...butchery, genocide, debauchery, depravity. Then pretending those things never happened, pretending it isn’t your responsibility to correct past mistakes. And not just distant past. This shit is still happening every single day. You just turn a blind eye to it, because it’s incompatible with your delusions of…

Strangely enough, the people complaining about ‘white guilt’ have the most to be feel guilty about. Funny how that is....

Being evil is a big part of *HOW* they manage to hang around for so damn long. Nice people don’t pull the kind of shit evil people will.

Related to the topic: the Right of Consent, despite not being explicitly called out in the US Constitution, is the single most important right anyone has. Most states even recognize the basic concept — albeit in an arbitrarily limited fashion — with what’s known as the ‘age of consent.’ Many laws in the US today even…

New rockets are *ALWAYS* going to have problems to address. The whole point of a ‘new’ rocket is to test a design or approach that’s hasn’t been done before. That means a whole host of new unknowns to test for, identify, and then find ways to address them until you find the best one. Falcon rockets were no exception,…

Insulin doesn’t have a patent. The only thing being ‘patented’ are delivery devices, and those are *STILL* patented.

Actually, not anymore. Legal and judicial precedents have since been set that would have protected those companies from being broken up. You see, before the 60s, companies had to demonstrate public *BENEFIT* before mergers were permitted, with the burden of proof on the merging businesses. Now the FTC and the DOJ have…

“Honestly their track record as of late...”

These are the adventures of Captain Jack Sparr Picard and his scraggly band of do-gooder misfits, trying to make the galaxy a better place, one world at a time, Prime Directive be damned.

And I’m sure you think everything is copacetic....

I don’t deny that. But a critical part of storytelling is *acknowledging* behaviors and motivations, not trying to force a desired outcome in spite of them. Is it possible for one or maybe two characters to be selfless enough? Sure...maaaaaybe, and that’s really stretching things. But three? That’s beyond straining…

Considering the major sticking point for Starlink’s constellation is going to be reliability in mass production, it would make sense to orbit as many as you can get into space on a single launch, particularly since the launch itself has a fixed cost to it. Reducing the payload doesn’t really save SpaceX much if any…

Jealousy, selfishness, and greed — and the way they’re most commonly resolved with violence — pretty much precludes any such outcome. People just don’t ‘share’ very well and never really have. Taking what we want, by force if necessary, is pretty much the human SOP.

On the contrary, there *IS* a high degree of agreement among gamers regarding ‘good’ games. Great not nearly as much, and excellent even less so. But good? Absolutely.

Every war ever fought was over someone’s desire for power, and the people most likely to pursue power are those that any sane, rational, and civilized person would never want to have any.

And yet, this wild, wet winter doesn’t actually fix anything. The *GROUND* water in California still critically depleted, and this deluge isn’t even a drop in the bucket compared to the amount of water CA has lost over the last few years, particularly with how poorly designed CA’s infrastructure is for capturing and…

That’s the biggest problem (and one not limited to gaming) — the people ‘in charge’ are almost never gamers themselves and thus have no tangible understanding or appreciation of the medium or what actually makes a ‘good’ game. It’s also why so many of their ‘investments’ end up being bad — their lack of understanding…

And this is a stellar example of what the “Defund the Police” movement is all about — shifting funding around to OTHER kinds emergency responders, like social workers and mental health professionals, instead of sending what are essentially armed, militarized soldiers to deal with all problems. The police should never…

Well, that’s good to hear, because Big Oil has been providing help with Climate Change for over half a century. It’s about time they get recognized for all their hard work and generous contributions.

It’s amazing how you read that and didn’t digest or understand a single thing, since you immediately spewed the most blatantly false excuse capitalists and their apologist sycophants spew. It’s an excuse to justify their inexcusable and unjustifiable behavior.