Two wrongs don't make a right.

But three lefts do.

I think they mean sink.

And what about those of us who want a truck that is NOT over sized and over weight for our needs, gas or electric? I fairly often need to carry a yard of fertilizer or a half ton of landscaping block, but I don't need something that sucks fuel like the Queen Mary, handles like a 737 MAX, and weighs more than some whales. There's really nothing on the US market that fits my needs any longer, if Ford has no use for a line creating electric monster trucks why not repurpose it to something like their original Ranger rather than just abandon it entirely?

Another hero bites the dust, today we're just supposed to look up to sportsball rapists, narcissist 'celebrities' and psychopath executives. Yeah, the "Good Old Days" weren't really that good, but at least we had people like Albert Einstein, Neil Armstrong and Al Kaline around.

It really does sound like the Satanic Panic. I've never been an online gamer, but our niece and nephew always loved Roblox when they were little. They played with their dad, and he never reported any issues, unlike a number of other games they played when they were older.

Holy crap. Just when you thought he'd hit rock bottom he gets even worse. If he gets much more incoherent they'll off him and put (J)ust (D)umb Vance in his spot.

MASTER BLASTER rules UNDERTOWN!

There are at least some situations where this could be valid medically. However, they would generally involve cases of organ failure requiring some form of dialysis like kidney failure or liver failure so the point would be to remove blood products from the patient containing the toxins that the liver or kidneys would normally remove from the blood and replacing them with clean versions. In that case, you're basically using other human beings as a dialysis machine, just in installments. Of course, for it to be useful, you would need to have a lot of donors who donate very frequently and you would need to do a very large number of exchanges. Otherwise, you could use a single donor in something like a traditional dialysis setting and pump blood out of the patient and the donor, run them through separate filtration and centrifuge processes, producing different sets of blood components, then put some of them, like red and white blood cells, back into the person they originally came from after mixing with other products, like plasma coming from the other person. That way you could use the kidney and/or liver from another human being as a replacement for a non-functional organ in another human being. In some ways, I expect it would work better than traditional dialysis machines in some ways because natural organs are self-regulating and require less guesswork and estimation than dialysis machines to achieve homeostasis and also because they remove more things and do it better. Of course, they still could not replace functions like producing bile (since it would not travel to the patient through blood), or regulating blood cell production as the kidneys do since the kidneys regulate that based on how many red blood cells there are so hormone production would be based on the high levels in the donor's blood rather than the low levels in the patient. Of course, I suppose there still would be more red cell generating hormones in the donor's blood anyway, so that should cross over and stimulate red cell production a little in the patient. Also, you could reduce the red blood cells returned to the donor during the session to match the patient and, over a long enough session, the donor kidneys would produce more hormones... In other ways of course, replacing it would probably represent an unacceptable risk of immune reactions in both patient and donor, even with separating the blood into components and only transferring some of them.

So, there is a situation where you could use another human (preferably a young, healthy one) as essentially a piece of medical equipment, but it would probably mostly be better just to use the actual piece of technology if available since the pros come with some potentially serious cons. As far as rejuvenation goes... There have been studies in mice that do show an effect from blood from younger mice into older mice. Of course, though I don't recall all the specifics, chances are that those mice were very closely genetically related (as in the product of multiple generations of mice born to cousin-siblings) if not outright clones. Plus, of course, they are mice which, among other things, have very short lifespans as well as not necessarily having analogues in humans to their biological reactions. Ultimately, there may be health benefits (along with some risks), but any effect is likely small. There is definitely no vampiric fountain of youth here.

Here you go:

https://xkcd.com/327/

That reminds of something... I can't remember what it was actually from, but it was something sci-fi themed, maybe an online comic. In any case it has one character from an advanced alien civilization who has a device that employs switches and buttons and another character who is almost angry that the advanced alien technology just uses interface elements like that instead of voice control, neural interfaces, isn't embedded internally, etc. The alien replies that their civilization is technologically hundreds of times older and has gone through all of that stuff but, in the end, buttons and so forth simply work. Of course, later, the tactile controls on that same device are not actually available, and the alien just talks to it instead to operate it. It turns out that it does actually have voice control and probably other interface options as well.
Anyway, to me that seems like maybe the right way to go. Make other possibilities options, but don't just jump ahead and say everything must be this new fad interface now instead of the old way and that the old world must burn to make way for the new! That, unfortunately, seems to be the way this society driven by fads and marketing seems to operate.

You know now that everyone on this site wants to know what the heck you named your son, and why, don't you?

Asteroid would be better, no fallout that way.

I'm sorry, but WT actual F? Really. Do you like eating food that won't poison you? Do you like drinking water that isn't contaminated with lead, cyanide from mine tailings, malathion from fields, or salmonella from the pork processor? Do you like driving on paved roads? Reliable electricity? Court systems that function (except the Supremes, recently)? Air traffic control? Railroads and ports? Clean air? Flush toilets rather than outhouses? Living without the ever present threat of smallpox and polio?

Civilization costs money, and that money comes from taxes. We like civilization, that's why we vote to approve pretty much every tax bill on the ballot, YMMV. If you don't want to pay taxes you can move to Somalia or Haiti, or go live in your own Unabomber shack. Otherwise cough it up and pay your part.

Charity through local organizations, religious or otherwise is a problematic proposition. There are a number of issues, but most of them involve inconsistent coverage. For example, the city near you may have excellent support from a Christian rescue mission. However, even if they don't exclude anyone, or have rules or other factors that lead to some people falling through the cracks and not getting help, can you say that every locality has an organization like that available? Consider for example, the problem of structural unemployment. Let's say there is a factory in town that employs a third of the people in town. It goes out of business or just moves and suddenly, not only do all of those employees not have jobs, but many of the businesses that need the financial support of those employees to earn enough to stay in business are suddenly out of luck. Suddenly, you have a lot of needy people. The local religious charity, which is used to supporting maybe half a percent of the town's population, suddenly has to worry about tens of percentage points of the population. At the same time, local donations to the religious organization drop through the floor.

Basically, though there are a lot of aspects of charity that can work well at the local level (obviously, local volunteers are needed in many cases), there tends to be much better coverage with a widespread system that uses society-wide resources to deal with trouble spots. Kind of like how it works out better if businesses rely on the fire department rather than each business hiring one firefighter part time for two hours three days a week.

In other words, risk-pooling, like the insurance industry.

Thanks to Newt Gingrich the IRS enforcement division was directed by Congress to devote the majority of their efforts to preventing fraud in the Earned Income Tax Credit, which only the poorest qualify for. Once upon a time their enforcement division was a money maker for the government as they could take on complex cases against the wealthy. No longer.