We can only hope to bring Christianity to China to slow them down somewhat before we are a thousand years behind them, again

It is well beyond 'what people want' and, thanks to modern advertising and media, on towards 'what people have been convinced that they want'

Auto and fossil fuel companies who see huge profits in selling monstrous gas guzzling pieces of metal are very quick to claim. 'It's what the people want'

Of course these same companies paid for millions of dollars of advertisements in order to convince people that it was what they wanted in the first place

Between cognitive dissonance and plain old 'squidbillie' stupidity the desire to own an SUV has become an biblical calling

And the car and fuel sellers love it

I find the lengths that people go to justify their wasting vast sums of limited resources to be, um, disingenuous

What's next? Are you gonna tell us about how many wounded vets you drive to Church on Sundays?

Not really the same thing

1. Volvo is a safe vehicle that meets fuel economy standards without getting an SUV exemption
2. SUV's typically use box on frame construction, which is unsafe for any other cars on the road because their bumpers are higher than other cards and they either roll over them or slice through their passenger compartments when the frame becomes detached from the box

So yeah, there are good reasons to detest SUVs.
The one reason that companies love them is the high profit margins that they provide to fossil fuel companies, car dealers, manufacturers and salespeople
Anybody who sees a momentary dip in gas prices and decides to own one of them is an idiot who does not care about their own finances, consuming limited resources or the safety of others

Good news everyone! We're all idiots :)

I was making a Futurama reference to the episode where Professor Farnsworth abandons Earth because Creationists (particularly Dr Banjo) keep making additional demands for the next missing link, etc... The professor ends up on a planet where robotic life is evolving at an incredibly fast rate, and he has to tell them that he was in fact their creator. Of course Bender delights in this
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To be honest I have used the "Ugly bags of water" reference fairly recently on the article regarding the potential for highly saline water on mars
I really did try and figure out how it fit to this story, but alas I was unable to without utterly wrecking my original premise that this was non-organic life as opposed to extromophilic life

Good news everyone! We're all idiots... umm, whaaa... was I just saying something or dreaming it?

More like the Church of Robotology now that there is conclusive evidence that machines were first and created all life

Suck it meatbags!

Temples and mausoleums lie and tell the story that they want you to think happened

Garbage as no such aspirations and tells you what actually happened

They are supposed to have recently revived the original formula that they used in the 60's

I remember that when I was a kid the pull tabs on Schlitz had little slits to either side of the rivet on the ring.
You could bend the tab enough to breakit from the ring, then stick the tab into one of the slits by the rivet and use the tab as a spring to send the ring sailing across the room.
Good times having ring wars with my friends while the adults got plastered, and yes everybody used to drink Schiltz back in the day Bud and Coors were barely in evidence

The new aluminum cans didn't have slits on the rings, so you couldn't zing 'em around
Yet another thing that was lost with the original formula, but, apparently, good for archaeology

I guess you can't have it all, or they would bring back the 'Tuborg Dark' that a local brewer used to make in my hometown... Sweet dark heaven it was, and always came in a bottle so you could have bottle-cap wars while getting drunk

My mother's grandfather had founded a town along the border in the late 1800's
The place has been largely abandoned since the Great Depression and we would take a rare trip down 50 miles of washboard road to visit the ruins when I was a kid
There were a couple of people that had set up trailers and ran their own museums.
Lots of stuff like the jar of whiskey with a rattle snake in it that an old Chinese man that lived there had used for medicine and broken pieces of my mom's family china that they had dug out of the trash pits
Since then some of the town descendants have set up a web site and hold a reunion every now and then
I'm pretty sure the guy with the museum is long dead, I doubt that he had any legal right to anything that he had scrounged
That's how things used to roll in the desert

In the late 80's I was surveying an area that we used to party at in high school
It had been fenced off for over a decade and it was interesting walking up on old fire pits that had been left to the desert
Among the discarded clothing and garbage there was an occasional steel can that had been laying undisturbed where it had been thrown years earlier
I grabbed one for myself, an old Schlitz steel can that was rusted to shit on one side and all spankin brand new on the other
Yay! Archaeology!

The death sentence for rape would only seem to be truly effective if you are intentionally prosecuting the wrong person

You can see clear similarities in the ethnic Chinese in Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines, where they have had both success in business and derision from their countrymen

Sorry that I have to disagree with you here, but the American right wing stands as the clear leader in the use and abuse of the Big Lie. Look at the mileage that they got (and Christie continues to get) out of the idea that the American President is either an alien or does not love this country. And on the cognitive dissonance side, there are plenty of people who will still argue that the President is a Kenyan, or that the ACA has death panels

Fox news... well that is all that I am gonna say on that point

I swear, sometimes people act like they just crossed over from an alternate universe

I have to disagree with you on this, at least from a historical perspective:

"The Nuremberg trials were a series of military tribunals, held by the Allied forces after World War II, most notable for the prosecution of prominent members of the political, military, and economic leadership of Nazi Germany. "
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