Posted by witeasprinwow

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Posted by neotransotaku

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Will merging subforums introduce more activity? Why do something if it won't help rectify the problem?

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Dying MMORPGs have been known to consolidate several rather empty servers into one big server in order to offer one well-populated world instead of several barren ones

I think a slight adaptation of that logic can apply here

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Posted by Xeruss

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Posted by boingboingsplat

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Here winter is like 0. Seriously, 70 is amazing.

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I suppose the real difference is consistency. It's 35-40 degrees for just about every day outside the summer months. At least from what we're used to, 70 is hot.

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Posted by blackhole89

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In the territory of what was East Germany, there's a long-standing and at least somewhat true cliché of West Germans ("Wessies") being conceited and generally holding an opinion of "being from the superior part of Germany", although, at least in terms of infrastructure and general living quality, the reverse is often true. This also leads to a certain degree of two-party competition thinking between representatives of eastern and western states in federal science olympiads.

As for the US West Coast being liberal - well, I heard of rural Californians in particular being a rather conservative folk... the tendency to larger cities being politically more left-leaning seems to be global.

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Posted by Stark

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Posted by pieguy1372

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Posted by Arbe

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This thread went to hell a couple of pages back. Anyway, DEATH NOTE IS A GREAT ANIME.

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I haven't watched Death Note... but I do know that "The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya" is a great anime.

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The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya's anime is trash compared to the book, and the Death Note anime is not nearly as good as the manga (though it has a better ending).

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Posted by Trax

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Banks (and the monetary system) are also in the picture, as they are almost everywhere you can think of, even in your underwear. "What's the point?", you're asking. Simple. Since the deficiencies of our banking systems makes everything cost more and more every second (it never goes down, at least), a direct consequence is the necessity for women to get out of home and work their ass off to pay for rent/mortgage, the car, etc. It's not the only reason why they do that, but it's a determining factor. Add to that the ever growing stress factor, again for the same reason:

Deficient money system = everything is more expensive = more work for the same goods

Noone at home, children are less educated, or worse, educated by the daycare center employees many hours a day. When the parents are at home, they are more stressed and tired (see equation above). From there, it depends mainly on the parents general attitude and life philosophy. Some of them will go with brute force. Hit their kids as a solution to stop them from crying or whining. Some of them will go the "abandon all hope" path, and they will consider that giving what the kid wants is less energy-consuming than trying to explain to them moral principles (which is not always possible if the kid is too young) and applying discipline...

There are other factors to take into consideration, but I think those two are important and depict some major problems at the root of contemporary societies...

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Posted by boingboingsplat

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Do dead babies count as health or junk food?

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Posted by KP9001

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You are a weird little bastard for not eating cereal with milk. I can't stand cereal with no milk.

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Posted by knuck

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I'll consider all those posts as trolling seeing as no nerd in their sane state of mind would defend using a video site to show off images. Maybe they'll see theo point once they start sharing URL files through youtube.

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