What on earth are you talking about? Chicago has very lax gun laws. Why lie about something that's so easy to look up?

While most of your post is just deranged gibbering, this is actually an outright lie. The vast majority of US homes do not have a choice of ISPs. Of course, it's no surprise that someone whose sig contains whining about "offended feelings" has no interest in facts or reality.

Yes, that's exactly what the studies found. The headline and summary here are garbage. The data shows not that mindfulness is generally demotivational, but that it is demotivational if the meditator's job situation is shitty (if their work is meaningless or against their principles, if conditions are bad, etc.).

The fact that scientists don't cite Wikipedia isn't some kind of refusal to admit that they use it. Of course you wouldn't cite Wikipedia, because it's not a primary source. It's an encyclopedia. If you find something useful or interesting on Wikipedia you trace it back to where it's actually from and cite that.

The release of this memo is a tremendous own goal for the Republicans. It confirms that the FBI's investigation started with Papadopoulos in June 2016, which completely dismantles the narrative that Republicans have been pushing that everything is based on an illegitimate warrant on Carter Page. And Nunes goes further and admits that he hasn't actually read any of the documents that would show whether the Carter Page warrant was in fact illegitimate in the first place, which proves that the narrative was never based on anything that anyone pushing it actually believed. This is stuff that we all suspected, but I guess it's nice to have it confirmed in print.

No surprise here. "I should be allowed to decide what's true" has been the central conservative conviction for decades, now.

Damore isn't actually trying to win this. He'd have to be an idiot to think he could; he has to know that Google consulted with their fleet of lawyers before firing him, and that they only fired him because they could come up with a legally sound justification, and even if he couldn't figure that out whatever lawyer he picked up would have made it very clear to him. The actual purpose of this lawsuit is something that anti-gay crusaders have been into for a while and that other stripes of conservatives have been picking up on over the last couple of years or so: using the process of filing a complaint for doxxing. As part of making the complaint, Damore published into a publicly available legal record 86 pages of screenshots of things people working at Google said that he didn't like and, surprise surprise, did not attempt to redact any names or conceal any identities. Some of those people have already begun to receive threats and harassment from conservatives. That was the real point of this. Damore and his lawyer know nothing will come of the suit, but now the people who dared to upset his delicate sensibilities can be punished.

If you're trying to take a swing at partisan bias, using the Daily Mail as a citation is pretty self-defeating. Also, there isn't just a single report used to make a claim that Trump has ties to Russia. The significant financial links between the Russian government and not just Trump himself but also much of his cabinet are well-documented by a large number of sources. You're either shoveling nothing but partisan bias yourself or you're too ignorant of this subject to discuss it.

That's a fake attribution. No sentence like that appears in anything written by Aristotle.

It is absurd that RBC, which is now run by Putin loyalist and tabloid owner Grigory Berezkin, is being described as "a respected Russian news source". RBC USED to be a respected news source, until early 2016 when their reporting on government corruption got their leadership forcibly ousted and replaced with people that would play nice with the administration. There's probably some true information mixed into this story along with the falsehoods because that's how Russian intelligence generally operates, but to present what is straight-up Russian government-backed propaganda as journalism is, at very best, negligent to the point of maliciousness.

Actually, Trump motivating Three Percenters and other racist groups to openly brandish guns to threaten people in public spaces is probably the best thing that has happened to the argument for restricting gun ownership in decades. They're making the clearest possible argument for why people like them should not be allowed to own weapons. Also, I don't know how you got to thinking that you being too ignorant to know people's names or policy records reflects poorly on your opponent instead of yourself, but it doesn't. Just a tip.

It's not forcing change. You were upset about the system ignoring you and catering too much to rich buffoons who don't deserve the power they've inherited and won't use it to help anyone but themselves... so you elected a rich buffoon who doesn't deserve the power he's inherited and won't use it to help anyone but himself. All you did was cut out the middleman. There is no vote that is more in favor of "more of the same" than a vote for Donald Trump. Trump is everything that was already wrong with the system.

You understand that large corporations are the "centralized monster... controlled by any remote faction of people" you're talking about here, not government, right? The problem is that Comcast and Charter won't do anything to help, but also will devote significant resources to preventing anyone else from helping so that they can swoop in the moment things look profitable enough. Calling for less government and more privatization in a situation like this is insane. The privatization is the problem. You don't see the postal service completely refusing to serve people because it's just not in their own selfish best interests.