I found Delicious in Dungeon to be charming.

We don’t even know what it is. How can we lose?

I think the observation is that this is a short term market panic and not any true change in the cost of gas.

You do realize that Iraq and Iran are not the same country, right?

The universe includes everything. As such it would include the higher being.

Nature was perfectly fine with the earth having only single celled life for billions of years. Nature will stumble along with or without humans until the planet gets too hot for liquid water.

Sending humans to Mars is evil.

It is impossible to have people anywhere without gazillions of microbes. Once humans land on Mars we’ve at the very least corrupted any evidence of life, and possibly destroyed an independent genesis of life.

Since all life on earth comes from a single progenitor, this is both an incalculable loss of potential knowledge, and also a greater extinction than all earth extinctions combined.

I propose a moratorium for say 200 years or so, or at least until we’ve explored more than a few square kilometers in detail.

This is amazing. Thank you!

They could pass a law making it clear that there is no emergency power that would allow the President to interfere with elections.

The President would veto the law.

Congress could then overturn the veto

I mean, there are Purism phones. Super expensive, but they keep selling out so I guess they are reasonable.