StuffedParrot

Ethically, comparing to the CIA is about lowest bar possible.

No, physics is such that semantics are important. What’s the observable difference between absorption/emission and reflection? If the latter doesn’t happen at all the distinction is meaningless.

I thought the poster was implying that the USPS was enforcing ownership even though they didn’t create or provide the content, so making your own mailbox wouldn’t help at all.

Yes that’s exactly the practice that I am pointing out you can replace.

You’d have to ask them.

Not if the society makes an effort to keep the pizza place.

> Natural gas is roughly half as bad as coal

Not if you enter a feedback cycle of greenhouse gas emissions. That is DEFINITELY the enemy of good.

I’m open to it, but I suspect it would be difficult to figure out all the things we’d miss even on a biological level. You don’t think people would read about planets and realize what they’re missing? I think they would curse their ancestors for ever leaving. This feeling of leaving some paradise and forgetting what we’ve even lost is a core theme of genesis, it’s as human as anything in civilization, and it’s only going to get stronger if we explicitly abandon where we came from (I mean this metaphorically, I imagine we’d be happy on earthlike planets, even if we do miss earth’s sun or whatever at first).

> It would be so much easier just to create the ideal environment in a large, rotating cylinder instead of having adjust a planet's environment to our needs.

Yea but people want to go outside.

I am not entirely convinced myself (I doubt there was a conspiracy so much as shared incentives) but the documentary is quite compelling, I recommend it.

...assuming we have any skill at maintaining infrastructure, and looking around this country we really don’t. Look at the oil pipeline leaks just in the last year.

> That's extraordinary nonsense.

What are you basing this on?

> Was Buzzfeed trying to manipulate people or just get clicks?

Publishing is an act of manipulation, including caring about what's happening around them (which is typically considered a good thing).

> It's a semi-automated system for creating clickbait to manipulate public opinion.

What differentiates this from any other media outlet?

> And the linked article showed you that, in practice, "a shambles" is perfectly correct English.

I'd think "in practice" would mean evidence of contemporary usage.