Well, “what is he smoking?” kind of has the same implication.

It took almost exactly 5 years from publication for that to be commonplace.

That’s a bit of a false dilemma though. The two options aren’t “it’s a magical elixir with absolutely no downsides” and “people deserve to be locked in a cage and have their life ruined for possessing it”. Plenty of legal things can cause harm. 35% of people are lactose intolerant, do we ban dairy?

Hell, you can give away 990 million of it, buy a house, put what’s left in a high yield savings account, and live comfortably on the interest alone for the rest of your life.

The fact that Windows hides file extensions by default is just absolute insanity to me.

He also does it to ensure all his kids are XY because he’s a raging sexist, which explains why he’s such a shitheel to Vivian.

How exactly do you define advertising? An overly broad definition would forbid, for example, a dentist from putting a sign in front of their office saying they’re a dentist.

Maybe they shouldn’t be throwing out sieg heils and getting swastika tattoos if they don’t want to be called Nazis.

15 year generations don’t really make sense though, the whole concept of a generation is that they’re the previous generation’s kids.

“Why do we eat the fungi that taste good and not the ones that give you explosive diarrhea?”

My conspiracy theory is it was chosen to deliberately harm the optics of environmentalists. Something with minimal useful impact and maximum inconvenience would turn people against the whole idea of environmentally friendly alternatives.

That’s not how that works. It’s not a DnD sphere of annihilation, it’s an infinitely dense point of matter.

I’m sure if they take power, their first order of business would be to legalize all Nazi symbolism and drop the “we’re just run of the mill conservatives” facade entirely.

Yeah, something about this shift in focus feels like a psyop. We have clear evidence of targeted voter suppression, destruction of ballots, etc. In a two party system, fraudulently removing your opponent’s votes has exactly the same impact as creating fake votes for yourself. That’s already clear evidence of fraud, why are we redefining “evidence of fraud” as a new thing that we haven’t found yet?

The lethality is 52%. If it rips through the population, we’re looking at total collapse well before the vaccine is available.

Because people who don’t understand what words mean label every possible post-capitalist system as communism even though they’re as different from each other as they are from capitalism.

Conservatives believe there are only 2 possible roles for a father, absent or abusive.

Fascists double down on their fascism in response to punishment. Dead fascists, preferably by natural causes of course, do not.

The set of all possible universes does not include impossible universes. If you assume all possible universes exist, you’ve already eliminated universes that are the only universe as impossible.

That’s unfortunate, I liked Oppenheimer. Always sucks to find out someone involved was a total dickweasel.