“Something I hope we can do no matter who you voted for is see each other not as adversaries but as fellow Americans, Bring down the temperature.”

No. Human rights aren’t a disagreement. We can disagree on whether or not we enjoyed a movie or on what pizza toppings we prefer. But if the disagreement is that you want to kill me or people I care about, you are, by definition, my adversary.

The Republic of New England, the Pacific States of America, and Sherman’s Regret.

I’m going full no-contact on the conservative side of my family indefinitely.

Don’t forget what RFK might do in charge of public health. A federal vaccine ban is a nonzero possibility.

If that’s truly the case, we deserve to burn.

I think it’s because it’s stupid looking enough that the brain doesn’t even classify it as a vehicle, it’s just some weird contraption that isn’t supposed to act like a vehicle does, so it’s an uncanny valley effect.

I think regardless of how realistic it is, it’s definitely interesting how the owning class really likes the idea of a future with a class of sapient beings with no legal rights.

Geographical continents and geological continents aren’t quite the same thing.

So the Panopticon. The hypothetical prison that even people in the 1800s thought would be a human rights violation to build because it was such an extreme form of psychological torture.

It’s not a modern standards thing, Genghis Khan was seen as a complete monster in his own time.

The claim is “Earth isn’t a planet”, sometimes with the addition of “space isn’t real”.

That was a very difficult sentence to parse.

“Why” implies they act according to some form of logic. The thing is, they’re racists, and racists tend to be fucking stupid.

It should be legal to slash the tires of anyone who does this.

I wouldn’t trust Sony to have kernel access.

Of course. Good thing those that work forces and those that burn crosses are two entirely different groups and totally do not overlap.

Remember the 13 billion years before you were born? More of that.

Somewhat pedantically speaking, the belief that an evil god exists (exclusively or otherwise) is dystheism. Misotheism is the hatred of a god or gods. Dystheism implies misotheism, but they’re not exactly the same.

Cue the GOP taking a pro-asbestos stance in 3, 2, 1…

What do you believe is the rational response to a crowd getting restless?