Contrary to popular belief, there are jobs outside of the cities. I’m a computer scientist living 15 min from my job in a house I rent for $950/mo. There might not be enough jobs to support a mass exodus of every city-dweller, but there are enough that the odd person who values their financial independence above the…

I thought about clarifying,but didn’t. I mean logistically outnumbered. So perhaps outnumbered is the wrong word. Outgunned, perhaps? Outmatched? That 30% you mention is a huge minority, and very nearly impossible for a sane left-leaning party to pick up. Which means for the left to control the government, they need a…

I’m starting to think it’s just a lost cause. We’re hopelessly outnumbered and there’s no way to fix it. You can’t just ‘try harder’ or ‘fight for the cause’. It’s an election, it represents the majority. And if the majority wants this... what can we do? Moving en mass to someplace else where the majority is more…

Sooo, wait a second here. If you take that map, and overlay it on top of the predictions for the 2016 congressional elections as seen here:

Control... retroactively decide that was exactly the number of donuts you intended to eat... close enough.

It’s just a gendered noun, like cow/bull. It doesn’t matter who is doing the referring, just who is being referred to. A fiancee is always female, and a fiance is always male. To remember it, I just consider that the woman gets an extra E because she’s the better half. :P

Fewer gators, but more of these:

I’d expect that there’s a surprising subset of people with smartphones and data plans but no TVs.

Some of the best fiction is rooted in real life, with some dramatic flair thrown in. I certainly think this could lead to interesting fiction. Picture a world where wealthy people from the past are gradually revived in the future, the billionaires first. Then millionaires. Then just the well off. An entire population…

It depends on which sci-fi future you go with, but my suggestion is that under most of them, this would work. As long as some form of capitalism survives, and your funds aren’t somehow siezed or destroyed in some major upheaval, then you should be able to set aside a large chunk of money that is capable of…

It’s OK, they’ll just edit that out in post.

My point was that you set up your own trust, not pay a business. In other words, you create a legal contractual entity with the sole purpose of preserving and reviving you, independent of whatever business performs the original freezing. This at least removes a good number of the what-ifs and the ‘reason to revive…

Ok, but it’s just taking the like, forever, to find a CG professional who can turn a book into a gun convincingly.

I think the why is relatively easy to solve with enough money. Presumably, a wealthy enough person could establish a trust fund of some sort, with minimal overhead, that would pay out to anyone who could successfully restore and cure the frozen person. Essentially, it would be a legal construct that should survive as…

Yeah, looks like the edge of the ring is marked in white, and the flags were all white, so my guess is it’s an attempt to confuse the other bot’s concept where the ring is, and get it to push the wrong way or fall out of bounds on its own power.

Yeah, my last gig we had no means to actually monitor what people were doing, short of logging into their machine and checking browsing history and the like after the fact. And yet, every single person in the building was certain that we were watching them all day, seeing their every move. Like I have a screen…

Relevant XKCD

Some excerpts for anyone confused about whether this is rape:

Actually, you might be on to something. I notice they said they tested right hand strength. In the age of the internet, I expect there’s been a significant rise in left-handed masturbators, given that most people use their right hand for a mouse. I wonder if they’d measured left handed strength whether there would be…

I think the grammar part of my brain just seized.