I would not consider Sanders on the moderate right, rather in the center-left (but he's honest and has a spine, that's why he stands out that much, especially amongst centrists).

But yes Stalin is definitely right-wing, can't you see how he destroyed the Russian revolution and many others?

Obligaary XKCD: https://www.xkcd.com/1968/

(the number of the strip is interesting, BTW)

Is the David Brin's "Sundiver" design (with lasers dissipating the heat away from the ship) any realistic?

The Cultural Revolution had nothing to do with the aliens...
It's just what led to First Contact.

Yeah, I'm not good enough at fundamental physics to understand what is valid in the multi-dimensional proton he introduces, but globally the book felt like a lot of very interesting ideas clumsily assembled together...
I only read the first book though, and the translation may have lost part of the wonder.
Strangely enough for a book that is so political and in a country with such a history, the author seems to have very naive assumptions too about how a conspiracy works...

If you're talking about "I you were a dinosaur", I really liked it, and I don't care much for transgender issues...
Sure, it wouldn't have been published by Hugo Gernsback, but it's definitively worthy of New Worlds for example - and less esoteric that some of what was published in the 70's.

Maybe they're talking about developed countries, not "developed" countries?

Well, if they had more time they could use it to think, and we couldn't allow that (cough cough television)...

You mean like ActivityPub (or OStatus)?

I obviously know the name of the disease but won't disclose it since it's family I'm talking about, not publicly available information.
You're absolutely free to call bullshit though, I was just trying to help.

That is definitely not true for modern vaccines.
I have family that used to work on the marketing side of one of these fancy new vaccines for those rare diseases and I can assure you that the company they were working for is not a charity...
Plus, I did check what I could of the science behind it (disclaimer: I have a scientific formation, but am not a medical doctor) and the choice of vaccination was for the least controversial; apparently it did not bring better results than early diagnostic by a simple test done annually on at-risk patients.
But nothing on the other ways of dealing with that disease than vaccination ever surfaced in the marketing argumentation towards health professionals made by this company, marketing which was more about fear-mongering concerning this disease and praise about the new vaccine.

ProtonMail asks for a cellphone number "to verify that you are not a bot": since there are other ways to verify that, the whole thing seems a tad sketchy to me...

Interesting, but you miss the irony here: Trump just called other world leaders on their hypocrisy, that's where the outrage comes from...

Or they should not have Windows at all...

Or not to use Windows...