unbillievable

So the dude finally made it on the refugee boat from BBMB... Gator has some competition!

It's fair to say that the general population (and scientists) don't know enough about the climate to make concrete conclusions. It's okay to think that we need more, and better, data to study the problem. However, what makes the whole thing idiotic is creating laws based on predictive models that have repeatedly been proven wrong. It's like some dingbat said the sky was falling, ten people agreed with him, and now we're passing laws requiring everyone to carry umbrellas at all times or pay a fine; because it's a scientific fact that it rains.

The only thing Capitalism does is create wealth. What makes it great is that it is run by an uncaring, unbiased market; which favors the bold few. So we must use Socialism to move the newly created wealth to the underfunded needy. The problem is that we must depend on people to run it. So the solution is to turn our lives over to SkyNet.

If anyone is interested, the guy gets to the point of the video at 18:43. He managed to ramble on about nonsense for almost nineteen minutes.... ...actually, he tries to explain his definition of Socialism and Capitalism. (which seems to be what this thread has devolved into.)

So how many people could they have saved by jamming them into the 2 person shuttle that was able to go to the casino and back? 20? 30? 50? All of them? This movie felt like it was written during filming. Anyone trying to inject some political, philosophical, or even logical sense into this movie is fooling themselves. There is a laundry list of idiotic plot holes and that's just from first impressions on premiere weekend. Wait until the fanboys analyze it. Maybe the director (Rian Johnson) should have focused on making a better movie.

I'm starting to wonder if the "Bitcoin will solve everything" crowd is hanging out with the "Weed cures everything" stoners.

Neither. Science decides. Common sense would work too, but that died a long time ago.

"In denying Cara her surgery, Aetna said it considers laser ablation surgery "experimental and investigational for the treatment of epilepsy because the effectiveness of this approach has not been established." "Clinical studies have not proven that this procedures effective for treatment of the member's condition," Aetna wrote in its rejection letter. The insurance company did approve her for the more invasive and more expensive open brain surgery, called a temporal lobectomy, even though her medical team never sought approval for the procedure." She got approved for the normal surgery but not the experimental one.... ...so the obvious response is to cry on social media and say that the Insurance company is killing her.

"The panel will consider mandatory evacuations of hillside and brush area encampments during days or seasons of high fire risk, and education campaigns to discourage outdoor fires when winds pick up." So they're going to round up all the homeless and send them to education camps?

Are you one of those people that can't believe Trump won because no one you know voted for him?

This way of thinking is very dangerous. Our legal system is based on the idea that it is better to let 100 criminals go free than to send 1 innocent person to prison. It should never be equal. The burden of proof has to always be on the accuser. There is a thread in the PPP that cites a campus investigation where a lawyer told a committee that they must find the man guilty or 100 more girls will be assaulted by other emboldened men. It didn't matter whether he was innocent or not. Others in the media have stated that it is preferable to destroy a man's career and reputation than to "victim blame"; better to ruin 100 men's lives than to doubt any woman's claims. "Women don't lie about rape..." We've moved to guilty until proven innocent. "She has a right to be believed."

I find this thread incredibly sexist. No one has mentioned Men that get harassed. I know I've been the target of women who said "Hi" to me at work. I've also over-heard them rating men in the office. #metoo

It's her job. So it's more like that business that didn't want to bake the gay cake. If the baker has to bake, then the porn star has to sex up the gay guy?

That study is sexist and is a tool of the patriarchy to subjugate women.

How well do these foreign players translate to MLB? I'm assuming that baseball has a smaller learning curve than basketball or football.

Too bad they couldn't have included the Fantastic Four and X-men in the list of characters for Inifinity war. That would have been amazing to see everyone in one movie. I'm still hoping for a Marvel vs DC movie in the future....

The one that uses "Christmas" as a verb...."Christmassing..."

I found it interesting that her industry name was "August", since her parents already gave her a good porn star name: "Mercedes" You have to include trannies and black guys on that list. You're a bigot if you don't hook up with at least one chick with a d@#$%.

The intent of the bill is to get rid of these small businesses. All other reasons are just talking around that fact. It would be the same as banning poles to close down strip clubs.

I know my physics professor said that everyone would fit on Rhode Island and would be less than 1 ft high if liquefied.

It would be much easier to feed, cloth, and house people if we crammed all 7billion people onto an island. The world doesn't have a resource problem (at the moment); we have a logistics problem. Of course, this doesn't take into account culture or lack of personal space (which has been proven to drive people insane), or even the fact that communities are usually built around resources, and not the other way around, but it's the easiest way to build the communist star trek utopia liberals dream about...

What does it mean when Democrats are willing to admit that people would rather die than pay more taxes.

Everyone who proposes a UBI system tries to paint it as a program that will eliminate Welfare, the same way they say that raising the minimum wage will push people above the poverty level; which it has never done in history; but they still say it will. UBI will just be another unsustainable program on top of the existing waste we already fund.

The UBI will eliminate Welfare the same way raising minimum wage does...

If you take in all the responses, you can see that there was a mini war brewing, with the people crying for more freedom, while the administration pushed back by sending in their mods to rein in the children. The mods were getting it from both sides. It's interesting that the response from the mod team was to say, "$%#@ it, I'm doing my own thing," after their leader fled to her blog.