Well-read atheists have more credibility

Why should we give government or politicians a free pass just because they’re “on our team”? If you can’t find something they’re not doing well, you haven’t looked. Also, a single-axis political spread is passé.

That movie was more about the AMOC collapsing (which is projected to happen between now and ~50 years), but uncharacteristically (/s), Hollywood got the science wrong.

Wait, are you telling me deregulation didn’t help the citizens, only the capital interests?

I insist I don’t want to use Chrome, but search suggestions for local IP ranges is really annoying.

The 8 seconds may include looking up how to fix it, since it’s apparently unknown to the poster. But you don’t get any imaginary internet dopamine points for that

Easy to make an app, hard to get the network effect.

When I went out of my way to fix things and make it better, I ended up getting promotions, but YMMV.

At least the people are nice

I also learned I meet hEDS criteria, hypermobile joints needed more care than I was giving them, was having too much dopamine from chasing weight numbers. Hopefully I can at least be a cautionary tale.

Some of my biggest back pains are from going to the gym! 😉

My newly set expectations are once again subverted!

I’d guess, in this case, imagining a wrongfully imprisoned grandma is thought to be more immoral than “just” a 50 year old. It also causes readers to imagine their own grandma in the same situation, instead of a stranger.

I really don’t think the Mooninites will see it coming, so war should be over in a week or two. I’m willing to back a nuclear bombardment of the Moon, if it will ensure that I can still watch football this weekend.

I thought Station Eleven was pretty good about it, small vehicles / motorcycles for a while, then bicycles and horses + wagons, plus a lot of walking. That was a wildly different scenario though (99.9% of the population poofed in a few day period), so there were a ton of abandoned resources for any survivors.

Kitty rejects the owner/property relationship.