worrying.

research each proposal

There’s nothing stopping you from researching each proposal before going to vote at a polling place. The items on the ballot are not secret.

It’s very worrying to me how many times I have seen this.

The Inquisition still exists.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dicastery_for_the_Doctrine_of_the_Faith

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The guy that sang Bomb bomb bomb Bomb bomb Iran?

Yeah, they were probably just invited into the group by accident.

Whatever university has the strongest claim to be the oldest currently existing university probably also counts as the first university, because of the irregularity of the structure of learning institutions in the Classical and pre-Classical era (to the best of our knowledge).

That’s a weird argument. So if the University of al-Qarawiyyin stops operating, then some other place becomes the first university?

Generally we consider a university more like a school - with set staff, set students, and a set course of learning

That’s more of a modern understanding of what a university is like (and I doubt it is an accurate description of the mosque that Fatima al-Fihri made).

Academy was a place where philosophers and important folk got together to mutually intellectually enrich each other,

A ‘community of masters and scholars’ one might say, or in latin ‘universitas magistrorum et scholarium’ which is the origin of the word ‘university’. The original point of Universities was the same as that of the Academy. The teaching of students is just a side effect of achieving that goal since teaching is a great way to learn.

What about Plato’s Academy? It was an institution of higher learning, and it certainly existed long before the one in the meme. I’m not saying that the Academy was the first one either, it wouldn’t surprise me if there were others before hand.

It seems to me like the claim “the oldest currently existing university” got converted to “the first university” and those are definitely not the same.

Please no, we don’t need more Trumps.

You won’t be getting any money back. While you did ultimately pay since the companies that technically paid just raised their prices, that doesn’t matter. You didn’t technically pay any taxes, so you have no recourse to get it back. This has all just been a massive gift to companies.

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