BeIR/webis-touche2020 huggingface dataset:
The technological progress from now to 2060 will be larger than the progress made from 1920's to now

Many people made baseless claims. It's not their fault. Back then, you couldn't google statistics or graphs or anything that showed you where and how fast progress was being made. A lot of people just said stuff like that because they didn't know any better." Exactly, that's what I'm saying your argument is now. But those early claims weren't baseless. It was totally rational to believe back then that we could be living in space by now -- that's logical from the speed and progression of air and spaceflight at the time. Their mistake, and the one your argument is based on, is the assumption that technology moves in a linear way. "People still buy cameras. Lots of people. And camera technology is still growing too. 4K video recorders didn't exist back then, but they do now." The pace of progress you're up against, though, is from Charlie Chaplain to Lord of the Rings and the new Star Wars movie -- pretty big difference. The state of technology today is that advanced tools are becoming cheaper and more available to everyone, but generally people are using their new tools to copy professionally made stuff. It's not like Youtube is this huge advancement in film. Even the name is a spoof of television. But TV was more consequential because it created mass culture. The internet is destroying mass culture, which means that any given thing that happens online will be ignored by a majority. If you don't believe me, ask your grandmother about your favorite viral video. By contrast, things that happened in movies and TV could become iconic, like Elvis or the Beatles. Not true for any internet celebrity. There's also a mathematical problem with your original claim. As technology advances, the tendency should be that earlier discoveries and advancements are more consequential than later ones, because the baseline is lower. We talked about aviation earlier, but that was probably less consequential than the locomotive, which lead to time zones and westward expansion, and that was probably less important than the age of tall ships, which lead to colonization, the British Empire, African slavery, and at least a dozen wars. Maybe you could list some areas that you predict these dramatic advancements will happen
Should civil liberties ever be curtailed in democratic countries to maintain national security

While I understand that national security is important, we have to be mindful of the fact that the nations that have civil liberties have them for a reason, to protect free thought, and the expression of ideas. George Orwell's precautionary tales such as "1984" display the risks in limiting civil liberties. I would just like to say that too much power corrupts, civil liberties limit the government from being too powerful, and a government that is too powerful can become corrupt and authoritarian.
Battle rap

You just a lil girl, why did i accept this invite? You got many chances, when is it gon be right? Right, cuz right now, I'm killin you day n night I challenge you and your a no show, out of sight Thought you could spit bars, but you pose like Veronica mars Think you so famous, but all you seein around yo head is stars I'm a wait till you respond like reacon I'm the new James Bond you came on
Battle rap

My girl my girl didn't let her raps unfurl for almost 1 week A guru isn't my thing that i seek, i let these stings hit the weak I'm in the meek, but your coagulated body reeks of dead meat I'm killin' you from left to right, you don't bite, too late to make it right Shove you back on the shelf out of mind, out of sight to get ate by a termite Come up with some real lyrics stop posin for the cameras So i put you to rest, go to sleep you banana in pajamas Stop these dramas, you ain't neva made a thousand You just browsin til you can show who can brag the loudest Meet my prowess, stop with the cross-dress nothin' less Don't get your feelin's hurt, brand "this the truth" on your shirt
Battle rap

My opponent forfeited, i am sure of it, crashin in like a warship I jump off, she get sprayed quick she disorientated n aborted It appears as i already beat her before this beef begun Just as sure as there is harmony in father, spirit, son I can create the most constructive lyrics as i break spirits Causin so much havoc upon a maverick like a morbid limerick I am now creatin' multi's around fault lines severin' ties You shall meet your ever so swift demise while your soul rises A fake girl who hides behind disguises as she knows no wises I would say something mean, but i'll save that for next round Send you back southbound after you on the ground like a bloodhound that i put down, your body will never be found again You run as if you committed the worst sin of your kin
Battle rap

(lol this is gonna hurt:-P) Whenever you see this girl, she look like smoked hella weed Maybe did some crack, somethin that'll make yo eyes bleed Why you got the camera so focused, don't get yourself in a blind date Don't flatter yourself hun, cuz you ain't as sweet as a piece of my pound cake LOL! Now that was a nice laugh, here's the real burn I'm freestylin' to crush your reputation n' make you learn Can't tell what you look like Miley Cyrus or Avril Lavigne Cuz you'd do anything to get fancy limosines n' lingerine That's why you go obscene, Being scene is the theme Let me tell ya'll a secret: This girl sells crack to buy snapbacks in traps won't get half back White on the outside, but inside, she tries to act so black Look like such a generic preppy white girl who wanna rap Your so skinny when you walk don't fall through the cracks Man I'm flip you over and this battle like a pancake and you try so hard to be a killjoy little girl inside trying to be a tomboy
A company or working organization should allow additional short period for power nap to the staffs

Mr Contender Let me take you to some of the expert's findings regarding the benefits of power nap. The Benefits of power nap (1): power nap can treat sleep deprivation power nap can increase alertness and increase motor performance power nap makes better decision-making skills, such as memorizing vocabulary or recalling directions regular power nap may reduce stress and even decrease your risk of heart disease Some of the giant companies like Proctor & Gamble, Google and PriceWaterhouseCoopers reportedly have installed pods for power nap for their staffs which they believe can increase the staff's productivity. (2) The issue that power nap time will take unnecessary organization’s productive time is non-existent because power nap can be done as short as 20 minutes and this can be done within the 1-hour lunch time. Worker can take turns in having lunch and nap time, and every staff does not have to do the power nap concurrently all at one time. Contrary to the expert findings as mentioned before, it won’t make you sleepy and sluggish, as power nap is found to actually treat sleep deprivation, reduce stress and increase productivity.Thank you References: (1) http://www.webmd.com... (2) http://www.dailymail.co.uk...
Population control MUST be part of climate change/sustainable policies

Optimum population goals should satisfy 1) everybody's BASIC quality of life (clean nutritious food, clean water/air, adequate shelter) 2) Access 2 basic human rights - quality education and healthcare, varied economic opportunity, satisfactory sanitary conditions, freedom from racism, freedom of religion, freedom from sexism 3) provide enough genetic biodiversity and 4) large enough to provide infrastructure and social community to promote creativity intellectually, artistically, and technologically All of these CAN be achieved without driving our planets ecosystems into the ground, other life forms into extinction, and the resources needed for survival dry (freshwater, space, clean air and food) As a population grows it inevitable consumes more and more until it is forceable stopped, either by policy/lifestyle changes or by starvation, rampant disease, war reducing the population down to an acceptable level or worse, down to nothing. This site details optimum population - it uses basic math equations taking into account the goal along with the earths carrying capacity - though it places it at about 2 billion, worst case/stretching resources at 4 billion - and we are already at 7 billion and still growing http://dieoff.org...
Population control MUST be part of climate change/sustainable policies

I apoligize for the varying (and abnormally large)sizes of graphs and charts ahead of time. Figure 1. The first graph depicts the population of Earth over time. s://lh6.googleusercontent.com...; alt="" width="624px;" height="396px;" /> As we can see in the graph, the world is not on the path of out of control population growth, in fact, population growth has been on the decline. Notice how this occured without any major population control methods. Figure 2. This chart depicts fertility rates in certain countries. s://lh3.googleusercontent.com...; alt="" width="575px;" height="317px;" /> Why is this graph significant? It depicts the countries that are experiencing population growth. The countries where zero, slow, or NO growth are rich, "developed", states such as the US and Germany. The countries with high fertility rates are countries where poverty is rampant and birth control/women's rights are almost non-existent.Thus,larger population growth rates in the Third World are a consequence of dire poverty and restrictions on women’s ability to control their own fertility The latest UN population report released on March 12 predicts population will exceed 9 billion people by mid-century. Almost all of this growth will occur in the global South. The 49 poorest countries in the world will have by far the biggest increases. In the richest countries, however, population will decline from 1.23 billion to 1.15 billion if projected net migration is left aside. (It will increase to only 1.28 billion including net migration). Raising living standards globally, improving health care, providing access to education and achieving greater equality for women, creates a stable population growth, without the artificial constraints of population control. Unfortunately, you address the issue of climate change in your argument, without considering the implications of population control. An article by Simon Butler summarizes it perfectly: “In practice, there has never been a population control scheme that has met with acceptable environmental or humanitarian outcomes. Columbia University professor Matthew Connelly has thoroughly documented this disturbing history in his 2008 book Fatal Misconception.[9] China’s one child policy has been hailed as an environmental measure by prominent population theorists such as Britain’s Jonathan Poritt.[10] But he and others ignore that China’s population control has hardly solved that country’s growing environmental problems. The human costs of the policy, however, are shocking. Until 2002 Chinese women were denied any choice of contraceptive method – 37% of married women have been forcibly sterilized.[11] Female infanticide has reached epidemic proportions” How can you guarantee the rights of others are not infringed in this process? Who “controls” birth? The government? And who will be in place to decide how to even control population? Many are against birth control, and obviously murder. I await your response.
i think naruto is better than dbz

Some good points, but I believe that In Naruto, the fights can sometimes get over emotional, with it nearing soap opera levels of drama. while Dragon Ball Z provides balance. There are a variety of techniques in DBZ as well, including but not limited to: Special Beam Cannon, Destructo Disk, Instantaneous Transmission, Dodon Ray, Tri Beam Cannon, Wolf Fang Fist, and more. As well, when you state there is no strategy involved, please provide examples of how Naruto is any better in this regard, as I believe the charecters do not behave anymore strategically. In Dragon Ball Z, there is strategy, such as the fight between Goku and Vegeta, once Vegeta transforms into a Great Ape, Goku uses solar flair to blind him. As well, the stakes remain high because the later villians will blow up the entire planet, or even the universe, so no chance for using the dragon balls in that scenario. Yes, Naruto goes more in depth about the charecters, but there is development in dragon ball Z too, such as in Vegeta slowly becoming a good person, and fighting for the right reasons.
i think naruto is better than dbz

That was good I admit but here are a few reasons why naruto is better than dbz 1. Naruto has a more detailed storyline 2. Naruto has very well developed characters 3. Naruto has a variety of techniques and design styles 4. Naruto fights are more emotional 5. Naruto has an ambient where you can actually care for the characters as you can't revive them And in dbz goku dies several times and he always comes back to life so he isnt really fighting for his life because no matter what happens he will still come back and kill the bad guy unless piccolo dies in which case the namekian dragon balls or the black star Dragon balls will be used to revive him. In naruto if the characters die they stay dead and also naruto uses strategy as for dbz it's just abunch of brutes fighting and screaming to reach new levels. The only strategy dbz uses is always involving the dragon balls or putting every thing on a spirit bomb and if the spirit bomb doesn't work it's good game so that's why naruto is better than dbz
i think naruto is better than dbz

Both works are indeed very good, but I prefer DBZ to Naruto because the characters are superior. In this case of better, I say that it is better because its characters are superior in their strength. In Dragon Ball Z, planets are blown up, moons are destroyed, universes are at stake. Because of this, the characters are more powerful, and it is more interesting to watch because the stakes are higher. As well, Dragon Ball Z has better attacks and transformations, and is more iconic. The Kamehameha, The spirit Bomb, Super Saiyan 1,2,3,4, And God, are more famous than the rasengan, Chidori, and Sharingan. In this sense, I say Dragon Ball Z is superior.
Gay people should be free to get married with out being judged

I am going to start with the same old sentence that so many people used, but now think about it differently. If a human being is in love with another one what right do you have to say no to it. To say its sick. Exactly you have no right because you aren't that person. In addition many people would say "its just like marrying a dog" well its not, first of all you cant marry a non human being because if you would've wanted to you are mental. So now thing about it gay people are just like dogs? Just because they are different people have the right to judge them? Its just like being a bully in high-school just this time the bull is the community that cant accept something new... You see how much it painted: Girl to boy is good exactly like the picture. Boy to boy is like a accidental blob of paint you got on the picture but you cant get it out so instead of smudging it more and ruing it why not just accept and make it into something beautiful.
macroevolution has effectively stopped in humans

con cites an obscrure study about retrotranssposons as if that study says we are evolving. id challenge con to say what that study means, and explain it better. it just looks like there might be minor genetic deviances still occurring, which i never contested. con says humans have developed lactose digestion abitilty. that may be, but i wouldn't call it sigificant. we might have to just agree to disagree a bout what is significant. but we dont see anatomical changes or any other "really" major change. plus, the lactose change probably happened well in the past. nowadays the inability to ingest lactose won't cause you to die and your relatives to evolve, as it happened back then. so my resolution is still true, that it "has" stopped as of teh present time. con presents his moon hypothetical. notice though, i didn't say evvolution has stopped, or will never occur again. i said it has effectively stopped. we do not see anything like outer space colonies occurring anytime soon so my resolution stands. plus even if they did have one on the moon or even mars, there would be new people joining the colony and adding regugular old human genes to the mix. it wouldn't really be that isolated, preventing significant evolution.
macroevolution has effectively stopped in humans

we won't be developing into another species, or getting significantly altered due to evolution. remember, evolution is where the weak die and the only those that live to copulate further their genes. changes in specific animals don't cause evolution... eg, you can't cut your thumb off and get your kids thumbless. there will be spurts as those who are superior will tend to get together etc... but on balance, the weak will dilute the gene pool. we will never branch off into another species or become superior in our own, if we don't have the weaker among us die off. and in every other sense that we might be considered 'evolving' it is minor.
macroevolution has effectively stopped in humans

Sloppy Language First of all, PRO is complaining that I am latching on to her “sloppy language” in order to change the meaning of the debate. However, the verbiage I used is the very first line of PRO’s first round arguments. This is the part of the debate traditionally used to clarify the instigator’s position, as the title of the debate is not always the resolution. Also, PRO did not object to the way I interpreted her resolution in her second round comments; it is only now that we get to the last round is she complaining. Whether or not the statement made by PRO is simply “sloppy language” is moot; she stated it, and I made it clear in the first round that I would be arguing against it. Lactose Tolerance PRO talks about agreeing to disagree regarding the significance of lactose tolerance, but I have demonstrated that it was significant, and the fact that it happened millennia ago is irrelevant, as the humans of that time were more or less genetically identical to the humans of today. PRO’s Burden In this debate, I demonstrated that humans are still evolving, and that significant changes have happened recently. I have also provided a hypothetical situation in which the conditions to speciate would be present. In contrast, PRO has not provided a single shred of evidence in support of her resolution that humans will not experience a speciation event. A Final Wrap Up I would like to thank PRO for instigating this debate; I do enjoy discussing evolution. As usual, I have found the discussion to be intellectually stimulating and entertaining. To the voting! ! !
macroevolution has effectively stopped in humans

con just cites some sloppy word usage on my part, about saying we won't speciate again vis a vis when i also said we have effecitvely stopped evolving and never said we won't again. we have to agree to disagree about whether lactose tolerance is signifant or not. i say it's not. but even if it was, it doesn't change that my resoution is present tense, not to include 10000 years ago when people still died much more rampant from malnutrition. con just ignores rebutting that part, that i was speaking in the resolution in the present tense.
Resolved: Birthright citizenship should be abolished in the United States

Well think about this, at Six Flags Great Adventure, some people can get flash passes which is a pass where you can cut some people in order to get on the ride faster than them. The people that have the flash pass have to pay a little extra but they get to go on a rides more than the people that don't have it. So that flash pass is like being born in the country, which is like automatic citizenship. The people that are born here are born on their native land which should make them automatic citizens. Whether its fair or not, life is not fair. The people born in the United States are born on this ground, which is there native land which should make them citizens. Even though some people have to take a test, its in the United States Constitution. Our fore fathers wrote it which they want there kids, and there kids kids to pass that on. They want it to make sure it stays with the country forever. It was strictly written for the citizens that live in the United States and for them to follow it. It might not seem fair for other people but they are coming to this country to start a new life or opportunity for themselves. Which means they are coming on new soil to which is the United States. These people have to earn it if they come from a different country. We the people should follow the United States Constitution and not do anything to change it.
Resolved: Birthright citizenship should be abolished in the United States

This is where your whole argument is wrong. If we abolish birthright citizenship we can put a law in place that allows only babies of citizens to become citizens at birth. Also while illegal immigrants come her for opportunity, they can do that but they need to do it in the proper and legal manner. That are protocols and regulations that they need to follow in order for them to become citizens and with this it would cause our country to be more american, rather than many other countries illegal immigrants coming here and immediately becoming citizens because they have a baby. The 14th Amendment needs to be changed because it is outdated. Also when you say that changing the constitution is unjust, you are mistakenly wrong because changes are made all the times. These changes are called Amendments, these Amendments are there to fix mistakes and problems within the constitution. A new Amendment can be made in order to amend the 14th and help to fix the common misinterpretation that we have today. Thus i would like to finish my argument by giving an analogy. Say you are waiting in line at islands of adventure for the hulk, the line is the time average people have to wait and the ride itself is the gaining of citizenship. Now think if someone were to cut you right when you get to the front of the line and they did not have to wait at all. So now in regard to the debate does it seem fair for an illegal person to just be given immediate citizenship over a person who has waited up to 2 years? Do you think that is fair? How would you feel?