No. You don’t pay people to get vaccinated just like you don’t pay them to obey quarantine mandates. You make the vaccines mandatory for access to any public spaces. Vaccines are mandatory for military service. Vaccines are mandatory for college and university admissions. Why do people think that they have this choice…

That was kind of my point. What appeals to one person isn’t necessarily going to appeal to another. We don’t all have or engage with our imaginations in the same way or to the same extent. A writer who relies too heavily on the reader’s imagination isn’t going to appeal to a reader who doesn’t make use of theirs like…

No kidding. Like, I’m not remotely a history buff, but I know damn well how badly treated black servicemen were during WWII. They were insulted, looked down at, spat on, attacked, and worse by their white ‘compatriots’ and if that’s what they think is ‘colorblind’ then what the hell are these whackjobs even talking…

The best writers are the ones who tell you as much as you need to be told, show you as much as you need to be shown, and let your imagination fill in the blanks. If only we all shared equally capable and expansive imaginations.

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And when the state gets sued and this law overturned, he will face absolutely *no* consequences. Which is a bit like taking away the bank robber’s bounty but letting him go free. Yes, in America, people can do a little pot, and they’ll send you to prison, but break the nation’s highest law — the motherf***ing…

True enough. But thinking that is *ALSO* stupid. And stupid is as stupid does. Thus, he’s an idiot. There are no two ways about that.

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The Earth is a toroidal spiral!

You’ve fundamentally misunderstood what you’ve read. The people enacting these laws aren’t the problem. It’s the people who weaponize them to oppress, stifle, and silence dissenting points of view. And if you think that won’t happen, you’ve clearly not been paying attention to the entirety of human history.

That’s the kind of the thing where federal programs are supposed to be aiming — pushing the absolute limits of our technologies and understandings, where there’s no discernible ‘market value’ to what we’re doing, learning, creating, or what have you.

Nah. SpaceX is easily on track to put people on Mars within the next 10 years — Starship will be almost certainly be a fully functional vehicle within a couple years, and that’s the biggest hurdle. Long-term habitation is a different story, but that’s the intended goal, which Starship’s massive cargo capacity and reusa…

On the surface, yes. But it runs into the same problem any kind of ‘morality’ law will always run into: the people defining what ‘morality’ should be legal or not. To wit, let’s take to an extreme not nearly as remote as you might think — what happens when the people legislating morality are like the rabid radicals in…

If all you’re doing is guarding the door, letting bad actors slip in through the window, you’re still doing a piss-poor job.

That was kind of my point. And DRM isn’t popular either. That hasn’t stopped publishers from shoving it down customer’s throats at every turn.

And, uh, how many hundreds of bad-actor apps has Apple let onto its Apple Store in its efforts to ‘protect’ the customer? Because it seems like they’re doing a terrible job.

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“Games can only be played in the regions from which they are purchased.” — the next logical step.

Because Democrats are bad at doing things.

He’s certainly evil. And whether he believes the crap he’s spewing is immaterial — only an IDIOT burns their own house down while trapped inside it...and that’s exactly what he’s doing.