Everyone belongs to everyone else.
Huxley, in Brave New World
How could this happen in a civilized country like the United States? Stampedes at mass gatherings are something that only happens in third world shithole countr.....
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Never mind.
No, that's what happens if we keep letting third worlders into the country.
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Maybe that's because he has a ficking point and he should be allowed to make it.
Why do I get the feeling that the rapist himself is the victim of abuse?
Not that that justifies anything.
Didn't give a fuck until it affected her. These people are not our friends.
Yeah I saw that article too. The problem, which they mention in the article, is that it's only possible with negative energy and negative mass. In order to use this theoretical method to transport even a small spaceship, you would need an almost infinite amount of mass to generate the negative energy imbalance that it would require.
FTL travel would violate fundamental laws of physics, so it's probably not possible no matter how advanced our technology becomes.
If we eventually end up replacing ourselves with sentient machines, it's conceivable that they could construct an interstellar civilization, as traveling for a few decades or even centuries would probably not be too onerous from their perspective, but even that I think is a bit far fetched.
Even retconning Timeless Children wouldn't be enough to get me back at this point. Also, I really don't think Davies will do that: he believes in the message. I was never as big a fan of his Who as I was of the older series. Making the Doctor a young, hot twentysomething instead of the more mature, complex man that he always was before rubbed me the wrong way from the very start. It was done for no reason other than to attract a shallower female audience at the expense of the old fans.
Don't put your faith in Davies. He may be a better writer than Chinballs, but he's still woke.
The earliest evidence of life on Earth dates back more than four billion years, almost to the genesis of the planet. As far as the prospect of finding life on other planets, that's actually quite promising: It's probably happened more than once in our solar system.
But here's the thing: if there was life on Mars, it's not there now. If there was life on Venus, it's not there now. We're not just looking for extraterrestrial life: We're looking for sentient,intelligent extraterrestrial life.
We live on a perfect planet in a perfect orbit around a perfect sun. If our sun were a red dwarf star,like 85% of the stars in the galaxy, life would probably never have begun here, because red dwarves don't produce enough UV radiation to kick-start organic chemistry, and most of them are flare stars, prone to wild variations in luminosity and heat. If our sun suddenly got twice as hot and twice as bright and stayed that way for several hours, we'd be fucked. If it did that every couple of months, at completely random, unpredictable intervals, there would be no stable environment on any planet in the solar system.
If our sun were in a binary or trinary star system, like most of the stars in the galaxy are, then our orbit would be wobbly and uneven, which would also create an unstable climate and water cycle, and life would have trouble holding on. If the sun were a lot hotter and brighter than it is, an A-Type or B or O-Type star, then it would have gone nova along ago and we wouldn't be here.
If our solar system were closer to the center of the galaxy than it is, closer to a black hole or a gamma ray burster or a superluminous star, or even just in a denser stellar neighbourhood, then we probably wouldn't be here.
And then there's all the shit flying around. If we didn't have Jupiter in the outer solar system, with its huge gravity eating up all the rocks careening around that what to come crashing into us, we probably wouldn't be here. The likelihood of a planet the size of Jupiter forming around a star the size of our sun is about 1 in 26.
And yet, even here, on this perfect planet in its perfect orbit around a perfect star, in a relatively quiet corner of a relatively stable galaxy, it has still taken a third of the age of the universe for those first organisms to develop to the stage that we're at now, and there's no evidence that it happened earlier.
I'm not saying it's impossible for it to have happened anywhere else, but if it has, it's almost certainly so rare, and so far away, that we will never meet them. We are, for all practical purposes, alone. And we always will be.
There are no aliens. The Earth is not an interplanetary pit stop for extraterrestrial voyeurs or conquerors, and they probably don't even exist.
Backstory to this: the governments of Ontario and Quebec both announced on the same day that they will not be dismissing health care workers who refuse the vaccine.
So, yeah, consider me emboldened. They would only have done this if they feared losing a significant percentage of their trained work force by going ahead with it. If that many nurses and doctors don't trust these vaccines, then why should I?
First it shows Virginia with 97% of polls reporting, then it flips to NJ with 75% reporting, then it flips back to Virginia with 94% reporting.
I don't know why anyone's getting excited over Youngkin. He may have an R after his name, but the man literally ran a hedge fund. He's as Cathedral as it gets.
Substitute "retarded" with "on the take".
But what if your love of caramel were so single-minded and all-consuming that you were literally unable to think about anything else? What if you lived in a fantasy world where caramel was literally the sole and only cause of all the world's problems, and eating the caramel was similarly the solution to all of the world's problems? What if you were so comforted by the simplicity of the Caramel Question as an automatic default in the face of any difficulty or adversity that it never occurred to you to talk or think about anything that was not Caramel, knowing, as you would, that the Ingredients of the Elders of Cadbury was a real and legitimate document, and that it explained all of the evil that exists in the universe?
They still have faith in the system. They've spent 70 years living in the most prosperous, well-ordered society in all of human history and they just can't understand or accept that all of the institutions they trust to govern that society have become irredeemably corrupted. They're living in a collective delusion, and they're dragging us down with them.
My tax money paid for this article. Such a proud moment.
Of course he can't stop talking. He's a raging narcissist.
Where's the diversity Klaus?
Also WTF are you wearing you Blofeld wannabe?
In spirit, the Bill of Rights is a recognition of the fundamental rights of all human beings, and of the responsibility of the state not to infringe on those rights in the case of US citizens. In ruling that vaccine mandates are not unconstitutional, the Supreme Court has effectively ruled that the state of Maine has the right to violate its citizens' rights. The judges are not upholding states' rights: they are enabling the violation of human rights.
Which is only more proof that the stormfags are a small group of feds and a larger group of whiny teenagers too stupid to realize they're being manipulated by feds.
-Aldous Huxley, in the foreword to the 1946 edition of BNW.
He may have been a Fabian, like Orwell was, but like 1984, BNW is not meant as a manual: It's a warning.