South Park is a real grabbag, but they really hit the mark with Gen X yankees dismissing green energy and environmentalism for being “gay (pejorative)”. You could update that same episode and only need to swap out the last line for “that sounds woke”

Aging really is a game of swings and roundabouts

Euro bonds, the EU needs to start issuing bonds

Riveting rebuttal.

it’s a duopoly, mate

Dems are perfectly happy to keep things like the NSA and ICE funded, then act shocked when Republicans use these tools. They’re all part of the problem.

He’s not above the law, they just want to prosecute him for some unimportant, tacky procedural misstep. Neither party wants the precedent of presidents facing consequences.

yeah yeah the actual events of the Obama administrate just fell out of everyone’s heads, historical thinking is asking too much of the anglophonic world, my bad

Ah, well you don’t have to worry about them wasting time on this, because they very definitely do not want to close the door on doing extra-legal imperial management The Right Way when next they hold the presidency.

I mean, sure, an inheritance tax curtails the most egregious aspect of an informal aristocracy. But it’s a pernicious thing. Creeps in. Who your parents know, the school you go to, the district you grew up in, the jobs available after you graduate. I’m pretty damn skeptical of any claim to true meritocracy.

also, tf2 hats

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gplA6pq9cOs

Is it that Japan doesn’t have people born into obscene wealth or is it that, being english speakers, we just don’t hear about them?

Also, maybe we should be careful about increasing the mass of the planet. I’m sure a little here and there wouldn’t be too much of a problem… but you know… the same is true of combustion engines…

That’s a good question. I don’t know for sure. I just meant to imply that thinking about cancers in terms of “cures” isn’t a very useful way to approach the matter.

A cursory search suggests that reptiles and birds do get cancer, just at a noticeably reduced rate. Maybe something to do with metabolism? Or a side effect of bodies capable of live birth? Dunno.

I’ve also heard that whales and elephants get less cancers than we would expect from animals (or I guess mammals) of their size.

Kessler syndrome […] less than 3 days way

Fuckin’ ace. Actually colonizing space would be a centuries long endeavor of fostering an ecosystem from scratch. So until we start propping up the ecosystem we’re living in, nobody has any business wasting resources on space boondoggles.

My gut says that would introduce a whole lot of inconsistency? It’s to do with the tilt of the axis, not the daily rotation. I don’t think those line up neatly enough.

Each month begins on a Sunday, and ends on a Saturday; consequently, every year begins on Sunday. Neither Year Day nor leap day are considered to be part of any week; they are preceded by a Saturday and are followed by a Sunday, making a long weekend.

That sounds both nice and an absolute hassle to try and retrofit all our timekeeping stuff to deal with.

Pretty disingenuous to compare cancer, one of the most heavily studied medical conditions on the planet, to this. Just because there’s no cure to being made of cells? It’s not that simple.

Assume all horror movies are Producers style you-make-more-on-a-flop-than-a-hit tax scams.

I’m kinda curious to see how The Public Domain: The Game turns out, though it looks like it’s gonna be more about the idea of privately owned ideas in general.

Yes, militaries do tend to attract nationalistic psychos. The US Marines have done the same thing to many civilians. The have whole in-group rituals about it.