This is a bad post. In Trump notation it would be something like "Thanks to failing US schools China is killing us in single photon Fock state purity. Sad!!"

Completely misses the context. The result the Chinese collaboration achieved was only possible because of groundbreaking theoretical work by a group at MIT that should a surprisingly simple (though nonuniversal ) quantum system that is hard to simulate classically in a non trivial way. Its really a great thing that science is so collaborative these days.

Its just an indictment of our population. China and India have more people with IQs over 120 than we have people. its a good thing that many of our most difficult degree programs have demographics more similar to the world at large than the native born population of our country

No, it's a bad argument. And as we just saw during the election, bad arguments win elections.

It's also not a bad export product for the US. If we had any sense, we'd be building more top-flight universities and charging these more of these guys tuition.

I think he means Senator Curt Shrillaring.

I feel like a drug addict every time I need to buy pseudoephedrine. It's used to make meth, so you have to go to a pharmacy and give them photo ID to be placed on a register, to ensure you aren't going pharmacy to pharmacy collecting piles of it. Similar story in America from what I understand?

Unless you specifically ask for pseudoephedrine, you get sold phenylephrine, which has the slight downside that study after study has demonstrated that it doesn't work. At all.

wtf, this makes zero sense.

The betting markets are giving it as a 60% chance of another SC vacancy in 2017.

The alternative for China in the 1940s wasn't necessarily US style freedom vs. Communism, but domination by foreign governments and commercial interests and Communism. It didn't necessarily have to be Communism, but that's pretty much what happened to happen when countries full of peasants revolted against the Western dictatorial puppet governments. In the long run China won independence that countries like Indonesia never really achieved. Indonesia is getting its rainforests cut down by foreign companies like Cargill for palm oil plantations and being left with nearly perpetual and unstoppable forest/peat fires. It is actually related to Communism. China opened somewhat, but it's not just wide open for multinational corporations to use for resource extraction.

I dunno, that stuff seems like lots of cherry picking, like looking at the effect of colonization - Burma vs Hong Kong. There are lots of factors.

Sure, but that's the point.

Like, my planned socialist community/utopia in Antarctica is gonna fail miserably, I can just see it a mile away.

Seems high though.

RBG only going out Scalia style. She's in her early 80's. SS death table gives her a 6.7% of dying. Breyer is 78. Death table gives him a 4.9% chance of dying. Kennedy is 80. That's a 6% of dying.
https://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4c6.html

I'd give RBG and Breyer ~0% of retiring because they are D's. Kennedy loves being the star, right? Maybe give him 25% of retiring because he's an R.

Someone better than me with probability math would have to do the math to get a probability of one of those events occurring.

Same deal in USA. I buy it all the time. Meanwhile I can pick up my wife's prescription meds without even showing an ID..

I almost want to go to HR over this.

This is your job, not your 9th grade locker. Keep your love of Jesus to yourself, cuz got sure as **** wouldn't tolerate me decorating a workspace you / others were exposed to every day with love of Islam proclamations.

We've been over this.

When you attempt to degrade others by implying they engage in gay sex acts, that's unambiguously homophobic. Colbert uses funny figurative language, sure, but that's not a get out of jail free card.

Lol good luck getting any traction with this lot.

LOL how rich is this?!

Jokes by Forum Heroes about me sucking dicks for drugs are not homophobic, but Trump being Putin's cock holster are. Y'all are the worst lol

I can't even.

Indonesia, of course, is a democratic society with nearly as high a material standard of living as China and much lower levels of inequality. But I suppose tens of millions of dead are just the price you have to pay sometimes to avoid having palm oil farms.

Do you have a pro-Stalin take too? Say what you will about the man, but he wasn't a stooge for United Fruit.

Amazed it took DIB this long to jump on the cock holster thing.

If someone complained to HR about somebody having Islamic motivational slogans in their personal workspace (where presumably family photos and other nonwork related materials are allowed), that person would be a bigot. Worth thinking about after you posted this.

Also roflmao about "this is your job, I might go to HR" from the ****ing guy who wanted to play online poker at work against the company rules. So rich.

Yeah I don't partake much anymore, but boy oh boy am I glad I stopped by today.

Interesting to me that even Donald mother ****ing Trump as a target of homophobic slurs is more sympathetic than me. All sorts of rationality and measured reflection when Trump is the recipient of dick sucking jokes; like despite your obvious dislike & disapproval of Trump you can see clear enough to recognize homophobia. But when it's me? OOOOOHHH **** time to all hold hands and jerk each other off at the totes hillarious concept of DiB debasing himself by having to suck some guy off for drugs! Like a PROSTITUTE amirite?!

Alright this is my last post on the subject, God forbid I type up 4+ provocative posts on a single thing. Might catch another ban for ruffling the feathers of a few Forum Heroes.

I'd much rather attack your desciption of Indonesia (at least two different genocides commited) than defend Stalin. Everyone knows how awful Stalin was, though that's barely relevant. Hitler, the huge anti-Communist, was more Capitalist than Stalin was Communist. What is whitewashed in the USA is whatever bad has been done by allies. Really the "tens of millions dead" is a ridiculous and childish take in context here. Seriously, slavery and the genocide of native people all over the world are far more central to the Capitalist project as opposed to being other events that happened for other reasons than Mao or Stalin's atrocities were to Socialism/Communism.

Speaking of things that don't work, apparently beer is a better pain killer than Tylenol, which frequently doesn't work.

Also, two-factor Authentication that uses cell phones.

Also, dudeimbitter.