Is your suggestion that there are no predictable consequences to gender population imbalance at all?

Sure, that reason turned out to be "this doesn't agree with our closely-held ideological commitment to the idea that men and women, in aggregate, might diverge in their expectations and desires from life and relationships." Funny how well that works.

Well, no. The constraint is that women don't want to have as much sex as men (in aggregate) and if you're a heterosexual man who wants to have sex with a willing partner, that means you're going to have less sex than you might otherwise prefer.

The first article (from 1997) is one that people claim he came up with that number.

Ok, I guess, except that I hadn't. The NRA is an inexorable pile of shit and I'd never quote anything they would have to say.

Apple can't do anything if you introduce your own security vulnerabilities by using a guessable password or an easily-looked up security question. People need to be more educated about these things; tech companies can only do so much, and they have to balance the security of Kim Kardashian's selfies against a hundred…

We need better security for people whose entire biographies are on Wikipedia. "The name of the high school you went to" may be an effective security question for a nobody but it's easily Googled for A-list stars.

Well, I shouldn't have tried to do it all from memory, I guess.

I think we're talking about two different things. When I said "brandish", I was not referring to the legal definition but to the common one - the act of simply revealing that one is armed.

Just want to point out that despite the massive number of people carrying guns here in the US, the number of times that people carrying them (outside of law enforcement on or off duty) actually use them to intervene in an event not directly threatening them is near zero,

Well over a dozen children die violently in English elementary schools every year; they're just not shot by madmen with guns. Explain to me how that makes it better.

US crime statistics are the province of the Bureau of Justice Statistics; for the UK it's a combination of police and Home Office crime statistics. Of course, UK crime stats are in a bit of a crisis, it having been discovered that the police have been systematically underreporting and underclassifying certain types of…

As Blaise Pascal wrote, "I would have written you a shorter letter, but I did not have the time."

you're twice as likely to be raped and four times as likely to be assaulted in anglophone Europe as you are in the US. Just sayin'.

I have compassion for the women who wind up with family dependents when they may have had other plans - or not, honestly, I have compassion for the ones who had kids on purpose too - but I don't see that a minimum wage is the way we should provide for them.

I heard somewhere once that porn actors have to be men with short or non-existent refractory periods - not to mention the other, um, physical attributes - which meaans there just aren't a lot of guys who meet those qualifications.

Ridicule, for the most part. People, in part, determine their confidence in conclusions based on their impression of whether the "right" people seem to think the idea has merit. Act like believing in it is beyond the pale - by making people who hold those views the butt of jokes, targets of ridicule, etc - and you…

Sure, no problem.

I don't think "ass kicked" is right (but maybe I just want to say that cuz I'm on Team Nye) but it's certainly the case that their debate was useless - nobody's mind was changed simply because Ken Ham wasn't there to approach the issue in good faith. There's a reason that Gish Gallops - it works.

I feel like if you meet a straw man attack with a "steel man" attack, you're unintentionally affirming the straw man. The response shouldn't be "let me respond to the strongest possible defense of your claim that evolution says cats should turn into dogs", it should be "let me point out why evolution doesn't actually…