We'll have a stripper, prostitute (real, not metaphorical), or porn star in a federal or major state office in the next decade. I'll guarantee it. Probably out of Vegas or Southern California. And yes, OnlyFans will be involved.

Now that he's in jail, he'll get his, in the end.

"The All-Father wove the skein of your life a long time ago. Go and hide in a hole if you wish, but you won't live one instant longer. Your fate is fixed. Fear profits a man nothing. " - Herger the Joyous, The Thirteenth Warrior

Drug abuse doesn't exist because all your expenses aren't free. Drug abuse exists because a significant number of people that wanted to try the thrill of drugs liked it so much that they're unwilling to stop. That's it. That's the total reason. Addiction has been around long before there was even a concept of wealth.

"Oh no, society isn't giving me free tuition to Yale, so I'll become a heroin addict instead" isn't a thing.

Same for many other social ills, like homelessness. There are a considerable amount of people that, no matter what you offer them, they're going to make bad choices. For those people, society's only option is law enforcement.

Absolutely not. He's a gun-grabber.

Wouldn't that make all the dreams of Terraforming Mars a waste of time?

Putin didn't get Trump elected.

You did.

People like you... and servicescopeminor, and all the rest of the "Trumpanzee" screamers... pushed voters in his direction. He told them that people like you were arrogant asses that looked down on them, and hated everything about them. And you've taken every opportunity to prove him right. In politics, culture, religion, you name it, you guys have been gleefully poking those people with a stick for years. And when Trump was elected, you simply couldn't bring yourselves to believe that it was because he had genuine support. It HAD to be a conspiracy. Putin did it. Or aliens. Or whatever. Further reinforcing what Trump had been saying all along.

But by all means, continue. There's another election coming up. By all means continue to call them rubes and Trumpanzees and whatever mockery you can come up with. You keep poking them with that stick, and then are shocked, shocked I tell you, when they yank it out of your hands and smash you with it.

It depends on how you use the Internet. For some people, they're downloading so much crap that it strains even a Gig connection at times. Others just want to check their mail and do crosswords online. Even old DSL speeds are fine for that. "Fast" is whatever is suiting your needs.

The number of young women on birth control pills has increased in percentage over the years, and those that use them are staying on them for much longer durations than in the past. I wouldn't be surprised if there was a link.

Just in time for Neil Young to return to Spotify.

Old Man, look at my life, I'm a lot like you were...

And the math scores? There is no "cultural bias" in math. 2 + 2 = 4, whether it's in Cambridge Massachusetts or Nairobi Kenya.

Oh FFS. You're being dense here.

If someone repeatedly cries "Wolf!", and the wolf never comes, people are naturally going to start ignoring that guy.

And the 2015 prediction wasn't even the first. We've had similar "ice free Arctic" predictions for close to 30 years now.

If you think a deep state doesn't exist, then you're a fool. It doesn't take "Putin's useful idiots" to be wary of its reach. Because everyone in Washington fears it:

Do U.S. Politicians Need to Fear Our Intelligence Agencies?

FTA:

"Let me tell you, you take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you." - Sen. Chuck Schumer

And that's just the Intel agencies. Your life is in this country is governed by a veritable army of alphabet agencies that seek to rule you from top to bottom. They monitor your communications, your financial transactions, and your property in a manner that would make Orwell's Big Brother envious.

I'd say Wikipedia is mostly reliable, but on contentious political stuff, I wouldn't accept it as a source as say, a teacher handing out an assignment. If a kid were doing a short paper on the Ford Model T, then sure, I'd take the Wikipedia page as a source. But nothing recently political.