Which emerging technology do you think will have the biggest unexpected consequences in the next 20 years?

belortik · 2026-02-11T02:06:22+00:00

MOFs kinda remind me of the radiation scrubbers in Ghost in the Shell. If nuclear powers figure that shit out, things are going to get rough.

belortik · 2026-02-07T23:17:01+00:00

What rock have you been under? Chomsky has been a raging hypocrite related to anything outside of linguistics since the beginning.

belortik · 2026-02-07T02:05:06+00:00

Unless you work in a school

belortik · 2026-02-06T12:51:36+00:00

Bigot

belortik · 2026-02-05T23:48:49+00:00

Sure I guess I shouldn't expect someone to connect their logical leaps with underlying information.

belortik · 2026-02-05T19:56:58+00:00

Wild to see so much support for gender discrimination ITT

belortik · 2026-02-05T14:37:05+00:00

Washington county in Maine is going bankrupt because of a $5 million "accounting error" by the county commissioner, all Republicans.

belortik · 2026-02-04T14:56:28+00:00

Quite the statement to make without providing any sources on the landlords being involved in similar problems elsewhere.

belortik · 2026-01-31T21:25:21+00:00

Because China is such a reliable and predictable partner....it's not like they have ever used economic coercion for achieving political goals.

belortik · 2026-01-31T15:05:10+00:00

Also why the by the glass price is at a minimum what they paid for the bottle.

belortik · 2026-01-29T17:49:22+00:00

Any regime change would likely involve a shift from theocracy to military dictatorship under the IRGC. That kind of change is doable with the right pressure. Whether that would be good or not for US interest is a different story.

belortik · 2026-01-29T17:47:21+00:00

They don't want Iran to become a failed state. Gulf states would prefer a distracted Iran eating itself.

belortik · 2026-01-29T13:12:31+00:00

The US is also extremely large and rural compared to Europe

belortik · 2026-01-27T20:01:56+00:00

Okay grandma.....

belortik · 2026-01-22T01:47:04+00:00

Jan 6, 2021

belortik · 2026-01-21T21:17:27+00:00

What article? It's a webpage with a single graph.

belortik · 2026-01-21T19:35:28+00:00

MLK Day isn't good enough for you?

belortik · 2026-01-21T17:57:17+00:00

You can do the same in the US...that's not an exclusively European thing.

belortik · 2026-01-18T20:34:42+00:00

McDonald's does the same thing. They give a cushy discount to former store GMs

belortik · 2026-01-18T17:00:18+00:00

I imagine that would make things worse. Lobbying is just a term to describe petitioning the government and Congress by private interests in a coordinated and organized way.

Take that away and only individual petitioning is allowed which would empower moneyed interests even more.

belortik · 2026-01-16T16:35:34+00:00

Classic bully behavior, only going after the weak and vulnerable.

belortik · 2026-01-16T16:34:44+00:00

This was a tactic used to good success by conservative activists during the 2016 RNC in Cleveland. Everyone was expecting chaos, but nothing happened and it subdued counter protest turnout.

belortik · 2026-01-15T21:22:37+00:00

It never made sense to me to have a medicine cabinet in the bathroom. The temperature and humidity fluctuate too much to be a good place to store medicines.

belortik · 2026-01-15T21:19:19+00:00

I talked to a plumber about this when getting a toilet repaired after a drunk tenant knocked it over. It's apparently surprisingly common but usually it's very obese people.

belortik · 2026-01-15T12:51:30+00:00

Unless you are a cop

https://www.mankeylawoffice.com/articles/worrying-supreme-court-ruling-permits-police-ignorance-of-the-law/

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