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I don't think they need that much help.

Right on.

The laws of physics probably don't allow for FTL travel. It's probably not a good idea to pin all our hopes on narrative conveniences invented by the writers of space operas. Howev…

That makes no sense whatsoever. Yes, I know I'm banned. Hello, people with showdead on!

Disasters? I'd say the chans are the only interesting and creative places on the internet.

If the anti-fascists (who were, at the time, literal Communists) had won in Germany, would history have wound up any better? Or just as bad?

More to the point, in those countries it's very very unlikely for anyone to pull a gun on a cop.

There's undoubtedly a great many companies out there where everybody earns at least $70K. I have no idea how this guy managed to get himself in the news.

But proofs always come back to axioms, and on what basis do we accept axioms? That they sound intuitively right. So we've just kicked the problem upstairs a bit, we can't avoid usi…

But are people more likely to accept the axioms of Principia Mathematica (and the soundness of every logical step from page 1 to 300) than they are to accept the notion that 2 + 2 …

But they could have extradited him before he ever went into the embassy. They didn't. Only Sweden is currently attempting to extradite him.

> immigrant-bashing Why is it so fucking difficult for some people to distinguish between "immigrants" and "illegal immigrants"? It's like confusing sex with rape.

If LA is worried about housing affordability, the best thing to do would be to work to get President Trump elected, so the city can get rid of all the people who have no legal righ…

Angkor Wat was built in the twelfth century AD, and is well within the known technological capabilities of the Khmer empire at the time. A vimana, which from googling appears to be…

> Today, we can kill everyone off with an exchange of the already existing nuclear weapon inventory I'm not convinced we can. For starters, the nuclear weapon inventory is a lot sm…

Oh, right, now I understand.

Agreeing to do something impossible is easy. Committing to doing something impossible is no harder. It's just that doing something impossible is tricky.

Wait, you just got $44 million in funding and you don't have 100 users yet?

It's not about portrayal, it's about actual physiology. The percentage of alcohol users (ie almost everybody) who become alcoholic is quite low. The percentage of heroin or meth us…

Indeed they do, because the guards' union want to maintain their monopoly on the contraband smuggling business.

True, although I'd guess that the massive decrease in mortality in infants under 1 (who are still massively more likely to die than older children) is probably due to improved medi…

> If you think about it logically for the era, it's incredibly unlikely that Jesus was actually unmarried Only on the assumption that "being married" is uncorrelated with "starting…

Has SpaceX actually cleaned out and reused any of their recovered rockets yet? I'm guessing no, they're still analysing them, but it'll be interesting when they do. (Damned if I'd …

Or, y'know, Paris. Or Brussels. Or Paris, the time before. Or Paris, the time before that. Or Madrid. Or London. Or...