Cool graphic. But why are these people flying into Omaha?

Right. But if this is the approach we take… Its going to be the approach we take on EVERY issue related to the environment and wildlife. Like pollution. Climate change. Wildlife preservation. Et al.

Okay, let’s try this then.

And if the United States was 100,000ly across, you’d never be able to get out of bed, much less leave your house or go a mile down the road.*

The GOP exists because their base either believes in the Just World fallacy or has a Dunning Krueger cognitive bias.

The only problem is that, the faster you travel, the faster time passes for everyone back on earth. So you could head out to Andromeda for lunch, but when you got back to earth, it’d be thousands or millions of years later.

I don’t get this. We already know several ways that we can traverse great distances in space/time.

Speed/Time/Space are all completely relative. This article is 100% wrong.

The feds have also used data found illegally in dragnet searches to prosecute people in criminal court. And they’ve used metadata to go after journalist’s protected sources. Its only a matter of time before they have enough dirt on elected officials to blackmail them. If that hasn’t already happened.

Virtually any type of technology would be as ‘profitable’ as fossil fuels if it was subsidized as heavily as fossil fuels are.

If you ever come across anything related to that… I would love to read it. That makes a lot of sense to me. And it makes my dislike Snowden a little less.

Oh, for sure. Greenwald is a turd too.

Though I generally agree with much of what you said… In the ven diagram of people who don’t register these types of issues and people who are going to judge Snowden to be a traitor and therefore side with the government on issues of privacy… I would wager that there is significant overlap.

Right, but that’s not the point. What you and I think is irrelevant. What I am referring to is popular opinion. Because he so willingly assumed this mantle, the government has discredited him in the media and used his character flaws to make this argument unnecessarily about a person as opposed to an idea.

You hear from Binney, Drake or Russ Tice much these days? No. And those dudes are smarter, more articulate and more trustworthy than Snowden. They’re more involved… They built some of the current systems and worked on policy. And they’re smart enough to keep their fucking heads down because they understand the risks…

I hope you’re vegan too. Otherwise I fear that you’ll eventually consume that high horse you’re up on.

Question: Does the increased use of nitrogen rich fertilizer have an impact as well? Its always been my understanding that agricultural run-off has affected (effected?) the saturation of oxygen in the waters too.

Pretty much every time I look at my phone or open my laptop. I was aware of the message years before Snowden, when Frontline covered it.

Agree in principal, disagree in execution. Take for example the subject of this article. He can push the message without being such a turd.

Yeah, I am okay with the message. But does the messenger need to be such a exposure hungry douche?