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And here we see the bad-faith rhetorical goalpost shift happening in real time. 1. deny that change is happening. -> 2. deny that we have anything to do with climate change. -> 3. …

> Given that the various "tictac" reports appear not to be natural phenomenon, [citation needed]

It did! It found them to be hard, and empty.NASA studies strongly suggest they are just hematite accretions. https://www.intechopen.com/books/mineralogy-significance-and...

WTF does Andy Ngo have to do with "persecution" in academia? Is Any Ngo an academic?

Just come out and say what you mean instead of slimy implications. It's obvious you believe in the false narrative that conservatives are somehow being "persecuted" in academia. Th…

Occam's Razor: postulate as few as possible new entities to explain an event. Aliens causing UFOs not only postulates that aliens exist, but that they're intelligent, and have visi…

This is how I took notes in college as well. TeX people may scoff but word is way better for taking math notes quickly. Just learn the key combos and you can do almost anything rap…

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> When workers can’t afford to live within biking distance of work, then it’s not a viable solution. This is a catch 22 because the way our cities are designed in America makes the…

In areas where cities are dense enough for public transportaiton to make sense, adding a new line does indeed lead to induced demand. For cities that are spread out and unwalkable …

The Boring Company's "solution" is a [sad joke]( https://slate.com/business/2018/12/elon-musks-los-angeles-tu... ) that belies Musk's utter disconnect with reality. The fact that t…

It's a problem because it's a positive feedback loop. More highways = more traffic, which leads people to want to build more highways to supposedly ease congestion, and this contin…

> Where's the money coming from? The federal highway program. Highways are heavily, heavily subsidized by state and federal dollars. That's why their true cost isn't born on driver…

Lol what you call "PC culture" is what regular non-troglodyte people call "not being a dick." Get the fuck over it.

What I mean is that the definition of what counts as "politically correct" has expanded to include lots of stuff. It's such a nebulous term that it can be applied to anything the r…

only wealthier people (which in America means white and educated) have time and money to be "activists" for any cause.

Exactly. I think people have been conditioned to see "political correctness" as something bad, and have different views of what it means. You can oppose "political correctness" and…