Place sure has grown since I was there last. I remember the Hyena’s following from the other side of the fence when I was jogging. They never got their meal, but their constant stare was... disturbing

You’re mistaken in your premise. The bakery isn’t refusing to serve gay/lesbian customers, they are refusing to make a wedding cake for a gay wedding. They aren’t denying service to a whole demographic just for a certain event based on a closely held religious belief. It’s exactly the text and imagery that they object…

It puts them out of business without allowing any chance of them correcting their policy. This doesn’t just hurt them, but it also hurts their employees, who are now out of jobs, as well as any other business that supplies them with goods and services, who lose revenue. It affects people who did nothing wrong.

I’m against discrimination but also against forcing people to make you a cake when they don’t want to. Do we really have to sue every bigot? Won’t this just upset them more?

Happy Independent Suspension Day!

That it was “part with tea”. Not party.

Though Dune won the Nebula and Hugo awards, the two most prestigious science fiction prizes, it was not an overnight commercial success. Its fanbase built through the 60s and 70s, circulating in squats, communes, labs and studios, anywhere where the idea of global transformation seemed attractive.

You sound like a far more interesting fellow than my father (who will be 74 this October, btw). Sadly, the only car he’s owned that comes even slightly close to your WRX is a 300ZX he bought from me after I got my Miata, but to be fair he probably took it past 100 mph more often than I did! And while he’s always been…

Only if that’s the sort of thing that interests them. Which is not something we can know.

I tend to conflate South America and Mesoamerica together, unfortunately, when I don’t speak of the Americas as a unit in general; European perspective, and all that. As for large animals, I don’t recall saying anything to the contrary of what you are.

Your ignorance in the matter is palpable. The tribes in Amazon have regressed enormously due to the European diseases decimating their numbers, leaving only a fraction of the population alive and the few survivors incapable of sustaining the infrastructures of their forefathers. Only relatively recently have the…

The European firearms at the point were not yet nearly at the point where they could dominate the battlefields, especially not in the moist environments of South America, and the Conquistadors wrote in admiration of the Aztec weapons and military in spite of their lack of metals. And the reason why they did not use…

This.

The Aztecs were technologically close and culturally equal to the Spaniards in complexity. A poor comparison in spite of its frequency.

What if the fact most of the planet is heading towards obesity is an event engineered by aliens? Perhaps they gave us the recipe for HFCS, tasty fried chicken and 1,500 calorie Starbucks coffees, and once we hit some predetermined collective weight of flesh, they will swoop down to cultivate??

I tend to lean towards “has such a radically different experience of the universe that they can barely/not at all perceive humanity and vice-versa”.

The reservation being Earth, minus whatever resources they want us to give to them (Don’t want to? Have a rock at high speeds. Want to now?).

Here, I fixed it for you. Call me pedantic but this is supposed to be a somewhat respectably sciencey blog.