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http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/nasa-says-emdrive-does-work-it-may-have-also-created-star-trek-warp-drive-1499098 I've always been terrified of the prospect of human spaceflight, simply because I don't think human beings are mature enough as a species to get off planet, and that it would be better for us to undergo the technological singularity before getting off world. There is simply no reason to replicate the patterns, as they now exist, on Earth, on other planets, because we will continue to kill each other, exploit each other, and make each other miserable among the stars. Better to transcend our limitations on Earth, first, than to become a type of interstellar locust. Others may think differently, of course.

Sure. If your dog attacks someone else, is it your responsibility? If you're talking about disenfranchised people who have minimal agency compared to the other classes of America, the fact that they have minimal agency means that it's more your fault than theirs because your level of agency outweighs theirs; you have the resources and time available to make positive changes, they don't. Note that I am being condescending to what black people call the "n" word. They deserve it, but they also deserve compassion for their plight.

If you're going to accept him, insist that he reroll and the moment anyone discovers he's Kastor he should be thrown out of the alliance. If he can't maintain the basic discipline of keeping quiet about his ID while he's on a EZI list, he's just going to create liabilities for you. But, while I'm an optimist, my expectations for Kastor have decreased tremendously since knowing him. Kastor, someone wants to give you a chance. Consider this, have you ever considered trolling PnW by proving to the rest of the community that we were wrong about you and your capabilities? That's more fun than acting like a !@#$tard and getting rolled repeatedly. But, like I said, my expectations for you have decreased tremendously, so, I wouldn't count on it. Quite likely, for you this is it; afterwards, either sit out for 2 years until people forget about you or find some other game to play. Prove me wrong about you.

That's totally NPKJI, you know?

The Economist I believe has a fairly good article on the subject of police brutality in the United States. The problem is that if policing were done "rationally" in the United States, they would be more like social workers, and the people who actually staff the police would revolt because they didn't come into the job to solve nice local problems, they came there to be on the winning side of the beatdown. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyXk3n5FCkw As to the subject itself, African-Americans have been screwed since the Civil War and the handling of ex-slaves and their descendents has been abominable since that period. The Civil War could have been suitably averted if the federal government had nationalized slavery with a gradual phase out program, but neither the Abolitionists nor southern slaveowners were far-sighted enough to compromise (despite the wealth of the north, there were no serious attempts at acquisition-manumission in the run-up to the Civil War), and subsequently the federal government lost interest in an equitable reconstruction for American blacks. As to blacks themselves, I'm on the side of Booker T Washington over W. E. B. Du Bois, and the Civil Rights movement should never have been handled that way. At the end of the process, what happened was that you had African Americans being legally equal to white Americans, but not socially or economically equal. That is what you are seeing here; there is a vast Black lumpenproletariat that is consistently disenfranchised, and not only that, they are also victims of Ressentiment, in that they rarely have the values necessary for success in America. You can see that with African Africans who emigrate to the United States, while they face racism similar to their African American counterparts, their mode of response and their cultural values are significantly different, so that you end up with three classes of black people in the United States, black elites, blacks who have been able to obtain the education and wealth to live respectably in this society, recent African immigrants, who, if impoverished, don't have the same cultural habits as the descendents of slaves, and if not, are reasonably comparable to black elites, and the black lumpenproletariat, which wallows in a mixture of poverty and ignorance. The problem for black people is, aside from a universal but mild level of racism in American society, is the existence and perpetuation of the black lumpenproletariat. While a lumpenproletariat must exist in any society, a racial bottom-tier causes unnecessary problems to the first and second categories, and, to put it bluntly, black trash at least deserves to be treated the same way as white trash.

Someone irrelevant.

Totally drunk, but I seriously made an account in game and forums just for you. Three things: First, you totally got trolled by that witch into committing game suicide. Congratulations. *golfclap* Second, you're essentially done here, you've rolled your reputation into the ground and you're better off rerolling. You probably have friends or people who at least sympathize for you, and if you're serious about playing this game you're better off rerolling, then finding shelter with them, and seeing what they can do for your career development. Third, as I mentioned before and elsewhere, don't be discouraged. You've obviously made a lot of mistakes, you've played things the wrong way. When Estelle says, you're better off not being leadership, she's right, but only for the short term. Take a break, find some mentors, analyze your faults, and make improvements. I think you have some potential and if you choose to play this game seriously, you should be capable of learning and fixing your faults. But that means that first, you have to acknowledge your limitations, and then actively work towards fixing them. It's hard to do, and it's not for everyone. As we mentioned on IRC, it might be better for you just to try something else. Since I decided to make this post, I see that Guardian has given you a protectorship, half for lulz, and half to screw with BoC. I was then told that it was fake, then I was told it was real. In the latter case, there are three possible outcomes. The first is that Guardian finds out that you are too much of a liability even to achieve laughs at BoC's expense. That is, what I think many people here would consider probable, but I am an optimist. The second is that you hover around the game in mediocrity and irrelevance, or you end up merging into Guardian. That's not a particularly good outcome, but it's preferable to the first. The third is that you take this last opportunity that has been granted to you and you make something out of yourself, but as mentioned above, you need to make many changes in your leadership style in order to achieve that. I still strongly suggest that you find a mentor who's willing to take you in, and reroll. That, I think, has the best expected return, and can deliver the best average outcomes for you, but as I said in IRC, I commend you for trying to do things the hard way, by keeping your user identity. If you absolutely must insist on retrying an alliance, you are, in my view, not objectively qualified to lead an alliance and you must seriously look for advice and guidance and you must be willing to learn how to do things right. I wish you the best of luck, but whatever happens next is your own responsibility. That is, I think, the wonderful thing about life, and you should embrace it.