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This is about the best satire I know of on the subject:

https://www.buzzfeed.com/maycie/this-is-what-a-conference-call-would-look-like-in-real-life

https://theamericangenius.com/business-news/hilarious-video-conference-call-in-real-life-parody-part-two/

Different source sites for Parts 1 & 2, sorry!

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How many of you remember when NPR tweeted out the Declaration of Independence line by line and a bunch of Trump supporters got mad because they thought it was about Trump? It happened last year, and it happened again this year.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/julia...

Tesla's stock is down 12% in the last 12 months in a strongly up market.

confirmed

Seems like a clear case of cherry picking.

Plus, Musk is a whiny little snowflake. He can't get enough of uncritical media praise, of which there is has been tons, but anything remotely critical and he shits the floor. Its nice he's doing the electric car thing, but lets not buy into a cult of personality here because there is tons of evidence he's got a shit personality (he fired his 12 year PA when she asked for a raise he used underpaid illegal foreign labor to build his factory he uses illegal union-busting tactics and he was emotionally abusive to his first wife, treating her like an employee.

Billionaires have their place, but they aren't special geniuses, they are just 99.9% lottery winner and 0.1% skill. If there was no Elon Musk, there would just be some other billionaire doing the same work. Do not put your faith in princes.

It doesn't take an enormous amount of genius to know that a degree in [insert half-assed caricature here] is not going to pay off.

STEM grads are as screwed as much as people who took Underwater Basket Weaving or whatever other stereotype you Old Economy Steve's dredge up.

They bust their ass in the "gig economy" for little pay and no benefits and yet you consider them "entitled" because they prefer their cup of coffee differently then yours. Guess what, you are the entitled generations

As epitomized by:

• 'Bought a house in his 20's with a 9-5 job that didn't require a degree'

• 'KIDS THESE DAYS HAVE IT EASY BECAUSE $200 SMART PHONES'

Odd... Some articles claim exactly the opposite. Caught bullshitting again? Perhaps you could give real, concrete examples for your side.

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of making an AI that acts like they do.

https://www.newsmax.com/Newsfr...
https://www.buzzfeed.com/molly...
https://ijr.com/2018/01/104853...
http://thehill.com/business-a-...

yes... because banning people from countries known to harbor terrorists is the same as ignoring someone being kicked in the nuts

Actually, banning children from getting medical treatment is worse than being kicked in the nuts.

do you people even think before you speak? never mind, we all already know you dont

Man, its always projection with you trump davidians isn't it?

So sorry that you missed the point here.

There are actually 2 characteristics that make Trump a deep danger to us all:
1) He lies when it suits him.
2) He lies when he totally mis-understands issues. Which makes him a dangerous idiot as well.

The article you link to merely boast about what Trump accomplished - whether detrimental or not.
Here's some links to many of his lies:
https://www.buzzfeed.com/marya...
https://www.dailywire.com/news...
https://www.nytimes.com/intera...

Seems to me his lies and actions have wreaked havoc with USA's reputation world-wide.
The Eagle will fly no more as a result.

THE DOCTRINE OF FASCISM-BENITO MUSSOLINI (1932)

Accepting mussolini's propaganda as an accurate description of fascism is like taking The Democratic Republic of North Korea's word that they are a democracy.

Instead, lets take the word of more neutral sources:

Although fascist parties and movements differed significantly from one another, they had many characteristics in common, including extreme militaristic nationalism, contempt for electoral democracy and political and cultural liberalism, a belief in natural social hierarchy and the rule of elites, and the desire to create a Volksgemeinschaft (German: “people’s community”), in which individual interests would be subordinated to the good of the nation.
Encyclopedia Britannica

An authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government and social organization.
Oxford English Dictionary

> Now of all the players in American politics today, which group does this best describe?

These players:
The people who absolutely lose their shit at the thought of black people kneeling that they walk out of a football game.
The television network that fired a reporter who would not toe the line on climate change reporting
Colorado Republican lawmakers want to punish striking teachers with jail time.
Harper’s Editor Insists He Was Fired Over Katie Roiphe Essay - The New York Times
Professor celebrating Barbara Bush’s death deserves to be fired | Fox News
Joyce Peterson on Twitter: "Happening in Nashville right now: lawmakers trying to penalize the @CityOfMemphis for removing confederate statues by slashing a quarter million dollars in funding. https://t.co/ZAg0ntZl30"
Law Enforcement Has Quietly Backed Anti-Protest Bills in at Least 8 States Since Trump’s Election
Memphis-Based Journalist Taken Into ICE Custody After Arrest While Covering Protest (Updated) - Rewire.News
Sinclair producer in Nebraska resigns to protest 'obvious bias'
‘Black-ish’ Political Episode on Kneeling Canceled Over ‘Creative Differences’ – Variety
Republican governor forced to stop blocking Facebook users who criticize him | Ars Technica
AprilDRyan on Twitter: "It is back again. Not called on today for a question. It has been how long? Oh, my last question was about @StormyDaniels! And, I was just told I am on a list. Whatever! I have been doing this for 21 years. I am not new to the rode
Trump attends event about campus political correctness crisis, accidental

Some of the liberal groups on reddit have noted that Buzzfeed is the only real investigative news source left. They published the dossier on Trump that was made by a foreign spy to influence the US elections January before last. Just last month they published this:

https://www.buzzfeed.com/jasonleopold/christopher-steele-mikhail-lesin-murder-putin-fbi?utm_term=.khVEYKPaKr#.gnonr1MW1o

That said that the foreign spy Steele that influenced our last presidential election believed the founder of RT that was beaten to death in DC was done so because of Putin who controls Trump.

Your reptilian brain won't let you stop telegraphing high status and reproductive fitness signals to your fellow monkeys.

LOL, have you ever actually seen Facebook?

High status and reproductive fitness? Not so much.

Seems like a job likely to cause a person to snap:

https://www.buzzfeed.com/reyha...

https://tech.slashdot.org/stor...

This man David Scott, who set up Gunbook, said in a previous Buzzfeed piece (my emphasis),

While he has carried on shooting rabbits and targets, the tragedy [Dunblane] has framed his view of gun regulation. “At the moment in Britain, the gun ownership rights are spot on. They’ve got them right in that you’ve got to have a reason to actually have one here and it’s very well-checked. Whereas in the US you can just walk into a shop and buy one You’ll find that almost every gun owner in Britain agrees with the laws here.”

“A lot of shooters gave up after Dunblane."
Getting a license for a hunting gun is harder than ever — and designed to weed out anyone with ulterior motives. “If I apply for a licence here they do a background check, they’ll do a doctor’s check to check you don’t have a background of mental health difficulties or depression. The police do a home visit. They check you’ve got police-approved gun safes and that you’ve got proper security. They also check the reason why you want a gun. So if you say, ‘I’ve got a farmer who wants pest control,’ they ask for the name and address of the person whose property you’ll be shooting on and they’ll do a check there too.”

Dunblane is significant because that's where the UK had its school massacre, which prompted these more strict gun laws.

It's common in the country to hear farmers blasting away with their shotguns at the local vermin/wildlife/dinner and of course there's also the game shooting for the rich. Apart from that there are very few guns about and most people are happy about it. There were 32 homicides with a gun in the year to March 2017. Suicide by gun is similarly rare.

The tone of the Buzzfeed article ("love of deadly weapons") is a bit more lurid than the reality quoted but anything more than a casual interest in guns, knives and other weapons should be kept an eye on, in children or adults. If they don't grow out of it, they can join the army or become a gunsmith but there's something unhealthy about being interested in guns for their own sake.

A spokesperson for the UK Gun Control Network had it about right:

Commenting on the profile pictures of users posing with guns, they said: “There’s a culture of wanting to see yourself looking fierce and military, posing holding weapons and play acting. It’s about pretending to be macho and violent. Of course sadly as we know, in the states particularly, it doesn’t always stay as a pretence

“We know that teenage mass shooters post pictures of themselves on social media with their guns and threats. It’s the whole culture, and it will mostly be men, who want to be seen with their weapons. It’s bravado. We know what happens.”

"study found a link between cell tower radiation and specific type(s) of cancer, and followup studies successfully replicated those results"

There are all kinds of weird statistical correlations that don't actually have any causal relationship. Just because they (supposedly) found a correlation does not necessarily mean cell towers cause cancer. There could easily be other factors in play or it could be experimental error or just one of those weird coincidences. Until they can detail a causal mechanism of action the only conclusion one can draw is that further study appears warranted.

You're probably thinking of Boris Berezovsky, a Putin critic who was found hanged in the UK in 2013. He was a good friend of the latest Russian to have suffered a suspicious death in the UK Nikolai Glushkov.

Trump's pal Sater is a interesting case. He's apparently done a lot of useful work for the FBI, though that doesn't exclude his also having done useful work for the Russians. The piece has the air of someone preparing his defence against expected accusations.

The Buzzfeed investigation was done by some serious journalists, the sort who would end up dead in Russia. The lead author, Heidi Blake, previously worked for the Sunday Times and The Daily Telegraph.

The UK Government takes it seriously:

A string of deaths on UK soil are to be reinvestigated by the police and MI5 after claims of Russian involvement, Home Secretary Amber Rudd says.

Says the person typing on a disposable device that only governments could afford a generation ago as they wait in line to visit a place that only the 1% could visit two generations ago on a machine that only the 1% could afford two generations ago.

Blow it out your ass, Old Economy Steve. You think having a smartphone is a real trade for having five figures in student loan debt, having to pay four figures in health insurance costs before one cent of medical is covered, making both parents work instead of one, for less wages with no pension? GTFO

This series of 6 articles alleges the Russian state or their Mafia allies have committed 17 politically motivated murders in the UK.

To save us all time, I'll preempt the usual Krembot objections: yes, it's Buzzfeed, the evidence is in the six articles.

The UK authorities have apparently been reluctant to do anything about it for fear of unleashing further mayhem or disturbing the huge amounts of dirty Russian money swilling around London, sorry invested in the UK.

Kim Yo Jong is evil personified. The fawning over her is nauseating.

PSA: Kim Jong Un's Sister Is Not Your New Fave Shade Queen. She's A Garbage Monster.
What the hell is wrong with you people?

1. She's believed to be part of the regime's Propaganda and Agitation Department...so she's prooooobably not trying to defect.

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2. Speaking of family, Kim Jong Un is believed to have ordered the assassination of his own half brother, Kim Jong Nam.

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3. The North Korean regime commits frequent public executions of its own citizens.

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4. In fact, the North Korean regime actually enslaves many of its citizens.

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5. The regime is one of the world's most repressive. It strips its citizens of all sorts of rights, including freedom of expression, freedom of information, and the freedom to move in and out of the country.

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6. Kim Yo Jong's family literally runs gulags.

A United Nations inspector in 2013 spoke of "unspeakable atrocities" inflicted on political prisoners in North Korean camps.

Michael Kirby, a former Australian High Court judge, told the UN his team had heard testimony from a man who had been imprisoned in North Korea from birth, eating lizards, rodents, and grass to survive. One woman was forced to drown her own baby in a bucket.

7. Her brother's regime has been blamed for the death of US college student Otto Warmbier.

Otto Warmbier was detained in North Korea in January 2016 after he was accused of a "hostile act" while on a group tour. Warmbier was accused of stealing a poster at his hotel in Pyongyang, and sentenced to 15 years of prison and hard labor. After being held for 17 months, he was only extradited back to the US when he was in a coma. He died soon after.

Sen. John McCain has said Warmbier was "murdered" by North Korea. "In the final year of his life, he lived the nightmare in which the North Korean people have been trapped for 70 years: forced labor, mass starvation, systematic cruelty, torture, and murder," the Arizona Republican said.

8. She's part of a country that is, quite literally, threatening nuclear war against the US.

Way to wish away the reality of the situation. Yes, extremists - like crazy lefties who want to silence speech

You appear to have an extreme case of irony deficiency. You should get that looked at.

"Crazy censoring lefties" is a talking point of your particular tribe of extremists who are desperate to accuse everybody else of your own crimes.

Rapper Common Disinvited By University As Commencement Speaker Over Song Lyrics
Vanderbilt puts Duke Med alum on leave after complaint about kneeling to protest white supremacy - The Chronicle
CBS Fires Jewish VP for Anti-White Comments Follows Las Vegas Shooting – Occidental Dissent
Drexel censures professor for white genocide tweet.
Firing of Shirley Sherrod - Wikipedia
After news reports on tweets, queer advocate fired from Claremont Colleges
Two Liberal Professors Fired after Making Controversial, Anti-White Remarks |
Texas State Student Who Wrote Anti-White Op-Ed Fired Off School Paper
L'Oreal Drops Transgender Model After 'All White People' Racism Post
Texas State newspaper fires anti-white column's author as backlash escalates | Fox News
Nurse fired for post suggesting sons of white women be ‘sacrificed’ | New York Post
Lawmaker pushing legislation to refund fans angered by anthem protests
Good News: Trump Protestors Accused Of 'Hiding Behind The First Amendment' Acquitted | Techdirt
Fox refuses to air tax ad with Trump impersonator - POLITICO
Profane anti-Trump sticker sparks free-speech debate in Texas | Fox News
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Why I was banned from the campus of Liberty University | Religion News Service
Why Liberty University Kicked an Anti-Trump Christian Author Off Campus - Th

... check out Cambodia. F'book is flat out complicit in killing democracy in that country.

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If you were a baker, or web developer (pick a service industry gig, it really doesn't matter), and someone you knew to be a neo-nazi, antifa (Really, whatever your personal bogeyman happens to be) wanted you to do perform work for hire, for them -- would you tell them to fuck off?

Are neo-nazis and antifa protected classes in the state of Colorado? Nope, but gays are. But what's with the incessant false equivalencies - the subject of gay rights come up and people who want to defend homophobia just can't stop making irrelevant comparisons. IQ's just drop 50 points on the spot.

Like when marriage equality was making its way through the courts and people just couldn't stop saying that if gay marriage was legalized, then the next step was pedophellia and bestiality. Which prompted articles like this: How To Explain Gay Rights To An Idiot.

That article needs to be updated. For the people who then started running around insisting that everyone who supported gay marriage must now also support polygamy, because reasons. And for this utterly asinine idea that anyone's body is a public accommodation.

No bigot in history has come out and said, "hey I'm a bigot who harbors completely dislike to other people for who they are". They all have "reasons" for the bigotry. Native americans were savages who had to make way for manifest destiny. Jews couldn't be trusted because Elders of Zion. Gays can't have rights because then so too must have pedophiles and Nazis. It's all the same crap, just different words and victims.

The prostitution hypothetical is apropos though

As apropos as bestiality was before it. Which is to say, not at all. Not remotely close. No cigar. It's that bigoted discrimination is impossible to defend on the merits, which is why you stretch farther than Mr. Fantastic and Gumby put together to come up with these false equivalencies.

Do you have a Ph.D in dumbfuckery to have to have this explained to you?

Ah, so it's the "anonymous Internet commentator Uberbah says it's different" limiting principle. Got it. Hopefully you've contacted the Supreme Court and imbued them with your infinite wisdom on how easy this all is -- they were actually struggling with the issue, but this should clear everything up.

Do tell where the Supreme Court is struggling with the notion that the bodies of prostitutes are public accommodations.

Wait -- so some Buzzfeed editor's twitter feed ...

I offered two links, not one. And there are lots more. Communism is cool again — even if not everyone at Buzzfeed think so.

Heck, most of the "Antifa" are not-so-crypto Communists...

... is how you find out what is socially acceptable?

Make an experiment — walk through Greenwich Village in a Che Guevara T-shirt. Then change and walk back in a Trump one. Keep track of the number of middle-fingers and other expressions of hostility.

How did Trump's 1987 full page newspaper advertisement criticizing the U.S. government factor in your assessment of his motivations?

Aside, there were 16 Republican politicians vying for an executive position. Trump was the most experienced as an executive. The others were better qualified for political positions such as in the Department of State but not for the position of Chief Executive.

Brietbart.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/josep...

Rant aside, this is an actual thing on social media. Buzzfeed did a series of articles based on leaked emails from Steve Bannon and other alt-right figures about it. Also, if you go over to 4chan's pol board or certain parts of Reddit, they talk openly about it.

The idea is to make Nazism more mainstream and acceptable by presenting it in a more palatable way. This happens at all levels, from your basic Twitter Nazi to far right web sites like Brietbart.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/josep...

(Can't find the other link I wanted to a leaked far right journalism style guide now, because I'm in China and stuck with Bing)

The basic idea is to engage with more mainstream things and use them to introduce nationalism to mostly young and easily influenced people. There is a whole ecosystem to support it, with Brietbart etc pumping out the fake news with a veneer of respectability, and a range of progressively harder stuff and guys like Milo to guide people along the way.

Change the robots.txt and its all gone. I have seen it done many times.

My question is why anyone would go near them. They are a raging dumpster fire of stupid yellow journalism.

the news was true
Maybe he wanted his life to be private? Maybe defying a judge while the hulk thing was in litigation was a bad idea?

This was also not the only time they did that shit. https://theintercept.com/2015/...

They are slezoids who create controversy then report on it. Remember gamergate? Yeah the ones who were fucking journalist to get good reviews. Gee who were they fucking to get those reviews.

I have for the past year watched what is left of their empire continue on as if nothing happened. They learned nothing. https://www.buzzfeed.com/kenbe...

Nope

https://www.buzzfeed.com/jimwaterson/your-iphone-knows-exactly-where-youve-been-and-this-is-how-t?utm_term=.or2KM52W2#.voxkpEwzw

And there's Milo Yannopolis collaborating with white supremacists and neo-Nazis.

He is openly gay and married to a black man.

No one should believe a word you say after you claim white supremacists and self-proclaimed Nazis are buddies with a homosexual "race-traitor".

Excepted there is documented proof of him:

a) Literally collaborating in secret with neo-Nazis and self-described white nationalists.
b) Singing karaoke with white supremacists. Singing while those white supremacists literally made the stereotypical Nazi salute.

Now I don't know his true inner heart, but unless you contest the veracity of the emails it is a literal proven fact that he has collaborated with white supremacists and neo-Nazis.

Some of those claiming to be antifa are counterfits.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/craig...

https://www.vice.com/en_us/art...

To my knowledge, Breitbart has never done anything comparable to hosting a nude video despite requests from the subject, and a judge, to take it down,

Yeah., all they've done is sell nazism. No biggee compared to a 40-second video clip of a guy who had publicly bragged about his sexual escapades.

A $1000 machine that turns them into a talking poop emoji.

Honestly, how can you not think that 3 out of four third graders would pay anything if they could make a talking poop emoji movie.

Heck MAYBE if talking poop tells them to clean their rooms, they will actually do it.

You must be hanging out with the dour Unicode Standard guys.

Jack Posobiec, the guy who held up the "Rape Melania" sign

There you go again. The one cite in your Wikipedia article that even tries to support the claim that Posobiec was the one holding up the sign is a BuzzFeed article that says... wait for it... "according to sources." "Sources" that are, ever so conveniently, never named.

Even more conveniently, every one of about half a dozen other articles about this I sampled had no independent corroboration and simply linked back to the BuzzFeed article.

Surely you can do better than that.

Sanchez had been hospitalized for six weeks with radiation poisoning and still wasnâ(TM)t able to expose his skin to sunlight for very long. He was only 41 but looked like an old man, sun-weathered.

He wasnâ(TM)t wearing a shirt and had a large bandage covering his left shoulder and another taped over his hand. Radiation sickness can be fatal, but Sanchez said heâ(TM)d had on a thick jacket that morning and had only carried the cylinder a few meters. âoeLook,â he said, then slowly peeled the bandage to reveal skin that was still seared and pink. Normally, he said, he would have been out in the fields preparing for the summer rains, but he hadnâ(TM)t worked since that morning in December.

Minor symptoms, you say? Good thing cancer is an immediate thing and not a long-term risk after exposure, right?

Yes, minor compared to death, a little pink skin and some bandages aren't so horrible are they? Of course the article you are referencing is long on hyperbole, and doesn't state the reasons he hasn't worked. Maybe Buzzfeed isn't the best place to quote without skepticism. Here's the picture (comes across different than the words); https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzf... And although his risk goes up he is still not likely to get cancer from this statistically. The 'jacket' would have nothing to do with protecting him, reflecting the ignorance of the article author.

What'd Meryl Streep say about Trump?

Oh yeah: "Disrespect invites disrespect. Violence incites violence. And when the powerful use their position to bully others, we all lose."

So, Meryl, what you got to say about DEMOCRAT Harvey Weinstein?

Oh, yeah, nothing.

What a fucking douche you are. You yourself quoted Streep as saying "Disrespect invites disrespect. Violence incites violence. And when the powerful use their position to bully others, we all lose."

Then you try to imply that somehow that doesn't or didn't apply to Weinstein too.

How do you figure that? I don't see anything in what you quoted that says "except Democrats" or "except Harvey Weinstein."

But you don't have your own agenda do you? Nope, not at all. I suggest you go crawl back under your rock you piece of dog excrement.

Half of America wonders when the FBI will arrest Twitler fo "grabbing 'em by the pussy", which is surely worse than mere stalking.

Yep, those would be the same hypocrites who won''t say anything about big Democrat Harvey Weinstein dropping trou and beating off in front of a woman he cornered.

The Huffington Post is such a source of right-wing conspiracies...

What'd Meryl Streep say about Trump?

Oh yeah: "Disrespect invites disrespect. Violence incites violence. And when the powerful use their position to bully others, we all lose."

So, Meryl, what you got to say about DEMOCRAT Harvey Weinstein?

Oh, yeah, nothing.

It almost seems that you were attempting to find a day that somebody at the Whitehouse said something that was not a lie, rather than a day that nobody at the Whitehouse said any lies.

And quite honestly, I'm pretty sure that your first link has a lie right here:

Q Thank you, Sarah. Given what the President said about Secretary of State Tillerson's outreach to North Korea over the weekend, does the President still have confidence in him as Secretary of State?

MS. SANDERS: He does, yes.

And considering that I've already heard rumors about Tillerson's replacement (and a "suicide pact" between him, Mnuchin, and Mattis to prevent him from being fired), I think time will tell that indeed the President's spokesperson was telling yet another lie.

dom

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com...

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Notes: Though they do occasionally publish a legitimate story, some are conspiracies. This source also currently delivers news straight from the Daily Caller which has a strong right-wing bias. Most articles from True Pundit have anonymous authors. This source has also been flagged for false information and has an unproven claim. Simply not trustworthy.

It's the kind of site that dreams up "Pizzagate" conspiracies when it's not too busy reposting other conspiracy loons' vague "new world order" conspiracies.

I mean, if had been a real catastrophe like Kathrina, who knows what might have happened... ...

Seriously, citizens of the United States of America, WHAT were you thinking electing that clown to office?

Please see the bad argument on page 33 "Guilt by Association" in https://bookofbadarguments.com...

In other words, we don't have to be followers of Hillary Satan herself, nor readers of the leftist New York Times, to believe that the Russians may have tried to meddle with last year's presidential elections. President Trump's own government almost admitted as much last Friday.

And if not Russia, someone did try to hack those elections in 20 states. And that's the important part, whoever it was, someone powerful seems to have launched a wide-scale assault on our democracy and on our country. And President Trump doesn't seem to be taking this assault on our country seriously at all.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/kevin...

Goofus:
I haven't gotten enough sleep lately; think I'll take provigil.
I'm getting pretty sick from the provigil, think I'd better load up on antibiotics.
I'm getting some fungus problems from the antibiotic use, think I'd better load up on the antifungals.

Gallant:
(takes a nap).

False equivalency and appeal to ignorance, followed immediately by another appeal to ignorance. We DO NOT HAVE any long term studies from this artificial meat.

I see, can you point out where I said that we did have any long term studies? You bandy about debate terms like that means something, but dear sir, This is not some debate, especially when you attempt to make points on made up things.

The future is definable once we have facts, but you have NONE!

Am I upsetting you, getting you angry enough to write indecipherable and non parseable comments? One cannot define the future at all, or ever. What a strange statement you make. CAPS are also a great way to make your argument.

There are no long term studies on animals for eating this stuff either.

As an early stage concept, there has to be enough of the product to perform tests. Certainly before animal testing, there will be continuing In Vitro testing. At present, they are working on policy issues, http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/742.... Certainly synthetic meat has been eaten, and is chemically lean meat. The results? Apparently the burger one person ate was pretty good, and another tester said in a blind test, she would have called it meat. That's because it is meat. No harm was done to the victims.

Perhaps you are so stupid you believe that diet has no impact on children, but we have SCIENCE that proves that it does have impact.

I'm beginning to think that you have arguments with people in your head, and make up things for them to say so you can destroy them with a witty and dashing riposte. It is within the realm of possibility that I am quite stupid, but I am quite concerned about the health of children. Certainly the present state of say, bovine meat leads one to concerns about it's health issues.

Here is a very simple product for you to investigate to prove me correct and you an ignorant and inconsiderate prick who is fine with people being harmed by your belief in religion. prenatal vitamins

You then jump right to a false equivalency, and repeat the same appeal to ignorance that can be proven wrong with SCIENCE.

I have no idea what you are talking about. Where on earth did I ever mention anything about prenatal vitamins? What do prenatal vitamins have to do with artificial meats, or much of anything. Vitamins are a class of nutriments that are needed by the body, but in fact are not needed by most people who eat a balanced diet. Can you have a discussion without trying to switch the subject all of the time? It doesn't lend credence to arguments, and I have to waste time pointing it out.

How about comparing this meat to a product like Cigarettes, which were advertised for the better part of a century as beneficial to your health.

You keep bringing up cigarettes as if they were something scientists invented. The health effects of tobacco products were well correlated and exposed as causation even in the mid-late 1850's. But there were groups with a pecuniary interest in growing and selling tobacco products. These advertisements trying to claim that cigarettes were good for you were not put out by scientists, they were put out by tobacco company marketing and ad departments. Here are some for the lulz. I don't see any scientists in that mix, merely a bunch of bullshit. https://www.buzzfeed.com/copyr...

Do you see how ingesting cigarette smoke, or perhaps red dye #5 might be more similar to eating food grown in a lab?

A non-sequitur. Tobacco is a natural substance that you can grow in your house. It's also toxic. And scientists have known for a long time that it is a toxic substance. You need to direct your ire towards the tobacco industry and their lawyers, who betwee

Woah, you think this happens only in Russia? Check out this series of killings in the UK and the apparent impotence of the police, MI5 and James Bond.

it's based in biological systems developed to maximize species survival.

Okay, but why judge random people on what maximizes the survival of the species?

Because that's what we do. Me judging a woman as attractive or not is based upon my own particular reaction to her.

I asked my wife about this over lunch. Who does she want to see in a movie as a leading man. She said well built men who are muscled well, but not body builder types. Also "ruggedly" handsome, and not pretty boy. That's a judgement. That's what she likes.

Coupled with who we each decided to marry - i isn't much of a surprise.

The more important question in my mind is should men not be allowed to have leading ladies in movies that they find attractive? I have no intention of having Roseanne Barr or some other unattractive woman as a romantic lead. I think that Queen Latifa, who is gorgeous, would make a really bad "Wonder Woman" Side note, Third wave feminists were upset that Gal Gadot didn't have hair on her armpits, http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2... SRSLY?

So we are moving to a brave new world, where women have to be morbidly obese, unshaven, and probably ugly in order to be acceptable. https://www.buzzfeed.com/erika...