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• "I agree, fuck those square states." (2012)

• "I think the glorification of sophistry in non-science fields is specifically a cause for a lot of the overly dry, blunt writing that many perfectly verbal scientists put out. English majors even compete to come up with the most outlandish textual analyses, boasting in person and online of how they can shoehorn pop culture, harry potter, the beatles, whatever you can imagine into an essay on emerson or shakespeare. Others aren't as specific in their boasting, but a hefty majority of students will eagerly jump into discussions about bullshitting essays.

What I think they fail to realize is that sophistry was never hard for a serious thinker. It's not a challenge for a verbally intelligent person to come up with purple prose or some grandiloquent essay that will please the teacher. In fact, it's trivially easy in comparison to the development of a strong, thoughtful argument that hasn't simply been recycled from someone else. That realization is part of what I believe drives many scientific types toward plain, unadorned writing. They want not only to convey the idea as straightfowardly as possible, but also to convey that they care about ideas more than how loftily they're packaged. So, straightforwardness becomes something to strive toward for many scientists. This is necessary for effective communication in science, but a certain amount of artistry is lost. However, I don't think this is necessarily a bad thing most of the time, because I believe that verbal intelligence is underdeveloped (relatively speaking) in most people. Scientists like Carl Sagan and certain philosophers of science known for their way with words are extremely rare, and those who possess such verbal intelligence often lack education in the humanities and the arts. For scientific purposes, it's generally better to be clear and maybe somewhat boring than run the risk of weakening your writing with foolish attempts at sounding literary." (2012)

• "Enough. I could spend 2000 bucks on bubble wrap or toothpaste and the purchase would be equally valid. Neither your consent nor approval are necessary.

Keep your rosaries off my ovaries, man." (2012, but the comment's deleted.)

• "You're clearly trolling. You're talking about being high in a Paganism, Wicca, and Nature Spiritualities class. You picked one of the only possible academic scenarios in which being high would be par for the course.

You made no argument. What you gave was an anecdote. Nobody but you has any reason to care what grade you got on your religious studies papers. I wasn't bashing pot smoking, as you suggested, nor am I knew to the concept, as you also suggested. I'm just not an r/trees going pagan who assumes that I alone am enlightened about marijuana. Bumping your score down to 0.5/10." (2012)

• "The militarization of U.S. police forces is a persistent problem that extends far beyond any one department or county. By the mid 2000's there were already articles being published in major papers on the stupidly large amount of police resources going into SWAT equipment and training and the various disastrous responses to no knock raids that had been seen. Old man kills a SWAT team member crawling into the house, thinking he's an intruder, and it turns out they're at the wrong house anyway. There are lots and lots of news stories like that, where escalation of force by the police resulted in death and accomplished nothing whatsoever.

That's the thing -- most of the time, no knock SWAT raids amount to nothing more than macho kick-down-the-door-guns-blazing movie bullshit. The vast majority of these raids are conducted to capture non-violent offenders. Where does the funding come from? War on drugs money, baby. Shoot up those non-violent marijuana offenders or die trying. So it is very much a problem for "the government," because without high level funding for prosecution of marijuana-related offenses, most of this stuff wouldn't be possible. " (2012)

• "Sometimes one derps when one should rather herp. Here's the link I intended: Young Chimps Top Adult Humans in Numerical Memory" (2012)

• "Don't think so, that opens up too many loopholes for the genie him/herself.

Remember that genies are themselves bound to genie form and obligated to fulfill the wishes of the wisher. They don't just hang out in lamps because that's their idea of fun; they'd rather be set free and will use whatever edge they can to have that happen." (2012)

• "Son, never pass up such a low-hanging diss.

Even a redundant one. Redundant, like your left hand on Saturday night." (http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/z78tb/the_trouble_with_steam_games/c6269bt?context=3 2012])

• "But then you have wish partitioning. This is what leads to questions about locking down what you actually intended for a wish -- how many clauses can a wish really include?

One could argue that a highly specific wish explicitly detailing the exact manner in which the wish is intended (since genies are known for their trickery) is in fact a multi-part or multi-tiered wish, wherein multiple requests relating to the exact details of the main wish constitute wishes themselves. How does this, then, differ from a wish containing unrelated wishes? It would seem, based on documented evidence pertaining to genie trickery, that the exact mechanics of how a wish may be fulfilled are loosely regulated. However, genies are themselves subject to strict conditions, so the whole thing is very unclear from a legal perspective." (http://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/z798d/i_wish_i_could/c6278nq?context=3 2012])

• "We must presume that lawful termination of employment/enslavement via legitimate wishing -- if it's a legitimate wish, the genie body has ways to try to shut that whole trapped-in-a-lamp thing down -- automatically revokes all user account privileges, including wish-granting status and access to the company intranet." (2012)

• "Perhaps the genie's superiors must directly approve and sign off on all wishes. Perhaps individual genies have more or less flexibility to execute wish-granting without oversight based on employee ratings.

Either way, even with collusion of the genie's superiors, somebody will have to account for some serious wish-juice shrinkage at the warehouse." (2012)

• "Nope, there's no good reason why an enterprising spirit shouldn't be able to find multiple genie-containing lamps in one lifetime, especially if the wishes granted by the first genie allow for the building of a large desert-combing army of slaves interns and/or peasants.

Socialist redistribution of wishes in unamerican, pal." (2012)