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We should abolish oil companies and make sure the only place you can gas up your lifted truck is the Democratic People's Fuel Depot, that will solve climate change.

How hard is it to maintain a fork that changes nothing except the logo? If you can't be bothered to maintain a trivial fork, then why should the author of anubis be bothered to ser…

As if the Romans didn't worship rebranded Greek gods, pray in bootleg Greek temples and had educated Greek slaves be their teachers…

In practice "common sense" just means "things I learned from public TV when I was ten and never bothered to learn more about." Renewable used to be more expensive but that hasn't b…

A microwave that can refuse to cook your food if it considers it a biosecurity hazard, mind you. Sorry Taylor Farms.

Affordable to you or affordable to the locals? The yen has devalued a lot in the past decade or so, giving foreigners a lot more spending power in Japan and causing the current tou…

Maybe it's my bubble, but most people around me who are against AI cite job loss and Replacement as their concerns. And guess who has been boasting about replacing workers and maki…

Why would the data center operators pay extra taxes to your city when they can just build them somewhere else that gives them a tax break instead?

If comrade1234 has to get contractors from 90 miles away just to clear some trees, there is no way they are going to hire locals to build a data center.

If people not liking a thing is enough reason to ban it in a democracy, then how come we still pay tax? And if you want to say "but someone must pay for the public services," the I…

But now with nukes in major countries arsenals, any of the three new risks you mentioned could have escalated to civilization ending nuclear wars. It's still a miracle that it hasn…

The US is ten times more dense than Australia. And yet Australian cities tend to have comparable if not better transit than similarly sized American cities. The overall population …

> A network of fully autonomous electric self-driving cars on a developed roadway can only be superseded in efficiency by high speed rail [citation needed] Not an expert but it see…

Not helped by legitimate websites often redirecting you through weird multi tiered domains especially during log in, or legitimate businesses using link shorteners instead of their…

It's fine if you either stick to your principles or play a game of shameless realpolitik. Just don't pretend you can convince us that you are actually doing the former when all we …

> and that the main role of our military is to ensure that our ideology (liberal democracy) is protected across the world. This is why the US military is partnered with all the Mid…

The article is a bit old. It should have noted a new development in calendar technology if it was written half a year later. > In A.D. 1582 Pope Gregory XIII found that the existin…

Venezuela was likely a palace coup disguised as a purely foreign intervention by both parties involved. There is a reason why instead of holding an election or having the oppositio…

How do you learn to cope so well? Did you attend the Dugin College of psychotic delusion or something?

My understanding of why Europeans think the americas were pristine and barely touched by human existence is because smallpox was ahead of European explorers and by the time Europea…

The US has the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act and I'm sure you can find similar laws elsewhere. The problem is a law can be repealed any time. Might take some heavy lobb…

We want theories to be backed by more rigorous data precisely because "having run into this many times in their own lives" is not reliable. People's own perception is incredibly bi…