Conservatives aren't the people whining and pooping their pants until people are "cancelled" because they said something the right didn't agree with. But regardless of that, this is a question of civil liability, not political ideology. Ideally the verdict would stand regardless of if the perpetrator were a petty religious zealot, a goose stepping fascist or a condom snorting anarchist. Does the inaction of the platform rise to the level of negligence? Does the platform have any obligation to act on or report on activity that it hosts? There's no room in this question for jackasses or elephants (or what ever symbols the Euro's use are).

The human brain is evolved to absorb and process psilocybin. Scholars show evidence that it is directly responsible for part of our evolutionary track. There are hundreds of studies that prove the increase in mental elasticity and the immediate therapeutic benefits of this drug. Mushrooms do not contain tar which is the component of smoking that is most responsible for respiratory illness. The rise in the acceptance of cannabis comes at the tail end of the vilification of tobacco. The fact that TPTB are in fact allowing studies like this to be published should be all you need to know to realize that when marijuana is legalized, it won't be for YOUR benefit.

The "bank" didn't notice or care for SIX MONTHS. How long would you wait to return free money? A year? Two years? At this kind of time frame I'd say that if she declared and paid taxes for it then it's hers.

What reserves? Russia is a conscription based army with two years of mandatory service. Dedovshchina guarantees that none of their citizens will willingly sign up to fight in the Russian military. They're already not paying or properly provisioning their existing soldiers because their supply lines are toast. The only actual wild card in this whole farce is Kim Jung Un. I have no idea what the relationship between those two countries is, but I've read that they are "expanding their relationship" and if that includes mutual military aid then NK has enough troops to draw this out for at least another year. It's not like they need the troops at home, Kim will nuke Seoul if they fart in his direction.

Learn what exactly? At the current cost of electricity it would take 32 years to recoup the cost of installing solar panels on my home, that is assuming I paid for them in a method that does not accrue interest and that they NEVER be damaged. I would also have to clear them of snow 6 months out of the year or they'd be useless; so putting them on the roof of my 3 story house seems kind of stupid. I think it would be great to have solar panels, but I can not justify the cost. Australia is a tropical paradise compared to most of the US. There is no comparison here.

Any one who collects firearms has "thousands of rounds of ammunition" at some point or another because the price of ammo swings back and forth so violently that you jump a good deal when you see it. If you own five guns, a thousand rounds is two hundred rounds each. That's a good day at the range for each of your firearms.

If numbskulls like you were interested in saving lives you'd be talking about car control. Cars and trucks kill and maim exponentially more people everyday, is far more random and not nearly regulated enough in the US. But it's not about saving people, you're just a control freak who doesn't understand a semi dangerous hobby.

I wonder if they're actually going to challenge the status quo. Are the Turner Diaries on the pending list, Ted Kaskinski's manifesto? Or are they sticking to the protests that are socially acceptable? Yes, I jumped straight to extremist examples, but every time some "anti-censorship" BS comes up it's a bunch of wanna-be's worshiping the same 10 mediocre books.

You seem to be missing the coercion involved. If your child doesn't read the book, their grades suffer. Sometimes entire quarters are committed to absolute crap like The Catcher In The Rye where so much social evolution has happened that these books are no longer relevant. Don't get me wrong, I don't have any moral objection to that book, it's just poorly written and badly paced. It seems to be riding this reputation for being edgy, but what was edgy in 1945 is mundane today. "Hur Dur dey stars it with a fist fight! And he swears at adults!" and here I am Millennial, also nicknamed the "Columbine Generation" who watched the opioid crisis being born in our restrooms, who as early as my sophomore year was hearing about how kids I shared gym classes died in Iraq, trying for the life of me to figure out why some pseudo intellectual would find anything interesting about it.

Amazon is going to automate regardless of cost up front cost. People think that the only reason to automate is to save money, but the constancy that it brings to your "labor pool" has far more value than anyone below a B level appreciates. A robot that costs me $70,000 a year in maintenance is far more valuable to me than an employee that I'm paying $50,000. Even before you take into account the added overhead of medical insurance, the robot won't leave me in the middle of a shift because their kid got hurt they don't need vacations that leave me having to shuffle people around to cover shifts, no one cares if it gets hurt or harassed. In every measurable metric a robot is the only logical choice for these jobs.

Now let's look at motivation. We're only interested in reaching out because as monkey's we are social creatures. We imagine that this is the only path to success because that's what evolution, constrained by the million and one other tiny aspects of our planet, taught us is the only way. If a species children inherit the parents life experiences for instance, there would be no need to exchange information so reaching out of your immediate social circle would be pointless. If a species is able to reproduce with out a second individual, it would have no need to reach out and the concept of looking for something foreign would seem psychotic to it because of the danger vs benefit.

We aren't looking for intelligent life. We're looking for ourselves and no that isn't some new age BS. What I mean is that we are trying to communicate with something that cares about radio signals which are only our choice of information propagation because of a whole truck load of very specific requirements. For example, we modulate in frequencies we can't detect visually or audibly and that doesn't harm us. Imagine a species that instead developed their form of communication to use gamma radiation as a carrier medium because it was harmless to them. They'd have no idea what to do with the crap we're spewing out into the universe, they wouldn't even know to look for it. After all, why would an "advanced species" use such an inferior method as radio waves when gamma rays do the same thing with far better ability to penetrate anything that might get in the way and has far fewer sources of "white noise" that could be mistaken as a signal? This whole idea is broken from the start.

I love how people here are arguing which of the worlds three largest economies we would rather tank, and hoisting all of the responsibility on the working middle class from those countries rather then telling old people that they can't go on cruises anymore. The world would be better off with out giant floating casino's and all you can puke buffets.

This article was about automation of tunnel building. Fun fact number 1, we need to colonize Mars in this century. Fun fact number 2, Those colonists will not be living on the surface. If we can drop robots to pre-dig tunnels based on this algorithm vs say a remote operator or some half-assed AI? That would be a monumental leap forward in the colonization effort. That brings the price from cost prohibitive to let's get some government funding.

This is how it works. We monitor every website our employees go to. Do you know at what point I care? When VP Greg wants to fire supervisor Ron, because Greg's nephew is looking for a job, but HR tells him he needs a real reason. Oh look, Ron spends an average of 90 mins a day on sports betting sites, bye Ron. No one cares that Doug has a foot fetish or that Chris is a furry and that they both watch a very concerning about of pornography a day.

Until these jokers get serious and globally ban cruise liners, I'm just going to assume they're blowing smoke. My six cylinder truck isn't contributing very much to global warming, Carnival Cruise lines however is.