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  1. Comment on What have you been listening to this week? in ~music

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    I can't stop listening to the album Evil Friends by Portugal. The Man. I just put the YouTube album playlist on repeat and hours go by. It's such a good album.

    I can't stop listening to the album Evil Friends by Portugal. The Man. I just put the YouTube album playlist on repeat and hours go by. It's such a good album.

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  2. Comment on Democrats Don’t Care About Policy Compromise Anymore — Just Like Republicans in ~news

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    It's an interesting article but the title is misleading. I feel like it glosses over an important fact: that policy compromises require policy details. The article mentions how policy detail is...

    It's an interesting article but the title is misleading. I feel like it glosses over an important fact: that policy compromises require policy details. The article mentions how policy detail is dry, boring, and difficult to explain. It also mentions the consistent lack of policy detailing from republicans. You can't compromise if you have no actual plan. Republican (Trump) plans lack any fleshing out, there is no thought to feasibility or execution. The article gives this as a reason Trump flourished in the republican primaries, which is not a bad take on it. Within the democratic primary, there was actual debate on policy because the respective sides had ideas and brought them to the table.

    Furthermore, whenever the democrats do compromise, the compromise get treated as the new radical left, dragging discourse further rightward. Time and time again the republicans operate in bad faith. Now, we've reached a point where a significant portion of the country will accept no compromise short of actual crimes against humanity. We have literal, actual nazi's rallying in the streets; we have an administration that at best was infiltrated by several foreign operatives and at worst was actively conspiring to corrupt the election; we have thousands of deaths in Puerto Rico due to complete apathy and negligence, possibly even malice; we have multiple federal agencies (FCC, EPA), acting in the exact opposite of the purpose of their existences; we see nothing but hypocrisy and broken promises. I could go on, but If that's not enough of a reason to refuse to compromise, then I doubt much else would sway someone.

    10 votes

  3. Comment on Is there any way to move the text box for topic replies to the top of the page rather than after all the comments? in ~tildes

  4. Comment on Is there any way to move the text box for topic replies to the top of the page rather than after all the comments? in ~tildes

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    Oh I just felt like users here would be more likely to read others' posts that naturally rather than under influence. I totally get the design choice for having it at the bottom, and now that I...

    Oh I just felt like users here would be more likely to read others' posts that naturally rather than under influence. I totally get the design choice for having it at the bottom, and now that I know where it is, it's not that big a deal.

    3 votes

  5. Comment on Obi-wan remembers the truth in ~movies

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    I came across this video and thought it was really well done. Thought I'd share it here with you all. To me, the Obi-wan/Anakin dynamic is one of the sadder parts of the Star Wars universe.

    I came across this video and thought it was really well done. Thought I'd share it here with you all. To me, the Obi-wan/Anakin dynamic is one of the sadder parts of the Star Wars universe.

    1 vote

  7. Comment on What was the best change you ever made in your life? in ~talk

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    Before going to medical school I had a good paying job in an awesome city. Everyone said I was crazy to slog through years of more school, and that the progress I could make in my career would...

    Before going to medical school I had a good paying job in an awesome city. Everyone said I was crazy to slog through years of more school, and that the progress I could make in my career would outweigh any benefit of being a doctor. I did it anyway because I felt like it was the path that would make me happy. Not only do I love what I do now, but I'm damn good at it too. An additional bonus is that I met my wife in medical school. If I hadn't done that, I don't even know the kind of person I'd be now.

    2 votes

  8. Is there any way to move the text box for topic replies to the top of the page rather than after all the comments?

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    It took me a while to find where to post a reply to a post, and it was a little annoying to scroll past all the comments to write my own. On the other hand, it does encourage reading the other...

    It took me a while to find where to post a reply to a post, and it was a little annoying to scroll past all the comments to write my own.

    On the other hand, it does encourage reading the other posts before replying, but I feel like that hopefully won't needed on this site.

    7 votes

  9. Comment on Introductions | August 2018 in ~talk

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    Hello all. I'm a pulmonary/critical care doc from the US who just joined today. This is my first post! I have zero background in programming and actually failed CS the first time I took it in...

    Hello all. I'm a pulmonary/critical care doc from the US who just joined today. This is my first post! I have zero background in programming and actually failed CS the first time I took it in college. I'm cautiously optimistic about this new online community, and I'm excited to see what it brings.

    4 votes