We can only stave off the inevitable if the problem is evolution. As you’ve pointed out, bacteria won’t stop adapting to antibiotics. This process either goes very quickly if you’re confronted with supply disruptions that prematurely end treatments and allow surviving colonies to flourish and develop resistance, or…

I’m actually a very unreasonable asshole with a burning hatred for humanity in general. But even then, I admit that it is somewhat irrational for me to be that way and I at least want to understand why I am that way. Most people don't seem to have the mental capacity or enough curiosity to question themselves.

It’s remarkable, Matt, at how we’re so willing to point at some other schmuck and say “it’s him and his kind that is the problem" and rarely does anyone take a deep reflection on themselves. We're all the same in that we have the same kind of flaws, it's only our ideology that differs.

Disclaimer for JRA: I was offering my thoughts on how polling the concept of “taking offense” works, and using “big, strong man” to illustrate how self-regard leads us to be less likely to personally take offense to things we would agree are broadly and even objectively offensive.

Polls are often about wording more than the demographics of respondents.

Don’t disagree, I just willfully ignore it because I don’t think there is a useful way to show that time on tv. Would it really make the story better or more coherent if they put an entire episode in between the two scenes, or put a “5 days later” text at the bottom of the screen? For me, no. A suitable amount of time…

In the books, things aren’t perfectly in-sync time-wise, and days might pass between paragraphs. Some chapters run concurrently, some get back in the past, etc. Short version, don’t try to count days. Stuff happens at a slower pace. Days can pass between scenes.

It works out perfectly if Winterfell, is only about twenty miles from Last Hearth and Castle Black. Which works out fine, though it means that it’s only about 150 miles from Winterfell to King’s Landing, and the entirety of Westeros is only a little bigger than Delaware.

For some people it’s hate, but I think a large part of it is fear of the unknown. Hate can spring from that fear, but many times fear and a lack of empathy are enough to have the same result as hate.

There are already laws against sexual predation and voyeurism. If a sexual predator doesn’t care about those laws, why would they care about bathroom laws?

Maybe I’m reading that joke different than everyone else, but I thought the punchline of that joke is specifically because it is such a sharp, unambiguous, clear signal of his friends’ willful stupidity and obliviousness (because they are using the word faggot) immediately after his half-assed defense of his friends.…

Karakaş was allowed to return to the match after a brief tampon and ice treatment.

I’ve said this before and it’s such an amazing thought that it’s the first thing I go to when I see reports on Enceladus... If there is life on Enceladus under the ice, some of it is coming out through those plumes. Those plumes also contribute to the rings of Saturn meaning that the rings of Saturn could partially be…

I’d be interested in seeing the comparitive data showing how many of these people also stand in line for iphones.

Regardless of your belief in a god - or many gods - you would have to be completely unaware of history to hold the position that religion is bad generally.