Pffft the choice of words is poor as I doubt Trump knows what a Baron is, John Barron was Trump’s fictional spokesperson for media contacts in the 80s but it was obvious that the guy on the phone was just Trump.

As a truck, meh...

Looks like these astronomers are going to need to put their telescopes in space... It just so happens to be that Elon Musk owns the perfect rockets to launch them!

People simply do not understand the context of the song when viewed through a modern lens, namely that this song was made before climate change and that it actually wouldve been pretty damn cold outside.

There were multiple species of Mammoths, these Columbian Mammoths did not have the hair of their Woolly counterparts and their range extended to Central America. Naturally they alongside American Camels, and Horses were hunted to extinction by the arrival of humans.

But individual freedoms allow for people to take personal responsibility to choose their own path, make their own mistakes and learn from them. Restricting such an ability simply makes people dependent on a higher authority to make decisions for them and hampers problem solving for unexpected events. 

That what makes them worse, the same generation that brought us the hippy movement, second wave feminism and civil rights are now restricting reproductive rights, slashing the social safety net and devastating the planet like never before. This isnt a case of living long enough to become the villain, they actively…

But at some point the ideal situation of “dont be an asshole” hits the reality that there are alot of fucking assholes in the world and you need to protect yourself.

I dont even think the gay part has anything to do with it anymore. Lets not forget that Aaron Schock resigned due to directing his campaign funds towards fabulous interior design and not being filmed multiple times making out with topless men with his hands down their pants in Coachella.

Aside from being angry that it was a man who started #metoo, was the book any good?

The casters know hes a Hong Konger so it wasnt hard to put 2+2 together, however they couldnt preemptively censor him either else THEY would be dealing with all the flak so they did the only thing they could do and ducked for cover.

I mean, fuck the Chinese government but no sane company is going to want to be responsible for an app that literally enables direct criminal behaviour no matter how well intentioned.

Welcome to subscription only services, all that money you spent on your product means nothing and your access can be removed for any reason including no reason at all.

Blizzard is still an American company, write to your local representative and make them suffer the American political costs of subverting American values. This is something both parties will jump on in a flash.

Considering we now live in a world where he risks damage to his career because certain haircuts are now deemed equivalent to swastikas, id be a lil anxious over it too.

What kind of practical decision will you have to make when your construction workers IN SPACE are losing bone mass faster than you can keep up with? And their babies aren’t “quite working out as we expected”. 

Dark Forest’s solution: We inform every civilization in our arm of the galaxy the location of your home planet as well as ours so they will preemptively wipe out both our solar systems.

I was making the analogy in reference to China often building whole ghost cities or freeways and subway lines that extend from current cities to the middle of nowhere with the view that they’ll be gradually utilised and populated in coming decades.

Hes basically doing the China model, building the infrastructure for space to an outlandish future proof scale then letting everyone else adapt around the new normal in their own time.

Is it really that shocking? When society reduces your worth as a human being to a metric, the temptation to change that figure can become irresistible.