Yeah, and it only changed how the government did anything by making things worse. Now we're subjected to illegal searches, detainment, etc. by an incompetent bureaucracy that has stopped exactly 0 terrorist plots and misses over 95% of banned items in its screenings. Hopefully these aren't the kinds of changes you'd like to see with the oil industry as well.

I'd like to mention as an addendum that as far as Jenner and Dolezal are concerned, I don't really care. I think people should be free to live their lives they way they want so long as they're not harming anyone else, even if I don't necessarily agree with what they're doing.

I'm impressed that you're an expert on the things I know about. I know for instance, homeopathy is snake oil, Bruce Jenner is still a man even if he wants to get breast implants and dresses himself as a woman, and Rachel Dolezal is white, even if she wants to say she's black.

What's more depressing is all the SJWs that are so busy being offended by everything that they have to make everything awful for everyone else. Maybe it's the "enlightened" people like you who are part of the problem.

They collect the data for quantitative analysis, in case you get in an accident. It allows them to figure out if the driver was at fault, or if there was a defect in the vehicle. They are also able to provide it to law enforcement in case it's needed for an accident investigation, i.e. how fast was the driver going at the time of the accident, etc. At least that's what it says in my manual.

I thought he was supposed to be an Italian stereotype?

Why not? Guys can be gals, white women can be black women, and nothing means anything anymore except what's popular. In these days of academic/cultural relativism homeopathy seems like a perfectly cromulent subject to embiggen U of T's students. I just hope they include the proper trigger warnings!

Yes, it should. But more likely, if it was legal, it would be sold in stores.

Those suckers are nasty! I had one on my deck a few years back. It started boring a hole in one of the posts to make a nest. You could actually hear it chewing through the wood! I tried to swat it away, but it would keep coming after me, and I didn't want to get stung, so I decided to wait. It dug about half an inch into the wood in about 15 minutes. I figured it was safe at that point, so I took the hand spade I had been using in my garden and chopped it in half at the abdomen. Had to pull the head out by the wings and it was still chewing, but that was probably just reflexes. I stomped it on the deck - just to be sure...

Sounds like something whose name starts with "bumble" would do. ;-)

Quoted for truth. Most of the roads I drive on in Michigan are atrocious. Then again, maybe that's why so many libertarians want to privatize them. It's about my least important issue on the spectrum, but it would be hard for them to do worse.

It's not about what the cops did, it's about the sheepish reaction from the neighbor, whose "Don't question authority" attitude lends itself to the formation of authoritarian regimes. Eternal vigilance to tyranny is the price of liberty, but most people are more concerned with bread and circuses because thinking is too hard.

Because mundane microbes wouldn't make a very good science fiction plot.

Seriously though, if we were constantly getting hit by alien microbes,we haven't found any yet, so constantly seems like a bit of a stretch. Panspermia on the whole seems entirely improbable. First, you need a planet on which the conditions for life exist. Next, you need some sort of cataclysmic event like a meteor impact which strikes the surface of the planet hard enough to eject a portion of the impacted planet. Then the life forms on that portion need to survive the rigors of space including radiation, lack of normal gravity, lack of food & water, etc., plus travel through gas clouds, possible impacts with other objects, and so on. The life forms would have to survive that most likely for millions of years and then the ejected portion would have to come into contact with another planet capable of supporting the same type of life forms. Then the life forms would have to survive the entry into the planet's atmosphere and impact with the planet.

Because patriarchy.

That depends on whether or not you're a Malthusian...

Think of it as right-totalitarianism vs. left-totalitarianism. One's mostly concerned with your bedroom activities, and the other's concerned about your bankbook. The problem is your bankbook can impact your bedroom activities, or vice versa, so eventually fascism/socialism have to regulate those activities as well. Hence the cause for your confusion. The difference is probably more easily explained using cows.