Gotta wait a bit. It’s on the decline due to Generation X and Millennials rejecting religion. Both are outnumbered by Boomers and their parents, but once they die off, Christianity will basically be a very small minority worldwide. It’s why the GOP is trying to destroy lots of education programs, because if they get…

Australia has mandatory voting, so most adults are used to voting regularly

World Building =/= story pure and simple. My writing prof used to view that kind of time commitment excessive, escapist and mental equivalent of masturbation when it comes to writing process. Its the writer’s version of method acting, it can help, but its only a tool, not the solution. If you spend a year…

Too bad literally everything outside the worldbuilding is spectacularly cringey hot garbage. What a goddamn disaster of a book.

“. It’s the queer icon of a queer icon.”

Edit: In reading my reply back (after I’d already hit “publish”) I realized that in trying to call out your part-for-whole fallacy thinking, I was coming off like the sort of person I want absolutely nothing to do with—and that made me feel ill.

The bottom line is that you are correct, up to a point. Many men have…

Totally on the truck though. Can’t just assume a car behind you is going to back up because you’ve decided you want to back into a driveway. The car, driverless or not, was under no obligation to back up. The truck, if he didn’t have enough room, shouldn’t attempt to back up. It’s completely on the truck driver.

Maybe, but I think it is obvious it is time to talk about self driving trucks. If it had been an autonomous truck then this wouldn’t have happened.

Driver of truck thinks “ah, fuck it. They’ll make room for me” and crashes because they tried to intimidate a machine. Truckers need to learn how to drive, or they will be out of work a lot quicker than they think they will.

Exactly this.

That’s because it’s a lot like New York State, I believe... The People’s Liberal Democratic Land Parcel of Seattle and The Rest of Washington State...

I just wish she was given a little more to work with on the show. It seemed like she was just there to have emotional breakdowns and date terrible men for a lot of the seasons but damn did she improve my cursing vocabulary. She was the most engaging person on Dexter by far.

So... no boat?

People want all-or-nothing solutions. If they are to ‘allow’ robot cars, they better damn well be perfect. Automated cars are coming, and we are going to have an issue when people start seeing these things break the speed limit in the name of safety because people don’t bother to learn to understand how traffic works.

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people are NOT safe enough to drive

If you actually know what you’re talking about - say, by watching people die in car accident videos, or reading DOT crash reports - you find out that often people die because they made incredibly minor mistakes, and that sometimes they die when they have made no mistake at all. It strikes me as hard to believe someone…

Well I for one will prefer not to end up in your fireball because you changed playlist on Spotify or whatever. Give me computer driven cars over humans any day.

Or not. How many perfectly safe and aware drivers have been taken out at intersections by some body blowing through a red light. At some point every driver had to assume that the rules of the road will be followed.

Yes, you are. You can disagree violently and debate violently, but you can’t physically attack people.

The best space show on tv is still The Expanse follow by Orville, Killjoy and far far behind all three is Star Trek discovery.