Having kids.

Isn’t that just brain trauma?

Neither was King Kong in 1980.

At no point did I mention volume, I implied education. I actually find just yelling louder to be worse than censorship, as all it does is increase the level of tension and push people towards extremes. Which helps no one.

I also didn’t mean to imply that we shouldn’t use band-aids at all, just that it’s a simple treatment, not a cure. Blocking certain speech and rhetoric can help to a degree… but not if it’s the only thing you do.

The problem with current strategies is that no one wants to go beyond that first step. Whether it’s censorship, or shouting.

Censorship is, at best, a band-aid. And they can always find ways around it. The best solution isn’t to block them from view temporarily, but to teach people to evaluate what they say with empathy and critical thinking.

That is, of course, difficult to accomplish. But then again, there’s no easy solutions, only easy excuses.

I mean, they acknowledge that it’s wrong, and they acknowledge that Bruce Wayne is not stable enough to have power by having him give the power to Lucius.

Not all scenes are so one-note that it only ever has one meaning or message.

Yeah, that’s probably the worst thing that’s going to result from fumbling.

Ah, so that’s your belief system.

Just because a government is secular doesn’t mean the country is.

Rocky roads are full of marshmallows.

It’s a wonderful phrase

For now

If you want to ignore all nuance and never actually find a solution to said problem… sure!

The hotels receipts I’ve seen (I worked approving travel expenses, so I’ve seen a lot) they differentiate between specific locally mandated fees and their own fees (which is probably part of the legislation that compels them).

The excuse is, and has always been, “Because we can”. Never think otherwise.

… go on.

Apparently it lets you chat with an AI agent to power-browse the internet.

… I feel I have an idea of what this means, but it still breaks my brain just a little bit.

Sure they are, they’re called helicopters.

The problem with flying cars isn’t that it’s not possible, it’s that it’s not possible to do safely. People can’t seem to stay out of each others way in two dimensions, much less three.

I usually just use email.

Pen and paper? What’s that?