It's strange you wouldn't lead with the premise that it's both.
There are plenty of bigots here, but the bigot movements are growing. How do they grow? By tricking or convincing people.

I generally agree with you, though, and those are the mechanisms by which they're tricked or convinced, or primed for it.

Ah yes, the Mississippi, the only river with 7 tributaries in the world. Of course.

God I miss having flagship phone that would fit into my hand.

Also I miss windows phones. Fuck Microsoft, but they tried something different and imo it worked if you went in with an open mind.

UH!

Killing in the name by rage against the machine

If you're unable to engage people in a reasonable way, then you're just as much of a problem as I am regarding progressing equality. People who mostly agree with you don't deserve a novel belittling them via straw man.

Im not one for centerism and half measures, and I fully get the idea of the paradox of tolerance; but you're exhibiting conservative purity culture, which is the very real failure to deconstruct our upbringing that causes progressive movements to constantly self destruct.

Have you?

Is your argument that compilers need to change their output based on the way that text gets displayed to users? That's a pretty wild claim to make.

I prefer the fi.

Fi with only a little sci is still entertaining.
Sci without only a little fi is just a fictional service manual.

The connections she made on set are how Jack Black got his start Hollywood

It's fine to like harder sci-fi, but don't denigrate soft sci-fi just because you don't like it. Soft scifi is no sloppier in allegory than hard sci-fi is. There are only 7 stories.

everyone except me is hiding the truth about what they really feel, but I know the truth!

That's the position you're going to double down on, in the face of everyone correcting you? No, the therapist won't think you're crazy at all.

You think you've found a gotcha, but you're still just outing yourself. You think that a romantic relationship involves a single type of attraction, and that a single type of attraction affects sexual arousal? If I believed you capable of long term romantic relationships, I'd pity your spouse.

I kinda wish it included the dates on these. Not having them makes me a bit dubious

It's not that I don't believe Zuck would do that. It's that I don't believe that Musk wouldn't come up with something just as depraved.

I'm trying to figure out what X-ray equipment can be stolen that is worth only thousands of dollars. A case of those films you bite on when they x-ray your teeth?

Honestly I think they look pretty good.

But Elon is a fuck. And their build quality is shit. And I refuse to support that kind of company. And fuck people who do support them.

It's the mining of diamonds that kills all the children. After the diamond is mined, I can use it with almost no child deaths. Diamonds are fine.

We will never consumer our way of of a problem capitalism created. And public transit is nearly always a better solution to spending on car infrastructure.

... but... If you're gonna buy a new car anyway, they have the potential to cause less climate impact (although they're still environmentally devastating in other ways). As power generation becomes cleaner, so too do the cars. ICE cars are already about as environmentally friendly as they're gonna get, but EVs still have a lot of potential improvement (both in emissions and in things like material mining).

Although the tire microplastics is gonna get worse.

I've got some bad news for you...