If corporate executives are insiders, then Trump is almost certainly an insider. It really depends on what type of insider you mean: political, elite, rich, cultural, or just influence peddlers in general. Personally, I don’t think Trump is especially outsider-ish, apart from having little experience with governance.…

So are white nationalists.

The fact that there is no known pathway doesn’t necessarily indicate that there is no pathway. There are laws and uncountable experiments that have rigorously tested the speed limit of light without contradiction. Cell phone radiation is the same physics as other radiation which we are swimming in, and there have…

Why would you choose a strong Bayesian prior that aspartame is harmless in the absence of any evidence one way or the other? Pretty sure you’re doing it wrong.

A faithful representation would’ve been indistinct glowing spheres, not, as someone else put it, flaming meatballs with wings.

Being sprayed with sodium hydroxide is fun!

Is the difficulty as high as Pokemon Uranium?

The national intelligence is what got me elected in the first place.

The converse argument being that Congress refused to carry out its constitutional duties, forcing Obama to take unilateral action.

Looks like labels on generic fireworks. I can feel the matte paper texture with my eyes.

I’m still waiting for a level up reference and hosts named after other video game characters. They’ve done looting bodies for equipment upgrades and named missions (still waiting for a punny one). They’ve done pretty well with the host dialogue for mission briefs being very NPC.

Reverse engineering is a delivery upon the promise of alternate novel solutions because it reaches the same results as the original process while having a chance to represent a different and potentially improved method to reach it.

It totally fits in as a gaming easter egg.

You’re doing it wrong.

I don’t understand why people think Starship Troopers is terribad. It’s RoboCop in space. It’s weird because it’s (dark) satire. Pretty good satire at that.

...couldn’t get him to stop laughing at the number 69.

Wait...it’s pronounced kai-oh-ger? I always pronounced it kyoh-grey.

Barring lifetime appointments, I don’t see a good way around the “revolving door”: the people most qualified (or at least most experienced) to do the jobs are also the most likely to be financially or professionally conflicted. And despite how distasteful cronyism is, most private citizens are willing to do…