This was a complete misunderstanding, as Jeff Bezos actually told his assistant he was in the mood for a gyro.

Honestly, it isn’t worth it to recycle plastic. Some specific plastics, like drink bottles, when you are somewhere that has a specific receptacle, but not general plastics from home.

These things are excellent for cleaning out all my cat’s litter boxes, as they never have small holes in them like grocery bags, but can still be sealed up after filling.

The purity olympics in America need too fucking stop. I am a left leaning, liberal woman of color. This shit needs to stop. This is why people end up becoming the Trump supporters we see in ever-growing millions these days. Nothing is enough. They all apologized. Fred Armisen was playing Barack Obama, not making fun…

It depresses me how easily we can be influenced. I can totally understand how people just make up their mind on what they want to believe and shut everything else out. It also amuses me (in a dark way) how the US government can be screaming about how other countries are doing it to us and meddling in our politics,…

Reddit is mainly a community of users, not a content creation company. Any such change would have to be really subtle, gradual and spread over multiple years. By then, who knows if Reddit is still relevant. If they really want to influence what people think, they don’t need to control Reddit from the inside. In fact,…

Shut up, Tomato Face.

Because once it became a mass phenomenon, those rich people and white boys from Stanford saw dollar signs dancing in the air and immediately began turning the Internet into a rapidly-metastasizing amalgam of mega-mall and panopticon. The rest is an echo chamber of increasingly isolated political sects, all shouting at…

Oh, this is most certainly about ensuring that Russians are kept away from outside information. Russia itself will most certainly keep on spreading cyberwarfare and propaganda outside its borders. In fact, if Russia is successful in sealing itself off and thus no longer fears outside retaliation, I expect it’ll ramp…

They can have their own and still send their trolls to tamper with ours.

Optical fiber? Make them into light sabers.

Now they’ll have to turn off Youtube and step outside to see car crash videos.

They spelled intranet wrong.

It was pretty much stillborn as soon as it became a mass phenomenon. Once corporations piled on and twisted it to their own ends, followed by authoritarian regimes adding their own special sauce, the party was effectively over.

I always felt like the point of providing a link to an expert’s web presence is as a form of payment via exposure. As in, we bugged this expert, they took time out of their (theoretically busy) life to answer our question, as a slight payment here’s a link to their webzone. But I think your reasoning here is good.

For…

Mostly anything in front of you when you stop. A long, long way in front of you.

I think there was an episode of Star Trek TNG that actually used that as a plot point.  It’s a general rule in Star Trek that you don’t engage warp drive within a solar system.

I guess they’re scamming themselves, most of all.

The musical accompaniment.

I thought it was a scam, too, but Lansdorp really does seem like a true believer in this. He really is just that unrealistically optimistic - space stuff draws people like that.