Why are we basing conversation on back of the envelope calculations when actual scientists have done in depth calculations on how much ice there is? (View Post)

While an authoritarian like yourself may regard a fifth of a group willing to use violence as small, that is a crazy high number to those of us that value democracy. It is getting up towards numbers … (View Post)

And it's all evangelicals too. Once you start believing in stuff without evidence, you can be fed any lie. Despite the US being founded on Enlightenment principles, the rationalist spirit of the Enli… (View Post)

I always think these sorts of graphs should have bubbles underneath them showing the proportion of population they represent. One of the reason Republican college grads are so extreme is that after r… (View Post)

It feels like various police forces arbitrarily decide not to enforce the law for political purposes sometimes. It is crazy they dedicate resources to policing offence on Twitter but ignore people bl… (View Post)