Chemist here. I hate when other scientists over-sell their research like this. No, this is not going to help build future drugs or polymers. No, this is nothing like a real wrench. As a rule of thumb, if you’re reading a pop-science article and something is called a nano-____ expect BS.

9) Hannibal. *RIP, you were too good for this world*

The kid was wearing a NASA t-shirt, that’s like ISIS right?

Expert here. We just ran the studies using a double blind study of 100 volunteers and our preliminary results show that use of marijuana correlates highly with enjoyment derived from watching films, but also showed no correlation with winning MMA fights. From these insights we have concluded that recriational…

That and the fact that they stop working once a fine layer of charged dust covers the collection plate. If you don’t clean the plates constantly you are instead spending energy to charge dust particles so that they can collect on your TV and computer.

How do you know what food to buy if your not watching youtube food reviews?

Because FEMA is a federal entity and it would be useful to coordinate this program across the natinoal level. It would be silly for them to develop five different apps for each of the western states.

I got really excited to see Matilida on the list, but now I’ve just been reminded I need to watch more of Miyazaki’s work.

I think it’s extremely unlikley that oxygen affects the favor at all. Oxygen could affect a flavored bevorage like beer or wine as it oxidizes certain flavor chemicals, but there’s not much for it to do in tap water. The diffrence in flavor of warm water could be explained by the tempature dependance of your taste…

Once again: what good is it having poor people if they are just going to be happy like the rest of us?

Hear that poor people? Maybe low paying menial labor can be your entertainment. Or, better yet, you can go into debt getting a degree so you can get job doing menial labor for low pay (and fun).

Do libraries loan out video games?

But we are actively prohibiting them from copying and downloading video games with copyrights. There’s really no theft here, like in your beer example, besides the legal fiction we have created. I really don’t disagree with you, I just if you honestly can’t afford the new $60 title, and that’s the one thing that will…

So I wouldn’t say people have a right to digital piracry, but if a person honestly can’t afford a few video games, I think the harm caused by downloading is excusable.

That’s cool; good on you. I just don’t think poor people illegally downloading media is a major economic or moral issue. HBO is basically giving a free-pass on digital piracy, as they figure once those people do have money, they are more likely to become customers.

Rights are what we decide they are. I would say entertainment is surely nessecary for humans to be pyschologically healthy. On the grand scale of things, I think poor poeple downloading stuff illegally is pretty incosequential. IDK, do you have statistics to say otherwise?

Eh, I think poor poeople have a right to entertainment. What do you want them to do, just sit around all day thinking about how bad their lives are? “What’s the point of having poor people if they’re just going to be happy like the rest of us!?!”

Except this issue was voted on when the 14th amendment was passed. The SCOTUS majority rightly recognized that these marriage bans violated equal protection and hurt gay couples/families while providing no benefit to society at large. Why is this such a scary rational to you? That already seems like a crazy low bar to…

Agreed. Honestly, how many good games have ever come out of development hell (5+ yr development)? I think Morrowind and RE4 are the only two good examples.

But she is such small potatos and this whole situation is very low stakes, so why is everyone so on edge? This is an honest question. So yeah, for you personally your inlaws are being dicks after this “news” broke, but why is the whole Kinja commentariat choosen to hate on or mock this woman with such passion?