I think the US will never beat Russia or China in the area of extending your nation’s political will using computers (be it spreading FUD, election tampering or just outright hacking attacks) because nobody can beat the Russians for pure cynicism

Fact that’s regularly shared:

But colonization on our own planet led to the genocide and displacement of cultures and people, economic inequity, and the destruction of environments. What lessons from Earth’s colonialist tragedies can we apply to our interplanetary future?

What a bunch of dribble. We aren’t even remotely ready to terraform a planet, so we have plenty of time to go there and investigate the history of the planet.

So this is a trash discussion designed to extend white guilt into space exploration. If there’s no life on these worlds, then what we talking about is the rights of the indigenous rocks. Also, it’s shaming to third world countries that won’t have manned space exploration for generations. 

Take it from someone who turned off the main breaker during a party at midnight on Dec. 31st, 1999: it sounds way funnier than it will actually be.

What’s more embarrassing is that this gets the headlines. Not the federal debt increasing. Not the cut in programs. Not healthcare being in shambles. Nope, this. This is the ratings suits making decisions of what is news.

All this drone-shit is taking away valuable resources from perfecting sex-robots. Can we please finish the sex-robots 1st. I’m not getting any younger people!

With weed going legal everywhere, gotta find some other way to keep the for-profit prisons full.

Won’t work. Americans hate it when other people are having more sex than they are.

It’s not just you. It’s most rational people.

Maybe it is just me, but I think the solution is to go the other way. Legalize and regulate prostitution. It is easier to get away with sex trafficking when the escorts are operating below the law. But by making it legal, when an escort has a problem they can more easily go to the police.

Makes me wonder where we would be now if we hadn’t put a limit on funding for stem cell research. Another reason to hate the GOP and the religious anti-science crowd.

The crazy thing is that it’ll probably not happen here any time soon because “them thar cells could become babbies!” or whatever.

Me too. Sort of related story: I was at a natural history museum with a lot of taxidermied specimens on display. They have an interesting way of keeping people from touching the exhibits without resorting to putting them all behind glass. They have a sign stating “preservatives used is poisonous, do not touch…

Just like human drivers then!

But fenced property is only worth a fraction of legitimate property, especially if it is something a normal buy would expect provenance on.

Honestly thought it was going to have been highly radioactive. The thieves were caught four days later, after their skin melted off and they grew some new limbs.

Because you’re a rational person who’s lived long enough to know that these sorts of things are never meant to correct bad behavior, but to punish opposing views.

Why do I have a sneaking suspicion that something’s a little off about the “Spreading false information about terrorism,” and it’s not aimed the Chinese version of 911 truthers, but rather political activists?