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Actually, given the probability of winning, each lottery ticket has a negative value, so... yeah, there's no way it isn't a waste of money. "You gotta be in it to win it" is nonsen…

It's not about not wanting to change your culture, it's about wanting to keep the money and not go to jail... The parent wasn't suggesting that wanting to see other cultures drives…

Buy. Buy. Buy. Consume. Consume. Consume. You need more crap. More likes. More comments. More clicks.

Also you could just have unions and corporations could stop dicking people over. :)

I hear HOA politics are so bitter because the stakes are so low. ;)

All that's old is new again!

Yeah, union organizers and war protesters in the early 1900s were jailed with similar excuses. Would you like to go to jail in 20 years for speaking out against the war in Iraq? Be…

Speech on its own has no consequences. I'm on a phone so please do look up Brandenburg v. Ohio and the Brandenburg incitement test. Basically, the opinion of the courts since like …

For most of Anglo legal history, there were strict punishments on "seditious" speech. Even as late as 1917 people were prosecuted under the Alien and Sedition Acts for speech that'…

Building a web page costs basically nothing; commercial real estate is much more expensive.

I'm imagining the planning meeting for this: Engineer: "Hmm... what else needs to be needlessly complicated and also have Wi-Fi?"

The Nazis showed up with guns, shields, and clubs. Don't pretend like they weren't prepared for urban warfare. Have you told your friends and family that you might be a white natio…

We should probably get rid of all of the social sciences just to be on the safe side then. I mean, really, how can we know anything about anything really?

Found the climate change denialist.

Science is full of failed predictions. If you're poking around for some nefarious behavior (which seems to be common among climate change deniers), I suggest looking at oil compani…

Why is it that the tech set always forgets that CS pedantry != legal pedantry? Have we forgotten about intent? You can't just change the line to a regex that /just happens/ to matc…