The biggest issue is that itâ(TM)s no better than a helicopter. It looks like it can land in less places than a helicopter.

We need to get energy from fusion. If only we had a giant reactor.

How about the story of a movie studio that keeps going back and remaking the same movie over and over worse each time?

His beard. That thing must be long as hell 40 years without shaving or taking a shower can you imagine?

A citation is just a reference to an older piece of work. Nearly everyone cited in a paper has no connection to it, other than the fact that their past research was useful or relevant to points being made in the paper. If you mean reviewers past work shouldn't be on the citations list, that's often not very possible. I mean, you need an expert in the field to review the paper and such a person usually has a publication that your own paper relies on .. especially when publishing at the top tier level .. the reviewer needs to be top tier as well.

How many major breakthroughs are needed before we actually get a truly useful one?

We've been needing this revenge ever since they went crazy and attacked people at a seaside town in California back in the 1960s.

Conservatives are against anything that benefits anyone besides themselves. The justification is whatever they can think of. They were in favor of race-based selection .. "freedom of selecting employees" when it was blacks being discriminated against. Now that they feel the pendulum has swung the other way its "racist policies are wrong".

Done correctly, OF is a legit career path. While some may feel degraded doing it, other people actually like doing it. I'd do it if there was a demand for beer belly old people. It's not societal decay it's just entertainment like movies, sports, wresting, or magic shows. One could argue a civilization whose people watch a ball being tossed back and forth, instead of toiling on a farm, is societal decay .. I'd say it's a sign of advancement/evolution. A rich life, on top of Maslow's pyramid.

Do a price comparison.

Why is a pound of rice (or any food, really) 4x cheaper in Asia than in the US?

I'll tell you why .. it's because we fucked ourselves on housing by mass blocking every developer from building new homes. Reference: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsweek.com%2Fsan-f... That in turn caused inflation. Housing became people's biggest expense. We don't want new housing units in our neighborhoods and cities. So we blocked them. The end result: Housing in most places that have jobs has become unaffordable to most people. The only solutions are drastic:

1. Ultra-tax or ban unoccupied housing
2. Grant every building permit without reading it.

Wow, you just made that up.

Is going to be chicken vindaloo?

It amazes me that people who proclaim themselves as of the superior race,'s solution to everything is genocide and murder. At that point you have to ask what quality makes themselves superior, it isn't ethics. Likely not intelligence either.

Care to explain Volkswagen (Hitler's concept, reference: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fweb.archive.org%2Fweb%2F20...) and Porsche (a Nazi Party member) sales?