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Ugh. You know I don’t even get surprised by this kind of stuff anymore...

This big environmental risks here are power outages due to wildfire or potential rolling outages in the summer (in part due to California closing nuclear plants and its resistance to peaker plants). For that I have a dual fuel inverter generator for running the fridge and chest freezer...

I have a friend in Philadelphia who often describes the buying habits of people there when a big storm rolls through; toilet paper and bread. :D Unfortunately, handling bad weather poorly seems to be the human condition.

Something like this? San Diegans can’t handle driving in rain, I can’t imagine the carnage if it ever snowed. ;)

What’s a winter?

To be fair, the US hasn’t had a military veteran as president since George W. Bush and we haven’t had a combat veteran since George H. W. Bush. Joe Biden got five student draft deferments. I think the bone spur thing gets bandied about a lot, as if there hasn’t been a dearth of quality veteran...

Ghoulish...

I think a lot of us would like that but the reality is that he’s always been an unconventional candidate and his style of shooting from the hip on social media has seemingly served him well. In spite of voting for him three times, I never thought he would win a first term, let alone come back...

It’s a tricky question. I suppose we won’t know until it’s happened and when it’s over. I think it would largely depend on which side won as well. If the government wins, the uprising will have been illegal, if the uprising wins, then it was justified. Ideally, simply having the second...

As Livingthedream said, to allow the citizenry to potentially overthrow a corrupt or tyrannical government. You seem to be suggesting we have reached that point without wanting to actually say it. I don't know why you’d be coy. Unless of course you’re suggesting a more personal application of...

Kicking someone in the testicles and making a joke about it are not the same thing. Words are not assault. And insult being a criminal offense, no matter who it is directed towards is preposterously antithetical to the principle of freedom of speech.

I know Germans aren’t famed for their sense of humor but I don’t see how you could interpret a comedian saying something about punching a trans “woman” in the balls as anything other than a joke. On the other hand, Germany is a country where one can be arrested for insulting a politician so the...

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. ;)