No one. That having been said, "Science is real" is a mantra for people who couldn't take the derivative of x.

This is not them trolling. This is them showing you who they are. Best believe them.

I don't mean to come across as rude, but you do realize patents are literally published when issued? It's rather the whole point of the system: to allow those practiced in the art to reproduce the work.

I don't care much about twitter or Musk, but this whole affair is fascinating to watch. As a layman, usually when you see these massive changes in ownership structure it's just a precursor to some sort of cannibalization. Think Bane Captial or Microsoft's embrace, extend, extinguish. For whatever reason Musk has decided to take a company filled with useless eaters and turn it back into a functioning machine.

This must be terrifying to watch for some folks, especially if he succeeds in any way. The "tech" industry seems to have the bureaucratic bloat of organizations centuries older. If Musk can successfully rid Twitter of institutionally entrenched deadweight, it's an interesting proof-of-concept for the wider industry. Think what that means if you've got a sweet high-paying gig as a relationship manager. Your whole way of life could be on the line.

One more thought on why Musk would do any of this. I think it's because he can. Money, free speech, politics, etc don't really see that interesting to a guy like Musk. Usually, companies just die slow painful deaths, and twitter was beginning to age badly. True comeback stories are far rarer in business than sports. I think it has more to do with proving a company can be, for the lack a better word, reformed than anything else.

Agreed.

I didn't leave the left, the left left me

Everyone who says this is just biding their time. It is the entire basis for American Conservativism and look at their limp wristed resistance to social and political upheaval decade by decade. In the '60 conservatives gave up freedom of association, in the 70s they gave up to country to immigrants, in the 80s they gave over our manufacturing base to hostile foreigners, and so on.

The problem of accepting people who have "seen the errors of their ways" is that they usually haven't.

Not a single white American cared about this woman's hair. I doubt a single white man even had a single thought about it in eight years.

Bodycams for teachers!

Starving the population as motivation is an old communist approach.

Not endorsing the idea of fraud, but fraud isn't just pulling something shifty and hoping the other guy doesn't notice. Successful frauds are hard to detect by design. Measures and countermeasures. More time means more opportunity to get it right. The allegation is not that some doofus is printing off a bazillion extra ballots and throwing them onto the pile. The allegation is than some smart people have time to analyze the math (partial returns) and engineer a fix that is not statistically obvious. You can argue this is not happening, but it would be silly to say that it is impossible.

EDIT (Reason: Brain fart): Left out the answer to your question. Slowing results gives a would-be-fraudster time to work because it limits the flow of information and allows fine tuning. Think of it more like a PID control system; if you don't have to make a one shot correction, why would you? Tune the fix as the data comes in.

Of course they can. You're living that reality right now. I hate to go all Uncle Ted, but how do you think the Western world would look if most of the population were not addicted to cheap dopamine bumps? Likes, binge watching, cheap exotic takeout all keep people happy while each generation is less secure than its predecessor. Now if you really want some magic take away some creature comforts and place the blame on your target of choice. The Ferengi explains it well. https://youtu.be/BtXtZmbjG_c

I've seen some speculate that if various Intelligence apparati control or have access to enough of these exchanges it effectively voids any advantages arising from decentralization. I don't really know enough about them to know if this is plausible or bullshit.

Tennessee is mobilizing troops on the Virginia border

As a Tennessean, I hope we're more committed this time around. If the bugaloo does happen, it will be just like last time: the US enforcing its hegemony on states who want out. After they win the histories will tell that it was a righteous war to help the alphabet people and preserved their right to groom children, which has always been a conservative value.

That's funny because I recall, and this could be apocryphal, that silver medalists report the least satisfaction with their placing. Almost the best but not. This woman getting a double whammy. She's almost the best but not, and she also loses an additional placing because the race organizers see fit to include a dude based on his fetish.

Looks like a spook ran operation shutting down.

It doesn't, but this is the type of person who has for years hoped and dreamed someone would paint a swastika on their front door. That never materialized, so they have decided to make do with this.

Fair enough. How would you answer the following: why do jews get to behave like women?

Can the non-Jews ensure corporations align with their values?

Someone who thinks stormfags are wrong explain this to me?

The Bible does not say a great many things. The answer to your question is that Biblical literalism is a weird American Protestant thing that even they don't hold to all the time. Christianity has a very long tradition of Aristotelianism; it's baked into the thinking even if most Christians don't realize it. We believe abortion is murder (and a sin) because it is reasonable.

Probably the same type of thing with actual born gayness

And yet we have an understanding of the various gene loci associated with handedness, as thin as it may seem. 25 years of looking for the "gay gene" has yielded no similar results. If we had it, it would be widely broadcasted. Also, at the end of the day if a genetic predisposition to homosexual behavior exists, it does not matter. It would still be disordered behavior. We don't consider schizophrenia to be a "mental orientation."

Oh I agree. I just thought the comment I quoted was an odd tangent from, you know, the people actually blocking the road.

After that fucking long ass traffic jam, I’m ready to send a years supply of viagra and fairy dust to Ethiopia.

It's amazing what liberals will say when they think no one cares.

EDIT: I mean really; who sits in a traffic jam and then thinks to himself "I should send rape packages to a foreign civil war on the other side of the planet because I want people tangentially related to the protesters to be raped to death"?

That multi-timeline shit got pretty popular after Westworld. I suspect it's a way to cover bad writing.

As much as I hate to discourage Impy, I think this is a case of Hanlon's razor.

Touche. Well, it is not the hypocrisy that makes his position wrong.

Cool. I hope you get a chance to read it, but don't dive too deeply into wikis or anything like that while looking into it. The reader is meant to struggle a bit trying to figure out what the heck the narrator is talking about.