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It’s well know that inner city decline and urban decay is a symptom of workaholism. ;) Too much work ethic is probably also the reason that Walmart locks up their makeup and has closed stores in certain areas too. :D

Europaean Union.

We’d have colonies on Europa! :D

If we can. It’s obviously in Taiwan’s best interest to remain indispensable to us so they don’t end up like Ukraine.

Just throwing good money after bad at this point. “In a newly proposed business plan released this year, project leaders estimate the Los Angeles-to-San Francisco segment will cost about $126 billion, with service beginning around 2040. Politicians, including Gov. Gavin Newsom, have stated...

What the hell?

I think there’s a happy medium. A scientist has to be open to possibilities while not letting that bias them. Kind of a version of being open minded but not much that your brain falls out. On one extreme a scientist may dismiss something unusual in their data that could indicate life while on...

Haha

I don’t think it requires arrogance or insanity. I wouldn’t necessarily call myself a rare earth adherent but as a scientist, I think it’s important to look hard at the facts. There is no conclusive evidence of life, intelligent or otherwise, outside of the earth. There have been planets...

Putting on my nerd hat here but Vulcans don’t lack emotions, they suppress them. In fact Vulcans are biologically far more emotional than humans, to the point that they nearly went extinct due to internal wars. The practice of suppressing emotion and adopting logic to an extreme degree is a...

I bet they sink fast enough. ;)

What do you think this is? Some sort of hunting forum? ;)

Good to see. Leaders of France and Greece say the EU's defense splurge is no alternative to the NATO alliance...

The cheapest gas in my hometown was $4.19 a gallon… before the Iran situation. And that was relatively cheap. I was paying over $5 a gallon at a Costco in OC a few days before that. Nothing pisses me off more than clowns like Tom Steyer running ads blaming high gas on Trump when the state of CA...

But Texas did it first! ;)

He never said it was okay. Only that he wouldn’t condemn an entire nation because one, or a handful, of soldiers did something stupid. At this point you’re being intentionally obtuse.

I hate having to copy/paste my own replies but since you seemed to ignore it the last time you made that argument. “It’s certainly tragic but there were a lot of factors at play. Gaza was very densely built upon and populated. A large proportion of the population was also very young. You also...

I think he’s spot on with that comment. I will concede to the pope that the American President is probably far more likely to listen than the Iranian regime but there’s definitely an impression that both this pope and the last are far more worried about billionaires simply existing in the west...

I suppose big easy isn’t going to get to see the dumb Trump voters paying $10 a gallon like he hoped. ;)

Too late. You made the Pope’s hit list.

Are you seriously suggesting that our opinions on politics can be on a spectrum and that those who disagree with us might not be enemies deserving of hatred? That people like the pope, Obama, or even Trump may be wrong about some things but right about others? ;)

I wouldn’t insult him out of respect for my catholic friends but I also don’t know why I, as an American and a Protestant myself, would care what he said about anything? He certainly hasn’t been pope long enough to get the world’s attention like John Paul II.

Let’s not let facts get in the way of a diatribe. ;)

I think a lot of boomers will be disappointed to realize that genx and the millennials learned a lot of unfortunate things from watching them. What was it Harry Chaplin wrote? “And as I hung up the phone, it occurred to me He'd grown up just like me My boy was just like me.”

You’re not entitled because you want what you’re owed. You’re entitled because you think you’re unique from the millions of other people who have paid into it and are still paying into it who may get nothing. “Give me mine and f*ck everyone else” is a pretty entitled attitude.

I appreciate you answering but I don’t see how you can ignore the significance of this part I’ve quoted. Including our indirect spending, the US contributes 62% of NATO’s total spending on defense. The risk that the US military will come down on an aggressor in response to article 5, is the...

Serious question but do you really think that, considering how much the US contributes to NATO in both funding and manpower, that NATO would have significant value for the remaining members? Or retain its strategic value as a counter to Russia? Is that funding and manpower gap one that the...

Something something Bibi… something something TACO… something something world economy. ;)

It’s certainly tragic but there were a lot of factors at play. Gaza was very densely built upon and populated. A large proportion of the population was also very young. You also have an enemy in Hamas who is more than happy to use human shields. Hamas hid rockets in hospitals and leadership in...

About as long as I would expect it to hold with Iran, with its own agenda in Lebanon, behaving as a loose cannon via their proxies. But I’m also not interested in a ceasefire at all costs. On the other hand, the ceasefire was likely not expected to succeed and will give the administration an...

I think anyone who thought Israel would ignore its interests of pursuing operations in Lebanon against Hezbollah would have to be a fool. I also think that anyone who blames Israel for the ceasefire failing is a fool. Lebanon is not Iran and Iran has no legitimate justification for ending the...

I’m shocked. ;)

Considering Australia’s draconian COVID response, a police prosecutor with a Covid citation is a pretty big red flag.

I think it’s more realistic that NATO would simply cease to be. The United States is the backbone of the organization and without the US there is no NATO. I think the suggestion by some here that we leave it in order to somehow preserve it from Trump is horribly naive. It’s really an all or...