I say we invert it. To prevent aristicracy and nepotism, the wealthy will be prohibited from reproducting. No one in the top 10% of income or wealth gets a baby license.

Who says it has to be evil or cruel? I make a mean dish. It’s about average.

We should pass a constitutional amendment requiring every diplomat visiting the US to French kiss the sitting president at first meeting. You want to meet with Trump? You have to kiss him square on the lips.

If you’re looking to get into the scrap metal business, I could sell you the Eiffel Tower.

We’ll let you be the negative one.

Seriously. This person is using the right wing strawman version of open borders. We had open borders in the 19th century, but there was still a customs office. You still had to show up, register, and declare yourself. And they filtered out what criminals they could back then. Open borders simply means that anyone is able to come if they’re a law-abiding person.

You leave the borders open. If a terrorist comes across the border, you send the police to arrest them. You arrest criminals and prosecute them. Why is this so hard? You only need a completely separate organization if you want to control the numbers of people coming into the country. If you don’t care who comes, and just want to make sure there aren’t violent criminals coming in, the police are more than capable of handling that.

As high as is practicable. Have you forgotten that you live on stolen land? Did you think that was just a slogan without any meaning?

What I take from this fact is that we, the current citizens of the US, don’t have any actual moral right to the land of the US. (Except citizens of native descent.) If practicality weren’t a concern, the moral thing to do would be to give all the land back to the native peoples. But practically, that isn’t possible. The 300+ million citizens of the US have nowhere else to go. Trying to give all the land back would create humanitarian crisis of similar or greater magnitude, by raw numbers, to the genocide that wiped out most of the Native Americans.

Instead, I recognize I have a practical, but not moral, right to live and own property in the US. I have a right to stay here simply because trying to kick everyone out would be impossible. Any attempt would likely trigger a civil war and even further violence against native peoples.

This matters because I ultimately don’t have a right to tell people they don’t have a right to come to the US. If we’re going to justify not returning the land based entirely on practical grounds, then it becomes our duty to ensure that the land we’re not giving back is used for the greatest good for the greatest number of people. A random citizen of Somalia has as much moral right to a patch of ground in the US as I do, and I had an ancestor on the Mayflower. That’s how far back my roots here go.

We should accept as many immigrants as is practical. Obviously we can’t let in a billion people tomorrow. We need to be able to accommodate everyone who arrives. But ethnic or cultural identity is completely irrelevant. Hell, if you’re worried about housing, we should offer an unlimited quantity of visas for anyone around the world skilled in the trades and home building. If you know how to do construction, you get a visa. You’ll build your own housing and then some.

In short, figure out the maximum rate of immigration that our systems can handle, and set that as the level.

Look at this dumb fuck, taking decade-old data from okcupid and making sweeping conclusions about the entire human race from a fucking dating website’s blog post.

Pathetic.

You need to like…find Jesus or something. IDK. But religious or not, hate leads only to the pit.

A bedding ceremony.

A bunch of retroreflectors. Something like this. Hang them from strings in your windows. Retroreflectors reflect back light to their source. Don’t shine your own bright lights, just return some of the photos to the people that made them. And if by some miracle the cops do complain, say that they’re just decorative and meant to prevent birds from hitting your windows.

All grass based crops encouraged group cooperation. Plants like potatoes remain safe in the ground until you need them. But all cereal crops require harvesting at a specific time. You can’t just harvest enough wheat as you need it. This means you inevitably have to have a stockpile of grain to get through the year. And a stockpile of already harvested and prepared grain makes you an instant target for raids by opposing groups.

Cereal crops of all forms necessitate cooperation.

That’s simply not true. Or you’re confusing antique century-old porcelain with finishes not used today with contemporary pieces.

We actually got a full set of wedding china, and we got married in 2018. We’re elder Millennials. While I tell people that they should probably skip the hina, I actually enjoy it. Growing up my parents had a set of china that only came out for company and holidays, and it had a certain charm to it. And I’ve found our set serves a similar role. I actually keep it in the very same cabinet my mom had when I was a kid (she’s long since used a fancier cabinet that matches their dining set.)

But even in 2025, it can be nice to have a set of China. There’s just something special about having people over, either for social occasions or holidays, and being able to offer them a really nice place setting that isn’t part of your normal repertoire. I do got out of my way to use it though. You could just be stopping by my house for a chat, and if I offer you coffee, I’ll probably give it to you in fine china.

I get it, but we actually have made substantial progress over the last several decades in numerous medical fields. Look at the long term improvement in cancer outcomes. Every time a new treatment comes out, there are always people saying that only the rich will ever be able to afford it. And yet, in the long term, they’re wrong every time.

Depends on the zombie. But most zombies as portrayed in popular media are not capable of punching you, hitting you, or even using objects in any meaningful way. A zombie trapped in a locked car will stay there indefinitely, unless they just happen to hit the unlock button through their random flailing.

Zombies themselves are never capable. It’s their durability, relentlessness, and numbers that make them a terrifying threat.

Maybe God really does exist, he’s just a person that likes to pray on the emotionally vulnerable.

The problem with blindly voting for the lesser of two evils is that it gives your evil absolutely zero incentive to become less evil. In fact, if you’ll always vote for the lesser evil, you are giving them explicit permission to become even more evil.

Voting is a balance between the short term and long term. The “vote blue no matter who” club only care about the short term, long term consequences be damned.

You want someone to look at your AI art? Simple. Just make an LLM look at it. If AI produces it, AI can be the one that has to look at it.