The country is such a hellscape that I assumed this was a story about “forced labor” in the sense of “forced pregnancy and childbirth.” I read the whole article before I realized you meant “labor” like “employment.” Comparatively, this actual story seems not as bad. 

The primary cause of climate change up until today is the USA. From the beginning of the industrial revolution until today, no other country has contributed more. It’s not even close. Even though it’s true that China and India are on track to contribute more in the future, they haven’t played a significant role yet. Th…

Is it possible that the goal is to eliminate pornography altogether?

Nasty and ignorant. This website has published scores of articles about wildfires in the Pacific Northwest. What do you do? Have you ever studied any sciences? Do you research climatology? Do you work in forestry and carbon markets? Do you propose new policies or bills? You’re a whiny nobody who doesn’t read.

Just a couple of hours after this article was published, Gov. Kathy Hochul gave a press conference about the health effects of this smoke. By that time, Manhattan and Queens were both well above your metric (around 420, I think she said). We’ll probably see many records broken all over the area, and it could last…

Nope — because Republicans know that they’re mostly safe. In the U.S. House, less than 10% of seats are considered competitive (and this number has been on a steady decline). In my previous house district in California, it’s so solidly red that no other parties even run a candidate. The ballot always has just the…

Another factor to add to your math: How many girls between age ~4 and 17 actually spend time in locker rooms? I highly doubt that the typical 7- or 8-yr. old girl running off to recess on the playground is spending any time getting naked somewhere.

Consider that there are also Cretaceous-aged rocks at the surface — that’s how we know that dinosaurs existed. The planet isn’t layered like an onion. The layers get deformed, subducted, thrust upward, etc.

Females of the talking shark species have prominent breasts. What would a fish be doing with mammary glands?

Gender and sex aren’t synonyms.

This story isn’t really about whether the guy is being a jerk. The issue is that the complainants have to find a legal way to collect and present evidence. The complainants are now criminals too.

“Think about it.” LOL, you didn’t. This is a story about which kinds of evidence can be entered in a courtroom. The plaintiff wants to enter photos taken by a drone. We’re not talking about someone standing across the street. It’s almost like you have no idea how cops, warrants, judges, or courtrooms function....

No, you got the data wrong. The report says that New York State is more segregated than other states. (And the reason for that is New York City is where the state’s racial minorities are concentrated.)

This same report says that New York is consistently the most segregated state in the nation.

Nowhere did that person say that a bachelor degree will “automatically” make someone a curator. The first two people claimed that she hasn’t ever studied art... which seems to suggest that they don’t know who she is, and they haven’t seen any of the shows, and they didn’t follow any of the links provided. Someone adds…

“The more boosters the more chance now of getting covid”

You’re right. The sad fact about vaccines is that they fade away. When there are side effects, the results are almost immediate. Nobody develops a blood clot a year later. If anything, waiting a year just means that you might have to get another vaccine (just like with flu, tetanus, meningitis, and so many other…

Florida law bans writings with sexual orientation. Heterosexuality is an orientation. I’ve been wondering where the gay/lesbian attorneys are. They could easily find millions of titles that have heterosexual characters. Librarians would have to toss almost everything — and since they’re obviously not going to do that,…

What you ask for would have to begin with accurate data and maps of the infrastructure. I worked as a contractor for PG&E for about three years. Part of my job was in GIS (digital mapping). I can assure this: the company doesn’t even know where its pipelines are. Not with precision, and not even generally speaking.…

Your comment reminds me of another story. Cops went into a NYC apartment building where the electricity wasn’t working — and so their chief had told them not to go there, but they ignored the chief — and then they were so scared of the dark that they started shooting their guns, and bullets ricocheted off the walls…