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as an aside: a "fossil" resource implies the feedstock is decayed organic matter. Trapped helium is finite, but it's much more like a metal or ore than oil, LNG, or coal, which all…

BTW your own linked source, the Wikipedia article states clearly: "The current scientific consensus is that there is no evidence for a genetic component behind IQ differences betwe…

Biologist with a background in genetics here- there is no compelling evidence for statistically valid differences in measured intelligence on a racial genotypic basis. Most attempt…

Edgy Holden Caulfield vibes will never be a substitute for clarity of thought and evidence for convictions held. Whatever point he is trying to make is lost in the miasma of parano…

That and for someone "who loves to write," he really ought to invest in a copy of Strunk and White. It can't all be short, terse sentences, my man! Definitely furthers the impressi…

Okay, but in that scenario, that private police officer won't have the collective benefit of a public union. A DA won't be biting the hands that feed them if they choose to prosecu…

This is true in theory. But in practice that revenue/profit often is allocated inefficiently anyway in the form of excessive exec compensation and stock buyback programs when valua…

It should be noted, Australia and New Zealand also have the highest skin cancer rates in the world, at nearly 3x the incidence of the US https://www.wcrf.org/dietandcancer/cancer-t…

I was finished HS seventeen years ago, about an hour northeast of where the author was delivering packages. I distinctly remember an English teacher, trying to get us excited about…

I've been rocking the same combo (Amex Blue Cash Preferred + Chase Sapphire Reserve) for a while now and I still marvel at how they compliment one another for max rewards across Gr…

As an American, I will say I wish my response would have been as classy as yours.

Are you a person of color? Are you a woman? Are you gay? Are you trans? Are you disabled? Not trolling, genuinely curious. Edit: I can't reply to the children (might be my karma ga…

There's a range listed because (I can't speak for SF specifically, but I have police friends in other Bay Area cities) different skill sets get you a different starting pay. For ex…

Mario West (as the cited lowest paid NBA player) makes 25,000 dollars... on a team (and league) he hasn't played for in 3 years. The NBA has a unionized workforce, with a collectiv…

It must be comforting to view the world so simply. All it takes is some stereotyping to knock your world-view right back to how you like it.

I'm an American and I can't stand the mode of speech you've described. Unbelievably grating and disingenuous.

We have cafes and other neighborhood establishments here as well. But I appreciate that fact doesn't serve your sense of self-superiority.

I'm also a scientist and I find Neil deGrasse Tyson extremely grating. I find something about his snarky/condescending tone to be poor qualities for his role as "science communicat…

The article actually concedes we're discovering "more barrels of oil." It's just that oil is harder and harder to get at from a production standpoint (retrieval, supply chain, fini…

If the CTO is the face of the company, then sure. it's not as if shaming the ad agency is going have nearly the same impact. It's Spike Lee's movie, he's the beneficiary, and he's …