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Because that's a nonsensical strawman; those things aren't even related. Personally, I see any employer advertising for a position with stricter requirements than what they'll hire…

Somewhere in Scandinavia. I don't know much about the area other than they score among the highest on self-reported happiness indicies[0]. I'm curious about what cultural differenc…

To be fair, he called Trump the "lessor" of two evils. Though, that seems like a low-ball figure.

Sure, there's never going to be unanimous agreement. Put it to a vote. I'm mainly just talking about letting the public choose which issues the leaders should focus on, and holding…

> It should be a goal, eventually. Warning: Completely tangential musing/rant... That "eventually" word is killing me. When we leave these sorts of issues up to the forces in power…

In and of itself, the attempt to colonize Mars probably won't do much for the species. The value is in actually going through the paces: developing primary technologies, techniques…

Regarding 3: The encryption scheme we put into place probably isn't going to slow down a motivated actor. We have master decryption passphrases that are regularly disseminated amon…

Whatever racism you think you're seeing is only in your head. Top level commenter didn't call 1914 a "golden age"; they were merely lamenting some of the freedoms we lost a century…

> If it makes people uncomfortable to be told their [sic] racist for calling 100 years ago a golden age... maybe they should be uncomfortable? Glossing over the faulty logic, is yo…

And the contention here is that it's inappropriate (unless you mean to suggest that diseases are sentient or otherwise capable of intention to foment terror) and overplayed, and it…