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Over 60% of the wealth in the US is inherited. Most rich certainly did nothing to deserve it.

> Life is worth living. Prove it.

That's called successful marketing.

New Vegas was actually developed by Obsidian (some of the original Fallout 1 and 2 guys), not Bethesda. Explains why it was better than Fallout 3 and 4.

> The Iranian society is and was much more open a few decades ago. Truly a sad story of development in the completely wrong direction. You can blame the US for fucking that up, you…

Iran being a tyrannical theocracy with grudge against the US is a direct result of the US overthrowing a democratically elected Iranian prime minister.

How else do would you uncover scandal and abuses of power? The tabloid shit I don't care about, but public interest journalism is something I would never want to be without. It's a…

Human nature has been changed countless times throughout history.

The US has its own downsides though. It's all about what trade-offs you're willing to make, and raw salary is not the only factor.

Because one is a minor inconvencience, the other is psychological warfare used to modify behaviour. It's baffling why you'd think the Google example is somehow less dangerous, espe…

The problem you might be having is your insistence on viewing people with a left/right partisan lens. That's just tribal football-team politics and is simply part of the problem.

I've had deep conversations in bars and pubs more times than I can remember. Philosophy, religion, music, software, politics etc. Maybe the lack of depth you are finding is down to…

should the people you grew up with be somehow protected from criticism? Why?

Ants are not social in the same way ants are. The two species could not be further apart. Humans will never be a 'hive' in that way. It's not in our biological makeup.

Plenty of accusations of Disney plagiarising most of their work over the yeas from public-domain fairy tales though.

Some US states have obscenity laws as well, which is kind of ridiculous in this age.

I'd say these things are also 'way in the future'.

They are just waiting for the right moment to try again.

I attended a talk by Jack Poulson (quit Google over Dragonfly and how it was handled) over the last weekend and he suggested that based on Google's reaction, it has definitely been…

Nothing, but we're not talking about contextless for-loops here, and you know that.

Your 'work' on military drone technology and censored search is political by nature. If you want politics out of your workplace, stop working for the company that spends more on po…

If your politics are encouraging or even accepting of sexual harassment and pay discrimination based on gender, then your 'politics' aren't worth acknowledging, honestly.

Any opinion looks worthless when you deliberately mischaracterise it like this.