There are countless hadiths that expand the Muslim confusion to insane levels. The whole 77 virgins thing is in some hadiths and not others. They contradict each other. The Jews have one set of texts. Each version of the Christian Bible varies some. The Muslims are the wild west.

Don't forget stupid. Batshit insane doesn't cover it.

I get claustrophobia just looking at at it. 200 meters is way too thin. It needs to be at least 500 meters wide. The high speed train idea is good, just make it a bunch of towns on a maglev line. 100 km long, with no place more than 10 mins from condo door to hospital, fire service, movie theater, and shopping.

Very, very, very stupid. This whole idea is batshit insane.

Hmm, I guess that tells us that :)

Wish that argument had been made already, sigh.

You certainly cannot, but it's unclear how you can get past the being attacked by people who are trying to kill you stage without doing some of it. I'd love a nonviolent solution, but not if it gets me killed in the process of making the attempt. I'm willing to risk death to some degree, because life is a risk, but most of us have limits.

Nothing I am about to say excuses Fox's obscene weaponization of attention, but this has always been true of all news media starting at least with bards, criers, and orators, and that's assuming that prior primates didn't have members of bands that fulfilled the same function. Sensationalism has always gotten eyes and ears and what news is or isn't reported, and how it has been reported, has always been a means of manipulating the masses.

I'm not going to go over the entire list. That would take all damn day, and I owe you nothing.

For me, it's frankly sufficient to say that Trump is a racist, rapist, and pedophile, and Harris isn't.

For a slightly longer statement: Everything bad that Harris is, Trump is more of it. Authoritarian? He's a full on fascist. In favor of genocide? He wants the genocide done faster so he can build a hotel on top of it. A liar? Doesn't even bear inspection, he's one of the lyingest liars who ever lied.

You seem to think that comment was for you, when it was a reply to my own comment.

As I am generally inclined to be charitable to people not demonstrated to be fuckwits, I will assume that you are using Mobile and Slashdot hid this fact from you because they are shit at web design.

That's irrelevant to the legality of the people entering the country to apply for asylum, which is a right granted by a treaty we signed. This makes that act arguably illegal.

I don't see how Google reducing the number of Linux distributions they distribute is an antitrust problem.

Short answer, CO2 is bad for the environment. On average, it's also bad for plants at present-day levels.

CO2 is plant junk food, on average plants only benefit from it up to 400ppm (which we've already exceeded), beyond that it begins to harm crop nutrition. Certain plants can benefit from higher CO2 levels at particular growth stages but that doesn't mean those levels are good for most plants most of the time.

And that's without getting into the possibility of the plants being destroyed by a flood or wildfire or drought brought on by global warming that comes along with the higher CO2. CO2 levels that would be ideal for plants growing in a theoretical greenhouse would be too high for everything else in the environment, directly unhealthy for any humans inhaling the air, and catastrophic to established human settlements.

They don't really need to unify anything. What they need to do is add a few bits and bobs to Android to make it provide a Chrome OS-like experience, and just throw ChromeOS away. Maybe they will find some use in some of the resources used around booting, or some drivers, but the latter thing is mostly already in Android.

Literally the only reason ChromeOS exists at all is that Chrome for Android wasn't very good at the time, and they needed an OS which could run the desktop version of Chrome. ChromeOS and Android have different device management systems, and Google has been putting their effort into the Android management software lately. Now that Chrome on Android is about as good as it is on the desktop, they can retire their redundant Linux distribution and its management tools and save themselves a lot of duplicated effort.

Every time you mod me down I just post more to get more karma, and it works, so my karma stays at or near the kap.

100% agree.

I believe that in Slashdot's current moderation system (with scores capped to five, and the content of comments being outright unavailable on mobile if the scores fall too low) moderators' identities (that is, their made-up slashdot ones, not their actual identities) should be public. You should be able to see who is responsible for which mods.

This is not as good as a proper web-of-trust system where e.g. your chosen Slashdot poster relationships would affect how moderation was applied to comments, which IMO would also make it unnecessary to see who modded what and how. But at least it would let you make informed decisions. Sure you can adjust comment scores based on those relationships, but you cannot affect the effects of moderation that way, and that's what's really wanted to make moderation effective and useful — The only way in which I care what my foes or freaks think about a comment is that if they think it's bad, I want to read it — which is the opposite of what Slashdot moderation does.