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Prosecute the villains.

Fascinating! I hate that kind of background noise, especially since I'm regularly on conference calls. I'd much rather stay digital.

Kind of a Mythbusters vibe.

I still hesitate to call it cyberwar.

These words entered my idiolect long before they made the dictionary.

Pretty much.

I think this exactly captures my Star Trek idealized economic system.

Crazy story of how his old truck ended up being used by terrorists... And how he now gets hate mail for it.

Lots of justification here. They're bad people, ticking time bomb scenarios, and so on.

Good points, although mostly a rehash of what he's said before.

Convenient that the prosector forgot to release key testimony.

"Wait a second, we thought this was over. We were told this was over. We thought we were moving forward and now we see the same old stuff happening." reflects my history lesson version until I got to college and my eyes were opened. Also the whole tracking of "majority non-white" smacks of old "one drop" ideas.

Pretty good summary of First Contact.

Glad to see a Republican who supports the torture report being released. Too bad you apparently have to be tortured to be a conservative that wants this information out there.

I keep hoping this will get better, but it seems like the extreme GGers are just becoming more so.

Well that's depressing, and yet another example of how our social programs basically trap people in poverty.

This is a neat idea. For me it would even be an opportunity to play through some games I missed when they first came out, like my previous emulation kick in high school.

A scathing critique of the varied awfulness that we committed post-9/11. I don't like people noting that the torture didn't work, because it implies it would have been more acceptable had it produced actionable intelligence.

This game looks amazing, it's enough to make me want a PS4.

This sounds like a necessary policy step, especially having an independent prosector when an officer is the defendant.

Depressing but unsurprising story of how women of color are mistreated disproportionately by police, even on the campus where they work.

This is roughly my impression of how bad cops escalate to violence.

A good breakdown of how "Broken Windows" policing unfairly targets non-whites.

Not so fun to be on that list, though it will probably never affect me.

Predictable rain.

I'm conflicted on this. I think it's a bad comic (what with the lame Nazi joke), but I still think PA has the potential to be a voice for good. I think they're trying to thread the needle on GamerGate? I think they misunderstand censorship (this is a case of normal market action), but I also get the position that games are art and should be available for consumption and criticism.

Great perspective on how we might distract ourselves from the very real problems on Earth.

A sadly necessary admonishment of the NYPD.

Some good advice from a white person.

Oof.