Three Americans have more wealth than the bottom 50%. How could you possibly say that’s “fine”?

Sure. I understand rooting is more accessible on the Pixel with no warranty issues, but that’s not my game so not a differentiator for me personally.

Done that with “yes” numerous time in my travels.

Samsung phones don’t murder Google Fi if you travel internationally. I’ve owned Samsung phones and I did dislike the delay in updates. Monthly security patch updates are not the same as feature updates, and it would be many months before Samsung would catch up, even on my “universal” phone purchased from and supported…

Yeah, that’s close to the base at the moon I was getting but seems quite large. Another poster gave numbers and a formula that comes out to like 4 to 9 meters.

Hmmm. I’m seeing estimates of the exoplanet from other comments as between 1 and 2x the diameter of Jupiter. So, maybe 140,000 to 280,000 km. Your formula on the low end would be 140,000 / 30 = 4.7 m and high end 9.4 m. Not as small as I was expecting. But thanks.

Ok, so if you drew an isosceles triangle with the apex at your retina and the exoplanet at the base, the height would be 768 trillion, and the base would 200,000. Using the calculated apex angle what would be the base at the moon with a height of 240,000 miles? I’ve tried some triangle calculators but am not getting…

The EC is our invention, and ours to fix, or not. We know what havoc it can cause, and yet you say but maybe all that havoc wouldn’t be prevented by changing it, so let’s just keep it the way it is. It’s the devil we know. I couldn’t disagree more.

I can’t do the calculation but I’d like to see it if someone else can. The star and planet are 128 light years away. What size object would that correspond to if we had the same resolution power looking at the moon? A baseball, a dime, a sesame seed?  Just curious.

I shouldn’t bother. I really feel like I’m talking to someone who lives in a cave reading books from the 1700's. Ask Iraq if the EC had any impact on them or if their world “blew up”. Bush directly caused the Iraq apocalypse and 100's of thousands of deaths. A staggering war crime, and very probably the worst foreign…

“Catastrophic???” What catastrophes do you see?

Until we change the campaign finance and lobbying with cash laws this is what we will get.

“why bring up our unpopular and confused healthcare policies when we could be gloating over the Mueller report?”

What’s the trend on 18-29 yr olds who identify as Republicans? If the total is shrinking and the hardcore remain the anti-LGBTQ total could be staying the same or even shrinking and the percent increasing.

Doubt it. Every car on the road today is running with a tank of highly flammable liquid fuel. We’ve just gotten used to it, and insurance takes it into account already. Batteries will be made safer than gasoline.

You’ve pretty consistently tried using straw man arguments. I did not once contend a popular vote would prevent us from electing idiots. The bogus argument I often see from the right about change is it won’t be perfect. It only needs to be better. Of course there is no guarantee, just as you can’t guarantee the EC…

Let’s see his tax returns for the past decade, all the translator notes from the private meetings with Putin, the contents of the private emails and messages on personal devices by Tbaby, Ivanka and Jared, and the full Mueller report. Then we’ll see if any apologies are warranted.  In the meantime you can start on…

You’ve simply confirmed a fear of and aversion to democracy. Appealing to the founding fathers and what they intended is vacuous and utterly irrelevant to our society today. They intended and enacted all sorts of things that are without any question whatsoever products of their time, education, experiences and…

All I see in your arguments are rationalizations straining to maintain the possibility that the values, preferences and beliefs held by the minority can prevail over the majority, and a disdain for democracy. I assume you see mine as the other side of that coin. You can pretend you won, you didn’t. There’s strong…

“’Populist’ candidates, are by definition trying to rally the majority against the minority elites. Multiple shitty leaders have taken over countries including our own with the popular vote. But in spite of all this, the system works and survives.’