Anyone ever play the old PC game SSN that was released under the Tom Clancy brand? I think it had a shitty tie-in novel too. Anyway, the basic premise is oil is discovered in the Spratly Islands by western oil firms and China decides they want it for themselves and are willing to go to war for it. So basically you go…

Cultured meat has the potential to be far tastier than actual animal muscle tissue. After all, it’s a product specifically designed for consumption, not the side-product of a creature’s mobility rig. You can play around with the texture, chemical composition and shape to your heart’s content until you manage to come…

Something like 50 percent of world oil shipments pass through the SCS. The ability to interdict that would give a country a huge military, economic, and diplomatic advantage.

I think it’s going to be baffling to people in a few hundred years that we weren’t repulsed by the idea of eating factory-farmed animal flesh, but were grossed out by this artificial meat.

Let’s be clear though. “Selling” is not the correct term. PP donates tissue to research and is reimbursed for the costs of storage and transportation, period. They make absolutely no money.

Thank you for sharing your story. I’m so sorry for your loss.

I am so sorry for your loss. Thank you for sharing your story with us; if only the anti-choice dirtbags would open their minds long enough to listen to stories like yours.

So I had an abortion a little over two years ago. It was a wanted pregnancy, too. My son was diagnosed with half of his heart, which leads to suffocation at birth if not treated immediately with at least 3 open heart surgeries before 3 years old. And sometimes these kids die from heart attacks at the age of 4 when…

It’s all cyclical. It’s a war of attrition against the same shitty unenlightened forces that right minded folks have been battling since time began. And in the grand scheme of things we will win. Humanity has ever evolved toward more and more freedom for greater and greater people. These vile fucks are just speed…

hey, $10 or $20 per month is just as effective (if not more) than giving $100 or $200 as a lump sum.

My aunt administered the first PP in this area in the mid-1960s. And I will say now what she said then, “What stupid bastard is against Planned PARENTHOOD?”

Imagine if they put their time, effort, passion, and money into giving a shit about actual living, breathing, POST-born children. But no, think of the tissue clumps!

If you are able to donate, it’d be fun to donate “in honor of” Rand Paul or John Boehner or one of the other Republicans trying to defund them. I didn’t hear about it before I donated, but it seems like a bang-up idea!

This reminds me: I’m going to go and donate some money to Planned Parenthood now, even though I’m broke as a joke. They don’t fucking deserve this bullshit from extremists.

A designated location where humans hit each other until one of them has been hit so many times they let the other human know they no longer wish to be hit again. Aka “sports”

Dear people who say “all you have to do is respect cops and they won’t murder you” - I am currently awaiting your insightful analysis re: Sam Dubose.

I was thinking of my kitty cat. She’s not good for much, but she could manage a little sparrow management.

SHHHHHH! [You’re not supposed to talk about it]

Several years ago, I remember my wife yelling, “OH MY GOD”, so I go to where she is, looking out the sliding glass door onto the patio. There, on the patio, are two house sparrows beating the living shit out of each other. But, the thing that caught her (and me) by surprise was the fact that there was a ring of…

At the same time it’s important to note that, particularly in the US health system, there’s an absolute over-use of antibiotics. I’m always amazed how quickly doctors here prescribe that stuff. Got a cold? Throw in some penicillin. Doctor doesn’t really know what’s going on? Antibiotics (complemented by MRI...), just…