You literally lived on handouts, bud. I went from free school lunches to a PhD, a successful scientific career, and owning a nice house. You know how I did it? Hard work, sure, but also tons of government programs that gave me the opportunity and often just straight-up cash to pursue my dreams and live up to my potential.

Nothing more hypocritical than someone who climbs a borrowed ladder only to try to kick it down after they're up.

IIRC Fishburne said he wasn't even asked.

Yeah, the movie basically started with Lana Wachowski basically saying "I didn't want to make this movie", and the rest of the movie drove that home with a vengeance. Repeatedly reenacting iconic scenes with that same iconic scene literally playing in the background, reusing all of the big "wow" effects from the previous movies with very little that was new thrown in, etc. Given that WB was going to make the movie without her anyway, whether she liked it or not, I can understand why she'd want to turn the movie into a 2.5 hour "fuck you" to the idea of its own existence. However, at the end of the day it's just not a very good movie.

Every time, governments come together to talk about how important this stuff is, set goals, and then completely ignore them. It's time for the billionaires to step up; I'm hearing rumors that Elon Musk is looking to build wind farms on the moon.

Exactly. There's a limit to how selective you can be with the facts before you're just outright lying and I think this article is well over that line.

Hotel Barcelo Sants is also sci-fi themed, with more of a stylish 2001 vibe, and it costs about 100 euro per night. Even better, when you leave Barcelo Sants you're in the middle of Barcelona instead of fucking Disneyworld.

Next year's party is going to be LIT

"If lockdowns work - which arguably they do not". Yes, you could argue that if you ignore all of the facts. Sweden relied on a strategy like these dudes are advocating and the result is that they're the only country in Europe that's shit their pants as bad as the USA has. Not only have they NOT protected vulnerable populations, their economy has suffered worse than any of the surrounding countries that did lockdowns.

These dinks are pitching this like it's something that could work in a country full of morons with oppositional defiant order and an imploding government, and it hasn't even worked in a country with a strong central government and a culture that values civil obedience and the common good. There are literally two perspectives from which this is a functional plan: complete ignorance of how it's worked elsewhere or by placing no value whatsoever on the lives of vulnerable populations.

Oh my apologies: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Flmgtfy.com%2F%3Fq%3Dminority...

"The US doesn't have any systemic inequality in availability of healthcare" is astonishingly ignorant, as is "anyone can get the care they need". Not only are those things not true, they are less true in the USA than in any other developed nation. And yes, minorities have less access to care and receive poorer quality care than other people. These aren't political statements, they are statements of statistical fact. Please at least spend an hour looking at healthcare costs, outcomes, and access before you say this stuff because you are patting yourself on the back for living in a healthcare system that charges more, for less, than any other healthcare system in the developed world.

Please reevaluate your news sources.

"Most" is an utter lie. Maybe most of the ones you see on Fox are like that, but in reality most people who are interested in and concerned about anthropogenic climate change realize that we need to balance economic necessity and long-term conservation priorities, and we aren't even remotely beginning to do that. It's very convenient to paint the people who disagree with you as enemies of civilization, unfortunately it is completely dishonest and counterproductive.

Exactly right. Lovelock has finally realized what most climate scientists and ecologists have know for decades: Lovelock is out of his frickin' mind.

What a hilarious parody of a stupid slippery slope argument! You are a comedy genius.

Color me unsurprised. And also not buying.