I would argue the news was once interesting because tech companies were doing interesting things. Now everyone's just clocking in until they can vest, after which they'll go start their new venture, because they've always been an /entrepreneur/, not a worker. Things were different 30 years ago.

Imagine what a person of this intellect could have created!

If. Like. You know. He hadn't MURDERED HIS WIFE.

But seriously, wtf cares about this guy anymore? There's a reason we have a Dustbin of History.

Slepping, either, it seems.

Yes. God fucking forbid we get (let me see here) "affordable health care for everyone", "no college debt", "people not being fired or killed for who they love", and "a cleaner environment."

Totally the Spanish Inquisition there.

Thanks for pushing a "both sides are bad" narrative that bears no resemblance to reality.

That can't possibly be what that guy was talking about. I mean, quoting from section 1.4:

"Prejudicial discrimination on the basis of [...] gender identity, [...] sex, sexual orientation, or any other inappropriate factor is an explicit violation of the Code. Harassment, including sexual harassment, bullying, and other abuses of power and authority, is a form of discrimination that, amongst other harms, limits fair access to the virtual and physical spaces where such harassment takes place."

This seems to be exactly the kind of thing that the "Power Hungry Parasites" would use to prevent some jerk from misgendering someone because he's so "enlightened."

You just used it twice, Captain Smrt.

Yes, obviously everyone is an idiot for wanting {let me re-read this for accuracy} "the level of air pollution as low as possible."

This year, while looking for something to read at the bookstore, I picked up book one of the Wayfarers series (which won this year's Hugo for best series).

Halfway through, I ordered the remaining two books, and pre-ordered the fourth. It is so much better than any scifi I've read in years that there's no competition. Humans in space, with other space races, dealing with each other in a sane fashion, given how wasteful war is in space. The characters have personalities, and I ended up caring about all of them before finishing. It feels new and fresh, and not just the same grumpy "murder the space bugs" that always seemed to be popular.

If this is the kind of unfair playing field men can't compete with, perhaps they should simply leave scifi to the superior women writers.

Unless, you know, you are the target of it. Then it's probably exactly as bad of a situation as this story claims.

If the entire office thinks "she doesn't belong," then it doesn't matter what happens, because the gossip is just going to continue to be "she doesn't belong."

Side note: fuck you for dismissing this. You are not helping.

Because god fucking forbid I take a ride in a car and don't have to worry that the driver is a rapist or murderer.

Or that I stay in a place that isn't a fire prone death trap.

Or that people make a living wage doing what they're doing, so they don't have to starve in the damn street or die of a preventable illness.

Fucking government, making rules and shit to protect people, even though most people aren't violently killed by the very things they're trying to prevent.

Really? "Fags and abortions"? This is the reality you live in? This is acceptable language?

This isn't "being PC". This isn't "the liberal agenda".

This is having decency to accept people for who they are, and not denigrating people for what their life is.

At what point did the right decide that some people were worth helping, and the rest could be consigned to hell? At what point did people decide that humanity was just a quaint concept, and we could regroup around a few sacred signs, and reassure that "the enemy" would be devoured?

Fuck you, and fuck everyone who has spread a message of hatred and isolation.

if ($USA == "good") {
  ASSERT($WORLD == $USA);
}
If ($WORLD != $USA) {
  foreach $country (%world) {
      if ($cool_friend{$country}) {
          invite_friend_to_be_cool($country,\%world, $USA);
          suggest_taco_truck($country,$USA,"where i live, it's not super far");
      }
}

>Do you believe rehabilitation is impossible or do you want revenge?

I don't believe that someone who commits mass murder can be rehabilitated, no. It isn't about revenge; it's about public safety.

Someone once pointed out that hoping a rapist gets raped in prison isn't a victory for his victim(s), because it somehow gives him what he had coming to him, but it's actually a victory for rape and violence. I wish I could remember who said that, because they are right. The score doesn't go Rapist: 1 World: 1. It goes Rape: 2.

What this man did is unspeakable, and he absolutely deserves to spend the rest of his life in prison. If he needs to be kept away from other prisoners as a safety issue, there are ways to do that without keeping him in solitary confinement, which has been shown conclusively to be profoundly cruel and harmful.

Putting him in solitary confinement, as a punitive measure, is not a victory for the good people in the world. It's a victory for inhumane treatment of human beings. This ruling is, in my opinion, very good and very strong for human rights, *precisely* because it was brought by such a despicable and horrible person. It affirms that all of us have basic human rights, even the absolute worst of us on this planet.

This is precisely why I lost all interest in Oculus the instant I heard that it had been acquired by Facebook.