self-interested American foreign policy

I detect some redundancy here.

I use names of known computers or androids in fiction. My main computer is always Ralf (the computer built by Richie Adler in Whiz Kids), and my main phone is Lal (Data’s daughter). My girlfriend uses other franchises (GLaDOS, Wheatley, Marvin).

Being rich is not natural. And it’s a red flag because you don’t get rich without being an asshole.

Skin darkens as an attempt to defend us from excess UV, not for a cosmetic benefit.

Eerily similar to what happens with religions…

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Nope. I’m a touch typist. That keyboard doesn’t fit my brain. QWERTY is too deeply embedded.

Who counts the votes? That person knows.

Har har

Online votes would be insanely easy to adulterate. No computers should be involved. Paper ballots.

How do you ensure that the vote is secret if you vote by mail?

Edit: would the downvoters care to explain what’s wrong with my question?

Yeah, my please was only because the wrong version rubbed me the wrong way for some reason, but nothing against the OP (I acknowledge that I failed to convey that).

You didn’t succeed at finding the block button either.

What you call “pedantry” I call “minimal command of a language to enable proper communication”. If I can handle it in a language that’s not mine, so can you.

You may not care about communicating properly. In that case, feel free to block me.

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PLEASE.

get involved for real, in the three-dimensional world, and trying to change all these awful things we’re all posting stories about all day

Well, more power to those who do, but in many places doing that gets you killed.

Ah yes, stargates, the rotary phones of interstellar communications.

Only on Earth. Everybody else uses touch tones.

That kind of attitude leads to being scammed with popups and robbed of all your savings.

Go back to your VCR, Granma.

We need to do more than just listen to what a few people on television say. Everyone should do their work and if they don’t, they need to accept some responsibility.

Please tell me how is this possible in countries where knowledge and critical thinking are demonized and magical thinking, including religion, is entronized as the most desirable way to evaluate reality.

Newsflash: it isn’t.

Promoting cutthroat individualism as a way to handle society doesn’t help matters either.

And that’s why the world is in this shitty state.

Thinking (specially thinking critically) consumes too much energy and too many people are unwilling to do it.