Those are certainly issues, but they're subordinate to human welfare. We certainly need more sustainable energy and meat production methods, but we have to use what we have.

I don't think you have a firm grasp on the psychology of precarious poverty.

As your link points out, the data is at best inconclusive. Since there's no pressing need to introduce soy to my diet, better to just avoid it.

Lamb and kid is delicious. Tofu has estrogen analogues that make it unsafe to eat regularly.

Then what meat should we eat?

I'd challenge you to actually give that a try with only the materials available at your public library (no internets) and without picking anything up at the hardware store.

I think you're massively underestimating how difficult it would be to do that from first principles.

A simple one, maybe, but one that could get meaningful work takes a fair amount of cross domain knowledge that simply may not have survived the chaos. They'd build them eventually, but not in 15 years.

The militia would have let Dad talk him down, but neighbour stepped in and started shooting.

You can't take the sky from me.

Has anyone ever believed you did that "accidentally"?

This is pretty normal in my experience. We have a lot of crows where I live. I've always been nice to them and they're chatty and friendly back.

And the best way to do that is through mockery.

Things like the world being flat, the sun revolving around the earth or the universe being static and unchanging?

The lack of a dispute resolution system is a primary advantage of Bitcoin, and in fact is the impetus for creating it. No one does or can control it. If I want to send you money, whether you're a restaurant, Chinese dissident, online casino or Wikileaks, no one can stop me.

Jetpacks maybe, but we have flying cars. You just don't have a pilot's license.

Kill it with fire. It's just trying to distract you so it's friend can lay eggs in your ear.

Science fiction is usually (not always, granted, but usually) centred on an optimistic view of the future, at least in some way if not the one we wanted.

His meat.

I try to avoid it for ethical reasons.