The whole thing is going to be a bummer. With any luck... It’ll be so gritty and real and dystopian! And with some emo bullshit played over the last five minutes of each episode featuring the cast looking sad.

Please explain.

Interesting that “I think your (in the generic sense) comments are built on a flimsy base” equates to a silencing attempt in your mind.

A cultural message that men are inherently dangerous and in need of correction is also damaging.

There is seriously a generational gap when it comes to people getting Milo. For older folks, the concept of being upset about a tweet is basically ludicrous- Like, less than 1% of the emotional impact of someone insulting you to your face. To younger people, it’s hugely important. The olds are all thinking: It’s a…

Transcending every pre-programmed gender-predominant base urge is neither possible nor desirable.

There seems to be an inherent assumption that in any cases of power imbalance, the more powerful force is doing something wrong or is somehow flawed.

You’re right- I transposed some events there. “The Problem With Whiteness” was December.

Unless someone honestly has no problem with considering a course called “The Problem with Femaleness”, anything that comes out of their mouth on this topic is meaningless.

They’re bored. They’ve solved all their major issues. They value novelty. They have religious beliefs that require investigation and proselytization of other sentient creatures. Who knows! They are fun and curious and willing to dump massive resources into a trip. They have reached some kind of post-singularity where…

Someone’s got to be first. Maybe it’s us.

I always wonder when I hear this viewpoint: Why can’t aliens simply be curious, or think it’s fun, or have motives that you or I would even be able to comprehend?

Well of course the answer is that when one argues from a place of principles, you end up with real equality. When you don’t (cue all talk about special rights and treatment), you end up with just another authoritarian group that wants to see their group dominate and everyone else can go pound sand.

Less so than you might think. There is no “science” definition of when something goes from being inert matter to personhood, so there will always be debate.

There are many interrelated questions going on. Is the climate changing? And then, is that a problem, big-picture?, and then, is there anything we can do about it, and then, what should we do about it...

The “experts” all missed Trump’s victory. This is not going to encourage faith in climate change evangelists, telling us what the world is going to look like 100 years out, when they were not able to tell us what the world was going to look like a few months out, and that with a much simpler model and data set.

Of course, if you jacked up teachers’ salaries by a lot, the currently employed teachers would be out of jobs soon as they were replaced by more qualified teachers chasing that larger payday.

He’s literally every white privileged male who throws a giant hissy fit when it turns out that the world isn’t actually all about him.

This is part of it, but also- The polls consistently showed Hillary’s chances as way better than they were. People did not realize the limitations of polling and now they do. The whole polling industry should be quaking right now. Nate Silver should be finished.

Is it not possible in your world that a person could object to what someone is saying and also figure that it’s not their place to lecture someone about a private document shared among consenting parties? Is everyone on the team collectively responsible for each other’s behavior?