Any time you see the phrase that someone “stands by” their opinion/decision, you know that person has already lost the argument and they have nothing left to do but bang on the table to show how totally confident they are in their losing position.

The solution here is for an open-source project to train its own lie-detecting machine, and then let us all practice on it until we can reliably fool any machine any time we want, at which point these tools become useless. It might not take much to hack it either— machine vision can be notoriously fragile, eg: https://…

A nice article and a great accompanying video. But omitting the political aspect of this fight is misleading the public, especially about the history behind these blooms and the current and future solutions available. The video briefly mentions the sugar industry, but it’s bad reporting to leave off the decades of…

You should try reporting this to your local newspaper. Scooters are in the news right now and a nice case of malfeasance, particularly if you have photogenic pics to back up your claims, would definitely catch the eye of some reporters. Try emailing a few metro desks or journalists who have written scooter articles…

I support both klutzes and their attire, but for the love of god, if you’re at all clumsy, next time please add gloves/palm guards to the protective ensemble. One hard fall forward and you won’t be able to type for a week. There’s no shame in padding, especially once you’ve already done the knees and elbows.

Catbag!

Speaking personally, I thought seasons 5 and 6 were actually the best. Those are where the scope of the show really expanded into the wider narrative, and also where a few of the oddest one-off episodes existed. Some people prefer tight plotting like the miniseries later in the show, some prefer the casual lightness…

“The president thinks you’re all morons.”

It takes, what, 10 minutes to walk 10 blocks? Why would you even bother with renting a bike?

So many of the arguments against the paper posted here are so bad I can’t tell if they are joking or not. I suspect the authors of those posts don’t know either, and don’t particularly care. What I don’t understand is why they bother writing them. Do they think their stupid counter-arguments — rando on the internet…

Well, some hunters kill animals for food. But the hunters that kill elephants think that they’re trophies.

Sometimes for the sake of getting business done you just have to support jailing children, cutting health care, reducing education funding, destroying NATO, helping Putin, restricting food for the poor, blocking abortion, ejecting immigrants, abetting school shootings, encouraging LGBT discrimination, killing net…

This is the problem with the notion of “balanced” or “unbiased.” Basically every analysis of news media — their content, their audiences, shares on social media, etc — finds that basically all the major news media are on the left, while Fox is basically the only thing on the right. The solutions to this are either…

Our three year old increased his play with our hand-me-down trains by about 3x after we quietly removed the powered ones. It’s just much more suited to narrative play when you do all the pushing/switching/parking etc.

I continue to support the “wait” strategy, at least until it becomes clear if future rain will overwhelm the pumps and flood their air pocket.  The fact that so many people on the internet are pushing for the “far too risky” diving rescue is just more evidence that the boring wait-and-see approach is probably the most…

There’s really only one definition of “risky” that matters here — which way is more likely to kill someone. Sickness, suffocation, psychology — all of those can be dealt with using established methods that work pretty well. Food, warmth, and reading material has been shown to work in many similar cases. It’s not…

Lost was great, Leftovers was even greater. Between this, Nolan on Westword, and Hawley on Legion, it’s a great time for cerebral SF.

The problem is, where once it had become 100% wedges, it is now 100% spinners, and even then, for a time there were vertical vs horizontal spinners, but now it’s almost exclusively horizontal spinners that dominate. They really need to allow tangling devises (nets, ropes, etc) back in, or all it becomes is a bunch of…

The social media companies shouldn’t be gatekeepers and shouldn’t have the responsibility. They are right, that is not their role, and shouldn’t be up to them to solve.