I thought the electoral college was stupid long before this (and even before Bush vs. Gore). And I’d still want to eliminate it even if the situation were reversed and a Democrat won the electoral college but lost the popular vote. Anyway, you miss the point that it was shb23 who was complaining about something that…

As Kai Mai already alluded to, the whole reason the electoral college was formed was that the founders didn’t trust direct democracy, and wanted a failsafe built in where the electoral college could override the will of the people, with the idea being that the electoral college would be made up of (as Alexander…

It’s based on the circumstantial evidence of him retweeting a whole lot of memes that come from the white nationalist community. And what’s this “your generation” stuff? I’m turning 40 in January, so if your grandparents were “the greatest generation” I guess that means we’re both Gen X.

Trump Jr. is also the Trump who seems most likely to be an outright white nationalist (at least having the most online ties to the alt-right community) as opposed to just a casual racist.

Urbanization is thought to be one of the main driving forces of the “demographic transition” seen pretty consistently in all different parts of the world, where the average number of kids per person drops off and the population size starts to level. The more people live in megacities, the less of a population control…

Seriously, this was the tip I found the last time I installed a new iOS and my battery life was suddenly shorter...sure enough, after the restart it was back to normal.

So this ad is pretty over-the-top (apparently created by Ted Cruz supporters during the primary) but starting to seem less so...well, as they say, “history repeats itself: first as tragedy, then as farce”

Fair enough, I assumed you were giving a reason why she shouldn’t get parole, as opposed to just saying disagreeing with the words she chose in isolation. Though I’d guess she probably meant she didn’t want to be let off the hook in an ethical sense rather than a legal sense. And in even in a legal sense, I don’t…

Would you say that absolutely any person in prison who applies for parole is wanting to be “let off the hook”, regardless of how bad they feel about their crimes? I think a person can take moral responsibility for a crime but still feel they’ve changed enough, and served enough time, that it’s reasonable to ask for a…

A “closer” analogy would be making a cover of a song without the permission of the artist.

How long is it going to be before robots (with plenty of remote guidance, maybe even telepresence) can do everything on the battlefield that a human marine can do, but without all that easily-damaged biology to worry about? Will war end up coming down to robot vs. robot battles, with the side that loses all its robots…

Isn’t the amount of power needed to lift you many feet into the air about the same as the amount of power needed to lift you 6 inches into the air, assuming you don’t have a “skirt” that traps air like a hovercraft? Either way, the upward force from air blowing down has to match the same downward force due to…

I don’t think the video was intended as parody, rather it’s the exactly type of “memes for Trump” stuff that’s popular on image-heavy ultra-right sites like the 8chan /pol forum (where people are very serious about their racist and anti-semitic beliefs but like to propagandize for them—and for Trump—using jokey,…

I don’t think the video was intended as parody, rather it’s the exactly type of “memes for Trump” stuff that’s popular on image-heavy ultra-right sites like the 8chan /pol forum (where people are very serious about their racist and anti-semitic beliefs but like to propagandize for them—and for Trump—using jokey,…

Trump’s stance—that women should individually be punished—is out of step with the anti-choice community, which has recently generally focused on regulation and dissuading physicians rather than arresting women.

I think there can be innocent cases of photos that feature nude families, for example in art photography, or perhaps in nudist lifestyle magazines that at least in the old days weren’t really presenting nudism as titillating (here’s a safe-for-work abebooks page about such a magazine, which mentions that the magazine…

The issue comes up in this interview done shortly after the charges were dropped.

It’s true Elizabeth Warren hasn’t endorsed anyone, but I think she’s relevant to this discussion in another way. It seems very likely to me that if Warren had been the one who chose to run against Clinton instead of Sanders, nearly all the people who prefer Sanders to Clinton in our world would also prefer Warren to…

Making separation between things is not the same as saying they are totally uncorrelated, just that they do not align perfectly in every situation and thus it’s useful to distinguish them. I’m monogamous and I’m not interested in polygamy, but intellectually I recognize it’s more correct to distinguish sexual desire…

I like the cyberpunk one but I can’t quite tell if all the characters are meant to refer to Star Wars characters or only some...I assume the woman with the neon circles on the side of her helmet is cyberpunk Leia, but who is she shooting? And who’s the electrocuted character on the ground?