If I didn’t know what I did about Anansi, I too would be giving a knee-jerk reaction. Regressive rhetoric has become so infused pop-culture that scenes like this can be easily misread as propaganda.

If I remember correctly, the trope is specifically used with people that are not use to sexual situations. (aka, virgins or sexual deviants who never get any actual action because they are creepy perverts)

Except the roads they are on right now aren’t the roads in the rest of the country. As surprising as it may seem, states aren’t carbon copies of each other when it comes to road designs and conditions. Hell people drive differently depending on what state they learned to drive in. To be perfectly honest with you, the…

Show me a video of an autonomous car driving through heavy traffic in a city where half of the roads are under construction and everyone else drives like madmen and I’ll start to believe you.

So your point is that someone driving while distracted is more dangerous than autonomous cars? Congratulations on pointing out the obvious. Here is something else that is obvious, attentive drivers are also safer than people staring down at their phones while driving.

I’d say the root of the problem is that the technology isn’t ready just yet. Not that I won’t ever trust autonomous vehicles, just that they need more time to be perfected.

And babies absolutely can, and do, tell any sympathetic ear exactly how much pain their are in. They scream.

Would still rather trust a skilled pilot at the helm than a computer when shit hits the fan. I barely trust autonomous cars at the moment, much less the idea of autonomous planes where catastrophic failures usually result in death.

I was under the impression that pilots are still needed for landing and take-off. Everything else is handled by air traffic control which is still run by humans. The planes we fly in aren’t fully autonomous.

No, the original purpose of the word pretty much hasn’t changed since its inception. If you are more knowledgeable about a subject, then share your knowledge. No need to come up with buzzwords to shut someone down or shame them.

I was under the impression that the point of the word was to attempt to shut down any man trying to explain something to woman, regardless of whether the man is more knowledgeable or not. At least that’s how I see it used most of the time. Even if it was used correctly, it is a completely pointless term as it adds…

I was trying to explain why equality of outcome (which is at the forefront of communism’s reasoning) is flawed. You kept on insisting that the idea of communism isn’t bad, and I disagreed with that and tried to explain my point. No goal post was shifted. At this point we should probably just agree to disagree and let…

Except everyone is not equal. That’s just a fact of nature. In order to obtain that equality, you have to force the best of our species to come down to the level of the worst of the species. So, no, it doesn’t sound cool to me. I’ve always been a bigger advocate of equality of opportunity over equality of outcome. I’d…

No, it doesn’t work in theory, that’s what I’m getting at. If someone spent 10 seconds thinking about it, they would (hopefully) come to the same conclusions. In theory, it is only a good idea if you ignore all the apparent downsides it would cause. The need for totalitarian control and the removal of personal drive…

The other problem with communism is that it kills all drive to succeed. No matter how hard someone works, they get the exact same as someone who does less than them. The system punishes the successful while providing no incentive for everyone else to do better than the bare minimum. I honestly have no idea how…

The idea of complete control is at the core communism, that what’s wrong with it. A totalitarian government is just a means to communism’s end. Whether or not people will distribute resources fairly won’t change that aspect of it.

I too think the idea of a wall to be stupid, but probably not for the same reasons as you. The basic idea which is to control who can enter the country isn’t a bad idea. Otherwise you start getting allot of the same problems we are seeing in countries where there is rampant uncontrolled immigration. Where immigrating…

The problem with communism is that in order for it to work you need a totalitarian government. Nothing about communism is nice when you take into account that you need the government to dictate everything about your life in order for it to function correctly. It essentially turns the people of a country into…

Not sure anyone deserves any time in jail for being a douche bag. Unless he inflicted harm on others, incited others to inflict harm, or did some serious property damage, I don’t see how any sort of punishment more than a slap on the wrist can be justified here.

If we were to ban everything that offended someone in some way, everything would be banned. If the word “assimilate” was only referred to that instance, you might have ground to stand on. But as it stands, that word has multiple connections to stuff not even relating to that instance. You could use that reasoning to…