They make me cringe so hard. When I got my first job interview at McDonalds they came by in red and yellow tabbards to show our family’s loyalty to their house.

We’ve been in like, a whole bunch of wars.

Did you not know we had a military?

It’s probably for defending the north. Russia and Canada have been disputing those borders for a long time, and with global warming opening access to more natural resources, it’s about to get spicy.

That was the sentiment when I read it. Those things were progressive for us, when groups of parents were petitioning to get it taken from the school library — in a white prairie town before everyone had a cell phone, interracial couples were the subject of gossip and it was normal to compare trans people to aspiring attack helicopters.

Obviously I don’t support the TERFy cunt now.

The interspecies dance between millennials who read Harry Potter when it was considered subversive and anti-christian, and Gen Zers who call it racist TERF propaganda, is one of my favorite culture schisms.

Milk used to make me so sick my little ten year old body projectile vomitted it across the breakfast table and my parents, who’d seen 10¹⁰ milk commercials, were like “maybe you’re not drinking enough milk.”

It has ice and it has a tail. Comets get a longer “tail” as they get closer to the sun, when heat and radiation cause them to disintigrate and off-gas.

ATLAS’s speed and origin are what make it interesting. It’s a speedy guy for a comet at its location/trajectory. And, it’s interstellar in origin, meaning it came from outside the solar system. Most of what we see in our solar neighborhood was all made from the same big space glob a long ass time ago. Interstellar objects are rare… ish. We’ve been seeing more since we have big space telescopes now. So who knows.

Anyway, when ATLAS gets closer to the sun and burns off more tail, we can analyze those bits of rock and gas to figure out what it’s made of and maybe where it’s from.

The title is, arguably, exactly what happened. A comet went by. A harvard professor suggested it could be alien. The title literally reads "Harvard astronomer asks “Is it alien tech?”

Journalism doesn’t require a consensus of ideas, it reports what happened.

I’m no expert, but I did take a few astronomy and physics courses in university. And, I’ve been a member, on and off, of astronomy clubs since highschool. Did you know we legitimately discuss the possibility of alien life in real science classes in university? You can take whole, serious courses on it. There are published, scientific papers on the subject.

This discussion began by you calling Abraham Loeb an idiot who didn’t understand logic, to criticizing the journalist, to criticizing the title, to criticizing me, personally, to saying the subject itself is absurd.

I’ve gone through enough moving goalposts for one discussion, so I’m disengaging and will not respond. Feel free to have the last word if you want it.

Scientists do treat extraterrestrial life as a real possibility.

Source: Above, a harvard professor and astrophysicist who treats aliens as a real possibility.

But I donno man, one of the only rules here is to be cool to each other. I’m being pretty cool to you, but you’re not acting so cool to me.

A difference of opinion is one thing. Trolling for a reaction is not. Do I have to ban you or do you actually care about the subject?

I sure do.

That’s why I scanned through about twenty articles on the subject to find the most recently updated and reliable source that offered a unique and balanced perspective, one that’s well-sourced with minimal bias.

It’s why I picked a journal owned by a non-profit with free articles and minimal ads.

The article title is precisely what the article is about, an expert in astrophysics giving their opinion on a recent astronomical event, and even then I added (It is not) to the title.

Do you know what clickbait is?

You mean the one who provided the above quotes in the article?

It’s okay to admit you didn’t read it.

These are his quotes from the article:

Loeb said 3I/ATLAS “is probably a natural object” but thinks it’s important to consider the possibility that it’s technological.

“We have the duty to consider a low probability event,” Loeb said, “just because the implications are huge.”

He’s just a curious guy who understands the probability but doesn’t shy away from testing a hail mary hypothesis. Let people be creative.

If someone doesn’t know what the issue is about, why does their opinion matter?

This is the internet, literally anything can be misconstrued. Someone on here called me a nazi yesterday. If you check my modlog I was banned from a community for fascism.

Criticizing a valid, informed statement about an issue that’s challenging people’s identities because of how it might appear is like clutching pearls while your house is on fire.

Knowledge of sperm teamwork is a threat to individualism.

AOC is right and that quip does attack the shifting of responsibility.

In one simple statement AOC pointed out that Riley wouldn’t have won the race she used to build her anti-trans platform. The swimmer has been careful to present herself as a champion, when in reality she started her campaign after tying for fifth place with a trans woman.

They hold the gender pendulum over your groin to see whether it swings in a manly arc or a feminine circle.

This is the only community I have blocked.

It’s just weird. CLM, PTB or a bot.

And why the hell is he calling people “scam” and “spam” for disagreeing?

My only fears are the Flesh Eating Disease and Unexpected Phone Calls.

This is a real world example of why media literacy matters.

Most common reasons for being woke:

• Gay people
• Gay people getting married
• Player can be gay or trans
• Non-white people
• Player is non-white
• Strong women
• Socialism

Their “non-woke” approved games include Bayonetta, Tropico, The Witcher, and Final Fantasy XII.

It’s interesting to bring up air traffic controllers because they (in most countries) have strictly regulated work hours. The research into fatigue and safety problems is pretty extensive, and the last person you want working overtime because someone got sick is the controller telling a dozen or more planes where to fly at once.

While not all jobs have the same stakes, that goes to show how it’s an employer’s responsibility to account for reality.

That makes sense. It was pretty low.