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There’s a difference between telling people to not put themselves in risky situations thst will just lead to adding a casualty (firefighter running into a collapsing building) and …

The whole point of a black hole is that nothing can support its own mass past a certain point. A black hole is a region more than it is an object, with a singularity beyond an even…

If you really meant dense then you have to rememberer that the average density of a black hole enjoys an inverse proportionality to its volume. In other words a supermassive black …

Well at least I nailed the personality disorder bit.

Three articles of “data” yes... So we have a HuffPo article, an article from MarriPedia (a religious site) and an abstract from the Sociology and Religion department of The Associa…

I mean, he said it outright: “I think you'll find that most people who 'keep the wallet' are probably not religious...” I don’t think it’s so much a carried or implied assumption a…

Tesla is facing the prospect of needing to sell a honking load of stock at a discount to deal with their debt, and to do that they need a high stock price. While Musk appears to be…

Well that totally doesn’t sound like someone with a personality disorder. /s I’m fairly sure that history will almost instantly forget them, because they exist to be disposable, to…

It’s a giant country, and despite what people in the Silicon Valley bubble think, there are a lot of cities with a lot of space. This is an insoluble problem if everyone demands ac…

Considering that “cars owners” in America represent 88%, maybe it’s just an alignment of interests. Maybe alternatives are rejected not because of these subtle systemic issues, but…

People will just “pirate” the web. As for no ads, people who want that experience already get it for free. Given the incredibly low quality of most ad supported content, maybe the …

We already do pay to help raise other poeple’s kids through a variety of taxes, including public schools via property tax. This would be more of a subsidy for reproducing, rather t…

It’s sad that you can’t opt out and just pay for coffee. If it were just an option it would be fine, but this is the only way.

The article itself is... not worth commenting on, but I’ll just comment on the irony of referring to Bitcoin as a “meteor” when far from enjoying a meteoric rise, it has crashed an…

Plus, he’s still facing a raft of civil suits beyond the SEC, even beyond the one from the man he kept accusing of being a pedophile. As I said, beyond that suit, i.e. the suits he…

I buy my music, then I pirate a copy for archival and portable use. The artist and publishers get their money, and I get my fair use. I’m not willing to steal stuff, but I’m also n…

Their cases were already incredibly strong, given the nature of the tweet and his Twitter account’s status as an official corporate mouthpiece for five years. From a purely legal p…

There’s the still the DOJ investigation, so he’s very much in potential hot water, albeit less so than before. The odds of him facing criminal charges was always lower than the civ…

Having been there too, I strongly endorse your opinion. Did you make it to Tikal and check out the pyramids? Climbing Pyramid 4 and staring over the canopy at endless jungle was on…

Could you add “Deluded” or “Dumber Than Toast” before CBS? Pleeeeeaaase?

Spider goat! That’s really amazing, and the promise of spider silk and related materials to everything from body armor to surgery can’t be overstated. Also... Spider goat, spider g…

That strategy can be very successful, but sometimes what you discover is that nature often depends on things like regenerating materials, and other things we can’t come close to re…

People like a vast majority of people want the ability to recover after a fuckup or theft. The FDIC exists for a reason, as do chargebacks. With the exception of a paltry minority …

Permitting and perpetuating this kind of myth-making is practically part of Elon's fiduciary duty to his shareholders at this point. You can't fault him for doing it, because he ha…

Permitting and perpetuating this kind of myth-making is practically part of Elon's fiduciary duty to his shareholders at this point. You can't fault him for doing it, because he ha…