I've always referred to it as the Boiling Frog Effect. Try to put a frog into a boiling pot and it'll jump out. But if you put him in there while the pot's cold and slowly heat it up he won't notice the temperature change and will be boiled alive. People are the same way - make an aggressive move and they'll fight back. Make a few less aggressive moves and, even if they have the same effect, people will stay docile.

Are spoons responsible for obesity?

You *need* food, water, shelter, air, and social interaction. Smart-phones, and anything else not on the list, are wants. Anything else, no matter how useful or important it is to you, is a want.

Switch to a credit union. They generally don't use every interaction with customers as an opportunity to bend you over and fuck you in the arse.

They have revised the date a bit. Sextus Julius put it at 5500 BC, while the current estimates, based on the Masoritic text of the Tanakh, are all around 4000 BC. (This also conveniently pushed the date sextus picked for the apocalypse (6000 years after creation) up by about 1500 years.)

Must've been a confusing time for the Sumerians. http://www.theonion.com/articles/sumerians-look-on-in-confusion-as-god-creates-worl,2879/

Poe's Law is a bitch, ain't it?

Look up Sextus Julius Africanus.

The Christians have been saying the world is 6000 years old for nearly 2000 years.

Bungie released the source code in 1999. It's been off the mac for a long time. Version 1.0 =/= first release.

Idon't think that word means what you think it means.

Because he's selling a "treatment" as medicine without testing or proof of efficacy. That's the very definition of quackery. The fact that the treatment is extracted from his own urine is just gravy.

except my genitals. I do wear trousers for a reason.

Small, independent companies innovate, but they're still operating on a top-down model. That means they still contain the seeds of giant megacorporations. Google, Amazon, and Apple stated as "small independent companies", and they took advantage of their employees' innovative ideas to become giant monopolies. What we *really*need are more worker and customer-owned co-operatives. We need to make businesses that spread wealth around, not businesses that focus wealth in the hands of a few people.

Burzynski is peddling snake oil and taking advantage of people dying of an incurable disease, and is suing an under-18 year old for calling him out on the scam. The FDA has nothing to do with it.

A youtube video by the quack himself is not proof of a conspiracy.

I wouldn't call a place where the media can't say anything negative about rich people or politicians for fear of being sued for libel "a reasonable legal system".