"a former experience design consultant for Google who in 2017 "decided to step away from my role consulting with Google, due to ethical concerns."

So we have a guy with a grudge against his former employer now making unsubstantiated claims about them.

I find the fact that anyone gives any credibility to what this guy says far more disturbing than the possibility of Google actually doing what he claims of them.

I'm not saying he's necessarily lying, but it's an anecdote, not news.

Natural? Sure

Evolved to do it? Yep

Healthy?
Please cite references

Red meat is known to be unhealthy. This is not a question of preference, anecdote, ethics, or personal opinion. This is scientific fact proven by thousands of studies.

Now, that being said....the occasional steak isn't going to do you any harm, so I'm all in favor.

Describing meat (particularly red and processed meat) as "healthy" is only slightly less accurate than when doctors used to describe smoking as healthy.

Exactly! WTF does "faster than gravity" mean? The GP post reads like pseudo-scientific nonsense.

Small correction though....gravity us not instantaneous. Gravitational waves propagate at the speed of light.

If gravity was instantaneous, FTL communication could be "easily" achieved by moving significantly large masses around. (insert yo mamma joke here)

Nobody who eats a properly balanced diet that excludes meat needs to take synthetic vitamins to make up for dietary deficiencies either. You can get all of your required nutrients from plants, you just have to be slightly more careful about what you eat.

One day you buy a Roomba, the next week it has evolved consciousness and kills you and eats your children.

So that's what happened to the kids!

I'd been thinking it's been awfully quiet around here lately.

This isn't possible. The Earth is flat...Antarctica is a lie. Wake up, sheeple!

More "scientists" in on the conspiracy. How much did they pay you, Ohio State? How much?!?
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The above is intended as humour. If you actually believe the Earth is flat, please seek professional help.

Fill in the oval, stick it in the machine, done.

So I assume the machine counts the vote? How do you verify that it is counting the votes correctly?

I support this idea, but nobody would ever go for it.

Why? It just increases the cost of voting.

You would need to audit every vote to ensure the counting machines weren't tampered with. If you are auditing every vote, it costs at least as much as a paper/pencil election.

So....you want to use a very expensive pencil for electronic voting?

It's also an awesome way of finding a bunch of really stupid ways to do something....like with electronic voting for instance.

The freedom to try different approaches shouldn't override our rights to have fair elections.

Unfortunately, that's exactly what every attempted form of electronic voting I've heard of does.

I for one welcome our new pork-based overlords.

Why on earth would we want to spend taxpayer money or government resources on this sort of thing?!?

This is the exact sort of thing that the free market should decide. If you need this degree of coddling, please see a psychologist as you have a serious phobia.

No, No, and...hell no.

They're not harvesting or selling our data, at least

They haven't been caught harvesting or selling our data, at least.

Fixed that for you.

I'm extremely familiar with the types of sensors used by meat. They have trouble with rain, snow, sunlight, scratches, dirt, cellphones, coffee, alcohol, drugs, emotions, tiredness, loud noises, stray thoughts, basically anything. Try driving and pretend your eyeballs are the sensors. It's a pretty comparable comparison. We're 500 years out from a safe meat-driven car. The intelligence isn't there, the sensors aren't there, and yet we insist on asserting that a bag of meat is an acceptable driver even though there were over 40,000 deaths in the USA last year involving meat-driven vehicles.

But they aren't applying for those courses because when they graduate they won't get jobs!

Fine, then use STEM-related high school marks. Or SAT scores. There are far better metrics to use than general population. If we did that, we'd have to immediately stop hiring female nurses, psychologists and teachers to address the minority population of males in those professions.

There is definitely a problem here, but given that STEM fields were almost entirely white dominated 50 years ago in NA, but now are white/asian dominated, it doesn't appear to be systemic racism that is the cause. Unfortunately it is far to easy to look at big business and say "they are they one's doing this" than to look at our own government, school systems and communities and say "we are the one's doing this"