As we shift away from fossil fuels and towards a renewable-powered future, our needs change. Deep-sea mining is the Pandora’s box of climate technology.

Why do websites restrict language selection to a specific region? This is a terrible design! If a website is to support your language, it shouldn't require you to be in that country.

Whether was meant to be or not, this loan forgiveness plan comes across as a "vote grabber." What does it do to actually solve the problem of the higher education cost bubble?

When it comes to the U.S. tax system, benefits are often indirect, which makes them more politically palatable to some.

The Democracy Index provides a snapshot of the state of democracy around the world since 2006. This year's report reveals that democracy is failing worldwide due to the negative impact of covid-19 pandemic on democracy & freedom.

NFTs have a utility merit. However, in the eyes of the Law, it doesn't carry much weight. Or, worse, it may be later classified as a security and create a whole pile of troubles.

“Socialism” is far from a univocal term, and much further from a uniform philosophy. Americans are slaves thrice-bound: wholly at the mercy of the government, corporations, and insurance companies...

Trompenaars and Hampden-Turner's Seven Dimensions of Culture model helps you work better with people from different cultures. The unwritten rules of how we do these things differ from one human group to another.

What makes an effective leader? This question is a focus of research as an organizational scientist, executive coach, and leadership development consultant.

Star Talk 🔗 How do we stop anti-science? In this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson sits down with evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins to talk about religion, the importance of science communication, and Dawkins’ new book, Books ⋯

Published: JUN 21, 2021 by DEBITO ARUDOU Visible Minorities:shingetsunewsagency.com/2021/06/21/visible-minorities-gaijin-card-reader-app-obliterates-privacy/ This quote, usually attributed to former US Ambassador to Japan ⋯

@LoreZyraReplying to @StephenKingTaxCuts are the slow-boil for the WorkingClass. They won’t feel the burn until it’s too late… The Wealthy love froglegs, and you are just the appetizer!

@LoreZyraSNL visits alternate universe where Trump wasn’t elected president | Watch News Videos Online(Video not available on YouTube…)[globalnews.ca: In a star-studded ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ spoof, SNL asks ‘What if Trump ⋯

NSA director suggested tech companies could provide an encryption key in pieces

According to Homeland Security docs, travelers have little right to privacy at United States borders.

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George TakeiFebruary 23, 2015Trolling the smokers, in England.

Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason & ScienceFebruary 13, 2015Support reason and science! #DarwinDayDonate here: https://ow.ly/FetvR

Richie BartlettFucked-up truth. Wolf-PACFebruary 3, 2015The sad truth.Sign up to fight corruption here: http://bit.ly/getMoneyOut

The colonists who wrote the founding documents of the United States detested the British Empire, and vowed to do whatever it took to gain their freedom and sovereignty from a foreign power that was depleting the wealth of the ⋯

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Richie BartlettLooks like the MPAA (Hollywood) is trying to force SOPA (never passed congress) onto DNS providers. This is not just short-sighted and fatal for the internet, it can be easily abused by others that simply don’t ⋯

From melting ice caps to deadly storms, the oil industry is fueling climate disaster. Yet oil companies still want to drill for every last drop and spend millions on lobbying governments to block climate action. The People vs. ⋯

Richie BartlettDefine what is “bad” in software… One of the hardest things to accept, as a justice-loving maker of software, is that a perfectly engineered and beautifully designed piece of software can go completely unused. ⋯

By 1986, much of the world’s food will be synthetic, factory-made, and by 2006 you may telephone your vote to a capitol computer on every law!

“Get Me Off Your Fucking Mailing List” is an actual science paper accepted by a journal Get Me Off Your Fucking Mailing Listremove.pdf Abstract 🔗 The paper above, titled “Get me off your fucking mailing list,” has been ⋯

John F. KennedyLet us not seek the Republican answer, or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

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Jon Stewart Skewers Koch Brothers For Buying Ad Time During ‘The Daily Show’ John Stewart is not a huge fan of Koch Industries’ latest round of commercials. So after the company bought advertising time “The Daily Show,” ⋯

Campaign for LibertyThe war on drugs brought in more drugs and the war on terror created more terrorist.Maybe next year we can have a war on money and jobs and see where it goes…

Wolf-PACOctober 10, 2014Ha!Join the fight for Free and Fair elections: http://bit.ly/getMoneyOut

This is a simple, yet perfect explanation of how Americans are heading in the wrong direction when it comes to our children’s future. It needs to be seen and shared so that it stops. SOURCE

Richie BartlettSeems like China and the US have a lot more in common… Militarized Police Attack Citizens, Journalists In Chaotic Night | Video (16:35) 🔗 "Police violence broke out again in Ferguson, Missouri, Wednesday ⋯

Michael GrahamAugust 6, 2014Greatest photo EVER?!

Richie Bartlett“Save the Earth…”Fuck that!The Earth will do just fine without us. Better even…The title should say: “Save the Humans…”(Only the smart ones please…)

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Richie BartlettThe central problem of every vulnerability report: researchers want to fix it and companies don’t. PayPal’s two-factor problems are the rule, not the exception. One of the most trusted companies on the internet ⋯

Richie BartlettIn this case, I agree with the lawyer’s argument…An American headquartered company should not be compelled to hand over any data not physically stored in American territory…This is like a US court saying that you ⋯

Richie BartlettMore like as if this one is indestructible because “god made it” and it should last. Umm…

Richie BartlettFree feel-ups from people in uniform…Just one of the many “perks” that comes with living in one of the most foreigner “friendly” countries in the world - Japan! Legal hurdles are high when it comes to seeking ⋯

Richie BartlettIf only the elite could get past their old prejudices. Hidenori Sakanaka’s message is very clear: Only immigration can save Japan. Sakanaka, a former Justice Ministry official and director of the Tokyo ⋯

Richie BartlettWant to encourage better behavior of your site’s users?For starters, read this… I’ve long believed that the design of your software has a profound impact on how users behave within your software. But there are ⋯

Richie Bartlett日本人は「まんこ」の3Dファイルを売れって捕縛ちゃった。。。何で日本の法律は雑誌で可愛い子が観てイイですが、でも3Dファイルはダメ？？ Life size pussy boat from Japan | video (2:52 minutes) 🔗 The fact that talking about the vagina is taboo in Japan does not matter to Japanese ⋯

Richie BartlettThere is no debate in established scientific, peer reviewed facts! There are, unfortunately, many quacks that hold or create unsubstantiated claims for their own agendas.More to the point: You don’t need public ⋯

Richie BartlettI smell bullshit!Makes me not support Paypal from here on…Either they like the idea that there should be no online privacy, or they are like the retarded TeaParty’ers… Secure email startup ProtonMail is facing ⋯

Richie Bartlett Jr.Who needs nuclear weapons when you can just cripple space satellites with a simple rocket missile. Even backwards North Korea can do that… All It Takes Is One Missile to Ruin Space for Everyone Destroying all ⋯

Richie Bartlett Jr.Fucked up Amurika politics…Once again, we have a case of the government saying: “When you screw up, you pay. When we screw up, you (and your kids) also pay.” The government is now going through old records ⋯

Religion is the crutch by which people allow their weak minds to be enslaved by a rigid social contract. In the case of Judeo-Christainity, it is a panopticon of fear. If you don’t fear the consequence of the “Christian life,” ⋯

SOURCE: http://investmentwatchblog.com/they-are-systematically-destroying-our-independence-and-making-us-all-serfs-of-the-state#0AqK7g41mAes7xfh.01 Michael Snyder 2013-08-13 Paid loyalty or starve! Otherwise, keep that ⋯

In response to: http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/03/07/national/lesbian-couple-get-disney-wedding/ Alternate source with update: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/tokyo-disneyland-lesbian-wedding_n_2811588 ⋯

In the case of any person whose judgment is really deserving of confidence, how has it become so? Because he has kept his mind open to criticism of his opinions and conduct. Because it has been his practice to listen to all ⋯

LOL. Nicely played… Video (31 seconds) Thank You To God For Making Me An Atheist! 🔗 .embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } ⋯

Go ahead… VOTE Zomney!　🤮 Video (2 minutes) Whedon On Romney 🔗 .embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, ⋯

Yes… err, I meant: NO! I no longer NOT support who I am supposed to represent… ;) Tell me again Mitt Romney, how did you make your r-Money? Video 🔗 .embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; ⋯

Mr. Flip-Flop! Video (6 minutes) Mitt Romney Flip Flop Videos 🔗 .embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, ⋯

In response to: https://www.inc.com/flash-steinbeiser/obama-bear-hugger-on-the-embrace-heard-round-the-world.html Obama gets a lift from small business

More of the same… (failure) Video (4 minutes) Broken Promises: Romney’s Massachusetts Record 🔗 .embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; ⋯

LOL! Mitt THE Twit doesn’t want to change Wall Street or hurt Main Street… But damn it, Sesame Street must GO!!! “He’ll bring down the hammer on Sesame Street… Elmo and Big Bird must watch out!” Video (3 minutes) 🔗 President ⋯

LOL! I saw an older Japanese guy wearing this hat. I thought, “how true!” For many self-proclaimed “Christians,” Jesus is the slave-master whispering in your mind all kinds of crazy thoughts. The monster that demands your ⋯

Video (4 minutes) Bill Maher Slams Mitt Romney Hard, Compares Him to Rappers (Real Time New Rules 1-20-12) 🔗 .embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; ⋯

Or so says “physics.” Let’s say some malevolent group – the government, powerful corporations, extraterrestrials – really is trying to read and/or control your thoughts with radio waves. Would the preferred headgear of the ⋯

The longer we wait, the tougher and more expensive it will be to safeguard satellites Since the dawn of the space age, more than 20,000 objects larger than a softball have accumulated in Earth’s orbit. About 1000 of those ⋯

Nice! Nothing more to say here… Mitt the Twit does a better job making my case against him than I ever could… Video (4 minutes) SNL Predicts Romney 47 Percent Scandal? 🔗 .embed-container { position: relative; ⋯

As an “Anti-theist” I find great comedy in this series by Brian Keith Dalton. window.addEventListener('load', function() { ⋯

In repsonse to: https://www.aclu.org/issues/national-security/privacy-and-surveillance/surveillance-under-patriot-act?redirect=national-security/surveillance-under-patriot-act Americans have already missed the bus and were run ⋯

​http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/ek20120521a1.html Monday, May 21, 2012 BILINGUAL # Save face when taking the expressway By MARK SCHREIBER Special to The Japan Times Foreigners in Japan often encounter ⋯

Richie Bartlett Jr.This article gets to the heart of Welfare issues in Japan… Japan should selflessly consider children as the top priority in all political affairs. If you cant fix the source of the problem(s), how you can ⋯

60% of People Can’t Go 10 Minutes Without Lying There are two things you can say for sure about human beings: our opposable thumbs make us great at using tools, and we are all big, fat liars. By age four, 90% of children have ⋯

Published : Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2011 http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/JTsearch5.cgi?term1=LIFELINES Scant legal justification for unpaid overtime By YUICHI KAWAMOTO and CHARLES ALVAREZ John has a question about unpaid ⋯

Here’s an article to think about: http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fl20110419hn.html (Who pays for nuclear nightmare?) Seems like bullshit to me… The Japanese people have historically taken it up the ass with gritted ⋯

U.S. Civil War: What if? By GWYNNE DYER LONDON — It’s not much as anniversaries go, but most of us won’t be around in 50 years, so we’ll have to settle for the 150th anniversary of the start of the American Civil War. The ⋯

Previously, I discussed​ the core emotions of Humans and how these emotions have evolved within societies to create rules, laws, traditions, and even religions. My investigation of this matter is to resolve an internal conflict ⋯

I’ve been thinking about the impact of the “moral code” as provided by the social construct within the Church. And, comparing that with the so called right/wrong and common sense “rules” provided by the “Agnostic public” in ⋯