There are public resources. It isn't as grand and nice as those available to those who can pay for coverage, but they exist.

A Kia that I own with a Trump sticker in Baltimore got vandalized to the tune of $2500 in July. I appreciated the new paintjob, since I have a $100 comp deductible, but the person did it to be a criminal douchebag.

My yard sign has been ripped up 3 times in a Baltimore suburb. I have had dog shit dumped on my lawn 4 or 5 times. Eventually I installed cameras and caught the motherfuckers, who got fined and harassed by the cops, but it was fundamentally a waste of money to deal with the scumbag local Democrats.

Recurrent theme around here, and a number of the houses in the neighborhood have pulled up their signs to avoid the bullshit. Isn't changing how they are voting, though.

So yeah, about those Trump supporters...?

People who aren't interested in thinking need the metaphysical window dressing.

Believe it or not, that's a paraphrased Hitler quote, but that doesn't make it wrong.

I don't fault you for your beliefs, but I don't agree with them. I think that once the bioelectricity stops flowing, we cease to be. Anything else would be supernatural. However much I would like to talk to my father again, I don't think it's going to happen. It's not an emotionally satisfying viewpoint, but it is the logical conclusion of my other beliefs.

I can't believe there's a person so pathetic that they think that sitting on the computer in your house every waking moment is healthy. Seek help now.

Start walking. Volunteer for something that you can get to. Jobs, friends, and women will come. Sitting on the internet, nothing at all.

There's no right to privacy for disease. That's a dumb argument prima facie.

1) Remembering 15-20 complex passwords is impossible. Not just "not easy", but impossible. You'd have to write them down.

2) You have no idea how many businesses have a black binder with a few pages of passwords in it. If the passwords are written down, they can be stolen, and they can't easily be changed without making consistent changes to your binder of passwords.

3) Shared passwords are not easily managed using a password manager "keychain service"

4) Some computers cannot have the password manager installed on it, ruling out its use (my biggest problem - I have a locked down computer that it is completely impossible to install 3rd party software on)

5) In the event that (4) applies, you could use the manager but then have a bunch of random passwords to remember, compelling you to do (2).

6) Sync between password managers. Not that it's impossible, but it has issues similar to any other networked application. Firewalling, filtering, proxies...

I'm not against the password manager as a concept, but we're a long way away from the common user being able to use it easily.

Public health is something you need to get familiar with. This debate was settled, at least in the US, back in the early 1900s. You do NOT have an unfettered right to decide what goes into your body and what you do with it. You CAN be compelled to take medications and be vaccinated. Have you ever heard of quarantine, or Typhoid Mary?

In a similar fashion, the state can kill you if the collective polity sees it as necessary.

The fact that you BELIEVE, against the evidence, that you have this right - that makes you unreasonable.

If you treat religion as a collection of metaphysics and resultant supernatural phenomena, then sure. It's worse than ancient alien theorists. But religion satisfies a very human need to "know" what happens postmortem. Regardless of it being a pack of lies. Mainly because the people who believe in religion would not permit its falsification by any conventional means. You'd literally have to have a voice from on high - "the voice of God" tell them that it's all bullshit, therefore proving their beliefs out.

Even given my attitudes towards all that, I recognize the comfort that religious beliefs can offer a person and I refuse to give people a hard time about it. The example that comes to mind is the old woman who lost her husband and her whole family and wants to meet them again in an afterlife. Religion - at least the monotheistic forms of same - gives her this. It's what their minds crave and they give in to it without much resistance.

Coming to terms with people being irrational and stupid has been nearly fifty years work for me. I think i've done pretty well at trying to have some self-awareness on this issue.

All of the above are crackpots. Solving interstellar travel is non-trivial based on the physics we know now. I don't think it happened.

It's mainly a troll to get you religious fucks to start whining. Talk about shibboleth...

With the clock hands painted on the clock.

(Treblinka, for the clueless)

There's more evidence for natural climate change than there is for an ancient alien. Though i'm sure an "ancient alien theorist" could draw up a hockey stick for me.

Every time they say "Ancient Alien theorists" on that show, I want to box my ears. I suppose it sounds better than "crackpots".

Life in prison plus the satisfaction of that motherfucker dead, or just waiting for him to die and pissing on his grave. That was the choice. I took #2.