There is also a conspiracy theory that they are the result of Chem Trails:

They’re not unfalsifiable; new evidence could (but won’t) disprove the link between carbon emission and climate change. They’re just unfalsified, the evidence is pretty solid. I also don’t think it’s that much harder to measure the far reaching costs of burning fossil fuels than it is to measure the far reaching…

Why does your article on a carbon tax show the cooling towers of a nuclear facility which does not emit carbon?

Between stories of swatting and stories of racially motivated calls the police for things like being in a Starbucks; I think the solution here is pretty clear. The police need to be the filter that discriminates legit calls from bogus calls. If they get a call about a suspicious person at Starbucks; fine send someone…

How so?

Or how about: Make the bridge taller? I feel like that should have been on the list. 

Yeah, cause you clicked on this article base on you interest in herpatology, right?

yes, damnit Emma, we all noticed that; and everyone but you realized the world would be a better place if we didn’t say anything bout it. Thanks for dragging down the world one more notch. 

I’m sure I will get no end of shit for posting this; but I think this coverage of this incident is far more racist than the incident itself. Don’t get me wrong, according to the story this priest was an absolute dick; but as far as I can tell he just overreacted to an accidental destruction of property. If race was…

I’m just gonna say it, it shouldn’t matter that this woman called the police on an 8-year-old girl. It shouldn’t matter if individuals do call the police for racially motivated reasons. We should live in a society where the police act with agency to avoid being tools for racism. I don’t think it should be up to…

you realize you are using an image from a satellite that had an entire device dedicated to NOT detecting Cosmic rays (the Anti-Coincidence Detector) right?

No big surprises here. Google is driven by ad revenue, and crypto-currency mining plugins would give content creators another way to monetize their services; though I suppose they could still just include cypto-mining javascript or web assembly in their code?

If I found out my kid’s schools were buying products like this from Apple, they would be getting an angry phone call from me. We don’t need to be buying kids toys, we need to be buying them tools. Schools should not be wasting their money on expensive Apple software packages when open source alternatives are widely…

The cost of automation goes DOWN every day. Even if we LOWERED the minimum wage, all we would do is buy those jobs another year or two and then they would get automated away. There are really only a couple of options to keep those jobs:
1) Legislate penalties for automating away those jobs
2) Boycott companies that…

Dude, you were making $28k/year of PROFIT. The Navy was paying for your housing, paying for your food, paying for medical costs, etc. You have to factor that in if you are going to compare your pay with someone who’s employer isn’t picking up the tab on all those items.

After paying rent, utilities, food, etc, those…

People should recognize this as a stupid argument. If a change in wages of a few dollars is enough to tip the scales and make the automated kiosks more cost effective, then Moore’s law was going to tip the scales from the others side within a year or two anyway. No human worker will EVER be cheaper to operate than a…

We should probably establish a more general framework by which people know they will be held accountable by agencies if they falsely report a crime. That would definitely apply to situations like this, but also to less violent ones where people abuse anonymous reporting. I know people who have called in anonymous tips…

This bunch of whiny entitled fanboys is exactly who Rian Johnson was addressing.

you mean the people who have been ensuring Star Wars’ ongoing financial success for decades by buying books, games, video games, etc? Yeah, those guys are definitely people who deserve to get a FUCK YOU from the new management....

Not unless its promising to cure something OTHER than thirst.

If Trump becomes the first President to be impeached and removed from office (long shot, I know) can we remove his robot from the exhibit? Maybe have his robot get dragged out of the hall during every show? Just spit balling here...