Just one point of contention: a scientific or rational skeptic is someone who reserves judgment on the veracity of a claim until decisive empirical evidence is obtained.

Someone like Scott Pruitt is not a skeptic, but rather a denier. The evidence is clear and unambiguous, he simply chooses to ignore it.

Damnit...I snorted coffee when i got to “Huh, Katniss? Huh?”

Anyone who’s ever bought a survival book is a dickhead. This post is all you need. Print it. Then bring it to a sweaty bald man and have him tattoo it on your body.

I’ll keep this as brief as possible.

“I don’t want to dismiss ethical concerns here, but I worry that ‘conflict of interest’ gets overly weaponized in our politics,” Thiel told the New York Times

God damn that comment was intense.

I still have my Y2K duct tape in the garage.

What color ribbon does one wear for the Glastonbury Massacre?

A vast majority of Germans owned a copy of Mein Kampf that doesn’t mean the guy was horrible human being deserving to rot at the bottom of a farmer’s field. Yes the Nazis did fucked up shit but not all members of the German military were monsters in fact many of them were people just like you or me.

Fun bit about the Messerschmitt 109. That engine is placed in the correct orientation. The 109 used an inverted-V engine where the crank case was at the top and the cylinder heads were at the bottom. The main nose cannon fired through the cylinder valley. You can just make out the hole for the cannon below what…

It was actually a briefing of “World’s Greatest Healthcare Plan of 1945".

You pay for it regardless. You think they won’t help him when he turns up at the ER with no insurance? You still pay one way or the other.

Hey, feel free to cough up half a million dollars when you get cancer. Personal responsibility and all that.

And if you’re looking for a second reference in founder-era documents, consider health care an extension of the Declaration of Independence’s claim that governments are instituted among men to secure certain unalienable rights including the right to life and the pursuit of happiness.

“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessing of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity.”

Proud Polish girl here. Yes, we used it a lot. Additionally, it was used as background/profile picture on Facebook by half of my friends. I had it for months. I think it’s because Polish goverment tried to make women nothing else than walking uteruses, and the uterus responsed in a simple, yet meaningful way. It’s…

God doesn’t exists, next question.

The show is about as accurate as Star Trek is to the Apollo Moon missions.

I’ve said it before, but I’ll say it again... require a firearms safety insurance, whether it’s an individual plan or a rider on homeowners insurance or car insurance. It’s the conservative-friendly free market solution. The insurance industry is the best regulator of public safety when regulation by the government…

I prefer this visualization, courtesy of XKCD: