Let's be clear. I don't give a shit about your health or your body. The people I worry about are the people who are underserved by our food infrastructure and unhealthy because they've never been educated about how to maintain a balanced diet or what actual food even looks like.

People who prefer to wallow in their own…

• There've been numerous nannyist experiments performed to try forcing poor people to eat fresh food, forcing children to eat health food in schools. They failed

There was a point a few years ago when the city of Detroit did not have a single full-service grocery store (i.e. includes dairy, fresh produce, and meat) anywhere within the city limits. Even assuming a person had a car (and many do not) they would have had to drive 45 minutes or more to get actual food.

This happens…

I can see why he would though, the Civil War era lends itself well for the kind of experiment he's trying to run. The unit AI doesn't need to be as complicated when everyone is just being put in position to line up and lob musket fire at each other while you micromanage your cavalry. That way he gets to focus on the…

Let me explain something to you. The reason such caricatured depictions of non-White races is problematic in American culture is because America (and the Western world) has a history of systematically oppressing and disenfranchising non-White people. And not just within the country, White folks actually went out of…

Actually I have several female friends that I'd say have "Game." They're not really "ugly" but they're not really "hot" either.

Actually the flooding in India has more to do with deforestation around the source-glaciers of the rivers than it does with global warming. The warming doesn't help, but cutting down all the trees exposes a lot more ice and snow to sunlight and causes it all to melt all at once rather than steadily throughout the…

That's not his wife. That's the personification of the Ganges river. (Ganga is the Indian name for it.)

I swear it's like people peddling all this alarmist nonsense don't understand how supply and demand work. If crop yields don't grow to meet demand all that means is that price of food goes up and people start planting vegetable gardens and learn to eat less meat.

I'm a man who would get a mani/pedi because all my hiking in the woods has thoroughly messed up my toenails. I would also get a facial because doing martial arts and regularly getting punched, kicked, and elbowed in the face has left some rough patches and scars. Also, absurdly short Muay Thai shorts are pretty…

Sadly I'm not sure UI design will improve any time soon. If it would I believe we'd have seen some semblance of concern for a decent or intuitive UI from either of these companies sometime over the many revisions of their software over the past few years. Xbox Live has been going for most of a decade and Microsoft has…

Sadly I'm not sure UI design will improve any time soon. If it would I believe we'd have seen some semblance of concern for a decent or intuitive UI from either of these companies sometime over the many revisions of their software over the past few years. Xbox Live has been going for most of a decade and Microsoft has…

Can we please stop saying "can be seen from space" like that means anything? You can see anything from space with a good enough lens.

It's hard to make a substantive point in 140 characters. It was destined to fail from the start. You can make a pithy statement, but fleshing out an argument is pretty much impossible.

Gen X came of age in the '90s and started working in the late '90s and early 2000s. Their early careers started with the tech boom back when having the most rudimentary computer skills was enough to get you a six figure salary with nary a college education.

Customarily, you don't draw attention to an aspect of a something unless it's germane to the point you're trying to make. So when you explicitly call out Odd Future as being "a rap collective" and then set that in opposition to being part of "the nerd crowd," then it's going to make sense that I understand that to…

This is sounding like a "No True Scotsman" fallacy. Any casual perusal of nerdier haunts like reddit will indicate that plenty of nerds are perfectly happy to indulge in racism, misogyny, misandry, religious or counter-religious bigotry, and a variety of other anti-social behaviors.

Just because they're a rap group they can't be nerds? The Wu Tang Clan is set up as an homage to old kung-fu movies (which is like Gen-X's equivalent of modern anime nerds.)

It seems like a pattern among scientists who want to comment on matters of religion where they don't actually feel the need to bother studying any religious philosophy or theology. It's bad enough with the atheist champions do it, but having the religious ones join in just degrades the entire debate.

For example, maybe…

This is why made-up language, even the best ones like Tolkien's