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By now everyone should have a healthy skepticism of everything they read or view. Try opening up a paper, watching a newscast, or hell, even searching google. Most of the 'news' content comes from those sources anyway. Filtering out all of the biases, half truths, and outright lies is impossible.
Just heard back from the developers. Threads are set to show 250 top level comments. Anything after that might not show up for everyone. On a big watch party thread some of the comments will not be visible to everyone. They're not being removed. They're just pushing the current limits of the site.
People who live at Lake Tahoe hate everybody, even themselves. If you really want to piss them off make everyday like the Fourth of July there. Pack those roads. They'll flip their shit.