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I have looked around, and there are even regular commenters on The Mary Sue who are not coming strongly to her defense, because she is a low-social-skills person who apparently has an antagonistic approach to discussion.

But the real problem is that there are a bunch of 'Mannist' type reverse sexists who are crowing about the firing like it's a victory for 'their side' when it's actually an instance of a woman getting fired for having a chip on her shoulder and not being very civil about her response.

ArenaNet stepped in it bigtime; their game is probably the big MMO with the most 'progressive' culture and storyline. They're never going to win over the people who stumble over their dicks during torch parades. Those dudes are not their customers.

She was probably wrong in the approach of her response, but the hooligans watching from the sidelines are waving their torches and hooting now, and that's not a good thing.

Jordan Peterson is what a stupid person thinks a smart person sounds like. And, he loves making pronouncements on things about which he's completely ignorant.

My favorite example is when he said that Disney's Little Mermaid is superior to Disney's Frozen because one comes from classical mythology and one was written by SJWs. They were both written by Hans Christian Anderson.

And it's really rich that the alt-Right have made Jordan Peterson their champion. People who claim climate science is bogus are embracing..psychology!

Jordan Peterson is the televangelist of the alt-Right. Like Christina Hoff-Summers, he basically tells his flock what they want to hear and makes a nice living doing it. Fleecing the yokels is always a booming business.

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This. It actually sounds like something I'd read on the Onion.

Except that it is happening in multiple places. NBC, has reacted to Matt Lauer's sexual shenanigans by enacting a new set of workplace rules that sound like a nightmare. Employees are required to report their's or any other employee's romantic liasons to Human resources. Being a snitch is now required - you can get in trouble if you don't. There are very strict rules on hugging another employee. A quick hug, immediate relaease, then back away to avoid any further contact. Even MarySue hates it. https://www.themarysue.com/nbc...

Other rules are that two people taking a taxi together is now verboten. And just so vegans don't feel left out, you cant take one to a steakhouse. I shit you not.https://pagesix.com/2017/12/25/nbc-tightens-sexual-harassment-rules-following-matt-lauer-mess/

Why on earth would they do this? In the #metoo age, a company that allowed a man to say go out on a date with a victim, and she didn't have a good time can be successfully sued for millions. One of the prime prosecution statements will be that the company culture encouraged this. So companies will now fall over themselves to demonstrate that they are against sex or any situation that might encourage interactions that might lead to males and victims interacting in any way that any person might interpret as sexual in nature. This is the future.

Here's an idea. Let's make midnight midnight always. I mean, for the first time since history, we have the technology.

Only the thing is, it isn't midnight, precisely, that humans care about. It's dawn, or to be more precise: waking up, at break of.

If the average place averages twelve hours each of sun up and sun down over the course of a year, and midnight were generally in the middle of the night, we can infer that dawn, generally, would arrive circa 06:00. (Note that because of earth's orbital elipticity, the southern hemisphere has shorter, hotter summers, and the twelve hour thing doesn't entirely hold up).

So let's make 06:00 the crack of sun up everywhere, all the time, not coarsely chunked into "zones", but right down to the minute. For this calculation, we'll simplify the planet's shape as a smooth oblate spheroid.

People who move about—at car scale—will need to get used to having two frames of reference. One will be the frame of reference of the physical location of his/her (putative) place of sleep. This will count as "home", even for those few where "home" is the exception that proves the rule (that being my least favourite expression of all time, but what the hell).

Then you will need to know the time at your actual geographic location. At the equator, a point on the surface of the earth has a rotational velocity component of 1,675 km/hour. In a car, a fast trip might average 100 km/hour. For every hour one drives due east or due west (when near the equator) you can expect a time adjustment at your destination of +/- 4 minutes per hour of driving time (for getting the sign right, it helps to know which direction you were going). For air travel, the correction is much larger, but we're pretty much screwed on time with air travel, anyway.

Further away from the equator, the correction term becomes larger, but not by too much within +/- 55 degrees, which accounts for pretty much everybody. Anyway, it hardly matters. Your phone knows. Use the phone, dumbbell.

The World's Population Mapped by Latitude and Longitude

(I can't link the actual source, it appears, because of a random act of self-sabotage.)

Back to air travel, I don't think we wants planes and trains operating on pesky human-compatible geographical dawn, so we'll probably want to include a TAI-based standard, as well, for that purpose. This leads to the nasty problem of choosing a distinguished point over what is, approximately, a pesky rotational symmetry (one that tends to plague large, gravitational bodies).

Looking at that link above with the population density by lat/long, we see a nice, impartial dip around 60 degrees E between the two largest population masses: Europe/Africa and Asia. (Clearly the Americas take the role of the down-underish "back side" in this calculation.)

Your choices here are the round number 60 degrees E, or the nearest non-arbitrary geographical reference point, of which there are approximately three. By eyeball, the minimum dip is circa 64 degrees E (estimating one-eighth of a thirty degree division). Consulting List of cities by longitude, and Google maps, the obvious choices are these (listed, by convention, from west to east):

* Yekaterinburg (60o35'E)
* Kandahar (65o43'E)
* British Indian Ocean Territory, smallest silly island of (circa 72oE)

Yekaterinburg is the listed city closest to the round number 60, plus it would tweak Putin something fierce (while still allowing him to spin this internally, quite hilariously, as evidence of renewed Russian global ascendancy).

Kandahar is closest to the actual dip. Bonus: everyone who watches CNN knows where it is ("over there" counts as an acceptable answer).

BIOT is a nice fillip to the British—in truth, the British have feelings, too—and extricates the designated point

Look more closely at the article and its links. When Milo retweets these racist items, he's doing so to incite a mob of followers to attack someone. It's been his MO since he glommed onto another hashtag hate group back in 2014.

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I feel that part of your complaint about Ghost in a Shell should also be directed at the original work. Maybe if the original animators made the characters look AT ALL Japanese then your complaint would have more merit. But this doesn't look anything like a Japanese woman to me.

Some kind of FTL travel
http://www.space.com/17628-war...

Immortal crew
https://www.ted.com/talks/aubr...

Prolonged stasis
http://www.themarysue.com/nasa...

Generations of crew
This is least as much about will as it is about technology. I think the price of having children being born into captivity is too high though.

This is just what's going on today. In 100 years, who knows? I personally believe we'll "solve" aging by then, and it will likely drive a discussion of whether or not we should and not whether or not we can.

>Some global warming might be good for people. Our mean latitude seems to be around 30 degrees but it looks like to me there is a lot more land at higher latitudes which would then become more comfortable.: http://www.themarysue.com/worl... [themarysue.com]. Will populations need to move away from the current coasts and maybe further away from the tropics, maybe. But people migrate, always have always will.

You make it sound so easy... only trouble is, we got all these borders and things now. Look at the political difficulties right now in Europe over a fairly small number of refugees.
You make it sound like a mass migration will be a simple process... dream on, the route for such a migration has always run over a lot of dead bodies, and this one - if it happens, will have more than any other. Most of them killed by other people.

You comfortable industrialized society sure as hell wouldn't survive it either - nothing like massive resource wars everywhere to disrupt industry.

Well food prices also increase because developing nations are drastically increasing their meat use which requires a lot of crops to go into feeding pigs/chickens/cows. Which I'm okay with because everyone should get to enjoy barbecued animal carcass.

But I agree ethanol is one of the dumbest ideas out there. If you get ethanol as a biproduct of a process you already need to do and use that for fuel, okay. But to turn food land into gas land is crazy. Especially if Billy-Bob needs to drive his diesel all over the place to tend to the crop and spray fertilizer (often generated via fossil fuels). It further leads to a mono-culture which likely screws with things like bees (especially if the seed is Monsanto terminator crops where the pollen has been specifically engineered to be screwed up so you can't replant it) and moves prices so that pretty much everything you by in the store has corn or soy in it. No thanks.

Some global warming might be good for people. Our mean latitude seems to be around 30 degrees but it looks like to me there is a lot more land at higher latitudes which would then become more comfortable.: http://www.themarysue.com/worl.... Will populations need to move away from the current coasts and maybe further away from the tropics, maybe. But people migrate, always have always will.

Brianna, you alleged that you are the the target of an online harassment campaign, and that law enforcement has done nothing about it, and yet it has come to light that you never contacted the police in the first place.

Would you explain why you made those allegations? Is there anything you wish to say in defense of your article?

http://www.themarysue.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/bootuporshutup.jpg#geekosystem

http://www.themarysue.com/barb... is much better done. If only that had been the actual book!

Yes, the creator of Cards Against Humanity has such a lovely twisted sense of humor that he raped a woman. No wonder you like his game so much, it's celebrating American rape culture.

Looking at the original link http://www.themarysue.com/marv... they are redefining Thor as the being that holds Mjölnir. Which is tough on the demigod Thor who happened to be the wielder of Mjölnir. They do seem to have confused Mjölnir and Thor but I am sure this is entirely deliberate and I am equally sure that nobody really cares. Comic books take religion/mythology and rework it as seems commercially appropriate but this one does seem to be gratuitous - they could have used a generic costumed superhero where retirement and replacement is normal (Watchmen) but replacing immortal(ish) gods is a bit much.

There had already been cases like a student being expelled from school and arrested because an experiment caused an small explosion (a bit of smoke and the top of the bottle to pop up). That is what is been teached in schools, where you are supposed to learn science, try it by yourself and you are risking to go to jail.

...since the left wing suicidal scum at the BBC are doing their best to make everything 'brown' on their channels. How sickening, the U.K. is being destroyed by millions of third world scum who HATE THEIR OWN PEOPLE and want to live around 'racist' white people more, apparently, and the scum who run the BBC are doing everything they can to help this genocide...

Yes, you are right. Doctor Poop is quite racist. Where are the people of African or Asian decent? Only two people of African decent were in somewhat prominent roles, the rest were and still are fucking crackers. Even then they were dumb. No wonder the racist British supported cuntervatives such as Blair and Shrub. BBC America should be booted out of the US along with Doctor Poop being banned for being the racist piece of shit that it is.

So we could never see our own Dr. Who episodes from 50 years ago bounced back to us?

If this was the reason why brick and mortar stores are dying, Amazon would had been bankrupt by now due to their censorship of "adult material". Not to mention Apple.

No, brick and mortar is dying because we are too lazy to drive to buy stuff, we can just pay to download or have the mailman bring us our orders.

Mind you: not saying I agree with this at all, just noting that it's not at all the reason they are dying.