This video by Lindsay Ellis couldn’t be more relevant. (it’s on Nebula too)

The number of possible combinations of genes is so large that the chance of a random duplication is vanishingly small. Even twins aren’t exact copies because they’ll have mutations unique to themselves.

Rich people are allowed to rape girls in America. Law enforcement is an enabler, not an obstacle. Nobody is even talking about how to change that.

For every 1,000 sexual assaults, only 25 people will be incarcerated. America doesn’t give a tiny shit about people getting raped. When it happens to girls and women, we ignore it. When it happens to boys and men, it’s a joke. That’s still going to be true if Trump and everybody you hate is rotting in prison.

So like you want President Gavin Newsom to order the Justice department to charge Tucker Carlson with mortgage fraud?

Corruption and abuse of power actually get worse if it’s “both sides”. Don’t you think?

The problem with articles like this is that they only focus on games that are bad as a game, and ignores games that are good to excellent, but that are still bad because they screw their players over, engage in abusive business and labor practices, or are simply owned by dogshit people.

As you can tell, I’m waiting for the Jimqusition end of year lists.

SOMA is a great game. But I’m not going to watch for 2 and a half hours unless it ends with uploading Zoltan Istvan’s consciousness into a broken robot.

Reddit is an advertising platform not a venue for speech. You’re not talking in the “public square” your talking in a billionaire’s house. So you play by the owner’s rules.

Even the name “public square” implies that nobody owns it. If you think Reddit is important for free speech, then it should be nationalized. Only then are conversations about censorship even coherent.

The dangers associated with Meth production have been exaggerated by ignorant media and lying cops.

A person with a serious meth addiction is dangerous and likely to cause accidental harm even if they aren’t playing around with volatile chemicals. But these chemicals all have legitimate uses and are safe to use by sober adults. Stuff like Coleman fuel, ether, and acetone. You can create runaway exothermic reactions while venting flammable gas with some weaponized incompetence, but it’s still a “low” explosive, with small amounts of chemicals, and unlikely to harm anyone not in the same room, much less the neighbor.

90% of meth lab “explosions” are small events that only harm people in the immediate vicinity and most of the structural damage will come from the resulting fire. Compare that to a simple natural gas leak that can turn a 3 story McMansion into confetti in under a second.

Would you be nervous if your neighbor installed a gas fireplace?

Conservatives have never respected the Reconstruction amendments because they coerced the slaveholding States to adopt them. Worse still, “disastrous” SCOTUS rulings like Row, Obergefell, Brown v. Board, basically anything affirming equality all use these Amendments’ reasoning.

It’s ironic that a conservative majority of all Catholics, one woman, and a black guy are trying to go back to an era where all of them could be legally discriminated against. Hell, before the Reconstruction amendments, Thomas would be ineligible for citizenship.

Brice canyon is a marvel, but it’s most impressive feature is billions and billions of miles away.

I grew up rural, but it was like I’d never seen the stars before. The Milky Way was bright enough to cast shadows.

I always like to remind white people that for POC and minorities, every time they go outside, they’re stepping into the TSA security line. https://gitnux.org/stop-and-frisk-statistics/

Epstein killed himself. (same for Gary Webb)

Too many people think suicide is rare, or extreme act. But it’s common as dirt especially for people who’s life is ruined. It’s a joke in movies that “new fish” looking at long sentences kill themselves, but somehow when it happens to someone notable, it’s mysterious and suspicious.

Also, the idea that there was a conspiracy to murder Epstein in prison and cover it up by powerful people is an extraordinary claim with the flimsiest possible evidence.

This is in India

So, they’re being obsequious to Trump, and that’s evidence something has changed?

Am I missing something or is this article really that dumb?

The story going around is that the Republican women of Congress are in open revolt because they’ve been sidelined and ignored by leadership and the President.

White women discover their status doesn’t overrule misogyny. More at 11.

Nobody has racist field trip yet? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oomlb9xm-YQ

If conspiracy people were vulnerable to facts they wouldn’t exist.

If you’re at war, then State agents are legitimate targets. Killing the enemy is fair play.

I’m not saying this is justified, just that it’s not terrorism to blow up pigs and army guys.

If there was any connection between an author’s work and their actual life, I’m grateful that Cormac MccArthy has been stopped.

A lot of people compare Trump to Hitler, but as apt as that may be sometimes, Hitler was a dilettante intellectual; he was a reader. And as painful as it might be to anyone who’s tried to read it, Hitler did write his own book.

I don’t remember the character well, but besides being a real-estate guy, I don’t see the connection between Trump and Fontaine. Fontaine was evil and all, but he was also hyper competent, organized, and had consistent ideology.