GreyEyedGhost

It's fun living in colder climates and having unironic discussions where people are agreeing that -10° C is a nice winter temperature since it's still relatively warm, but you don't have to worry about slushy, frozen roads or high humidity.

Moving fast and breaking things can be a great R&D philosophy...when health and safety aren't a concern or have been addressed.

As a Canadian, this is the first time I heard the term half-staff, while I've heard half-mast numerous times. So I believe it's much more an American thing and not a North American thing.

I think this is an important distinction, but having an emergency escape vehicle available isn't exactly the same as being able to just leave.

I think the takeaway from this is that a backup return vehicle maybe should have been prepared before Boeing got the go-ahead for this launch.

No children are being deprived of an education, and no one is having choice removed. Public schools are still being funded, and these children can go to them. If their parents aren't satisfied with that, they can still send them to private schools. If you have concerns about the quality of education from public schools, feel free to explain to me how subsidizing private schools is helping that. And comparing subsidizing private schools when public schools are available to subsidizing children's necessities is disingenuous at best.

It is still up to them to decide if they want to send their kids to private school, it is just no longer ger subsidized by the public.

If I had less morals or more energy, I'd give you a hundred upvotes.

I don't agree with the idea of punishing people for their parent's crimes, they may turn out alright in spite of their relationship to their parents. That has no bearing on Marine, tho. Hope France does everything in their power to keep her away from anything that counts as influence, tho.

Wow, I had no idea that [the Democrats] actually fixed the problem that [the Republicans] created.

I've given two examples of what nowadays is considered a fairly obvious statement, namely that people shouldn't be enslaved and that women are equal to men. One took a war to change, one didn't. Both took centuries to change. The likeliest reason for one causing a war was the financial factor, which both women's suffrage and trans rights don't have. But good on you for focusing on the least relevant element, which wasn't even a factor for one of those two examples. Frankly, I'm surprised you didn't notice the fact that I implied that slavery still exists in America.

We didn't get to the idea that little things like slavery were a (nearly) universally bad idea within the lifetime of the first person who proposed the radical idea that owning people and having the right to make them work and have the sole benefits of their labor was an abhorrent idea. It didn't even happen in the lifetimes of the founders of groups whose basis was the abolition of slavery, and, frankly, it hasn't yet reached universal acceptance or enforcement in America today. But please, do go on and tell me how these last 8 years of pressure on the Democratic party are equal to the centuries spent reaching that threshold of showing respect for your fellow person.

In political terms, that's known as just starting. As a much broader example, it was only in 1965 that America got (almost) universal suffrage. Depending on the state, that was a problem since 1776.