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Due to the podcasts I listen to, I sometimes forget that this isn't common knowledge.

When you put it that way, it's not nearly as expensive as I thought.

I also wonder about the cost of using the oven, and whether it's cheaper than just buying washing soda.

Sure, but the point is that fabric softener is not necessary.

At the very least in the case of towels (any type), it is actually counter productive, because it makes the towels less absorbent.

On top of that, it means clothes absorb less sweat, which, at first glance, seems like a good thing, until you realise it means your sweat will now stick to your skin longer, because it can't evaporate from your shirt.

That argument lands you in the "we can't know which religion is true" category, because if we can't know the plans of god, we also can't know which god is real.

So, while it absolves the believer from having to answer the problem of evil, it simultaneously robs them of any certainty about the truth of their religion.

But only if they think about it.

It's also very often used as an argument against rehabilitation in prisons:

If free will exists, then crime is a choice. If you choose crime, you are a bad person, and punishment is the only way forward.

If you commit the crime again, it's because the punishment didn't work, and/or because the person is simply bad, so a longer punishment is needed, and infinitum.

It's also used to justify the death penalty, which would not make any sense in a deterministic universe.

I wouldn't be surprised if the one on Standard Ebooks is the same version, as that's where they get their texts from, for the most part.

Totally get that, and I won't ever make any false equivalence or both-sides arguments.

I was just surprised they went with Turkish instead of, say, Mexican or Spanish, or another country not as problematic.

Wait until they hear about Erdogan.

I meant, which of the two questions was beside the point? And while I'm at it, why, exactly?

Which one?

Voter ID, gerrymandering, not allowing absentee voting, no day off.

Not everyone was able to vote, and that disproportionately affected Democratic voters.