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That is an opinion at a perpendicular end from reality. The Democratic Party knows trans rights are a losing issue and have tried to distance themselves from the issue, they just can't, because the alt-right has chosen it as "the new abortion" and launched literally hundreds of new laws and...

Oh dear god, we're misreprenting anthropology and archaeology again as well. Funny how pop anti-gender rhetoric and anti-indigenous rhetoric are so often found together.

Especially if it inconveniences the middle class enough that the stratospherically wealthy can convince them they're all on the same team...

A system of digital currency is no more or less "natural" than any other cultural artifact.

He's a New Yorker...

It's very... Libya, toward the end. I want to cheer on my state, but mowing the whole country down to put a bullet in one man's head is neither as satisfying or as lasting a solution to a political disagreement as Hollywood would have you believe.

That movie was... weirdly uninterested in politics, for a movie about a civil war. It draws more from tropes of zombie movies, if anything. The only thing they do say is that California and Texas have joined together to form a breakaway faction together in opposition to a third-term president...

It won't change anything, but it's nice to see him taken aback for a moment.

There was plenty of this in the American Civil War, too; we've just turned the whole thing into a pageant in historical memory. In real life, plenty of people ended up "trapped" on the wrong side of the battle lines as they were drawn. In particular, Arkansas, the Kentucky/Tennessee mountains...

If we re-elect him, though, he'll just let all those people out of Azkaban again, freeing them to act and emboldening their fellows. And they're probably better fighters now, prison will do that to you.

When they voted for Karen Bass, the black woman who is personally responsible for every crime in the city.

Aren't there more than enough Reagan movies already?

The thing is, they DO have a voice. If anything, residents of disproportionately rural states like Idaho and Nevada have "more" of a vote in certain ways, as they have an advantage in the electoral college and senators with less divided constituencies. In this respect, leaving California and...

We have a similar and indeed geographically overlapping phenomenon down where I live, the would-be state of Jefferson. It will never happen, in either case. Setting aside the legislative hurdles to carving up existing states, even if they were given permission, Jefferson and Greater Idaho are...

I think it would be more accurate to say that we will act in a deterministic way. There is no "must", if you wanted to do something else, you would. And the deterministic nature of the universe means that the outcome of that "choice" is absolutely certain, whether or not you imagine that you...

Bees most certainly do learn information from one another, this has also been exhaustively demonstrated. It really really annoys me when people tell me what they think science "should" find or "will" find or "must" find or "ought" to find instead of just looking up what it did find.

Latest trend? The Big Dig was completed seventeen years ago. I'd say the latest trend in urban design is the 15 Minute City.

This is simply incorrect. Ants do not learn new patterns of behavior from other ants over their lifetime. They do have some interesting "learning-proximate" behaviors, like budding (using a series of changing pheremone trails to "teach" another ant to avoid one trail in favor of another). But no...

There is no evidence of ants learning anything, and not because the issue was never studied.

My point is not that mass killing is worse than lying, though of course it is, but that when someone commits a mass killing, that is an entirely reasonable occasion to question their motivations and moral sense, even if they insist that they "feel" like a golden saint who would never harm a fly...