Even the name TRUTH does not trump Trump sycophant Kelly Ann Conway's term "alternative facts." Fill in the blanks: TRUTH is to truth as ... is to ...

There's a very simple answer to this problem. If you read history, you'll know that, traditionally, servants' quarters were provided in all the best houses. No need for a return to slavery after all; indentured servitude will suffice.

True enough. The science is from the large body of scientists who have surveyed their various fields on behalf of the world's governments.

The political is that I believe them, and not you. It's purely a pragmatic choice on my part of who to place my trust in, as I confess I don't have the answers to all scientific questions at my fingers.

A couple of corrections. I should have referred to "argument" not opinion, and I shouldn't have used the word "my" in place of "the."

I've concluded that my ability to work around design flaws in Microsoft products, and even my ability to keep track of which character is used to create a comment in different programming languages, does not give me any particular insight into atmospheric physics and related fields. So I tend to go with what the vast majority of experts in the field say. Of course, perhaps they are wrong. I just don't think it's more likely that they are wrong than the teensy minority who would like us to think our society is not responsible for the current vandalism of the planet. My conviction is strengthened by discoveries like "gosh, tobacco smoking *does* cause lung cancer, after all."

My scientific opinion is presented here: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ipcc.ch%2F

It never ceases to amaze me how people with enough technical understanding to join Slashdot can be so unmoored from reality.

Who needs psilocybin? Too much respect or love can turn people librul too.

It's always struck me as very odd that it is easy to find out the applicant/acceptance ratio, but no school of which I'm aware ever looks to see the relative success of those who attend vs. those who were admitted (or admittable) but did not attend.

Of course, for prestige schools, even that wouldn't tell you how much the school's educational process contributed to their students' success versus how much was contributed by the ability to list the school's name on the student's resume.

But it would at least be a start. If the students who were admitted but did not attend, when compared with those who attended, turn out to have similar happiness and/or incomes twenty years later, then much of what is now credited to a particular school's education might well turn out to be due simply to the filter they apply during admissions.

No schools seem interested in taking up that challenge, as far as I can tell.

Remember when 1,800 deaths sounded like a lot? It's just noise now, thanks to the US government's response to the pandemic.

Wouldn't this group of scientists, whose information is presumably a very hot topic now, do well to demonstrate how their conference can be done via video? How better to convince people that videoconferencing is now a good substitute for travel?

The pattern that represents you is perfectly transferred to a new location and reimplemented using new materials. This is no different than when you eat and poop the material that sustains your pattern.

As an aside, how wonderful to have a controversy that doesn't matter, for a change.

"...you don't come out of the gate when facing such liability as Boeing is facing and admit it up front..."

No, I suppose the modern CEO would never do that. If, though, it is correct that Boeing released an aircraft with a deadly single point of failure, and if it is correct that they knew this and thought they could patch it with pilot training, then Boeing is completely responsible for the resulting deaths. Wouldn't it be refreshing for a CEO or a corporation to take responsibility for something if it is well-documented that they are responsible, rather then engage in the more typical tango of bullshit? What is wrong with our society that this is not an expectation anyone holds.

People understand risks better when they are reminded of who gets to control technology. It's not necessarily Officer Friendly. Sometimes, it's someone like Mohammed bin Salman's bitch.

I'm not sure I want Donald Trump to be able to drive my vehicle remotely, even if Jeff Sessions has signed off.

Just think how useful it would be for all people to have to wear TMS helmets that would intervene if we had bad thoughts. Why, Bob Mueller would have cleared Trump long ago, homosexual thoughts would be eliminated in Mississippi, and we would never again have to endure all this bureaucratic bullshit about, you know, rights and freedoms. Yay, technology.

Yes, laziness is inherent in humans. That's why it's so important to tax inheritances at roughly 99%. Otherwise, all those wealthy children will just sit on their asses and do nothing except consume and make political contributions to reactionaries. By taxing them and redistributing the decedent's hoarded wealth, the children are allowed to work for a living, and those in dire need have a shot at the money that had been pulled away from things like housing and food and placed instead into yachts, jewelry, DWM collectible art, and 100 year old wine.

Oh, I'm sorry, you were talking about why we must not help poor people get out of poverty.