You have missed first, my point and second, that I'm being devils advocate here and trying to understand. Don't tell people to grow up. The only people who say that is the young.

You're almost getting my point. For these people, their geek card and your geek card certify different things. Yours excludes the entire social debasement aspect that theirs mostly concerns. But they both say "geek". So there's pretty, funny ladies popping up waving their geek card like yours around. That annoys the…

To be honest I don't actually know what people are calling fake. And my whole point is that the kind of people slinging this accusation essentially mean something else by 'geek', something darker and more complex than fandom of a thing or a dress style or whatever, and part of their definition really rather excludes…

When were you a kid, 30 years ago? The populations doubled since then and it's rising faster all the time. We're already seeing food and water shortages. There are hard maths in this you can't argue with. Maximum agricultural output per area, sinking water tables, declining fish stocks, soil erosion, sea level rises,…

What controversy/nonsense is this? That they exist? They do. The same as fake car enthusiasts do who only watch Top Gear and couldn't even change a flat. Or fake drug users who talk about their heavy use but smoked once at a party and got a headache. Or fake readers who read loads, for reals, who actually read Harry…

On one hand, excellent news. I wondered if we'd see any more of this, the only anime I watch or respect outside of Miyazaki films. On the other hand it isn't SAC and doesn't involve the same people. I like the films rather less than SAC. Still I look forward to it.

By severely I meant along the lines of 1, or two with some sort of dispensation. Get the idea out there that you're shitting where you eat and taking a liberty having more than a couple of children, to replace you and your partner. I'm an average British person and within my social circle of maybe ten significant…

Well to be honest sterilisation is an extreme I hadn't considered. I was thinking more legislation and social policing. It's an educative effort. We all know by now that womens liberation lowers birthrates tremendously. In the West we already have declining native populations. Once everyone everywhere understand the…

What's wrong with this? I don't get it. In the course of a day all sorts of things in my past flit briefly through my mind. The slightest reason to do so or maybe mulling over something from days before. Anything remotely memorable. Relationships are very memorable. I have precisely 3 past relationships for my sins…

I know right? It's horrible and I never knew, how did I miss how terrible it was all these years

It occurs to me that in a microgravity environment intended to last, like the ISS, unless they clean every compartment regularly by evacuating and sealing it then explosively venting the atmosphere to space, which they do not, particulates and crud everywhere must be a massive problem that eventually becomes…

Birth rates have changed significantly, with reduced rates in first world nations and increased in developing/third world over recent decades, and from centuries ago? You have some serious education to do. The worlds population has increased seven times over in the last 2 centuries, accelerating all the while. As…

"But they're not wrong. "

An issue very straightforward in theory but made thorny by the real world. We have to lower the population and there is only one way to do that, by limiting reproduction, severely. But even if we could bring the entire Western world on board with a one child per family (itself problematic in these times - what is a…

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If women can pass the physicals, they should be allowed in. The majority can't (bless those who can and their iron physiques). And instituting a total review and shakeup to training standards and procedure that allows differing levels of physical capability for different front line roles is a bureaucratic and…

A comics buff could replicate this article and line of reasoning for any mainstream hero. They can not age or change circumstances or die or they fundamentally cease to be that character, that mainstream character that is mainstream because everyone knows his/her status quo and buys it. The comics industry... in fact…