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Hell, you should see how he trains his bots to treat us.
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This oneâs my favourite because the first time I saw the photo, it seemed incredible to me that it as a real face, in real life, being presented by a real politician, to the press.
I mean, itâs surreal.
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I havenât asked for a self-ban to go off and cry in months!
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No, Iâm serious. You little shits couldnât follow a simple set of game rules if an unvaccinated babbyâs life depended upon it.
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You might be saying dumb things.
They always freak out on me when I say dumb things.
Itâs refreshing.
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You could forget your password and decide the only way to reset it is via an email to Mark Frauenfelder as a way to take some time off.
That made me snarf.
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I think you are applying the comment to this thread when it wasnât in relation to it.
What a coincidence: my âtoleranceâ for it is practically non-existent.
But I donât just assume right off the bat that anyone who thinks differently is driving trollies or trying to pick a fight.
Not to speak for the hive mind 
but we usually try not to, doesnât mean it doesnât happen, but we try not to. That being said when we do usually itâs for the reason I stated above [new account, strong opinions, first comment under new account in a controversial thread, etc.] and even then sometimes we make mistakes. That is also why the community does not have mod powers 
, thank god.
EDIT: BBS community=pseudo immune system that has a ok accuracy rate, moderators=white blood cells with a HIGH accuracy rate.
EDIT: I think @nemomen said it better down there -> V <-
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I donât assume that if Iâve seen someone around for a bit, but you have to understand that if a somewhat controversial topic pops up and some new faces appear and start vociferously disagreeing thereâs a 95% chance the new face is here to be a belligerent trolley and theyâre going to get smacked and I will join in the smack down if Iâm around. If a new face shows up and is blah-blahing about Nixies or bananas or whatever they get the benefit of the doubt. This is basically just a defense mechanism for the community to eject trollies quickly and effectively.
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You made me snort super loud, sir! 
Iâd like to add that there is a behavior that Chickadees and some other passerines engage in where they mob hawks/snakes/other predators as a way to force them to leave the area for the protection of the bird community, and they even have specific calls to help id and respond to different sorts of threats that amounts to a shared animal language that squirrels and other rodents also can identify, but the analogyâs stretched and itâs just that I really like birds, so thereâs little point in me adding it. So I wonât.
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Sure.
It was the part about âmemetic immunityâ that I didnât get.
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OhâŚ
I consider us to be mammals in especially epigenetically adaptable bodies due to neoteny, with a miltilayered brain structure which allows is to act as individuals, relate in small tribal structures, but also reindex the memories of sensory data and use a form of external or shared cognition via a combination of audiovisual stimuli and basic logical constructsâŚ
Well⌠We end up being a lot more diverse than the Borg. Squishier too. With many outliers.
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Just trying to uh⌠Point out theâŚ
Mustard on your shirt!!!
Thatâs all it was.
Come again please?
You have mustard on your shirt.
'splain please.
