"anyone who's work is disseminated by the government or media today"

The only other category is "people I've never heard of". Hard to trust them either.

A lot of people are crying about how an algorithm cannot have an opinion. However, the people who create the algorithm can and do have opinions and they are the ones judging the classification of the algorithm whose whole purpose is to mechanically apply opinions.

Just because the subjective criteria are applied at a distance does not make them objective, just reproducible.

It's not like you need a job if you can stay forever in your mom's basement.

"like i want to risk someone dropping my $700 phone"

The subject is people waiving their $700 phones around at the end of a stick. The risk of dropping has already been discounted.

"a Gay Pride Day years ago and celebrating homosexuality in an environment largely dominated by children"

Even worse, they have 364 days per year celebrating heterosexuality in an environment largely dominated by children!

Just because your politics are normative does not mean you don't have any politics.

Bloomberg printing an unsourced rumor does not magically turn it into news. Forbes citing Bloomberg printing an unsourced rumor also does not magically make it news.

Because the owner of the drone would then sue the operator of the plane into oblivion for willful property damage.

" if someone dared suggest a National Center for Men"

All of the existing biased institutions are still there. Once instance of not continuing the existing implicit bias does not mean that all bias is in the opposite direction.

If you don't accept doing anything about that bias and you don't accept any new institutions without that bias than you are supporting the existing bias.

Just because your politics are normative does not mean that you don't have any politics.

" Because boys tend to be more willing to go against peer pressure"

Facing less pressure does not mean that they are more willing to face pressure.

No, this would be akin to a community with many soup kitchens that tacitly serve men first and one comes along and says "Why don't we give some soup to women"?

Intersections with that little traffic aren't being proposed for conversion anyway.

Because consumers are not experts on sorting recyclables, and any mistake means the batch of recyclables becomes trash... unless you resort at the recycling facility. If they have to resort anyway, might as well just do all of the sorting that way

"So, they did what made economic sense for them"

So this is bad when a goverment does something that makes economic sense?

"How can a circular roadway be smaller than a simple intersection?"

No turning lanes on the approaches.

"And speaking of debt... last I checked, Greece isn't in the US..."

The debt issue in Greece is the public (government) debt, not private (personal) debt. Also, public debt per capita is about 1/3 more for the US as compared to Greece.