Let's not add the fact that reflecting sunlight onto the earth at night increases warming.

Right, I agree partly, but in a lot of those situations, you just don't go there. They don't come with the pretentious, holier than thou douchebag factor. They don't complain that the only vegan option is a side salad. They don't expect you to cater to them and they just don't bring it up. Let's isolate it: a Hindu who doesn't eat meat just says so and leaves it at that, if they even bring it up in the first place. They don't go around circling the conversation around and around about how they don't eat meat.

Oh, please. They've already told you long before you've gotten to the point of entering the restaurant.

I keep pointing it in your direction, but for some reason I can't see anything other than a black bit of felt. Besides, you never have to ask somebody if they're vegan. Believe me, they'll tell you.

Cows aren't derived from random processes in nature, they were bred into existence from another animal. Still, I'm not going to eat lab-grown meat. I do, however, support developing the technology. For one, it puts en end to vegan douchebags, and two, for space travel. You can't bring a cow with you to Mars. You can bring a mechanism that grows meat with you if it's small enough. I imagine the first voyages to Mars are going to require a large enough space station to make it work.

The whole thing is BS. AI is a tool. I used it recently in a case. It was able to help me with the case. I was in superior court pro-se against the assistant AG. The document it helped me develop took the AG and the court by surprise because it was put together well with strong arguments. But, it could never have done itself without me guiding it. AI is the wrong word for it. It's more like a hammer. If you know how to use it, it's quite powerful. If you don't, you fail. Look at it like this: a lawyer can take on more cases with the help of his legal aid using AI than without it. Technology has always done this. For the first time, it helps solve things on the intellectual side. We're not used to that.

My small city has plans to install a total of around 12 roundabouts. 2 are in place, but the government did something stupid: they put in the most complicated design first. They should have started out with two two-lane roads crossing. Easy to figure out. Instead, they put in a 4 lane road intersecting a two lane road. Not a good starting point in an area that has never encountered them.

I love them. Seriously. I can go around a roundabout in a fraction of the amount of time it takes to stop and start. Oh, and it saves fuel as well.

It's the worst concept to creep into motorcars since... well possibly ever. A better idea: set up lights so that people don't stop as much. That'll save far more gas as people aren't sitting in idle all of the time.

An article about 10 years ago pointed to the fact that company boards had learned that executives that were psychopaths (literal, psychological, not "name calling") were better for profits. Capitalism only works if the owners have a conscience.

We have this idiotic viewpoint that everything needs to be either far-right or far-left. There's a such thing as people being for some policies and against others. Want to know why America has been going downhill? It's stuff like this, where compromise is gone. I'm pro-labor, even when I was in a situation when I had my own employees. I gave unskilled programmers a chance, sales people a chance, etc. I didn't give people a chance based on demographics, I gave them a chance based on their willingness to perform their duties and learn when needed. I'm politically moderate overall and unaffiliated with either party because both have their demons.

Their blonde roast isn't bad.It was developed after Starbucks realized that European clients didn't want burnt coffee and instead preferred a medium roast. I complement Starbucks for introducing us Americans to the idea that coffee didn't have to be the crap we used to have, but going all out burnt wasn't going to last once independent roasters opened up and served a good medium roast.

I did like the NeXT layout, where there were buttons on the right, and buttons that looked stunning and detailed. Mac OSX and iPhone kept that going, until Jony Ive came through with his ugly stick and ruined everything. Apple has never had a beautiful UI since and frankly the whole "Let's make it thinner" thing has run its course. Folding phones are the future.

I think to a great degree we've reached or surpassed a critical mass, where so much data is out there that it's of little value for extortion, unless you do something stupid with your data. The Equifax breach exposed hundreds of millions of records.

How about they make something of their shithole countries so they're no longer shithole countries and there's nothing to move away from. And a reminder, it took guns to get the British to get the message, and it may take the same for these countries.