I always refer to them as the Republicans, the Republican Party, or the GOP (or GOPers if I’m being brief). There’s no reason not to completely associate them with their utterly terrible (moral, governmental and social) policies.

Tesla is trying to solve problems that have already been solved. Industrial machining and fabrication is something that we’ve already figured out how to do quickly, efficiently, and (this is important) without pushing employees past their breaking point. There are classic problems here that William Edwards Deming (and…

Or, and here’s a crazy idea, let them come. Set up a legal system for them to get work visas and try to get a path to some sort of legal residence if not citizenship. One of the immigration crises in the US is that there are jobs that US citizens won’t take (dishwasers, farm labor, etc.) that we could let these…

The difference was that when children were detained alone under Obama, it was because there were unaccompanied children (mostly in their early to mid teens) arriving in droves at the border. Their families weren’t with them. That’s nothing like grabbing a child under the age of 5 from their parents’ arms.

This is so tired.

Spit is really optimistic for her.

Didn’t assume you did. I just think it’s a good question to ask the anti-vaxxers. If you want to convince them, it’s probably best not to attack their belief, but to try to slip an idea in edgewise. And I don’t care about them, but I don’t like watching child abuse happen and doing nothing about it.

Anti-vax hits an interesting cross-roads of political views. Libertarians and other conservatives don’t like being forced to. Crazy lefties (as opposed to the many sane lefties) think it’s too unnatural to be trusted. And then there are the tin-foil wearing folks who think it’s a tool of a sinister cabal of [one world…

It’s child abuse. That’s what it is.

I think the thing to do is ask “OK. What’s the chance of autism that you heard? OK. Measles kills 1 in 5000 kids who get it. Half of all kids who get whooping cough end up in the hospital and it can be fatal. 15% of mumps cases result in meningitis, and 1 in 20,000 kids with mumps go deaf. Which odds do you like…

Yeah, that decision tree leaves out “Would you prefer your child died (1 in 5000 or so who get measles die), or be autistic (which... doesn’t happen from vaccines).” Think in a probabilistic way for a moment. Assuming you believe vaccines did cause autism, at what rate of autism do you think that the chances of death…

Obviously they were upset because Barack wore it better.

Yeah, but I really respect CDProjekt Red’s philosophy of “We’ll release when it’s ready. And not before. Don’t hassle us for a time this far out.”

Well, it worked so well for Twitter...

There’s a pretty easy argument that if you can’t shout fire in a theater as protected speech because it leads to harm of a lot of people, you can’t protest with a weapon for the same reason (and weapons should include clubs, bats, etc.).

Man... That escalated quickly. I will say, the key to a good burger is protecting the bread from all the wet mess between the top and bottom bun. Therefore, cheese against one bun, and a very thin layer of mayo on the other seems to me to be the best plan to form a guard against moisture (and by thin, I mean thin -…

“That man is a blight on our countreh. He’s a terrible human bein’. I wouldn’t cross the road to stomp him out... Oh, but of course I’ll vote for what he wants in Congress. I am a gentleman, after all.” - Shorter version of everything Lindsey Graham has said and done since 2015.

How about this: A game like GTA V with Peter, Miles and Gwen all as playable characters you can switch between as you want? Throw in that switching character mechanic with some of the combo sort of moves from Arkham Knight, with a multi-player option...

Didn’t have it quite that bad. Our house, built in ‘49, had a galvanized steel water main. That rusted, so the previous owner ran copper out and spliced in past where the rust had made it leak. Twice. When the third time happened after we owned the house, it was at the city junction box, so we had to do it the right…

My parents had a tree root crack a sewar pipe too, and flood their basement. Imagine that joy. There was carpet. Enough said.