Using the upvote button to agree isn't a problem, but it's more of a problem to use the downvote as a disagree if you're actually engaging with the person to debate the topic since it in theory lowers the visibility of the original post and your own commentary.

I always liked the idea of having a "recommend post" button, and let the better stuff with more recommendations and replies rise to the top naturally. It also avoids the weird feeling in clicking an upvote/agree/like to a topic that you want to discuss but is negative.

Spock: "That move was highly illogical, Captain."

Kirk: "Maybe. Mate in three."

"It was defensive! They moved stuff!"

You should be more angry at the throwaway society we've become to create so much trash, rather than rant at the person who might be the sole employee until someone else comes in to do the regular morning cleanup duties.

So you think some full trash cans cause people to head out to the interstate and only then throw shit out their window? Guess they're making a statement or something...

Obi-Wan and Padme are by far the two likely ones, but there is a point where Anakin realizes he's going down the wrong path while still not on the dark side, I believe when he kills Dooku. That's one place as well.

Thanks for the link that argues against your rant. I guess you could salvage it some by comparing the numbers and claiming the plastic component is lower than the main article's numbers in contribution. It would be awkward though if you find out they already separated those number in their math. It also doesn't change the point that a huge amount of pollution in the form of tire wear occurs constantly and isn't going away anytime soon.

We already knew this was coming.

https://xkcd.com/1897/

Situational awareness is key, but if all other indicators suggested everything was fine and you were driving up a bridge at night, there's not much warning before the road is suddenly not there thanks to the curvature of the road. I've seen plenty of short clips of cars dropping into missing road segments due to whatever reasons, and it's just not something you look for normally while driving nor is it that easy to see from a distance vs. an obstacle on the road. It's possible they tried to stop and just couldn't in time. The vehicle would be farther away if they had just flown off and not right below the base.

Gerrymandering within the governmental positions. This is why it was important to get a Democrat governor, otherwise the GOP would go full crazy.

It's not about the cuts, it's about sending a message.

"Bipedal???? WTF?"

Or simply "They're made of MEAT?"

That was my first guess, false target. Like a lizard that loses the tail, only less involved. Evolution ends up with odd solutions, but if it helps favor a trait by leading to survival, it's good enough. It could have just as easily been as someone else suggested, something that was passed on but not selected against either. Not all evolved things have to do with survival, some just are there.

Profit. If it was cheaper closer they'd be doing it.

I'm going to give him the benefit of doubt. It could indeed be true.

Yes, I know it's the Onion, but they've been spitting truth lately so I'm going with it.

That's a very complicated way to spell "insecurity".

True except for coal, there's a hell of a lot of still accessible coal. Coal is limiting of course and dirty. There's also other resources like metals that we jump started society with that were easily obtained, even picked off the ground, and now are either buried in landfills or merged into alloys that even our technology can't separate or reuse well.

Potato is life. Boil em, mash em, stick em in a stew, or make soup.

Several? I only see one brain cell.

And any other species' chance. Given the expected lifecycle of the Sun that will affect the habitable zone we're in, we have just under a billion years to go before the planet becomes unlivable by anything. Is that enough time for life to start over from some point and try again? Presuming minus a hostile period of time while Earth finds a new environmental balance, which always takes a while.

I think for whatever odds there are out there of other planets that can have the right conditions for life to become intelligent and expand further, they get one shot at it. If there were alien observers they've probably stopped by now. "That went like usual. Got close, but they did the typical mistakes."

I think I dropped connection again.