Yeah they tried this before, it didn't work. Magda should perhaps stick to marketing.

Spain was far from the only front against the Caliphates and Islam, there was also constant pressure on the east. If you think the crusades had a patch on what Islamic forces had been doing before and continued to do afterwards you're sorely mistaken. As for Constantinople, that was the doing of a crafty old Doge of Venice who had a long standing grudge against the city.

The real problem here is people start pointing at the crusades as an example of Christian warmaking as if they were something special, if you read the history of the times pretty much everyone was kicking the shit out of everyone else and kept at it right up until the middle of the 20th century. There's nothing unique or even notable about the crusades, Genghis Khan was causing much bigger problems for Islamic civilisation as he tore through it from the opposite direction. And that's before we start looking at warring between Islamic states after the reconquista.

"Fact of the matter is weaker males is probably easier explained by the lack of redundancy of the X chromosome."

That's about as factual as the moon being made of green cheese.

Eh it happens because one male can impregnate many females, therefore ensuring maximum population survivability. Nothing to do with relative toughness, except by accident.

Simple, really.

What like Apple, Google, Microsoft etc conspiring to not poach workers from one another and hence keep wages down?

Nooo that would never happen.

Noted and filed.

Absolute bollocks. From around 1998 to 2004 the country experienced a massive influx of sub Saharan Africans, for the first time ever people were actually immigrating here. Almost immediately after that, the country's population increased by about 15% over the course of three years due to Eastern European economic migrants.

Race riots? None. Right wing parties emerging? None. Public unrest and disturbances, widespread racist incidents? None. Actually there was one "secret" right wing neo nazi rally but that runed out to be some Polish lads.

Show me another developed western country that can say the same.

The kids playing happily together outside my window come from every corner of the planet, and their parents get along fine too. So spare us the slurs like a good (wo)man.

I found that comment to be as ridiculous as anything else he'd said. Ireland is possibly the least racist country on earth, and has been for a long time. This weird impression a lot of Americans have of Irish people being racist, as opposed to say the English, seems to arise from the way Irish immigrants were treated in the US, ie worse than black people. To distinguish themselves they appeared to have "gone native".

Widely accepted only among braindead yanks, who seperate the world into black, white, brown, yellow, and the race of Islam.

I've read the comments and even, blasphemously, the article, and I still have no clear idea what's going on here.

Leftists quit because the publication was going right wing?

Talented editors quit because whatever (gawker?) wanted to turn into clickbait?

Nobody seems to talk about what actually happened here.

"loves to manufacture "facts" or omit actual facts when it suits them"

And you've just described feminism.

Antimatter is relatively straightforward to produce close to a star.

And don't forget

5) They could just be really frickin alien. Who knows why a lipid in methane based life form with thought processes that take years to complete would ignore us.

Yeah, except most of the universe is missing from our theories and nobody can figure out where it went.

Yup, we've got it allll wrapped up with a bow tie on top.

Anyway the speed of light isn't a major barrier to interstellar exploration. Antimatter engiens, perfectly possible, could get us to the nearest star in maybe a decade or so. Even if we don't harness those kinds of energies, there's no reason to believe that human lifespans in the future will be going anywhere but upwards.

Interstellar exploration is very feasible.

This is gibberish, just build antimatter production stations near the sun. We're drowning in energy.