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I don't understand why anyone even considers that. It's a toy. A novelty, a thing you mess with when you're bored and want to see how Hank Hill would explain the plot of Full Metal Alchemist, not something you would entrust anything significant to.

That would unironically be more humane than a lethal injection. The injection was developed by non-doctors taking their best guess at what they thought would kill reliably and painlessly, but it's neither. And that's by necessity, no doctor would ever throw out their entire career by violating their oath as flagrantly as developing a substance with no purpose other than being poison.

It's a really poorly communicated image. Less detailed visualization isn't literally a washed out version of the thing, it's more that the details only exist if you're actively thinking about them, rather than your brain subconsciously imagining all the details immediately.

Cops murdering a child isn't "literally nothing", it's a very good reason to riot. Just because it happens so often here that we're desensitized doesn't make it any less abhorrent.

She blocked me on Twitter just for telling her a really cool fact: there's an emoji of her grandfather. It's this one! 🙃

The most relevant part of the boiling frog experiment is the only frogs that stayed in the pot are the ones that had their brain removed prior to the experiment. This explains why climate denialists are all conservatives.

The irony of him buying a company called Tesla and taking credit for their work would be seen as too on the nose if it was a plot point in a movie.

Marketers kind of backed themselves into a corner when they named 4G LTE. It was supposed to be an intermediate step between 3G and 4G, but when they rolled out actual 4G, people thought going from "4G LTE" to "4G" sounded like a downgrade, so they called 4G proper "5G" at around the same time actual 5G was rolling out, creating a massive clusterfuck.

Sure, let's start with military funding. The cost of one bomb can cover healthcare for thousands.

The Doomsday rule.

Not necessarily the part for calculating the day of the week for any arbitrary day centuries ago, that's just a useless party trick, but for the current year so you don't need to pull out your phone to check. Knowing that 1/3 (or 1/4 on a leap year), the last day of February, 3/14, 4/4, 5/9, 6/6, 7/11, 8/8, 9/5, 10/10, 11/7, and 12/12 are all the same day of the week, that this year they're all Tuesdays, and next year they're all Thursdays, is mostly easy to remember and very frequently useful.

The barrel itself is rotten. Replace all the apples with good ones, they'll rot too. We need to build a new barrel, with significantly more accountability.

It's like the Singularity, except the exact opposite.

I'd go so far as to say if the alternative is extinction, absolutely no action, no matter how drastic and no matter the collateral damage, is unjustified as long as it works.

The median income of SAG-AFTRA members is under $26K a year. A tiny, tiny percentage of actors are what you would call rich or even well off. Most have a second job and still struggle to pay rent.

Unfortunately because of the way Youtube's algorithm works, even high quality channels are buried if they don't play the game.

That's a myth perpetuated by oil companies to discredit climate science. There was a single paper about it that was widely rejected as a crackpot theory by the larger scientific community. The consensus then was the same as it is now.

The convenient ambiguity of the word "right" to refer to both morality and cold pragmatism is definitely part of the decision. Something can be "right" as in strategically optimal but evil.

Double that is still weird. If the heat death of the universe is 10^100 years out or more, we're incredibly early whether it's 13 billion or 26 billion. That leads to one possible explanation for the Fermi paradox, the universe will have countless civilizations rise and fall over the eons, we're just one of the first, if not the first.

Granted that's just a thought that came to mind under the influence of an unexpectedly strong edible rather than actual scientific research, but it's still neat.

Looking in the replies of any new scientific discovery is infuriating, they're all spouting inane shit about how "science changed its story, so it has no credibility, this is proof that the earth is flat and 6000 years old."