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Give anyone a ton of money and power and eventually they will turn into a sociopath. “Anyone” includes autistic people. We are not magical fairies immune to the basics of human corruption.

I mean, it might have made sense if it lined up with the equatorial channel that the death star has. If the inside was exploding and that was the weakest area, material would be ejected out the ring first before the rest of the structure exploded. That might, indeed cause a ring effect. But in this scene the ring is going vertically, not horizontally. So yea, doesn’t make much sense.

Not true everywhere. Many buildings, especially industrial, require a flush of the fire suppression system annually or biannually to test that everything is still functional.

The small, inert lump of metal? No, it’s fine. 9 times out of 10, you’re going to do more damage trying to dig the bullet out rather than just patching things up. Even surgeons will sometimes leave bullets in if it’s in a dangerous/tricky spot.

A proper way to handle this would be the hero catching them and then immediately rolling a ton of times while still in the air, turning the downward velocity into angular velocity and gradually reducing the momentum. The person may still pass out from the g forces, but they won’t be a pancake.

We have moved far past the point being to “prevent the threat of a good example”. That might have been the case 25-30 or more years ago, but now the only point is to appease the large number of wealthy ex-Cubans and their descendants. And yes, ex-Cubans, not Cuban Refugees. You don’t get to call yourself a refugee for 50+ years, at a certain point you have to accept that you have abandoned your country and embraced another. There’s nothing wrong with that, but you aren’t a refugee.

Just stare into Really Really Big Man’s Nipples of the Future.

No, it’s a bullshit comparison because the equivalent to “Jewish-Power-run Ministry” would be “Muslim-Terrorism-run Ministry”, which is not what is being said.

If he belonged to a named group with political goals and motivations, I don’t think it would be unfair to call the prisons run by that group. I don’t think your comparison is as much of a “gotcha” as you think it is.

Which is why I feel that for humanity to succeed we will eventually need an entirely new form of societal governance to replace capitalism & communism, just as those systems replaced feudalism and tribalism. Something like technoism where decisions are made and enacted by machines, incapable of self motivation; or geneticism where leaders’ selfish impulses are either bred or edited out of them. We are still many, many years off from technology being able to accomplish this, but the only way to overcome the human factor is to… well… remove the human factor.

If the election were between Trump and somehow someone even worse who was calling to nuke the entire area and turn it into glass, then I would absolutely be pushing for Trump. Shockingly, if we are trapped in a horrifying, dystopian version of the trolley problem (which we are), I’m going to make the choice that causes the least damage.

Using another analogy, if you have a badly broken arm, you can either set it and try to keep it immobilized, or you can let it stay how it is and all but guarantee that it gets fucked up even worse as it heals wrong. Voting third party is like saying “I don’t like either of those options since they both involve my broken arm, so I choose to pray to the Moon Goddess”. There is no option that immediately stops your arm from being broken. You can delude yourself and say the Moon Goddess will magically fix it, but in reality, you are choosing the option that does nothing and makes it worse. Choosing to set your broken arm doesn’t make you “pro-broken arm”, it’s just the only practical choice given a terrible situation.

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Humpback whales have been seen interfering with killer whales that are attacking seals or dolphins. Maybe they don’t see it as “genocide” as they don’t have a concept of the idea, but there is at least some evidence of another species upset at, and willing to stop, the killing of another. I think by that logic, if they could understand the concept of genocide, they would consider it a bad thing.

The paradox of tolerance shows us that, indeed, there is no contradiction.

If more people acted like Everett True, we’d live in a much nicer world. We’ve given assholes far too much free reign.

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He’s a modern day Edison. Loved by some, hated by others. Takes credit for other’s work and has sketchy morals. More a businessman than an engineer. History will ebb and flow on if he’s celebrated or destined, one decade he’s a hero, the next he’s a villain; and opinion will continue to switch.

The alternative is pretty fucking stupid too. Imagine losing access to your freshwater because the river shifted across an imaginary line. At least when the border is the river, you always have access to the river.