You got that right, Putin's secret weapon is his bitch in the Oval Office. If only Ukraine had a song that would neuter that idiot.

"I want GUIs for all common tasks"

What you need is something like MacOS used to have with Commando and MPW, I see that AU/X has something similar and even called the same. You'd probably need a pipelining capability to it. As someone below mentioned, something common for you will differ for someone else.

"My feeling is that Dark Matter/Energy will go away when they discover the real explanation, but that's just me."

Brilliant!! You vote to replace the mere placeholders in our theories with something else and then declare the placeholders have gone away. Have you told anyone else about this? Or are we just privileged? Maybe you could write a paper for a physics journal and get back to us in how well it was received. Good luck!!

Well, Elmo says we can get 1 Million (or was it 1 Billion) people living on Mars by 2050 as a way to preserve humanity from the Hell he is helping to build on Earth. I'm all for it, starting with him. I vote we give him a hammer, some nails, some wood, etc., strap his ass to one of his rockets, and give him a fair sendoff. Go for it, Elmo, you know you can do it!!

The whole point of dark energy is to explain why the cosmos is expanding more than it theoretically should be. If it isn't, then you don't need dark energy, or if it isn't expanding as much as formerly believed then you don't need as much of it.

In this case, I mean literally... literally. You can find citations trivially. Everyone should know this by now. If you want to talk about Nazis, you should know something about Nazis.

"Remember, Na-Zi means National SOCIALIST, and that's that fascism is."

Remember, the Nazis literally called themselves socialists to fool stupid people, and you also don't know what either socialism or fascism is if you think one is a type of the other.

He wasn't a Nazi but George Washington did a genocide and was named "Town Killer" for it. And before someone points out that was his father, no, his father (who was also named George) ALSO did a genocide and was called the same thing for the same reason.

The U.S. was created out of the Enlightenment which rejected religion as being simply politics but with a mystical angle to fool the proles.

Nice one! Mar-a-Lago: where corruption is a sport.

"The US and the rest of the West as well as Russia are ruled by a set of ethics that have grown out of Christianity..."

False, but also irrelevant. Christian ethics have grown out of culture, so even if what you claim is true, the "Christianity" part can be entirely factored out.

That is unless you believe the absurd claims of Christianity, then you aren't even qualified to have the conversation.

"...why else do we regard human sacrifice and child abandonment as unacceptable?"

Indeed! Why else? You, in fact, are NOT qualified to have the conversation.

"There's a very legitimate argument that our present problems come from the fact that there is no overarching ethical structure that everyone will accept as the basis for decisions."

Except that there is, and it is extremist Christians who threaten it.

"In that context the commitment of Islamic countries to Islam is as reasonable. "

And what a context it is!

Leave Christian extremists in power long enough and the US will end the same way. It's not what the religion is, it's who the people are.

Neither of these things is true, but instead is Republican messaging toward these candidates. By "widely perceived" you mean what ignorant Republican voters think.

I don't see any purpose or reason to be using a shitty on rails shooter. There are realistic combat sims like ARMA which would be a better option.

When will it improve? And chiropractic is healthcare advice?