It’s interesting to me that, despite how active and violent the Spot is on Jupiter, its thermal profile is minimal compared to other cloud bands. Also, what is up with those cloud bands that they’re generating that much heat (comparatively speaking)??

Frankly, there’s no way to talk about it that isn’t going to piss people off. Both sides have done abhorrent things in the name of their ‘beliefs.’ And *EVERYTHING* either side has done is in retaliation for a previous retaliation, blood for blood, eye for an eye, going back centuries. Neither side is willing to admit…

I’m pretty sure this constitute fraud — local law enforcement agencies don’t get any national security exceptions, which means any and all funds and programs have to be above board. But considering the abhorrent state of law enforcement in the US, it might as well be sheep complaining to the wolves about how they’re…

This issue will never be ‘fixed’ so long as producing ‘pets’ remains a for-profit enterprise. It’s just another instance of businesses passing the true cost of their business model onto society.

There are valid questions about how ‘clean’ or ‘renewable’ some clean or renewable energy sources really are, and how much of that is a product of our current implementations and power-production paradigm (ex: the heavy machinery used in mining the materials used to make solar cells don’t *have* to run on diesel...but…

Unfortunately true of most large organizations like the NRA — whatever their original goal or purpose may have been, ‘money’ has become the sole focus.

It’s funny how decades of one political party ‘nickle and diming’ society out of the funds to maintain critical infrastructure results in that critical infrastructure failing. Why, it’s almost as if there’s a causal relationship!

No, it isn’t. That’s the flaw that keeps this whole shitshow running. ‘The market’ represents the interests less than 1% of the population, and those interests are most often at odds with what is best for society and at the cost of society. The ‘market’ is no more representative of society than a cancerous tumor is…

And this is an opportunity to show how you put federal subsidies to work correctly — pay-matching so people can be paid what the work is worth to society and the people who do that work and not what it’s worth to the almighty ‘market.’ Employer chips in one half for under-valued labor, and the government puts in the…

If I’m finding out that the world is a simulation, then I clearly didn’t know beforehand, which strongly implies that *I* am part of that simulation and not an external observer. If I do not and cannot exist external to the simulation, then there’s nothing but the simulation for me.

You do not have the right to endanger the public. This is a crime.

*DING DING* We have a winner.

You mean like Challenger, where NASA was deliberately reckless and got people killed? Or maybe the on-the-ground explosion of a landing capsule that also got people killed because NASA was being reckless and stupid? Or how about Columbia, where NASA was reckless and got people killed?

Yeah, they’ll say they’ll vote for it with changes, help get the bill gutted, vote against it regardless, and if it passes anyway, they’ll talk up how helpful they were getting it passed and all the good the bill does for people.

Because eating, watching movies, putting on make up, making phone calls, etc, etc, etc — stupid reckless shit that people do — never happened before autopilot. It’s not strawman. It’s fucking human behavior as old as time. Dumb ass.

There was no ‘right’ choice. Recasting isn’t going to work because Chadwick *made* T’challa work on screen. Trying to find someone to fill that role is difficult enough, but someone who can do so without pissing off his fans? Basically impossible.

Don’t forget decades of them being reckless in other ways. China’s recklessness didn’t hurt anyone (this time), but NASA’s recklessness has cost how many astronaut lives to date? A dozen? More?

Yeah, because that’s the ONLY kind of reckless and stupid people perform while driving their vehicles. Stupid question is stupid.

Pretty much. I mean, what else would you call any group of people who gleefully sell off the future for something as ephemeral and intangible as ‘wealth’ in the present? Must be great to be the best dressed corpse in the cemetery or something.

...not that I’m saying this kind of thing isn’t reckless and stupid, but if it’s a choice between a vehicle that can kind of drive itself while its occupant is being reckless and stupid or a vehicle where the only thing controlling it *IS* the reckless and stupid driver, well, that’s pretty close to a no-brainer…