You're right, it's just sad.

There are lots of iffy social science in this sub. People tend to post with click bait titles.

I thought he was going to go full Massachusetts Puritan and start burning witches and hanging Quakers.

The unnuanced take never convinces, always overstated and angry. If they ever learnt to argue like civilized adults used to, they might have a chance.

Lack of alcohol, a real medical condition.

The people moving in are higher income and cause rent increases. Substitution based on income.

Who wouldn’t want a casino next door? Luddites.

A token winter day.

Native Eastern Algonquian names are great. Ponkapoag, Mattakeesett, Nantasket, Neponset, Shawmut, Nahant, Wachusetts, Monadnock.They just sound great to my ears. We should have kept more as town names.

Why did they have to go full tinfoil? The old MA GOP was just financially conservative without the hallucinatory hysterics.

In 1750 everybody burned wood, not just the wealthy. Total emissions were minor but spread across the populations.

In the original picture the happy expressions on their faces are more striking than the embrace, which loses so much context just being arms and hands. They abstracted it too much, artists can do that.

There are private groups on Facebook that have a more adult level of discussion than on most subreddits. The big public or popular private Facebook groups are just garbage, but I love some of the more focused, unsensationalist groups.

There’s probably an infinite number of areas of space like what we call “the universe” for trillions of light years in every direction, some expanding, some colliding, some contracting. This is one idea some people have.

I like the unmaintained 60 year old,sidewalks in my neighborhood because they’re half grass now.

Some ideas catch on all too easily. If they didn’t invent it, it would have happened anyway.

Yes.

I too am very surprised. They mashed up seeds and made a bread? I guess when your only tech is fire you eventually cook everything and find out what works.

There are simulations showing they just get all tangled up and warped when the arms pass through each other.

If people just checked their work in life half of all Reddit posts wouldn’t have distracting titles.

In a serious WW3 effort, the first step must be to knock out the satellites.

Don't worry, the unstable polar vortex will still give us a blast once in a while.

Putin used to have an estimated $40 billion. That probably went down this year.

They preserve the world of the 1950s. Conservatives dislike change. They have a need for security, for definitions that don’t change, things they can believe in, and the rule of gut feelings over logical progression. Meanwhile we city people have sped forward with our revaluation of all values.

The quotas for legal immigration from our neighbors to the south are stupidly low considering they come here anyway. It should be a million a year from Mexico and at least 100,000 a year from each Central American country. Then you would have less illegal immigration.