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  1. Re:Farm animals have it better than wild ones, on Should Plant-Based Meat Replace Beef Completely? (pbs.org) · · Score: 2

    "responsibly raised farm animals, who have room, board, and medical care"

    But no unlimited internet?

  2. Re:Hmm, my own case... on Researchers Ask: Are People Better Off Than 50 Years Ago? (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    Claims of old age do not correlate with UID!

  3. Reporter Just as Stupid on Flat Earther Now Wants To Launch His Homemade Rocket From a Balloon (themaineedge.com) · · Score: 2

    "Wouldn't it be cheaper and less deadly to just try to drill through the Earth to the other side to prove your point?"

    That's a reasonable question?

  4. e e cummings on LinkedIn Bro Poetry Pretty Much Sums Up 2017 (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 2

    Disable caps for his name!

  5. Kill All Humans on The Firestorm This Time: Why Los Angeles Is Burning (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    "Before humans, wildfires happened maybe once or twice a century"

    Really?

    Brandolini's Law: The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.

  6. The Ironing on Stephen Hawking: 'I Fear AI May Replace Humans Altogether' (wired.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    He said this in a robotic voice...

  7. Re:One of these things... on 375 Million Jobs May Be Automated By 2030, Study Suggests (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    American society won't survive 100 million formerly-employed displaced resourceful competent angry people.

  8. Wow, What a Relief! on 375 Million Jobs May Be Automated By 2030, Study Suggests (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    "39 million to 73 million jobs in the U.S. could be destroyed, but about 20 million of those displaced workers can be shifted fairly easily into similar occupations"

    So... best case is only 19 million formerly employed people out of work permanently and only 20 million precariously employed in newly-created, probably make-work, likely government-subsidized, low-paid jobs (unless of course, these new jobs are exported to $5/hour places overseas) for which there will be intense, ruthless competition that will bring out the worst in people.

    No problem, then, all OK!

  9. Re:Another thing they don't tell you about the mod on What They Don't Tell You About Climate Change (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    With no "crisis", ~75% of alarmist, taxpayer-funded climate scientists will be unemployed. So of course there's a crisis, and it's worse than we thought!

    What percentage of priests believe (or claim to believe) in God?

  10. Re:Damore isn't the one who should rethink things on 'I See Things Differently': James Damore on his Autism and the Google Memo (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Great post. These two words are the most striking:

    agitprop and fraudulent

    And the agitprop and fraud will continue as long as the media keeps giving these idiots credibility and attention.

    But since fraudulent attention-seekers and most of the MSM are mutually parasitical, I don't see things improving anytime soon.

  11. Re:Also affects normal people on 'I See Things Differently': James Damore on his Autism and the Google Memo (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I'll just repeat this part...

    The whole point is to signal ideological group identity and demand conformity.

  12. Re:It's getting harder... on Is American English Going To Take Over British English Completely? (scroll.in) · · Score: 1

    Spelling-wize, you mean.

  13. The horror movie script just writes itself, doesn't it?

  14. Re:Jesus H. Christ... on Human Mini-Brains Growing Inside Rat Bodies Are Starting To Integrate (inverse.com) · · Score: 1

    "You' re offering a false choice and tagging it with phony morality"

    There's a lot of that going on lately. Self-bestowed moral superiority provides all kinds of nifty benefits and group advantages. One could be the justification to preemptively commit violence on others based on perception of pending danger.

    "I had to bash that guy in the skull because his words were going to be violent to me."

  15. Re:Yeah, right on Peter Thiel Could End Up Owning Gawker (pagesix.com) · · Score: 1

    You can sell "potential legal claims" now? How does that work?

    Find someone with money, make a legal claim against them through a lawyer and then hope they settle? WTF?

  16. The Resistance Strikes Again! on Twitter Employee Blamed For Deleting President Donald Trump's Account (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    They're just like the Maquisards in WW2!

  17. HP Calculator Museum on Hewlett-Packard Historical Archive Destroyed In California Fires (pressdemocrat.com) · · Score: 1

    So what? We have the HP Calculator Museum online now! Screw those physical artifacts!

    *obsessively fondles HP-11c* My Precious

  18. Sounds like an animals rights group that is against humans keeping domesticated animals for companionship.

    Or an upsetting comment made to a doggie.

  19. Re:no place for handicapped people is not just a l on Tesla Hit With Another Lawsuit, This Time Alleging Anti-LGBT Harassment (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    The harassment didnâ...

    Article writer Scottish.

  20. Re:Being obese is a large risk factor in surgery on Doctors To Breathalyse Smokers Before Allowing Them NHS Surgery (bbc.com) · · Score: 0

    Scalpels aren't long enough to cut through thick fat.

  21. Bye Bye Middle Class... on Bankers Publicly Embracing Robots Are Privately Fearing Job Cuts (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ... unless you're a plumber, electrician. I.e., any job that requires your physical presence and is not easy to automate.

    "conduct research or brainstorm ideas"

    Too many people doing this just creates chaos.

    "workforce will more likely grow than shrink over the next 20 years"

    Most people doing unrewarding, low-paid, make-work jobs precariously (since it'll be easy to replace anyone). Hire people or face big taxes.

    "creates opportunities"

    For a select few aided by automated systems.

  22. Attempting to equate someone needing to use a wheelchair with someone else who falls down repeatedly. Well done.

    On the other hand, perhaps Madame ex-Secretary should could have used one as a sympathy prop.

  23. But Trump didn't have Fally-Downy syndrome.

  24. Re:Trump...North Korea...Iran... on EPA Says Higher Radiation Levels Pose 'No Harmful Health Effect' (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Just eat lots of bananas to up your resistance.

  25. Re:At what expense? on World's First 'Negative Emissions' Plant Has Begun Operation (qz.com) · · Score: 0

    You're not supposed to ask how much it costs, you're supposed to just enthusiastically support whatever is proposed. Otherwise ===> Denier!!!