I think the only sure solution to poverty is a guaranteed minimum income. The talented would and could excel far beyond that but no citizen would have an excuse for living in poverty (beyond their right to do so, should they desire).

I think the reason this is true is because of technology. That vast swath of…

The fallacy in that type of thinking is the assumption that we should only do one thing at a time. The reality is that, sticking to your analogy, it’s actually counterproductive for everyone on the shore to jump in the water to save the drowning man (perhaps leading to even more drowned people).

The analogy falls apart…

I had an NVIDIA graphics card back in my 1.6 days that had an official driver released that included special shader filters like cartoon and sepia... it also included one filter called “wireframe”. It worked exactly as you might expect... it got rid of surface textures entirely and functioned pretty much perfectly as…

I know. I was criticizing the source article.

I think all you really need is time and a bunch of Save Scumming. I am fairly certain that the only power I’m really going to miss on my next playthrough will be blink.

People so rarely talk about the perils of empathy these days.

Considering how it aged Obama... what the heck is Trump going to look like in 4 years?!

I think the most recent figure is 29%. Still alarming.

The primary weakness of polls, no matter how well run, is and always has been liars. *shrug*

They deeply underestimated how many people would rather lie than admit they voted for Trump. It seems fairly obvious in hindsight... as things often do.

Hypocrites certainly do have just as much right to respond to these results. Freedom of speech, ftw!

I fear that vilifying white folks (however justified you feel) is essentially what got Trump elected.

Gary Johnson, a Libertarian nominee so baldly ill-equipped to win the presidency that his own VP Bill Weld semi-openly supported Clinton, has done his part—to the tune of a historic 4 million votes—to help ensure a Donald Trump presidency.

What is startling to me is that we have an alarming lack of “tricks” to blame this on. We had record turnouts. There were higher than usual 3rd party voting (as we all expected) but not really by a substantial margin relative to previous elections.

I think it is fair to say that a huge swath of American voters voted a certain way because they are tired of being virtually unanimously vilified for the color of the skin they happened to be born with.

I’m not defending them. I’m no saying they are right or that their perception of disenfranchisement is anything like…

Yeah, but bigoted white guys couldn’t do this alone

Clinton has the vast majority of the non-white votes (she’s breaking records in many areas on this front)...

Pretty much no one, besides Donald Trump, expected Trump to be able to win this race by not only abandoning, but actively alienating, non-white voter. He appears to be doing it. O_o

Speaking of voter intimidation...

Diversity in all it’s forms is not even an “ideal” societal concept. Especially in the west, that’s simply a reality.

I think it’s a mistake to imply that people have any real obligation to superficially shape their work to adhere to idealized contemporary values.