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Wouldn't be the first time one of the two major parties has held onto its legitimacy despite clearly existing solely to be the villains of the story and despite having already been defeated by its heroes.

The funny thing is that the "Evangelical" label was coined by people who were trying to distance themselves from the religious ultraconservatives of their day, the Fundamentalists. Time is a flat circle.

If I ever get a YouTube channel, my signoff is gonna be "Question everything, especially people who tell you to question everything."

If certain commercials for charitable foundations are anything to go off, one in six just sounds like they've caught up to the status quo in the US.

Fox News isn't giving him interviews anymore? Hell, I'm shocked they haven't given him his own time slot.

It happened long enough ago that I've lost the link, but special mention has to go to all the police departments that tried to make their officers get the COVID shot and caved at the first sign of resistance. I feel like if we started enforcing the vaccine on a nationwide basis for police...

How does one province have the power to unilaterally amend the whole country's constitution?

Oh, I'm sure it was a deliberate choice even back then. Random encounters are how most fights work in tabletop RPGs too, right? The DM just goes "there's a monster in this room; everybody roll for initiative"? With the logic being that as soon as you can see it, it can see you too unless you're...

I'm amazed that random encounters without overworld sprites survived past the age of turn-based movement and platforms that couldn't handle more than a few sprites on screen at a time. Even roguelikes made enemies your character could see visible, and being bullshit on toast was the entire point...

Honest question: You know how the ACA forbids insurance companies from denying people coverage for any reason as long as they paid up? Does it say anything about the hospitals? Because if I were an overcrowded hospital I'd start authorizing the clerks to look up incoming patients' Facebook...

I feel like if you're literally the government, allowing your defendant to settle out of court shouldn't even be allowed. They should have to make their pathetic excuses before a real judge, as quickly as possible, and get taken for all they're worth.

My abusive relationship with Enter the Gungeon remains as strong as ever, but I've added a new infuriating roguelike to the mix, Void Bastards. It's a first-person shooter with heavy System Shock inspiration and a tone right out of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Technically it's a...

Even if we were to say that percentage of the population matters more than total count—which, frankly, it does if you're really going to be honest about it—the big difference is that we were vastly better equipped to deal with a pandemic now than a century ago. The first flu vaccines weren't...

I guess it could be worse. They could be like the signs in US stores, bluntly blaming someone other than the real source of their problems.

That's a silver lining for the companies that make voting equipment, I guess. They can put that money to good use suing everyone who's been accusing them of fraud.

The trouble is, even if they sell it, the short-term result is more money for the bastards responsible for this mess. I'd sooner let it all burn.

Every system assumes on some level that the parties involved won't conspire to dismantle it from within. What's the alternative, making a pact with an elder god to come and hit the cosmic reset button should we fail to maintain rule of law?

All joking aside, it really is sad that even in the best-case scenario, this could only ever lead to the company being dissolved and its assets fed to the vultures that are other scummy businesses, with the victims ultimately getting maybe enough money compensation to last them until they can...

My money's on Tencent, who have the desire to own everything in the world and infinite money to do it with.

You say that as if every single powerful AI in the history of science fiction didn't go completely batshit insane because of a misplaced decimal point in their code. And as if every AI developed in real life so far didn't end up being plagued with suspiciously human flaws.