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A different kind of online debate

> Kialo review

Brittney MacDonald Life & Style Editor

I: this new-fangled age of computers and the internet, it’s not hard to find differing opinions if you're longing for an intellectual debate. Finding someone with a reasonable argument? That’s a little trickier. Often, debating anything on the internet can feel like shouting into an echoing void that a million different people are already screaming into. Whatever point you had is lost in all the noise, a din that also disguises any valid counterarguments. Kialo is a website dedicated to changing that. It is designed specifically

to encourage intellectual and fair debate.

Armed with technology that lays out the main points of a debate—both pros and cons—in a visual web that can be edited

by people involved in either public or private discussions, Kialo seeks to allow its users to organize their thoughts and points. This helps prevent debates from derailing, as they so often do on forums. Kialo also allows for mini-debates within larger discussed issues. This means that any point made can then be argued to determine validity, while still remaining connected and accessible through the larger, all-encompassing debate itself. This makes it a great platform for classrooms or businesses. This method of organization provides the tools necessary for rational debate, as opposed to relying on simple statements made by users that can be either uninformed or simply seeking to “troll.” Having a separate platform, one that requires an account in order to participate, also further deters anyone whose main motivation is to watch the world burn.

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Brittney MacDonald Life and Style Editor

Valentine’s Day is right around the corner, and in case you haven't guessed by now, we here at the Other Press are a bit of an eccentric group. We spend most of our time locked away, writing articles on anything from yummy vegan deserts to which sex position supports the patriarchy, but even we need love. We just tend to express that love incredibly awkwardly, and with a lot of dad-at-a-wedding dance moves.

Here’s our list of unconventional love songs for you to

enjoy, listen in on Spotify at http://spoti.fi/2nBwDH3

I’m Not Going to Teach Your Boyfriend How to Dance with You by Black Kids (Jacey)

Why I Cry by Ninja Sex Party (Ed) Marry Me by St. Vincent (Lauren) Paradise by the Dashboard Light by Meat Loaf (Chandler) Me and My Bitch by The Notorious B.L.G. (Katie) I Don't Love You by My Chemical Romance (Jessica)

I Don't Care by Apocolyptica (Caroline)

Closer by Nine Inch Nails (Brittney)

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