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I'm not talking about dating prospects though.

You have it backwards, the "no barriers" mainly came from being wealthy. I'll give a small anecdote: One of my friends is from a very wealthy family. He is a person of color. He wa…

For most people it really doesn't matter, including most people in powerful positions. But we keep telling ourselves it does, unfortunately.

Homelessness, both in San Francisco and elsewhere is not rooted in housing but in drugs and mental illness. Building more low income housing won't address those root causes or noti…

While data security is an issue Facebook must reckon with, it is not the major issue Facebook's existence poses to democracies around the world. The real issue in my mind is that t…

The amount of "bullying and abuse" by the US is grossly overstated. I think many people, especially in large and proud nations, don't like the idea of being a second class power to…

I see China envy online a lot, especially given our recent political disfunction as people look at the superficial stability of China and want that for their own societies.

Well that would be an inconvenience because I and many others go to work and ride public transport every day. Which is why we don't see TSA checkpoints everywhere; it would be too …

It's funny, hate speech laws are unconstitutional and could not be passed in the US but such laws are commonplace in Europe. Yet people like to mock the US for saying it's the land…

Having to be scanned to get on a plane seems like a perfectly reasonable thing to have to do. I fly often and I'm glad the TSA exists and does what it does. I don't feel like my li…

No it's not. It's the job of law enforcement to, unsurprisingly, enforce the laws. If you have a problem with the laws being enforced, call your congressman.

Sorry dang

So there wasn't torture destruction and murder on a mass scale before guns? Humanity works itself into a fervor of anger sometimes. That is what kills people. The implements of ang…

I guess we're both right then

Why were those guns and gas used? Because of the hateful rhetoric of an evil man and an evil ideology.

Tell that to the victims of the Holocaust

Cambridge Analytica served ads to people. This is something that all candidates, campaigns and their affiliates do. Sure it collected data on people through sketchy means, but the …

I mean basic income is just either printing money, or redistribution of money. One leads to inflation, the other is Socialism and already practiced in a number of countries. So we'…