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First off, the origin of the question. Read this and had a couple of different explanations spring to mind. Sociopaths (I think this is the generally accepted answer) Aliens (popular idea with a certain subset of the population) Fey/Spirits (popular with a different subset of the...

Saw this picture and it twigged a question in my mind. If you filled a space ship with oxygenated PFC or similar, then would that remove the effect of inertia holding back acceleration? Inertia, as I understand it, is a problem because the liquid in our bodies is slower to accelerate, but...

Let's say that for whatever reason the global order collapsed over a period of not more than a couple of months. This leaves US troops overseas cut off and basically unable to return to North America, not that the US would even exist if they did. Are there any countries where the forces...

Recently I watched Rules of Engagement (2000) and A Few Good Men (1992) and though "holy shit the pre 9/11 world was different". So seriously, what are you best military movies, any country, any period, any language, and why.

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/woke-companies-broke-profits-1234710724/ Companies listed: Keurig Dr Pepper Inc. Dropped from $120.26 per share to $24.96 when the deal happened, highest it's been since then is $34.98. $120 wasn't even a spike, it was an upward slope...

Post your worst ones. Obviously these are going to be personal opinion. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000507/ His Netflix show, Unstable, is "how would I behave if I was rich and my wife just died?", as opposed to playing a different person altogether. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0425005/...

What you drink, what you do when you drink. Etc. Don't need to over think this shit.

The Industrial Revolution is a time when probably the greatest net-good for humanity happened in the shortest time. However, unlike today, I don't recall anyone at the time having a kind of messianic attitude where they claimed that technology would "save the world". The modern perspective...

Post-post-apocalyptic perspectives on modern society. 1500 AEF "In what year did the Anxient Empire implement negligent senescence? ...Anyone? Yes, Taxdoodle?" "50 BEF" "Close enough!" "Sir?" "Yes Mexwhippet?" "Isn't it a bit of a coincidence that the Anxients developed functional...

The only thread on this topic I could find was this one from two years ago. https://www.the-sietch.com/index.php?threads/all-males-gained-their-own-%E2%80%9Cdating-bot%E2%80%9D-by-act-of-rob.4696/ I wanted to ask a different question though: would you be open to dating an AI? There are a...

It's well known that the Emperor just thought of the Primarchs as tools for his Great Crusade. Chances are, once the crusade was won he would have killed them all, and the Astartes, the same as he did the Thunder Warriors, and other yet earlier legions. This paints a picture of a being that is...

When I was quite young I got a DVD set of the Great Courses on linguistics, taught by Professor McWhorter, they were quite enjoyable. To be quite honest, I would re-watch them, but modern computers don't include disc readers. For reference, he's a black academic. As of 2020-2021 he has...

We're all cultured here. I don't need to explain what tsun is. However, even beyond there dere of tsun, there is another stereotype that of the "strong female lead". In either case, the woman has either INT or WIS as her dump-stat, effectively making her a pseudo-male in that she is...

I used to listen to Lore, a horror and history podcast that got picked up by Amazon. I dropped it because I recognized a pattern I found to be irritating, it is not an at all unusual one in society however. This pattern follows two statements of faith and goes like this: The witch trials were...

I was having a thought about an AH monarchist US, and it occurred to me that it would be easiest if the 13 Colonies had had titled nobility rather than just the middle class running things. The UK had colonies up and running well in the Americas for at least 200 years before the revolution, yet...

Someone once said that this isn't so much a "culture war" and as "gender war". Leftist demographics are dominated by women while right wing demographics are dominated by men. https://cawp.rutgers.edu/gender-gap-presvote https://cawp.rutgers.edu/gender-gap-party-id...

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For example, I've never been a real smoker and I hate gum, but I often find myself in a chewing motion, or with a smoker's posture. Similarly, I'm a hard-hearted bastard, but when songs about self-sacrifice in a specifically naval context come up I tear up. Only been on a boat once, got...

I wanted to ask an economics related "what if" question and there was no where to put it. Consider this your econ dumping ground.

In Elizabeth Moon's Vatta series she points out that, guns inside a spaceship are a dumb idea, bullets have a far higher chance of popping the envelope or ricocheting and destroying essential equipment. Instead she has her people (who at the time lack access to higher tech weapons) outfit...