He could have just said, “People already have phones.” and left it at that.

It’s a matter of proportional effect on the climate, though - there are more potent greenhouse gases, but there’s a lot more (human-produced) CO2, so it has the bigger impact. Only about 28% of warming is down to methane, and it ultimately ends up breaking down into CO2 and water anyways.

“We don’t know that airplanes can actually fly.” - the head of the Defense Department

“I do wonder what (if any) percentage of his behavior is just intended to distract from the more substantial improprieties taking place.”

Well, this is all why VR failed in the ‘90s. They didn’t want to price themselves out of the consumer market and produced something that was insufficient (and still too pricey). I played around with VR in the ‘90s - current tech doesn’t seem all that different, not in the important ways.

So if she didn’t have that clothing in the way, she’d be topless? I have it on good authority that all celebrities are naked under their clothing. We must re-evaluate them all and their gender politics in light of this shocking revelation.

I’m shocked more by the outright lies of the right. The left gets the stories that don’t paint Trump in a good light, but the right just makes stuff up, which was a huge problem during the election.

I assert - without hyperbole - that a smart middle school student knows more about all the subjects relevant to the presidency than the president does. That’s a scary thought.

Well, that’s really disturbing...

Well, there’s also the relatively new phenomenon of social media-connected fake “news” sites that peddle complete nonsense that sometimes pretend to be informed by cable news stories. I don’t watch cable news nor am I on social media, so I’m not sure what the proportions are of actual but possibly misrepresented…

Yeah, some law enforcement jobs are really difficult because you have to deal with victims who have had terrible things happen to them, and law enforcement can suffer from empathy overload. In this kind of immigration work, with a few exceptions, the law enforcement officers would be the ones causing trauma, so…

All law enforcement is going to have problems attracting the wrong sort of people, but some agencies are better - or in this case, perhaps I should say worse - at filtering them out. It’s only going to get worse, too, thanks to all the positions Trump is adding when they can’t find qualified people to fill the…

I’m increasingly certain almost everyone who has seen that sketch has to be constantly thinking of it in relation to US and UK politics right now... it’s hard not to.

Yeah, that seemed like a rather silly statement. As you say, bad leadership can absolutely be a major motivator to get employees to leave, but great leads can’t entirely make up for dysfunctional companies, terrible projects, etc. Maybe they’re just saying that because game companies seem to have real management…

I think Trump is more Joffrey, really...

Yeah, that’s been clear since the election. I’m not sure that the Republicans cozying up to Trump have put themselves in a very good position to do that, though. Maybe they’ll do a quick distancing maneuver once they’re in a better position and the really damning information starts coming out.

Yeah, the irony is that Trump, a guy who claims to know all sorts of things “better” than anyone else in government, not only is a lot less knowledgeable than anyone with access to the kind of information he has, he knows a lot less than any random citizen who simply reads a couple decent newspapers. It’s really…

I was thinking of “you” being his target audience, i.e. Republicans who are supporting Trump. Reminding them that “investigating Obama” really means turning up the dirt on Trump, which he probably feels at least ambivalent about, even though he’s been highly critical of Trump. Since the party has been uncritically…

Well, we’ve got all these reports of American Muslims being harassed and detained by CBP when flying back into the US, for no particular reason (e.g. Muhammad Ali’s ex-wife and son), and CBP going beyond their remit to challenge the stories (and documents) of people working in the US. I’ve been reading interviews with…

It may be more surface level than that - essentially saying, “Hey guys, are you sure you want to poke at this? You know what’s going to happen.”