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  1. Penumbra

    Breaking: Trump Tax Records Reveal He Could Have Avoided Paying Taxes for Nearly Two Decades

    True, but it didn't work out that way in 2008 or 2012. In those years, education level was strongly positively correlated with voting for Obama, while income level was somewhat positively correlated with voting for McCain or Romney, respectively. People with six figure incomes tended somewhat...
  2. Penumbra

    Breaking: Trump Tax Records Reveal He Could Have Avoided Paying Taxes for Nearly Two Decades

    Yeah I know. I'm not sure why you replied with that to my post, though.
  3. Penumbra

    Breaking: Trump Tax Records Reveal He Could Have Avoided Paying Taxes for Nearly Two Decades

    Currently a slight majority of people in households making over $100k support Clinton. A slight minority support Trump. Source: http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/296976-poll-clinton-has-4-point-lead-over-trump-in-wealthier And billionaires are giving a lot more money to...
  4. Penumbra

    The end of the Fossil Fuel era is upon us so what are we going to do next-?

    The amount of oil reserves keeps changing based on technological improvements. It's not mainly about the absolute amount of oil in the Earth; it's about the amount of oil that's economically sensible to get. And certain types of oil and gas have become easier to get thanks to new approaches...
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    Is a trans man really a man or a trans woman really a woman?

    The biology of sex/gender is a really complex thing. And sex/gender is almost always assigned by doctors based on genitalia at birth; not usually based on chromosomes. They rarely do genetic testing on babies. They just look at their private parts and call it. Some people are born with XY...
  6. Penumbra

    Trump will end abortion

    I see little evidence that Clinton will do much about gun ownership, other than possibly banning people on the terrorist watch list and such from buying guns, or passing weak laws mildly strengthening the use of background checks.
  7. Penumbra

    Trump will end abortion

    I agree. Planned Parenthood, and similar organizations, and comprehensive sex education, reduce the number of abortions. I'm mostly in favor of things that result in lower numbers of abortions. I consider one of the most dangerous things about the possibility of a Trump presidency is the...
  8. Penumbra

    Do you fast?

    What do you mean by catching Lucifer, if I may ask?
  9. Penumbra

    Do you fast?

    Yeah, pretty much same here.
  10. Penumbra

    Do you fast?

    Awesome. I started fasting several years ago when you told me some of your experiences with fasting. You were my catalyst. ^-^ First I did a 3 day fast back then, and ever since then I've only done shorter ones, up to 36 hours max, or more frequently 16-20 hour ones. My main limitation...
  11. Penumbra

    Do you fast?

    The implication there is that not only are you not your body, but that things that affect your body don't affect you. By that logic, if you're not your body, do you even need to eat at all? Why not just perma-fast?
  12. Penumbra

    Worst movie(s) you've seen?

    Movies that come immediately to mind as being awful are: Stardust Spiderman 3 The Last Airbender Lady in the Water and to some extent, Avengers 2
  13. Penumbra

    Is money enslaving us?

    I voted no. Materialism and lack of consciousness around sustainability is a big problem right now, but money and currency itself? No, imo.
  14. Penumbra

    Service Jobs

    I worked in a deli for about 3 months once as a teenager. That was the only service job I had. I actually don't think I had any instances of customer abuse towards me. I hated the job but the customers seemed cool enough. It was a small sample size though, with only three months of work.
  15. Penumbra

    The Left and Radical Islam

    Do we even need to fight them? In a given year, there are about as many deaths in the West from radical Islamic terrorists as there are from food allergies, and about 1/1,000 the number of car accident deaths. Compare that to how many people in the Middle East that have been killed by soldiers...
  16. Penumbra

    Meat eating fascists attack vegan cafe

    I spent several years as a near-vegan vegetarian, mainly due to ethics and opposition to factory farms especially. Then due to a lot of published studies I was reading about nutrition, I eventually added some pastured grass-fed steak, wild-caught salmon, pastured eggs, and shellfish to an...
  17. Penumbra

    Meat eating fascists attack vegan cafe

    That's pretty terrible. It's sad that people would feel so threatened as to attack this cafe with meat. The article you linked to, however, points out that there's a whole lot of cultural issues here beyond just that. From the article: The cafe said it had drawn some local hostility because...
  18. Penumbra

    What was last movie you watched?

    I just watched Ex Machina. 9/10, imo!
  19. Penumbra

    Do you fast?

    Thanks for the responses everyone. ^-^ I did a three day fast once just to have the experience (mostly water, and a little bit of juice), and now occasionally do 16-36 hour pure water fasts for health. I've had purely positive experiences with it, which has led me to be more and more...
  20. Penumbra

    Do you fast?

    Fasting plays a role in most major religions. Science has shown specifically why fasting can improve mental clarity, which likely plays a big role in why it's used for so many spiritual moments. Intermittent fasting or occasional moderate fasts are also popular among people trying to optimize...
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