It harkens to the old days of the company store and the company town, where the company are "taking care of the employees" but are actually just indenturing them to the company. I'm not saying there is some national conspiracy between the insurance companies and corporate overlords to keep the peons in line, but why then is the outcome exactly as if such a conspiracy existed?

There is no big difference between this and market research. The reason why this got more attention is because people are panicky animals and behave unpredictably. They need to be told (or suggested) what to believe, and they will adhere to this idea and so you get memes spontaneously appearing, and some ideas, including outrage, will pop up seemingly out of nowhere. We see this effect in research in music popularity (http://www.npr.org/2014/02/27/282939233/good-art-is-popular-because-its-good-right)

Most people you know aren't assholes. It's the people you don't know who are assholes. Think about it.

Theoretical is too strong a word to describe tachyons. Better to call them science fiction. Tachyons violate causality, and create some kinds of vacuum instability. They don't exist.

Why is solar production so much weaker during winter? The sun isn't 10% as bright during winter. At a shallower angle of incidence, the sunlight has to pass through more atmosphere, but it's not like the air is absorbing 90% of the sunlight.

Improving energy efficiency improves quality of life.

It means the reporter was lazy.

I think you are confusing neutrinos, which have been known for a while, with tachyons, which are speculative and haven't been detected. Neutrinos don't move faster than light.

In other words, it's just a few steps from changing everything.

That's an explanation, not a justification.

Actually, your spermatozoa or ova are also alive, and so are some of the skin cells you are shedding, so it doesn't follow that life begins at conception.

You know, when you combine many statistically insignificant measurements together, you can get something that is statistically significant. That's how statistics work.

Yeah, yeah, we know Anwar al-Awlaki was an al Qaeda operative, but what about his son Abdulrahman? Why the fuck was he killed? What is the court justification for that?

You aren't ready to understand this yet, but I hope some day you look in the mirror and realize how fucking wrong you were. Straw man (toilets) after straw man (cheap glass beads). It still seems like you have not taken a look at what they do. I'm having trouble figuring out what you really don't know shit about and what you are purposefully misrepresenting. Colonialism is about forcibly replacing a government with a regime that will allow external corporations to extract the wealth of the colony. Not the same as researching and supplying drugs and aid.

Obviously you don't know me well enough to call me a racist, so you attack me with weasel language. I know where you are coming from. You think that advocating helping people is the same as insinuating that they (as a race) are incapable of helping themselves. (No, it isn't. I advocate helping people no matter their 'race', and whether or not they 'need' it.)

I'm all in favor of open borders and dismantling agricultural subsidies in US. But there is a difference between domestic agricultural subsidies and researching effective agricultural techniques for use in Africa. The difference is that the former is not actually useful for increasing production and is an unnecessary manipulation, and the latter will increase production. What, did you think they were just shipping food there?

Why limit yourself to the auditory domain? Art has no limitation to just audio.