Brute force is how much scientific discovery happened. I don't think it makes the point you want to make.

Have you seen the prime TV logo ....

I can't tell if this is satire or not. Well done, sir.

Zuckers?

How does 300k at 35-40 year old fixes retirement?

While I agree with the sentiment, this is already the world we live in. Geoblocking based on local laws is used extensively across the internet. An exemple for nerds from this week: https://linuxiac.com/linux-dis...

I am pretty sure the US is the outlier here. I do not know of any other country where you can write profanities/sexual stuff on a sign and stand in a street corner shouting it. Or for that matter, that decided that corporations were people and they also had 1st amendment protections (Citizen United V USA.).

Parallel construction is not in itself illegal or grounds for dismissal of evidence.

I think this argument fails the moment it can be proven that the oil companies ghost wrote studies and founded propaganda engines against climate change and such.

And on top of that, the fiscal structure of the oil companies make it a social problem once the oil is not profitable to extract anymore. The amount of abandon oil and gas wells all over north America is crazy.

I'd be a lot more on board with the current price of mid-range shows if the artists were seeing a bigger portion of it.

You keep repeating that everywhere in the threads, but how exactly are you gonna vote with your dollars when the problem is a monopoly? Sure you can not spend your money and not do the things you are actually wanted to do, but is that really freedom and free market?

I suggest avoiding speedboats while in South America.

Very succinctly said. One of my pet peeve is people shitting on the government but not recognizing that it is comprised of humans. While I am not American, my understanding of the way the Constitution was written along with it's purpose ( I guess that is what the Federalist Papers are for ) was to build in feedback mechanism to tame the worst human instincts. Unless we find a system which incorporates ways to naturally prevent human nature from fucking shit up, I don't really see a solution. I don't remember who said it, but one of the founding fathers apparently said that for this to work, it required an intelligent and politically-educated populace. Going back to teaching critical thinking to high school students might be a good start.

I also add to be succinct and adversarial, to not try to make me happy. works wonder.