I can't hardly remember last week, much less which of the many THOUSANDS of programs and movies I have watched

What an empty life you must live, mindlessly consuming so much content that you can't even remember what it is you've spent so much of your life (not) paying attention to.

Martin Luther King Jr. also engaged in some rather "free" sexual practices. Therefore, the civil rights movement must be discarded from history.

Consider that the ideals of society have changed.

Don't like it? Fight to change the ideals back to where they were.

he problem with that is that we, right now, have better tech than the TOS Enterprise

No kidding. I've been watching through TNG and one aspect of the show that jumps out as being unbelievably primitive is that the away teams have to describe what they're seeing to the bridge crew.

You know, instead of just streaming video from their iPho-errr... tricorders...

What a shame. They might have to resort to reaching out to the vast numbers of American citizens that live between the coasts.

If the SF store owners can get over the cultural barriers, that is...

If a man negotiates poorly with respect to his peers and consequently gets paid less than them, is he being discriminated against?

If it's not discrimination for him, why is it discrimination when this scenario plays out with a woman in the role?

You are free to leave this nation and its citizens that you hate with such a passion and relocate to somewhere else far more forward thinking. I hear that Nicaragua has just emerged as being in the forefront of progressivism, perhaps you will be more comfortable among your peers there?

Of course, I don't think that you will actually leave, because deep down you know that you have it good in this country - and you don't want to give up your way of life.

Tracks, air cushions, rails, any variation on legs and feet...

they're all terrible solutions for the problem of course, but then again, so are wireless headphones for a portable media player device.

Ah yes, the destitute's equivalent of: "I've got mine, so screw yours". Is it really too much to ask that people take some pride in their home?

So basically, people are able to bring up numerous examples showing your assertion to be either misguided or flat out wrong, and your defense is simply: "well obviously I meant opinions other than those, you know, the ones that prove my own opinion right".

But well done on getting so many people to respond, coward.

It's all just opinion, you just agree with them so you don't see it.

the global security landscape darkened

darkened is opinionated, non-factual language.

the international community failed to come effectively to grips with humanity's most pressing existential threats

Also opinion - what threats specifically? How did they fail to effectively "grip" the threats? Why are they humanity's most pressing threats?

This already-threatening world situation

How was it threatening? To whom?

a rise in strident nationalism

Implicating that nationalism is a negative political motivation, with no basis in fact whatsoever.

Donald Trump, made disturbing comments

More colored and decidedly non-factual language. No rationale as to how his actually rather insightful comments merit both being described in negative terms and how they advance "the world" towards war, nuclear or otherwise.

you are old enough, experienced enough, and wise enough

Perhaps they are indeed, and you don't have enough of the aforementioned traits to truly understand their position?

There are a finite number of CEO positions currently in existence. Jobs of any sort don't just spring into being because you want to have people filling those roles; it follows that trying to put more people into these positions will necessarily mean that either you're replacing people currently employed, or you accept that fewer people as an overall fraction of the population will not end up with a job.

So it isn't necessarily true that more non-white CEOs does not mean less white CEOs.

Well as all of the supporters of this move will say about that sort of thing happening, the internet at large will "treat that as damage and route around it".

So what's the problem, wasn't that easily remedied because it got "routed around"?

Because this is not Reddit, and Slashdot has never worked that way.

If you want an echo chamber, go back to Reddit.