They don't have to do this but most "journalists" are hacks that engage in Access Journalism (which is a type of bribery).

They aren't hard-driving gumshoe drunks like the legendary journalists of yore who sought to speak truth to power. They're mostly stenographers for the rich and powerful now (yay, journalism school!)

It will be interesting to see if any leave out of principle. I doubt more than 10% will. You can pretty much distrust any stories from the ones who stay.

Remember - the Federation reserved the Death Penalty for making AI Androids.

Noonian Soong had to exile himself to a remote planet outside Federation control to work on Data and Lore (and his sexbot...).

They needed people to be able to have jobs *that* badly.

Which ... stop sending redshirts outside the ship with magnetic boots in a radiation storm, OK? They could have at least had some astromech droids. Sheesh!

I recently got a "plastic" target that changes color and the holes mostly self-heal if you don't use a hollow-point.

Good for plinking but they do wear out eventually.

I didn't even know this material existed before a buddy told me they were on Amazon. Amazing times, for sure.

Heck, I picked up some 100-lb test fishing line the other day that is some sort of braided heavy-chain polyethylene that is 11 times stronger than steel wire at the same size. The company made mechanical spinnerets to mimic spiders' to get it to work.

Again, I had no idea until a buddy told me it was $20 on Amazon.

Wild.

Back in the day we'd install wild boards that would upgrade the Mac CPU's by a generation or two, add FPU's, etc.

All of this depended on the systems being too expensive to replace or buy new except once in a blue moon.

At $600 which is probably $200 in 1986 money, it's a bit harder to be mad.

Those systems were probably $10K in 2025 dollars. Heck, a few were $10K in 1986 dollars.

When you have 7-8 million people living in a place where 95 percent can't afford to live near their job that doesn't pay very much, you expect EVERYONE to be friendly? The area in and around "the city" has a lot of friendly people who are getting knocked down continually, but once you get beyond the caution that everyone needs to have in a city, people really are friendly. The key is that there are a lot of people who would steal from others because they don't make enough money from their job to live without working one or two OTHER jobs as well. Those who are paid decently are friendly, but with all of the con artists(there's a reason for the dislike of Trump by those who live in New York), people still need to be very cautious with anyone they don't already know.

Corporate ownership of single family units is the reason there is any "shortage". The cost of real estate would drop like a rock if you made it illegal for corporations to own single family homes. You see the companies that are looking to buy houses so they can "flip them", all that does is raise the price for homes so the corporation can make a profit. Make it so no person can own more than three homes as well, and yea, even the wealthy couldn't manipulate the price of housing as well.

The NEED to do this or that just to survive is what happens when you have a shortage in SOCIETY of things. When you have robots making EVERYTHING, and power is free(because it costs nothing for solar/wind/tidal power other than the devices themselves, which have no cost because the cost would be "how much power is needed", and generating power and repairing power generators are just a part of the expense of effectively free power.

The problem is that even now, we have too many people who would do NOTHING except for watching sports, but even then, when food and everything else is free, those do-nothings wouldn't matter either. Things only break down when the base materials aren't available to make the stuff people want.

*nerd alert*

The original script had The Matrix running in parallel on all the human brains.

Studio execs said that was too confusing and that they should be batteries.

Also Neo is seen on the Nebuchadnezzar with hundreds of acupuncture-looking needles with wires to get his muscles working while he's in a coma.

Writers should have been left alone (a story old as time).

Decency has no place in the Trump administration, and I expect Republicans won't have a decent candidate for decades after Trump is removed from office.

If so many Republicans are not aligned with Trump, why do they act like a bunch of pussies when Trump tells them to do ANYTHING, even if it is against the US Constitution? The Republican Party is now the party of Trump, and if he demands they give him oral sex, they do it for however long it takes for Trump to be satisfied.

Trump being the one who is against any sort of cooperation with other countries is a good reason why the entire world has turned away from the USA. We have a government that, for the past four decades, has been so held back by people giving money to the wealthy while being against any sort of research and development, everything is falling apart.

We can make America great again by throwing Trump and his entire administration in prison for war crimes.

When "The Right" is dominated by xenophobic people who can't handle that we have a lot of non-white non-Christians around, you see a bunch of them lose their minds and start to shoot people randomly. They blame everyone besides themselves for their own failures, because they have been told how great the USA and "white people" are, and reality contradicts what their parents taught them.

We have too many people who look down on the idea of getting a better education while they lose their jobs to automation and technology. So, anything that requires an education that THEY can not provide to their kids is considered bad. On the flip side, China, India, and pretty much the rest of the world keep pushing for better education for EVERYONE.

The Earth has frequently been much warmer than it is today and coral reefs grew much faster then.

Perhaps they have a fine point to make but the implications fly in the face of established evidence.

And not shaky evidence - you can go vacation on huge islands made of these old reefs, from when the oceans were higher.

You can go visit Chazy Fossil Reef today and see coral fossils 480 million years old, from when Northern Vermont was a tropical marine environment.

These data aren't disputed in the field.

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