What you have to understand is that if you are receiving a service for free on the internet, what is actually happening is that YOU are the product being sold.

Because according to a large subset of the American population, Democrats = Liberals = Socialists = Communists = Evil, and Hillary Clinton is a lying criminal.

Arguing over which of the many available voting systems is best hinders our ability to get any of them in place over the craptastic system we have now. Trying to push something that takes more than 5 sentences to explain is not likely to be successful, regardless of how good the method is.

If enough idiots vote for Clinton to be the Democratic nominee, then this might become a problem. Whoops, that already happened.

That isn't patriotism, that's jingoism. Rah rah.

That Republican senators would attempt to wait out an entire Clinton presidency without confirming any Supreme Court justices is completely unfathomable. Could they technically pull it off? Maybe (although recess appointments could potentially be attempted). But it would be political suicide. Of course, their party's imploding anyway, so who knows...

Say that to someone who isn't mentally competent enough to know how bad an idea it is to punch a cop in the face, and you'll be liable not just for the assault on the cop, but for whatever happens to your victim.

A musician is someone who loads $5000 worth of gear into a $500 car to drive 100 miles to play a $50 gig. There's just not a lot of money in live entertainment unless you're one of the .1% that make it big.

^ This. The rock is absolutely orbiting the Earth, for now at least, as well as the Sun. That orbit may not be stable, which is why it's a quasi-satellite and not a satellite, but it's going to be doing circles around us for a while.

The Korean War is between North and South Korea. The US never declared war on North Korea, instead officially acting under the UN to defend South Korea from invasion.

Right, you can't build the AI this way and expect to succeed. In Chess, there are a maximum of 32 pieces sharing 64 possible locations. In Starcraft, there could be hundreds of units on the map at any of millions of possible locations. Chess is a complete information game, Starcraft is not. (Your knowledge of your opponent's position and strategy is dependent on what you can see and largely on indirect intuition about what you DON'T see.) In Chess, turns are taken and there is plenty of time to compute each action optimally. In Starcraft, there are orders of magnitude more possible actions you could command, and you must choose which units are most important to focus on at any moment. There's just a fundamentally different approach required. And I think a much more challenging one.

Yes, it's the Republicans who are helping the poor people climb out of poverty by kicking their ladders out from under them and just yelling at them to stop being so goddamn poor.

Oh, but he's "unelectable" and "can't get things done" and "isn't a real Democrat". This is one of those posts I should have saved mod points for.

Yes, but every other sentence in the summary vaguely (for varying values of vagueness) implies that the social media use is causing the depression.