Nah, screw that. People want my candy, they have to earn it. I’m setting up a gauntlet of these assholes in my yard with pulleys and rotating platforms, Home Alone style.

“Bernie Sanders doesn’t want to change America into a socialist society?”

No, I don’t think he does. He’s said as much, he’s not looking to replace capitalism but supplement it. Does that mean I think he has a snowball’s chance getting most of his stuff passed? Probably not. I think the changes he is proposing are too…

Your phrasing, “what other proven method works” is leading the question. Rephrased, it’s “what other method that works would work?”

That’s nitpicky though, I know what you mean. But here’s the error in thinking that leads to where we are right now in public discourse, and this is true for both of the replies you gave…

“As a libertarian, I consider both pure capitalism and pure socialism to be antithetical to actual freedom.

No person I’ve ever voted for has ever won a presidential election. Ever. I have voted third-party exclusively because I have yet to come across a person I actually *want* to be President who is dumb enough to run.

I disagreed with George W. Bush on damned-near everything. I also thought he was a simpleton. I did not…

Did nobody on this movie bother to look up how the phases of the moon work? He says it’s ‘nearly a full moon,’ yet Earth’s past 3/4. When the moon is full, the Earth should be in ‘new Earth’ phase, almost entirely night-side.

I have a four-light fixture in a hundred year old house currently running all LEDs. When I started the conversion, the bulbs were around $30 each, so I did it one bulb at a time, as the old ones died. Which means I had an LED and an incandescent in the same fixture at the same time. You’re full of literal shit. The…

Fake tweet. Not enough absurdly-long run-on sentences and pointless asides.

That’s like saying that you want to make a combustion engine run off of the CO^2 and CO locked in hydrocarbon fuels. H^2O is the end-product of hydrogen combustion, it’s what you GET from burning hydrogen. The chemical equation is 2H^2+O^2<=>2H^2O+energy. The equation can be reversed, but to get the H^2 you have to…

I’m on my second one, now. I personally love that I can quickly go from full-hand to a collapsed, compact form if I want to do something in Illustrator which requires really fine control or if I need to put on my wrist brace. That said, I’ve yet to take full advantage of all the buttons. Particularly the horizontal…

There’s more than one discussion we should be having right now. We officially have too many simultaneous problems that need to be addressed to tackle them one at a time.

“-You cant play games offline.”

All we need now is for Jack Thompson to crawl out from whatever rock he died under, and start hearing how Dungeons and Dragons is Satanic, and it’ll be just like ‘the good old days.’

The biggest danger of geoengineering is the potential for unintended consequences we can’t- or don’t have time to investigate. Iron seeding for example might be a great way to spur algae growth, which in turn can be a carbon trap, but how does that affect local ecology? Temperature distribution? Cloud seeding with…

It’s like video game movies. For whatever reason, Hollywood executives just can’t live without sticking their fingers into already-established franchises and getting their stink on them.  They don’t trust audiences to know what they like, and to know what they want, and instead think that a game about (in order)…

Some omnipotent entities just can’t see that what they’ve been looking for has been in front of them the whole time.

I’ve heard rumors about Dave and Bob.  Their mutual prohibitions of homosexuality always seemed a little over-compensationary to me.

There is no such thing as ‘devolving.’ ‘Evolution’ is non-directional, in its most basic form the word means “Change over time.” So if you say ‘evolution never happened’ then say ‘we are devolving,’ you are saying ‘evolution is happening.’ You really didn’t come to this very well prepared did you?

Heresy!  It was clearly DAVE that did it!  Bob is a pretender, a usurper of DAVE, the one true creator!

“Then give a naturalistic explanation for the origin of time, space and matter or tell me how they can break all natural laws and have been around forever. If the second, then how did forever end so we could be here now?”