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Bastard, by leaving out the indefinite article in the title, I assumed the definite article. Thus leading me to believe that 300 actors who played muscular Spartans were the driving force behind Mr. Obama's foreign policy.
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r/worldnews2
2008-07-18
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Ahh, and I note that NYTimes has changed their article title. Maybe they saw your complaint!
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r/worldnews2
2008-07-18
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Wait. What?
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r/worldnews2
2008-08-13
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The war on terror is as phony as the war on drugs. Both are used to shift money from the middle class to the rich and take way citizens rights. The only cyberattacks will come from our own government so they can turn the internet into cable tv.
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r/worldnews2
2008-08-18
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I don't know if anyone could even see them but they didn't work the way i hoped they would.
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r/worldnews2
2008-09-02
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Okay, I don't think I need to tell why I'm asking this. While Python supports functional programming to a reasonable extent, there's a widespread stubborn hatred of functional programming and anything related to it in the Python community (probably starting with the BDFL), and any proposals for extending Python into something more useful for functional programming (without taking out any of the other ways to use Python, of course, that's the good thing about multi-paradigm languages) is received with ruthless hostility and perceived as an attack against Python. The Python community is generally a good one (especially compared to others), yet this generalized hatred for functional programming and anything related to it seriously turns me off. While Python is currently my overall favourite programming language (considering the quality of the standard and non-standard libraries, support, and features), I'm currently considering putting my effort and time investments somewhere less hostile to functional programming. Hostility to functional programming is a form of hostility to abstraction, theoretical correctness and cleanliness. I hope I'm wrong, but this seems like pulling the PHP way. Consistently meeting proposals such as tail call elimination with nothing short of "that's liek difficult to understand d00d ha ha no freaking way" doesn't say much about the health of this community; in fact it looks like something straight out of the average PHP documentation comment.
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r/Python
2008-11-11
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>that's the good thing about multi-paradigm languages I don't think the BDFL is interested in creating a multi-paradigm language. He's much more interested in a 'one obvious consistent Pythonic way of doing everything' language, and that one way historically hasn't been functional.
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r/Python
2008-11-11
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Well I am not really part of the Python community, but I am a redditter and this gives me a bit of exposure I suppose. From my point of view the biggest issue is the way Function Programming zealots approach the table. There is a pre-existing assumption that everything functional is good and everything imperative is bad. Obviously this is absurd, yet in so many functional-programming articles that flow through reddit there seems to be a subconscious bias toward this line of thinking. Viewing it from a pragmatic point of view functional programming hasn't really delivered for me. Recently there was a mario-brothers clone written in Haskell (I think) that was hailed as a major achievement. I don't want to be negative towards the authors of that, but it really doesn't seem like a fantastic achievement. In reality it seems to reveal how ill suited purely functional programming is for real world projects. Of course to swing the other direction and disregard everything functional as academic bluster which is not useful at all in the 'real world' is equally absurd. The fact is that there are a huge amount of things I have taken from functional programming. I program in C++ primarily, although I experiment around with D and it's functional features are the most appealing reason for me to do so.
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r/Python
2008-11-11
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Besides lack of support for tail calls, which is the only example you give, what makes you think that python doesn't support functional programming? What proposals do you refer to that have been shot down? My POV: Python spports FP just fine as long as it doesn't conflict with python itself. Remember that Python has: * list comprehensions * generators * coroutines * filter map and reduce built-in * real first-class functions with closures (albeit those can be a bit quirky) All of those things point to no fundamental language bias against FP.
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r/Python
2008-11-11
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"Hostility to functional programming is a form of hostility to abstraction, theoretical correctness and cleanliness" I don't think the community or the BDFL are hostile to these things, more generally conservate and hostile to certain coding styles. The Python way is to prefer easy digestability over things like proper lambdas, and reduce. Lambda is crippled to stop people writing ugly code. Reading the occasional blog post with ugly Ruby code makes it easier to understand why this choice was made. I would personally prefer more support for functional programming, but I sort of understand the logic of not accepting functional features without carefully judging the trade-offs with the 'pythonic' way.
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r/Python
2008-11-11
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Well, mostly there seems to be resistance to turning Python into Scheme, because, well, if you like Scheme it's already there for you to use (I'd make a joke here about how a future revision of Scheme should turn non-tail-recursive functions into a compiler error, but I'm afraid somebody would actually think that's a good idea). Oh, and for the record: I'm against tail elimination in Python simply because it seems inevitably to lead to people writing obfuscated, hard-to-read code simply for the sake of having a tail-recursive function, and Python is, well, not about that: it's about clear, readable code. But as others have pointed out, one of the biggest problems, to me as a Python programmer, is the zeal with which FP folks approach this; it's not a case of "we want the ability to do more FP stuff in Python", it's "FP should be the one and only way in which programmers are allowed to write code". You yourself are leaning that way with your straw-man "hostility to abstraction" swipe (hint: OOP is also abstraction. It's _different_ abstraction than FP, but it's abstraction nonetheless). Meanwhile I'm quite happy to take advantage of closures, comprehensions, coroutines, function composition and all the other things Python lets me do, without thinking that has to be the _only_ way I think about or write code. So maybe the problem is in yourself and not in Python :)
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r/Python
2008-11-11
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Have you checked out F#, or should I call it OCaml.NET? It does both OO, imperative, and functional. I like the multi-paradigm languages, although they are harder to learn as there is more than one way to do anything.
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r/Python
2008-11-11
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r/linux
2009-03-07
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Generalizing is not helpful no matter what 'side' you think you are on.
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r/Christianity
2009-04-19
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People who know they're right to the exclusion of all else are the ones who are jerks, whether religious or anti-religious.
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r/Christianity
2009-04-19
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To be fair, you're asking a very vague and difficult question. First, we have to clearly define "God", and the properties such an entity must possess in order to be called "God". It's a dreadfully fuzzy term. Next, I would need to think long and hard about how an entity with such properties would manifest itself in the world as I can comprehend it. For instance, if something claims to be omnipotent, how could one distinguish this from a being that is simply very powerful? Such a situation may arise if we were to wonder whether some sort of alien intelligence would constitute "God". Finally, there is always the matter of human reliability. If I start believing in God, it could simply be because I've had a stroke or a bad trip due to food poisoning. I'd want the belief to hold up over time, and verify there isn't anything physically wrong with me. If we're talking the Christian God, I'd imagine the best evidence would be seeing some ticked off angels after I die. Of course, at this point I'd have to begin to question what "seeing" and "I" would mean in this context... If you want, I'd be happy to discuss the matter with you both rationally and politely.
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r/Christianity
2009-04-19
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To be fair, all people are jerks... but that's almost excessively cynical.
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r/Christianity
2009-04-19
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If you don't want snappy answers, don't ask stupid questions.
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r/Christianity
2009-04-19
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Christians are jerks, atheists are jerks, people are jerks, etc. This is a lame argument. If you want to criticize atheists, put some thought into. For example, my main beef with atheists is that **they aren't logical.** They claim to value reason and science above all else, but make every moral decision based on their emotions. Then when you call them out on it, they claim to be utilitarians, even though you can document how that isn't the case. Furthermore, atheists accuse religious folk of being irrational, yet have no problem with people who stop believing in God because something bad happened to them.
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2009-04-19
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How nice or not you are bears no relation to how right you are. And honestly are atheists jerks? I mean a complete imposition of atheism aims on others would mean a secular government and public sphere with private worship untouched, contrast that to religions which want to regulate people's rights to marry or what they eat, what they wear or even speaks against condoms in areas with AIDs epidemics. So really who's the jerk?
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2009-04-19
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Ask a stupid question, get a stupid answer.
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2009-04-19
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I would disagree in totality. For one, emotions exist even though God does not, thus it is impractical to expect an atheist to act as if we didn't have any. We still get happy, sad, and fall in love, and sometimes those emotions are irrational. Who cares, we are still people, right? As long as we are aware of the irrationality of it all, we can act accordingly. Belief in God, though, requires rational justification of an irrational belief. Thats where things get fucked up. I can have an irrational emotion and get over it, believers can have an irrational belief and try to tell everyone how rational it is to believe in things you have never seen evidence to exist. Also, I have a problem with people who become atheist because of something bad happened to them. They are hating God, not coming to the realization that God doesn't exist. Two totally different mindsets.
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2009-04-19
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I'm not sure the question was ever whether or not anyone was a jerk. No one is going to win an argument saying, "You're wrong because you're a jerk." That said, we've got to consider the fact that you asked a question so broad as to feel almost inane. You did that on reddit, which often rewards snarky comments. Then, you took those snarky comments and responded to them with a sweeping generalization that was both close-minded and dismissive. Just what exactly are you trying to get at?
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2009-04-19
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We may be jerks, but at least we're not deluded fascist jerks.
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2009-04-19
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> Also, I have a problem with people who become atheist because of something bad happened to them. They are hating God, not coming to the realization that God doesn't exist. Two totally different mindsets. You seem to be almost on the same page as me, you just need to take it a step further. So, we all agree that emotions don't tell you anything about truth (you can't emotion your way to f=ma). So, you can't realize God doesn't exist from some emotional impact. Similarly, emotions and feeling can't give you moral truth either. To most of the world, morality is neither a subset of desire or emotion, but is an absolute truth that defines which certain actions should or should not be followed. A person can not discover these by "following their heart."
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2009-04-19
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> public sphere with private worship untouched Strictly speaking, atheism by itself does not demand this. One could imagine atheists forming an anti-theocracy, where (say) anything relating to God was outlawed. This idea of separation of church and state (at least in the US context) was developed, not by atheists but deists/freethinkers and Christians alike.
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2009-04-19
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This post makes it appear that Christians are calling atheists closed-minded and dismissive, while pbrocoum is an atheist himself. This is entirely disingenuous.
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2009-04-19
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"One could imagine atheists forming an anti-theocracy, where (say) anything relating to God was outlawed." Not really, no mainstream atheist speaker (even those people love to call 'fundamentalist') is saying anything like that, most of us are fairly live and let live IF the religious keep their religious ideas out of health, education and social issues. I think you'd be surprised how many of your founding fathers were atheists. Anyway it's all very well for Christians to help found that separation but they're not doing a very good job of maintaining it.
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2009-04-19
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Morality is not an objective truth discovered apart from emotion. Neither is it a subjective thing originating solely from one's personal feelings. It's somewhere in between.
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2009-04-19
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The majority of religious people in the world, and even a large number of agnostics and atheists, would completely disagree with you.
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2009-04-19
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With people like Christopher Hitchens writing books with titles like "religion poisons everything," it doesn't seem such a stretch. Regardless of the ebb and flow of popular rhetoric, atheism has nothing in its core of belief that compels its adherents to advocate the freedom of religion. Christianity has done some really fucked up things, but at least these can be evaluated in a comparative context. E.g., would Jesus really have been that big a fan of the Crusades? The same cannot be said for atheism -- since it's amoral, anything goes (as long as you're doing it without God).
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2009-04-19
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I agree completely, rensyphon.
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2009-04-19
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Morality should be a logically derived set of guidelines made by society as a whole.
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2009-04-19
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Morals are human. Religion just attempts to control them as they attempt to control social conventions like marriage. I find it risible that people try to claim morality stems from religion when religious morals are looking more and more creaky and in some cases plain evil.
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The question "What Would It Take to Convince You God Exists?" is certainly not stupid, especially since it has been asked in "atheism", so it is not a mere proselytization move.
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2009-04-19
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That might be so. The question asked, however, was not stupid.
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It is a ridiculous question. The answer (*evidence*) is so simple, that for some-one to actually type out the question without figuring out the answer in the few seconds it takes to do so demonstrates a serious lack of intelligence.
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2009-04-19
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You are touting the extreme on the religious end and only the super moderate on the atheist end.
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2009-04-19
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No I'm not. In American public life religion is heavily involved in a number of issues and I don't think I'd call that extremism, religious extremism is groups like the Taliban. Yet you have the Mormons preventing gay marriage, the religious right opposing stem cell research and creationists trying to impose religious teachings in science classes. Who are these extremist atheists and what are their extreme positions? I've never heard a public speaking atheist say no one should be allowed private religion. Link me up.
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2009-04-19
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I've seen atheists here in America advocating rounding up and killing theists. If you really want to use extremes that may be a good one to start with. This occurred with the Russian Revolution, the Chinese Revolution, The Khmer Rouge, North Korea and many more. You can say most atheists aren't like that and I could easily counter that most theists aren't like the loaded examples you gave.
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2009-04-19
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And those who are tolerant and respectful are great people whether religious or anti-religious. It's a pity the atheism subreddit is full of bigoted, hateful self righteous pricks.. It's probably just mob mentality working on them.
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2009-04-19
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Actually, it is.
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2009-04-19
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One might even say it's jerky.
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2009-04-19
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The question, > What Would It Take to Convince You God Exists? Number 1 answer, > evidence Your conclusion, > Atheists are jerks, too -- When asked a serious question, they responded with the same close-minded, dismissive arrogance that they always complain about believers having. Asking for evidence before blindly believing something that has no physical proof is considered close-minded, dismissive, and arrogant. Really?
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2009-04-19
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You do not understand Atheism. Atheism is amoral the same way it is asexual. It is not a code to live by, it is just a lack of belief in god, your god his god, any god. People who do not have a reason to believe in god get their morals from other places, not from some book of outdated fables. You can try and apply logic "You do not believe in my god therefore..." to a person, but unless the end of that sentence is "so you don't believe in my god." you are making unfounded assumptions.
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2009-04-19
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Sorry, but I have never heard an Atheist say this. Post a link to a you tube video or a credible blog and we can talk. Also be aware that if you do you invite a reply of videos and quotes of theists saying far worse.
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2009-04-19
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I am sorry but the only moral absolute truth I can think of is do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Anything else is a flexible refinement on this and largely depends on your society or subset of society. If you want individual examples of changes in moral codes as old as the bible or as recent as the 70s I'm sure we can whip up some examples.
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2009-04-19
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I know a lot of people don't really understand what it means to be open minded, so here is a video teaching you exactly what you need to know. http://sciencewhynot.blogspot.com/2009/04/true-open-mindedness.html
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2009-04-19
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Huh? We respond with LOGIC and PROOF. How is citing replicatable, documented examples being close minded???
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2009-04-19
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And how much political traction do these theoretical atheists have, especially in America and other Western countries? I can find plenty of influential Christians trying to use the government to push their religion on people. I don't see any influential atheists advocating that we use government to prevent people from believing. Trying to claim that the two groups are just as bad is simply dishonest.
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2009-04-19
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> It is not a code to live by However, ixid is claiming it prescribes government ideals. Either atheism prescribes a way to live -- or it doesn't. You can't have it both ways.
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2009-04-19
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What's the question? pbrocoum has made no comments here explaining the details of his post. I've seen the opposite problem here, Atheists too eager to answer any question. Atheists have different values than Christians. Christians are against zeal, hate, and disrespect. These seem like good values, but the end result, evidently, is that Christians have so little zeal, hate, and disrespect, and so much apathy, love, and respect that they hurt people individually and as a whole. Atheists are free to adjust their values to circumstances of fact, while Christians are welded to a permanent, unchanging worldview based on their interpretation of stories foreign to modern life.
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2009-04-19
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Even better, the Platinum Rule: "Treat others the way they want to be treated". Too bad Jesus never thought of that one.
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Great video, it should be mandatory in school.
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Thank you.
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2009-04-19
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Yeah, I don't really understand where the conclusion "atheists are jerks to" came from. There were some kind of jerkish answers on the page, I guess, so some atheists are jerks, or atheists can be jerks sometimes ... But I think we all knew that.
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>One could imagine
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2009-04-19
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Okay, this is the part where you guys discuss why you think it is or isn't.
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2009-04-19
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The problem is that both sides pick out the most ignorant and hateful members that hold the contrary viewpoint, and parade them as examples of what the views of the other side produces. This goes for politics too. In short, there's a much larger group of thoughtful people on each side than either seems willing to admit. It's the thoughtful and moderate (in demeanor, not necessarily in viewpoint) that advance debate, not the bozos.
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2009-04-19
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"I've seen atheists here in America advocating rounding up and killing theists." LOL BS. Your examples are so far off the gaga end of the scale and aren't a part of the mainstream discourse. My examples of the religious are from the mainstream discourse.
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2009-04-19
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Many people attempt to be so open minded that things fall out.
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2009-04-19
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>I've seen atheists here in America advocating rounding up and killing theists. That's a very uncommon stance among atheists. I've heard plenty of Christian evangelicals say this about Moslems though.
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2009-04-19
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The answer isn't ridiculously simple at all. "Evidence" is a very vague reply, though it is fitting to a very vague question. How about this one: A being levitates down from the sky and proclaims to be God. How would you decide whether it really is God, or just an alien from an advanced civilization trolling the humans?
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2009-04-19
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You can't give everyone what they want.
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2009-04-19
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Didnt say anything about giving. Was talking about how you treat people.
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2009-04-19
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My examples aren't mainstream? The examples I gave are some of the worst crimes ever perpetrated on this planet and the were done in the name of atheism.. You only accept examples that are convenient to you? Fine but that simply makes you a rotten liar who I can never give the benefit of the doubt to again. Certainly a group responsible for killing over 110 million in the 20th century is more mainstream than a group that told some women they can't read. I'm sorry you are so disconnected with the mainstream that you feel obliged to say such things weren't what happened when atheists were in charge. The best you can come up with is Christians wanting a say in what marriage means? I'm not saying theists have their hands clean by any stretch, what I'm saying is that comparatively while we have dirty hands you have dirty arms and torsos.
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2009-04-19
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And about Atheists as well.
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2009-04-19
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Simple. I can ask the exact same question, replacing the word "God" with any number of never-before-seen entities with the exact same characteristics, and it would be generally regarded as a stupid question by just about everyone. For example: "What would it take to convince you The Invisible Pink Unicorn exists?" "What would it take to convince you Zeus exists?" "What would it take to convince you The Flying Spaghetti Monster exists?" "What would it take to convince you Allah exists?" All stupid questions, regardless of what name you want to give "God".
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2009-04-19
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You are too silly to have this argument with. This will probably seem like a victory to you.
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2009-04-19
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It is more common among atheists than it is among theists comparatively. I've never said it was common or a majority or any of that type of descriptor either.
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2009-04-19
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So your rebuttal is that if an atheist says such a thing it is OK since a theist has said something similar? That doesn't make it go away or dispel my argument in the slightest.
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2009-04-19
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Why, because I expect you to hold yourself to the same level of credibility and accountability that you expect me to hold? Sorry but all things considered atheism has killed more people in the last 2000 years than religion has. Atheism has been a driving force behind or alongside many things that I would hope both of us recognize as deplorable examples of what humans can do to each other. Unlike you I don't pretend that my association is free of it.
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2009-04-19
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God damn, talk about self centred, Buddha said the same thing before jesus, and half the parents alive in the world before Jesus was around said it to their kids. It is a moral truth that I think every moral person, religious or non religious believes in no matter whether they are emotional. That seems to be a problem. Taking credit for a few good ideas, pretending you have a monopoly on the idea then using it to justify a bunch of crap ideas bigotry and protectionism, welcome to religion. *Not targeted at etherreal specifically, s/he just hit a nerve :) the Platinum rule is good except you don't know how most other people want to be treated, so treating them how you want to be treated is a good place to start until you get to know them well enough to realise the differences.
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2009-04-19
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I'm sure even you see the flaw in that argument. Just because a majority thinks something is true doesn't make it correct. A majority of people also think the sun revolves around the Earth.
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2009-04-19
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No my rebuttal is this kind of violent shit hardly ever gets said but is said by religious people who cannot resort to a logical argument a lot more often (let's fly a plane into a building to prove them wrong mentality, or an SUV into an reproductive rights clinic). But let's take one example ixid mentioned, Gay Marriage, which is essentially the same issue as interracial marriage was in the recent past, not ok in some religion's eyes. (But for a different reason, because a gay Christian used to be less likely to have little Christians). The argument is, have Americans voted on rounding up theists to kill them? Or have they been forced to vote on a ridiculous out of date religious view of marriage that is tantamount to a hate crime? Gay marriage on every moral ground should have been made law as soon as it was thought of, no one should be voting on it, let alone campaigning against it. One of these two things is all pervasive, in the news and in your face, directly affecting peoples lives and breaking their hearts. the other is something dreamed up probably by a religious troll somewhere which 99.9% of people have never heard of or would ever seriously agree with (no matter their view on religion). So once again who are these extreme Atheist's directly affecting your life? none that is right none.
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2009-04-19
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You all do realize that "evidence" is not an answer. WHAT evidence?!
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2009-04-19
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Uh any evidence that isn't anecdotal and can be confirmed? I think it's a valid answer.
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True, but we're not exactly talking about a concept that can be empirically tested, or even mathematically reasoned. Still, it seems logical that if such a thing as good and evil (morality) really exist, they'd be absolutes based on an universal standard.
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2009-04-19
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So what makes that one "absolute truth"?
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9-11 pales in comparison to what atheists have done in China or Russia. Hell the holocaust pales in comparison to either of those. You refuse to acknowledge that and you want some angsty 15 year old to be the example of an extremist atheist? That is my point as I originally posted, you cite the super-moderate of the atheists juxtaposed against groups like the Taliban or Al Qaeda? Sorry but if you want to compare apples to apples instead of apples to oranges you need to take into consideration people like Pol Pot or Kim Jong Il II who kill and ordered executions simply because someone wasn't an atheist. That is the kind of honest comparison that many atheists by and large seem to be afraid of accepting even though it's the only honest way to discuss a comparison. If you only make an argument that is convenient for you refusing anything that isn't convenient than you're just another liar, another bad example. Another person incapable of having an honest discussion. Even while you are trying to warp an argument, trying to warp what words have been said you expose the fallaciousness of your argument. You expect a minority view to be the dominant view and in fact call it a hate crime. You have to employ special pleading to damn theists for things you clear atheists of doing.
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2009-04-19
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How about "any". A person saying they hear a voice in their head telling them it's the voice of god and then that voice tells them to write things down in a book, does not automatically make what they write in that book the word of god. It makes the words written in that book, the words written by a person who claims to hear the voice of god telling them what to write. Since there is not a single shred of evidence to prove in any way that the voices those people heard in their head was the voice of god, and it has been over 2,000 years since those words were written, then all logical conclusions lead us to believe that the probability that those individuals actually heard the voice of some one and true super being is next to none. Every single person on the planet believing the Earth is flat, does not make the Earth flat, belief has no relation to fact.
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Actually the sun and earth revolve around a common center of mass, which is a short distance from the center of sun. This is what science does to you.
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2009-04-19
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Did you just complain about aggressive groupthink and attempt to stir us into a zealous frenzy by demonizing another group of people at the same time? You've got cajones, pal.
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2009-04-20
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Test it's powers?
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How do you go from thinking morality is not a concept that can be empirically tested, or even mathematically reasoned, to logically deducing that morality is an absolute based on an universal standard? That seems contradictory.
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2009-04-20
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I have a feeling this submission was planned and written up before any responses were even made to the other submission. IE, total trollbait.
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Ask it to heal the sick, feed the hungry, grow limbs of the amputees, bring world peace. If he does that and still isnt God...well, I dont really care at that point, he did more for us than God ever did.
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2009-04-20
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I am sorry but Kim Jong Il II and Pol Pot act/acted in the name of themselves, not in the name of Atheism, They want/ed to take and maintain power at the expense of all other types of power including but not limited to financial, political, social, inherited, military or religious power. I feel sorry for the people killed because they where religious the same as the people who where killed because their family disagreed with the dictator or had too much wealth. But to pretend the leader was acting this way because he was an Atheist or in the name of Atheism is disingenuous in the extreme.
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2009-04-20
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"One could imagine" anything, so how does that help the discussion?
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2009-04-20
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> Either atheism prescribes a way to live -- or it doesn't. You can't have it both ways. It absolutely does not prescribe a way to live, other than a lack of belief in gods. That's by simple definition. ixid was making a claim about the observed behavior of atheists, he wasn't claiming that they are following a prescribed plan.
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2009-04-20
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> Why, because I expect you to hold yourself to the same level of credibility and accountability that you expect me to hold? You made a claim about atheists in America, which you seem to be trying to support with examples from Russia etc. Your credibility is nonexistent.
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Maybe it is not, but it is fairly well accepted idea in every society and culture as a bloody good guideline to live by and has been around since at least before Buddha (He said it as "Consider others as yourself." I believe). It is also a hell of a lot better than some nonsense about working on the Sabbath, not eating shellfish, honouring your parents (no matter how appalling and undeserving they are), not masturbating, not being gay (as if you could help it), not using condoms etc etc.
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And should do it's best to keep out of peoples private lives.
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Gold
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Yet another example of special pleading? If you can say Pol Pot killed people who weren't atheists in the name of communism than any theist can use the same *defense* when you accuse religion or the religious of perpetrating crimes. Especially in the case of Kim Jong Il II and Pol Pot theists are/were specifically targeted and hunted down for not being atheists. For your argument to make sense you have to excuse your side for things you condemn the other for. If you excuse crimes for a reason you have to be able to excuse crimes for the same or similar reasons when discussing another side.
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2009-04-20
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That was part of my post though I didn't interpret it as a part that was challenged by ixid.
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2009-04-20
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No because the crusades where religous crusades etc. But you fail to see the point, people do not do things in the name of Atheism and cannot use Atheism as an excuse for doing things, atheism is specificaly a lack of motive for doing things. It is a lack of belief a lack of excuse. And Atheism cannot distort someone's thinking to do evil (or anything) any more than not believing in faeries can, unfortunately religion can be twisted and used for evil easily and is used so regularly. Religion provides an excuse to do things. With the right reading you can justify nearly anything. Sure some Atheists are bad, just like some believers but the Atheist's do not kill in the name of Atheism, they have to have another excuse. As for your "your side, my side argument" you also fail to see that Atheism is nothing but a lack of belief, just because you have chosen a side does not mean everyone else is on the "other" side, it is just like football, you have chosen to play on a side, Atheists are just the spectators who have not chosen a side and hopefully never will. Unfortunately some who have chosen a side try to impose their rules/morals on the spectators and this pisses them off, thus some Atheists resent the games you play.
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2009-04-20
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> It is also a hell of a lot better Better? What the hell does that mean? Sure, those are all a lot lies USEFUL rules, but utility has *nothing* to do with morality.
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2009-04-20
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No, by the same standards you apply to atheism the crusades were about political power or acquisition of territory. To suggest otherwise while you suggest what atheists did in the name of atheism is special pleading. This is where you expose your general ignorance and your welcome attitude to illogical arguments. You excuse and make special cases for your side all the while damning the other while failing to hold the same standards across. You can arbitrarily eschew sides however the moment you chimed in in favor of atheism and took part in an argument you took sides. Your argument is specious and lacking because you are afraid, unable, or perhaps just completely inept as far as these discussions. If Party A has X characteristics and you judge party A by X characteristics in one case but ignore X characteristics to make your argument you are committing a fallacy. I suggest until you wrap your head around what fallacies are you save us both some time and invest some of your time into how to make a good argument. Until such time you will continue to make very lame arguments with gaping holes that only work if you can fnd someone willing to ignore the horrible reasoning you employed to arrive at such an argument.
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2009-04-20
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You seem to be more interested in talking about talking than talking about religion. I am sorry but the crusades where about who controlled Jerusalem, the holy city of three religions, If you want to absolve religion of the atrocities performed in gods name you are going to have to try a lot harder. Pol Pot never told his troops to "Fight in the name of not believing in a god" he may well have said "Fight in the name of Pol Pot" or "Fight in the name of the state" or "Fight to free yourself from religious oppression" or more likely "Fight or I will have you killed" but it was never in the name of atheism. you are trying to draw equivalence where there is none. Religion is too often used to divide people, to tell yourself you are better than those who are not members, to give you an excuse to feel superior than your neighbour. And therefore a tool to unite people against "others". What other social force could keep two otherwise equal groups that have coexisted for centuries(Sunnis and Shiites for example) at each other's throats for generations? without their religion they would all be so inter-bred they would be one people. Dictators, religious or non religious do it for power, but religion is a great excuse and a great way to sell it to the masses. Atheism is not a reason to do anything. The same way that not believing in Santa is not a reason to do anything. But if Santa worshippers where telling me not to get married, or they didn't have to pay tax on their 'Santa worship bungalows', yes it becomes my problem because Santa worshippers are having a negative effect on society. So the rational course of action is to try to convince them Santa is not real, and try to prevent the damage they are doing to society.
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Bittensor Subnet 13 Reddit Dataset

Data-universe: The finest collection of social media data the web has to offer
Data-universe: The finest collection of social media data the web has to offer

Miner Data Compliance Agreement

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Dataset Summary

This dataset is part of the Bittensor Subnet 13 decentralized network, containing preprocessed Reddit data. The data is continuously updated by network miners, providing a real-time stream of Reddit content for various analytical and machine learning tasks. For more information about the dataset, please visit the official repository.

Supported Tasks

The versatility of this dataset allows researchers and data scientists to explore various aspects of social media dynamics and develop innovative applications. Users are encouraged to leverage this data creatively for their specific research or business needs. For example:

  • Sentiment Analysis
  • Topic Modeling
  • Community Analysis
  • Content Categorization

Languages

Primary language: Datasets are mostly English, but can be multilingual due to decentralized ways of creation.

Dataset Structure

Data Instances

Each instance represents a single Reddit post or comment with the following fields:

Data Fields

  • text (string): The main content of the Reddit post or comment.
  • label (string): Sentiment or topic category of the content.
  • dataType (string): Indicates whether the entry is a post or a comment.
  • communityName (string): The name of the subreddit where the content was posted.
  • datetime (string): The date when the content was posted or commented.
  • username_encoded (string): An encoded version of the username to maintain user privacy.
  • url_encoded (string): An encoded version of any URLs included in the content.

Data Splits

This dataset is continuously updated and does not have fixed splits. Users should create their own splits based on their requirements and the data's timestamp.

Dataset Creation

Source Data

Data is collected from public posts and comments on Reddit, adhering to the platform's terms of service and API usage guidelines.

Personal and Sensitive Information

All usernames and URLs are encoded to protect user privacy. The dataset does not intentionally include personal or sensitive information.

Considerations for Using the Data

Social Impact and Biases

Users should be aware of potential biases inherent in Reddit data, including demographic and content biases. This dataset reflects the content and opinions expressed on Reddit and should not be considered a representative sample of the general population.

Limitations

  • Data quality may vary due to the nature of media sources.
  • The dataset may contain noise, spam, or irrelevant content typical of social media platforms.
  • Temporal biases may exist due to real-time collection methods.
  • The dataset is limited to public subreddits and does not include private or restricted communities.

Additional Information

Licensing Information

The dataset is released under the MIT license. The use of this dataset is also subject to Reddit Terms of Use.

Citation Information

If you use this dataset in your research, please cite it as follows:

@misc{James0962025datauniversereddit_dataset_223,
        title={The Data Universe Datasets: The finest collection of social media data the web has to offer},
        author={James096},
        year={2025},
        url={https://huggingface.co/datasets/James096/reddit_dataset_223},
        }

Contributions

To report issues or contribute to the dataset, please contact the miner or use the Bittensor Subnet 13 governance mechanisms.

Dataset Statistics

[This section is automatically updated]

  • Total Instances: 49542161
  • Date Range: 2008-07-18T00:00:00Z to 2025-07-23T00:00:00Z
  • Last Updated: 2025-07-23T12:01:28Z

Data Distribution

  • Posts: 1.84%
  • Comments: 98.16%

Top 10 Subreddits

For full statistics, please refer to the stats.json file in the repository.

Rank Topic Total Count Percentage
1 r/facepalm 346104 0.70%
2 r/politics 344628 0.70%
3 r/interestingasfuck 298081 0.60%
4 r/NoStupidQuestions 284988 0.58%
5 r/CFB 268080 0.54%
6 r/AITAH 267437 0.54%
7 r/AskReddit 266719 0.54%
8 r/AskUK 257783 0.52%
9 r/LosAngeles 229760 0.46%
10 r/ich_iel 229659 0.46%

Update History

Date New Instances Total Instances
2025-07-13T10:46:51Z 46187311 46187311
2025-07-14T07:16:29Z 51238 46238549
2025-07-15T01:34:03Z 366747 46605296
2025-07-15T19:49:33Z 14272 46619568
2025-07-16T14:05:33Z 391375 47010943
2025-07-17T13:37:16Z 483148 47494091
2025-07-18T07:54:46Z 173064 47667155
2025-07-19T02:14:09Z 330733 47997888
2025-07-21T23:50:48Z 1262281 49260169
2025-07-22T17:43:31Z 280391 49540560
2025-07-23T12:01:28Z 1601 49542161
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