Ultraviolet

Now that we have a president threatening to invade NATO members, we're about to have the nuclear threat back.

Perfect malicious compliance opportunity: the price tag stays the same, but add an itemized Trump Tax for the difference.

Capitalism in its current form has existed for the last 2% of human civilization. 5% if you count mercantilism as a form of capitalism. For the vast majority of history, people owned their own means of production.

Modi is just as much of a fascist pig.

Quake predates GoldenEye.

Even the most oppressive tyrants in history understood the concept of bread and circuses. Most people will stay complacent when their fundamental rights are being taken away as long as they have their distractions. Taking away the distractions is something you only do after you've fully consolidated your power. They're so obsessed with projecting an aura of oppressiveness that they've forgotten how to hold power.

That's a bit of a false dilemma though. The two options aren't "it's a magical elixir with absolutely no downsides" and "people deserve to be locked in a cage and have their life ruined for possessing it". Plenty of legal things can cause harm. 35% of people are lactose intolerant, do we ban dairy?

Hell, you can give away 990 million of it, buy a house, put what's left in a high yield savings account, and live comfortably on the interest alone for the rest of your life.

The fact that Windows hides file extensions by default is just absolute insanity to me.

Jury nullification isn't an enumerated power, it's an emergent result of jury deliberations being secret and their verdict being legally binding.

+84 doesn't mean an increase of 84 percentage points, it means 92% approval, 8% disapproval.

Is there anything morally different between pretending to be ICE to break into people's homes to rob them and actually being ICE and breaking into people's homes to rob them?