“Vantablack, meet your newest enemy: white cellulose nanofibril membranes. Hopefully they get a cooler name soon.”

Garbage human.

No. You’re a shitty person.

You and others who take them are enormous self entitled dickheads. You are the people giving silicon valley a bad name.

Or you could just launch a weather balloon with a cooler and a gopro into the stratosphere with relatively inexpensive equipment to prove yourself wrong instantly....

Maybe instead of being included in the kids ap by an algorithm then reported out, they should be crowdsourced in, with users flagging vids as kid-appropriate, and tagging specific content elements (cartoon violence, age-appropriate but about sex-ed or drugs, etc.) so parents can tailor filtering to the kid. Make the…

Your belter grandchildren will be so proud.

Civil asset forfeiture is nothing more than state-sponsored theft. Police should be required to hold any forfeitures in escrow for 90 days and if no charges are filed, return the seized assets within 7 days along with 18.5% interest on the total value of the original seizure plus a public apology published in the…

This is not mine but the article made me remember it and I think it’s worth sharing:

1) Undocumented immigration is not a criminal offense.

It’s a building for ants.

No, they didn’t “start evolving”. And using that language only perpetuates the idea that evolution is some acting force, rather than what it really is: an observed effect/outcome.

Somehow, I am always amazed at how many people (even tech blog writers) don’t understand how evolution works. No, these lizards did not start evolving overnight.
The storm killed all the lizards that were not well adapted. The ones that survived had random adaptations that helped them. That’s regular ol’ every day…

Yeah. We have a cell membrane. Not a Cell Wall. Because we’re not plants. Because all sorts of things are meant to pass through that membrane constantly (see: Trade, Immigration, etc). Viruses are generally able to penetrate the cell membrane once they get into the body. The solution is not to restrict the membrane,…

Don’t drag and drop, use Calibre to manage your ebook library on your computer. It will inter-convert between many major formats including epub and mobi. It can also convert txt to an ebook format.

you’ve got a real distorted and perverted view on history if you think the sole reason for the war was slavery. you’re misinforming readers and contributing to a harmful narrative of censorship.

In 1911, a monument was erected in Orlando, Florida in honor of the Confederate traitors who fought to uphold slavery in the South.