You can understand why people would posture this way, but of course no one takes it literally, because what’s being said is the opposite of what is meant.

Does sound like the dilithium crystals are headed for meltdown, which should make anyone nervous.

I get it, sort of, in that passwords are becoming so cumbersome that some kind of universal physical “ID key” is starting to make sense, if it could be used for everything and were extremely difficult to hack. The one weakness of course being you could never be without it.

MY SPECIES RIGHT OR WRONG!!!!

Ironcially, empathy for animals is one of the few traits human beings can make to being special in the first place.

The tendency of lesser humans to sneer at the value of empathy toward animals displays a remarkable lack of empathy itself.

Boils down to inherent corruption in the way American government dollars are spent. If it shoots or explodes, there is a defense mega-corp that can help fund someone’s campaign, so funding is essentially unlimited.

NO, this doesn’t even “sound good on paper.” It sounds like another policy designed to

When the waitress at converted gas station restaurant in Cedar Key seemed not to recognize the andouille sausage dish I ordered, I should have known. No telling where they were keeping that sausage, or how long they’d had it. Not only was it the last thing I ate — it felt like the last thing I would *ever* eat.

Isn’t the real issue with North Korea the fact that it is a client state of China, a country with a far less questionable nuclear capability?

Looks like a similar design, and also carbon fiber?

Ugly — looks like the blades of a food processor in there.

Nerdlets. They know who we’re talking to.

Pretty sure the “Pirates” “ride” at Disney World is not a context where the gnarliest bits of historically accurate human activity needs to play out. It’s made up to begin with and presented for amusement.

My understanding that was that while wolves (canis lupus) and dogs (canis familiaris) are indeed different in important ways, they are not distinct species. They can interbreed (and produce fertile offspring) which is where the line is usually drawn. I think the new thing is that dogs are looked at as basically a…

Polling on infrastructure spending is at about 79% in favor.

Riiiiight. Nothing a bit off about “dude being masculine” via skulking around on a dirt scooter at midnight with knives, brass knuckles, and a sawed-off because he saw it in a movie.

I’d rather call universal healthcare a matter of infrastructure than a human right. For people swayed by the fear that someone else is getting something they don’t “deserve,” they might better understand keeping their fellow citizens alive as a benefit to everyone if we thought about in the same terms we do roads,…

It’s remarkable what the success of the culture war vs. supposed liberalism has wrought.

*Real. Kinja on some kind of nine-second delay this morning.