“Common knowledge” is itself anecdotal evidence. Just sayin’

People are not pretentious assholes just because they make different choices than you. In fact, if you think people are being pretentious or judgmental simply because they make different choices, then the problem is yours, not theirs. Their choices don’t make them special, but your choices don’t make you any less…

You’re not wrong. If you enjoyed Hot Fuzz the best, then that’s what you enjoyed. World’s End is my favourite of the three for various reasons, but I don’t require others to feel the same. It’d be a pretty boring world if we all had the same preferences.

You know, they can talk about ethics all they want, but we all know this technology can and will be developed and used by corporations to further profit-motivated agendas. There’s still a lot of hold-outs who hold pure science up as an inherent good that will solve all our human problems, but how can it be good when…

Alright, yes, it’s a massive cloud of methane... I had tacos for lunch, alright? It’s a perfectly natural bodily function, and I see no reason why I should be judged for it.

Eeeeyah, that was awful. On the bright side (for her), she’s perfect reality TV material. But now I must go and forget that I ever saw or heard this.

You know, if I were a real conspiracy nut, I’d say this is Fox’s Libertarian wank-fest to normalize private police forces in the public mind in advance of it actually happening. But of course, that would be crazy. Surely this is mere entertainment.

LOL, okay no worries :) She looks familiar to me as well, but I can’t place it.

I’ve never understood this. What’s the point of 281 trillion shades of colour when the human eye can only distinguish around a million?

Followed the headline to find this comment or post it myself. I was not disappointed.

What’s that from?

Fair enough, but your argument holds just as well for the scientists themselves. Until they can demonstrate enough judgement and responsibility to use this technology ethically, without being beholden to corporate patrons and defense funding and patent trolling and the like, and without giving birth to a global arms…

Fucking morons. The utter, egotistical stupidity of these “scientists” is astounding. These aren’t scientists; they’re toddlers playing with nuclear weapons. There worse, actually, because a toddler wouldn’t be so stupid as to assume he knew what he was doing. And whatever these guys do, everyone on Earth will pay the…

Well, then you’re unusual. I think most people recognize, at least on an instinctive level, that the fact that some people can pay for First Class and others cannot is just a symptom of a much larger, very unequal enconomic system.

It’s not rocket science. Don’t you get angry when someone else gets something you do not? Seems pretty natural to me. It’s also well documented in economics and psychology: people don’t like to be left out. Inequality builds resentment, and in the larger economy, it is one of the main causes of crime and various other…

Inequality pisses people off. Go figure?

Yeah — not exactly Citizen Kane, but a fun, if grim, little movie.

Sounds like a very interesting story. I will definitely check that out.

I always associated the idea of a Mule with Iain M. Banks’ notion of the “Outside Context Problem,” although for most people seem to associate an OCP strictly with colonialism—I guess just because of Banks’ example description of one. Really though, I think a Mule / OCP can be anything that profoundly violates your…

Pretty sad when these psychologists seem utterly unfamiliar with linguistics. Pragmatically, speech acts are rarely ever “logical.”