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The main COVID-19 thread moves quickly and is mostly focused on the disease in general. I'm starting this thread to discuss people's personal experiences with getting the virus and/or suffering financially because of the recession. A week ago, I posted: This coworker and one other one were...

Onejayhawk is appealing an infraction he received from Arakhor for trolling. This is the post in question. It is quoted below for convenience, including Arakhor's modtext. Onejayhawk contends that the infraction he received for this post is unwarranted, as his statement was a reference to...

What books do you still remember for their influence on how you see the world? How did they change your thinking? If you can figure out how to summarize in a post what you took from them, do it! Mine will be withheld for a while to avoid biasing the thread.

...or at least it should be, if they play their cards right. I could be wrong and they're being stupid again. The DNC seemed to place extremely lax requirements on candidates for getting into the first debate. Only 1% of the vote in a pre-debate poll average qualifies a candidate for debate...

As most of us are aware, the US Constitution is outdated. The design of the US system is not especially democratic, and the system it sets up is prone to gridlock, polarization between two (and exactly two) parties, power grabs in the judicial system and by gerrymandering in the House, and so on...

Let's suppose you're in the following situation. You're on your own in a place where you barely know anyone. You graduated from college a while back, and while you still keep in touch with a few of them, all your friends from college and before have scattered to the winds and live far away. You...

A certain subject has come up a couple of times in this thread (edit: originally here), and I know there are people who want to discuss it. It's the only subject I know of where there's a strong argument to ban all discussion outright. But I have decided to make a bold and unilateral move...

In his infinite wisdom, President Trump appoints a new director for the National Science Foundation who likes you so much that he'll arrange to get you $1 billion in grant funding to conduct any research you want. Further, the new director has a...flexible view regarding ethics. Your experiments...

Hehehe is appealing an infraction issued by ori for this post. The infraction was for inappropriate content - specifically, a link to a site that ori feels is inappropriately racist. Here is the original version of the post in question, before the link was removed. Here is the PM exchange...

No, I've not become a supporter of his. Far from it. But if I look at the possible medium-term futures (post-2020) as they exist now, I can't help but notice they're much brighter than if Clinton had won the election. I know it's unfashionable to think very far into the future, instead focusing...

Luiz is appealing an infraction given by Vincour for this post, which reads The subsequent PM exchange can be found either in this picture link or below: Additional reasoning provided by luiz: Additional reasoning provided by Vincour: There are several things at issue here. Is it...

Ajidica is appealing a PDMA infraction given by Vincour for this post, in the white identity politics thread. This post is closely related to two other infractions that he received just before this one, and the infraction involved his PM replies to those infractions, so I have requested and...

Lexicus is requesting a review of this infraction. The PM chain is below the infraction message; both Vincour's and Lexicus's versions agree. Here is the PM chain starting from there: ------- Additional reasoning provided by Vincour: Additional reasoning provided by Lexicus:

Okay, so here's the situation. You're in a bizarre parallel universe, and the two most popular parties in your country are the Nazis and the Italian Fascists, who have ended up in the same country, which you also end up in, because of weirdness in the space-time continuum. Hitler and Mussolini...

:science::scan::borg::mischief: I'll start with a definition of mad science. Mad science is scientific tinkering and experimentation done on an amateur basis, without direct support from institutions like academia, government, industry, etc. Not all mad scientists are amateurs IRL, but they...

As we all know, the Democrats have really sucked at winning elections for the past six years. It gets worse: they've pretty much been sucking at winning non-presidential elections since 1994, except for 2006 and 2008 when voters were finally so tired of W that they actually voted for Dems...

(EDIT: The exit polling cited below is dubious. It appears the exit polls used here did not conduct interviews in Spanish, so the results are going to disproportionately favor English-speaking Latinos. Latino Decisions has the margin based on actual votes at 78-19, in line with previous polling...

[RD] threads appear not to have migrated over properly. I believe the old RD threads have had their RD tags removed, but now we have a new, functional [RD] prefix. I've gone through and re-added the prefix to several threads that used to be [RD], but only from the first few pages and I'm...

The Republican Nomination thread went off on a tangent about US foreign policy and its global empire. It was mostly my fault, and I've decided to (ab)use the powers vested in me to split it into its own thread. I suppose I shouldn't put it in left-right terms: foreign policy should probably be...

It's time to set up one of those fun Sophie's Choice types of threads. It will be even better because, as the OP, I won't have to moderate it. Okay, so here's the situation. Somehow, you are forced to make a pivotal choice for your country. Whichever option you choose will become the way things...