Ironically, Franzen does make an interesting point - though it’s not the one he probably intended. I work in conservation biology and have had a fair bit of contact with people working in the field, and one of the biggest unspoken about problems in the field is the disproportionate effect some parochial interests have…

Shortly after that scene, Ripley looks directly at the camera and sighs before going in the back to make a homemade flamethrower for when it all goes to shit and that Weyland-Yutani guy gets murderated by his own puppet. Just like it always happens.

... What are you even talking about? Space Engine is an entirely different thing from whatever it is you're plugging, and was never intended to be an engine for games. There's no need to insult Space Engine or its makers just because you made a mistake.

I'm not sure what game it is you're thinking of, but I'm pretty sure Space Engine is not it.

Okay, I'm no fashion expert and I'm normally all for more, uh abstract forms of art, but seriously - half of those outfits look like the designer's 5-year-old attacked a potato sack with scissors. I'm confused. What sort of artistic statement is being made here, anyway?

"I can't help but wonder that myself. I mean... I love gay guys, yes, I said it, but the only reason WHY I say that, is because I know that that's one group of people I can befriend where the guy won't break down into histrionics and start cutting himself or wind up trying to get me drunk, guilt me, etc etc etc…

Well, the specific example I had in my head was the F-35 procurement program, which has done nothing but blow through every budget estimate put out and produce the world's most expensive paperweights. How many schools could we have renovated or meals purchased if we had just gone with an already-existing plane, like…

The plural of anecdote is not data.

All this is living proof that we Canadians owe Canada's First Nations peoples so, so much. Nothing we do can ever truly make up for this. We're so smug about our multiculturalism and our pluralism and our social safety nets, but when it comes to the First Nations we're just as bad as anyone. All this horrible shit…

It's funny too, because the same part of the Bible (Leviticus) that condemns homosexual behaviour also contains a passage that specifically condemns tattoos - and yet I doubt the good Pastor here would have interrupted the service of an otherwise-faithful heterosexual tattooed person with such zeal. Nor does it seem…

You gotta love that Victorian attitude towards poverty we've inherited. Luxuries like McDonalds or phones made in the last decades are corrupting influences on the weak-willed and indolent plebs, and we must make poverty miserable so that the lower orders are driven by their own base desires to work harder to join us…

Yeah. Take the system away and return it and it'll only keep them in line for so long (kids' memories are short, after all), but if you turn it into a carrot to dangle over their heads you get a motivating tool for months to come.

And you don't think the two separate psych screenings would have picked up on that sociopathy? Carried out by people whose job it is to look for problems like sociopathy, and who trained for years to do just that?

"Except registered dietitians do know what they are talking about."

"Dieticians and Naturopaths are licensed."

"Frankly if I wanted dietary advice I'd try to find a decent naturopath or consult a nutritionist."

"[Disgusted Noise]"

Autism can very much indeed be more serious than acne, though. If all the hypothetical DNA test or what have you could tell you is that the embryo had autism, but not how severe it would be, then the entire spectrum of the disorder should be considered.

Well, it's that same attitude that's ensured that no new antibiotics have been discovered in the last 30+ years. There's no profit in it for pharmaceuticals - you take antibiotics for a few weeks, you get better. End of. No chronic lifetime subscription to pain meds or decade of cancer treatment, just a (relatively)…

Given that he was attacked at the end of the video, I would suspect that he recorded it as proof in case the situation with his parents blew up and allegations of abuse had to be investigated. He didn't post the video himself, it should also be noted, a friend did that. That same friend also set up the Gofundme…