Yeah…pretty much

It’s no surprise voter apathy is so high in this country

Hillary in '16

My entire voting life has been votes against over votes for when I think about it :(

Premise reminds me of The Integral Trees a lot

I guess the logical progression is to go after the most accessible level…meaning eventually the office workers would probably be a target, which isn’t great.

That, or people go after, like, their extended families instead…which isn’t exactly great either…

Maybe flooding a country with firearms and putting them into its constitution isn’t such a good idea

Its my understanding that subsonic ammo sometimes won’t have enough gas to move the slide fully and must be done manually like this

Scientific advancement in space experimentation leads to breakthroughs in other areas - all scientific progress is interconnected.

“Pushing science towards solving the most immediate and important problems” is sort of a nonsense statement, as there could be new efficiencies/strategies that are discovered in fields that are completely unrelated to what would normally be associated with “the most immediate and important problems.”

They can be satisfied they did less than nothing when Gaza is turned into a parking lot for the newest Israeli Megamall.

Then again, since it apparently didn’t matter either way, I guess there was no hope for the Palestinians. Maybe they’ll all be reincarnated as white people next time around as a universal consolation prize or something lol

New Madrid fault line babyyy

Is your friend a Cold-War era Romanian dictator?

We should allow people who pull similar shit to die the same way as Crassus lol

Blazing Saddles would be called dated and “done before.”

It was originally made as a way to laugh at Westerns, which, up to that point, had dominated the market. A lot of the tropes and plot lines the movie rips on are explicitly there because they were usually in these “safe” Westerns.

The Spanish torched much of the cultural heritage of the Aztecs, sure, but the obvious implication of a thing being “discovered” is “when do we start having concrete evidence of this thing being known to our existence?”

So, when someone says “electric eels being discovered” they mean “electric eels becoming concretely documented by people in a way we can verify.”

Also, stuff in our past has been discovered and lost numerous times across the ages. We generally agree that finding the oldest instance of a thing is the “discovery” time of that thing.

Wha? They talked to Apollo’s dev at the end?

Or do you mean a breakdown of the numbers and such?

Never forget the way the human brain works, with the more common interpretation being: “it takes 7 instances of positive things to outweigh 1 negative.”

For my part I haven’t really noticed any difference, but I only infrequently comment!

Bless the Maker and His water

Avatar: The Last Airbender

Just a damned good show all around that showed younger me a lot of what makes compelling stories work.