Kicked up your comment, but can’t tell if sarcasm or missing my stating that I’m steel manning.

The amount of drops I’m getting leads me to believe most people don’t care that I was steel manning for the sake of argument. But people are agreeing that taking down the confederate monuments would be akin to genocide, so maybe this community is very different from what I expected.

Angry video game nerd?

I might’ve conflated him and total biscuit in my head.

Not being able to treat people like people because they have different genitals, proving age is just a number.

Ole ole ole oley

Way to go Chile!

An interesting definition you propose. I’ll need a bit more convincing, but I’m open to updating my terminology

For example (and I’m analyzing from the worst case here, not actually arguing for the following) I wouldn’t say removing confederate statues is an attempted genocide in the South.

I would say there are plenty of people who would love to call it such by your definition of the term.

My argument is it’s more energy efficient to shoot something towards the sun that will have the same result as hitting the sun than it is to get it out of the solar system.

And I know 2 that didn’t, I’m 0 for 2, you’re 1 for how many?

It should be as hard to own a gun as it is to drive a car

But it takes wiggling magnetic fields to confine fusion reactions, seems like taking energy from inefficient containment, or there’s more energy than required being used on containment which is lowering the overall efficiency…

I am just a chemist.

I’m glad it points out what people think Trump did well in, but how the fuck do people think Trump will lower the price of household commodities and rent when 2016-2020 (and it’s policies) are when all this shit kicked off?

I apologize. I was still, am still, very discomforted at the stakes riding on this election, and what it’ll mean to future female candidates if both female nominations get trump presidential terms.

But I always look ahead with hope

Why do you need to hit the exact center of the sun to have the desired results? Get it within the orbit of Mercury and I’ll be happy enough.

You are making 2 opposing assumptions there, 1) there is nothing to bump into in outer space, the earth picks up 43 tons of new mass every day.

2. the earths orbit would decay, the earth is absolutely massive compared to the amount of mass gained, and also off gasses a significant amount of mass every day.

If orbits don’t decay, why do even high orbit satellites need to make elevation corrections?

If you put a small body into outer space it would absolutely be (slowly) effected by the miasma of particles out there.

And let’s not forget we don’t have a time table for reaching the sun, and we aren’t aiming for the middle of the sun to see results. And as you approach the sun you will bump into more and more particles as they too are being drawn around the sun.

It’s an easy talking point from the Internet and high school text books, it is disregarding of many actualities of our universe. It would be true if the sun were an infinitely small point on a 2 dimensional plane with a perfect lack of friction.

And while for instantaneous results it would be easier to get something out of the sun’s gravity well rather than hit the exact middle of the sun, practically, if you have time, and you don’t actually need it to hit dead center of the sun, it’s much cheaper and easier to incinerate something proximal to the sun than it is too send it out of the solar system.

Also let’s not forget gravity sling shots work in both directions.

That’s assuming all cows are a point on a frictionless 2 dimensional plane.

1. you don’t need to hit the sun dead center to be incinerated.

2. the sun is huge

3. you aren’t in a frictionless environment, your orbit will decay into the sun.

The jowls are more similar?

Man I don’t even reply to my family’s political bullshit on private feeds, what makes you think I’d give 2 neurons of effort calling out a practical stranger out in public?

That’s the top of the slippery slope that leads to consumption.

If you see a Republican trying to lick your dog, correct the behavior immediately, they’ve proven themselves not able to exhibit self control in those situations.

For some reason “and Bill Clint claims to have fixed these streets” feels like the source of your line. I’m not doubting it’s originality, if you were writing 30 years ago you could’ve been a rapper.

This makes me happy, not giddy, not excited, but there’s something waiting for me that’s absolutely incomprehensible.

Twenty years ago it would’ve kept me up at night and made me cry silently into my pillow.

Many years ago I noticed I’d get those thoughts when I stayed up too late into the morning wasting my time away, and I would panic and spiral, but when I woke up I’d barely have memory of those thoughts.

Now when I stay up to late and I get those thoughts I know it’s time to go to bed, I just accept that they come, and I know that they’ll be there, they just don’t bother me. Very much like my eventual demise.

If they’re intrusive you probably haven’t had enough time to contemplate them. Live with them a while and you’ll find them to be another part of existence, and they’ll make you appreciate your existence, no matter how temporary, even more.

And don’t ever believe anyone who says they know what happen to them/you the moments following your demise, they only hope to make your time with this existence benefit themselves.

Definitely a tick mark on the weird spectrum