Do not project overmuch, you loserboy nerd. Aussies bother me because they exist. Like blowflies.

Your inferior commie chink crap garbage is NO MATCH for our SUPERIOR AMERICAN SPACE TECHNOLOGY! Give up, you slant-eyed commies, we own the Universe! All-American space heroes will CONQUER THE UNIVERSE and ultimately they will SHIT ON YOUR FACES, you stanilized maosuckers commie shitfolks!

I post every now and then, but there isn't much to talk about with the old folks 'round here these days. Eventually every comments section looks like a Thanksgiving dinner! Most of my rambles are now on Reddit now.

Keep sharp!

Creativity is illegal in Australia, just as being intelligent. Australian laws must take precedence over the laws of mathematics, as their highfalutin' bewigged politicians say.

Weapons - especially firearms - tend to settle pretty much any argument very quickly.

It's either friend, vassal, or a shithole country sanctioned into the ground, when not simply a smoking crater.

Wait until they realize that self-driving cars will never get a speed ticket. Ever. All the juicy lovely income from tickets will go away. Shithorities will shoot themselves in the head with flamethrowers and it won't be a second too soon.

Yup. It's pretty hard to do the right thing when the oil cartel that has invaded Alberta keeps threatening to shit itself and is actively trying to engineer a separatist movement entirely for its own benefit. Here's hoping Carney eventually finds a way to disembowel them.

The last game Sweeney did the artwork for was ZZT. As much as I love playing around with AI art generation for fun, he's really not an expert on this.

Why are you interested in the temperatures in my home, hunh? Are you a voyeur? A thermophile? Do you get an erotic kick ogling at heat dispersion data from random abodes? Do you furiously masturbate to detailed datasheets of temperature dispersion? You pervert. You thermonanist. You should have a restraining order filed against you to prevent your perverted person to come within 300 feet of a functioning thermometer. Go take readings away from honest people. I hope someone beats you to death with a granite tablet edition of the laws of thermodynamics.

Bigwigs who have long been out of school and are completely out of touch with the needs of the population get to push another inane decision of theirs upon the suffering proles.

In case they have not been paying attention - and they have not because they do not need to - the average student today already has a lot to cram in. It's a complicated world and it's not getting any simpler. School as an institution is still teaching kids how to function in a world that has not existed now decades. In my time it was already the case, they were teaching us how to live in the world our parents had lived in, but now they're preparing students to live and work in their grand-grandparents era.

Cursive had its utility when pen and paper were the main - and often the only - way to take notes and draft documents. The time is long past. The claim that it helps in memorization is just this, a claim. I can understand that some people can't let the past go and they can fart in cursive if they want to, but imposing their quaint outdated moldy crap on kids is just despicable.

You're not going through them anyway. It's too late to make any impact now. Demographics have been in decline for decades, and it's only getting worse because the buying power of the average euro citizen is getting lower and lower. Having kids is a luxury most people cannot afford. Some decades ago, people would delay and delay the conception of the first child in order to enjoy life more. Then it became almost mandatory (especially for women) because of work pressure: you becoming a mother would mean at one time no more career option, then immediate layoff. It got so bad in many countries that one living wage was simpy not enough to pay the bills, so married couple waited and waited until it was too late. At this point in european history, having kids is unaffordable.

Now it gets worse: retirement is based on what is basically a pyramid scheme. When it was thought up it was wildly believed that each next generation would be as numerous or more than the preceding one, and it would earn more. The opposite happened. Now it's a nightmare scenario, with the boomers retiring and not enough money to pay their pensions. Add to this that automation has taken away most entry-level and low-skill jobs, even while euro governments thought they could make up the population deficit through immigration.

Well, it turns out most of the immigrants can't take those jobs or won't take them. We have now generations of radicalized folks who can't wait to jihad on your face, and they will. At this moment, the only countries in the EU that have retained some sanity are the former east bloc ones, but one wonders if it will be enough once the former west falls.

Your head is wrong, so wrong it should be removed and replaced with a cabbage. It's a movie. A movie. Fiction. Nothing else. There is no need to rationalize a choice dictated by then current technology. If anything, flat screens would be easier to replace: less bulky, you can stock more into a spare parts container. Use less power. But they didn't have them in 1979 (though Kubrick did have flat screens in "2001"). Why spend brain processing power pulling out excuses for design choices that do not need any, when you clearly have so little to spare?

Science? Really? There's a lot of soft-brained, unscientific and technophilic pseudo-religion in the article.

Let's work with the argument's load-bearing phrase, "exploration is an intrinsic part of the human spirit."

There are so many things to criticise in that single statement of bias. Suffice it to say there's a good case to be made that "provincial domesticity and tribalism are prevalent inherited traits in humans", without emotional appeals to a "spirit" not in evidence.

Apples to oranges. Artists are intelligent, genial, interesting people. Coders are mediocre lowlifes with questionable skills.