The energy would come from the trolley. The people would launch out at approximately the same speed as the trolley interacts with them and the trolley would slow down in response to how much kinetic energy was transferred to the people.

And they just justified any invasion by declaring that boarders are imaginary, so they didn’t matter. Guess what? Both words and boarders are imaginary, but they still matter.

I’m a liberal? “Liberal” is just a word and all words are made up. They don’t mean anything.

No political theory. No ad hominem attacks. Who start shooting first?

Who invaded who? Who started shelling who?

Neither does censoring criticism of the government and proxy depictions of it.

President for life doesn’t sound democratic.

Mobile in general. At one point, I tried setting up Syncthing to be able to manage files remotely for vlc, but android wouldn’t let the two programs access the same space with read/write permissions.

Last week, I was trying to convert a video and the program(FFShare) wouldn’t tell me where it was even saving the file to.

Long distance vacations are irresponsible and selfish. We don’t have the resources left to be wasting it on frivolous activities.

I remember an old story about a father deleting bat.exe off the family computer and blaming his son for breaking the computer with his Batman game.

Non techies have two settings. Either everything is a virus or nothing is a virus.

Reminds me of old school slashdot. A mix of techies, skeptics and libertarians. Luckily, the Demon Haunted World quotes stuck over the Ayn Rand junk. Last time I went on slashdot, it seems the libertarians took over. Never thought I’d see anti vaxxers there.

I’m having an easier time arguing with tankies then I did with right wingers. Right wingers don’t even believe themselves, so they shift the goal posts around to suit their needs.

The leaded gas made them easier to brainwash.