What you’re hoping for is that governments go back to protecting people instead of being used by the rich to transfer wealth from the citizenry.

Everyone knows gambling has zero social benefit and does a lot of harm. But none of that matters because you can show up to a few congressmen with a few thousand dollars and they’ll do what you tell them, and no other congress critters will get in their way because every other congresscritter wants support for their grifts.

Government is working hard to find a million ways to redistribute wealth upward. Public advertising of gambling is just one more sign of corruption.

It’s more satisfying to downvote it.

That might have been a comment more about OTTERS specifically than extroverts. They are, after all, carnivores; the males are also inter-species rapist necrophiles.

No, it’s still profitable by sales, but not profitable by politically-motivated IRS investigations and anti-trust enforcement and arbitrary tarrifs. I don’t think the consequences of a fully politicized regulatory system has come into view yet.

3D movies of the past were filmed fixed stereoscopic; not sure why they’re referring to 3D films as “faked”.

Whatever the case, 3D films in VR are a real experience, much better than 3D in the theaters.

Legit some Christians think Heaven will be Heaven because they will be enjoying watching the eternal torment of the sinners below.

I’m a simple man. If I see a custom ROM, I flash.

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Mutually Asssured Destruction is an easily technolngically achievable goal, that’s why we don’t see much development past that point. You only need to exterminate an enemy’s population once.

The lesson learned by the world, at this point, is that nukes are the only way to guarantee your country isn’t invaded and that agreeing to unilateral nuclear disamament is downright idiotic. Expect more countries gettng nukes this century.

Guess it sort of works if your life doesn’t involve a lot of suffering, kind of a shit philosophy otherwise. Don’t read Camus without reading Beauvoir.

I’ve always worked with people that have literal seizures if they haven’t already heard a song at least seventeen thousand times before. This might cause severe cerebral hemorraging.

Mods watching this one closely for species-level slurs.

This is kind of a weird conversation to be having in English in a room of probably 50% non-native English speakers.

It is kind of amusing how, “You guys are knee jerking your reactions instead of looking at the issue carefully” gets the knee jerk upvotes here.

Engineering, to Command, then busted down to Science Officer?

They should have picked some less attractive.