I’ve been saying this to my Elon fanboy friends for a long time now. The issue is not “Can an automated car do what a human can do?” but rather “Can they co-exist with human drivers on the same roads and if they could, who would have ultimate authority and responsibility, the car or the human?”

How about we work on getting airplanes to do this first?

So after all the hype end of the world, hair on fire hype about dying bees and the end of human agriculture, it turns out to be the carpenter bees that are endangered, not the cute honey bees that people like, and no crops are in danger.

The whole “****phobe” trope has been played out. Reducing a complex concept such as “How are we as a sovereign country to best represent and protect our interests in a complex, fluid and highly interconnected world?” down to the simple suggestion that someone is “afraid of the other” is childish and not a valid…

If you think this is shocking, don’t come to Las Vegas. 19 year old women who are giving sex to older men in exchange for drugs is one of our largest demographics.

Absolute bunk. Every home comes equipped with a kitchen. Cooking utensils are cheap and easy to find. There are few places left in America where fresh fruits and vegetables are impossible to purchase and they can be had for considerably less and are far more healthy, even in canned or frozen form, than processed food…