Fat Girl
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This bullshit.
Yes, I do think chilling effects are bullshit.
What are you, 12?
No, but I wouldn't mind a second chance to right the numerous screwups of my teenage years.
There's no double-standard or conspiracy here.
The right to say whatever one wants isn't very useful if there is a limited set of things that can be said without punishment.
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You want free speech but no consequences?
Good luck with that...
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Wolfram|Alpha is a fat-shamer.
What does Alpha think that the typical standard adult human male height to go with that weight is?
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You want free speech but no consequences?
I think he's saying that the consequences are getting a bit ridiculous in many cases, and I think he's right. We talked about this in that twitter thread, but at least part of the problem is that more people hear stuff and it's easy for them to voice their vehement disapproval. And then other people get afraid of that stuff. Very different world from angry letters to the editor.
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other SSRI and SNRI drugs will likely have similar effects
Bit of a crapshoot; some of them actually list weight gain as a known side effect, and I have had mixed experiences with the psychoactive effects of assorted SSRIs varying from terribad to meh. But yes, it's probably about time I went and had another look at the state of play in safe appetite suppressants.
There are some other pharmaceutical aids available that are probably best avoided:
Seepage – 01:43
— Rathergood
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laugh at those who casually read encyclopædias
Or those who insist on spelling it with the weird ae character
Among those limitations would be saying anything that is politically incorrect or controversial in any way in a public forum. That results in death threats, ostracization, and lack of future employ.
But it's not illegal, whereas in the UK, which has weaker free speech laws, you can be arrested for preaching hate speech
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Or those who insist on spelling it with the weird ae character
What's wrong with the ashe? It is required for proper spelling of Discopædia, you know.
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I'm not sure what an "encyclopedaphile" is, but it sounds absolutely awful, and I'll be rousing an angry rabble armed with torches and pitchforks to burn it down, as soon as is feasible.
Filed under: down with this sort of thing!
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But it's not illegal, whereas in the UK, which has weaker free speech laws, you can be arrested for preaching hate speech
Inciting a riot (or other large-scale criminality) tends to attract all sorts of sanctions.
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You want free speech but no consequences?
Good luck with that...
Up until about five years ago, the prevailing rule on the Internet was "if you don't like it, don't look at it." Getting directed to goatse, Ogrish, a Maddox rant, or a particularly bad Awful Link of the Day was almost a rite of passage, wherein people would get briefly offended and then stop caring shortly thereafter.
I don't know how or exactly when it changed (amateur internet scholars suggest it coincided with the rise of tumblr), but suddenly, we have Alexandra Wallace, mr-hank and Adria Richards, Justine Sacco, and many others who have had their lives destroyed by saying or doing something stupid. Now, I'm not going to defend the actions of any of the aforementioned, but I am going to say that the punishment doesn't fit the crime.
Sometimes I yearn for playing Quake 3 in 2002 on a server full of asshats who call each other "fag" every two seconds.
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Inciting a riot (or other large-scale criminality) tends to attract all sorts of sanctions.
That would get you in trouble in the US, too, but that's not what @Jaloopa was talking about.
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This article touches on some related stuff:
So there I am, never smoked in my life, just minding my own business trying to get treated for the flu, and the Smoke Nazi is pontificating to me about my father’s perhaps suboptimal health choices when he gave up cigarettes in 1962, two years before the Surgeon General’s Report about it, when I was seven. Hence the dilemma that always arises in these situations: do you let this stuff slide or call the guy on it?
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Huh, I thought 'microaggressions' were a progressive conceit?
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I think there's some legitimacy to the concept, but the typical implementation is terribly flawed.
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I suppose I should just RTFA...
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That doctor sounds strawman-y. If he actually exists and actually acted that way, that's terrible. But I'm suspicious.
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I've had the same thought about some of the characters on WTDWTF.
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I've had the same thought about some of the characters on WTDWTF.
There's a few personae* on here who I doubt would be able to tie their own shoes, let alone conduct themselves in public for any significant period of time. (And I don't necessarily exclude my own persona...)
Chrome autospellar rejects personas in favour of personae. How erudite.
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DERP
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Can we start a flame war about Autism?
Since correlation implies causation, I can safely say that increasing the number of people diagnosed with autism increases the number of vaccines produced.
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whereas in the UK, which has weaker free speech laws, you can be arrested for preaching hate speech
Or retelling a joke on twitter.
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If the number of vaccines diagnosed with autism is increasing, then we can safely say that correlation implies people.
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increasing the number of people diagnosed with autism increases the number of vaccines produced
No, you've got it the wrong way round.Autism causes Jenny McCarthy
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Is there a vaccine for Jenny McCarthy?
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No, the cure is chelation
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No, that's the cure for Freddie Mercury. <bah dum tsh>
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