True enough.

Sure, but we're not doing anything to mine or manufacture in space.

Hahaha I'd try it once, but I have a pretty strong dislike of banana in general so I doubt I'd enjoy it

No, while I enjoy some extreme things I am a firm believer in moderation.

Yes, but the infrared radiators for a single megawatt are apx the size of 4 tennis courts. Until there's a space elevator, that's a tremendous amount of resources to get into orbit.

Begrudging upvote

My favorite book to read to my kids is called "every night is pizza night" where the main character discovers that even though pizza will always be her favorite, there's tons of other delicious things to try and there's more than one best food.

My father was a man of extremes, 0 or 100 with little in between.

As I said repeatedly, in not envisioning a copy of the extremely flawed system that was used previously. I was simply sharing my thoughts that a test would probably be a better alternative to the reeducation camps the poster I was originally responding to suggested, I'm not campaigning or even seriously suggesting we implement a test.

And apparently you are misunderstanding my argument in that I said a specific set of very easy questions a fifth grader could answer.

I would've been happy to continue this discussion, but your attitude is argumentative and off-putting so I'll spend my time elsewhere.

Hope you have a lovely day anyways though!

"Literacy tests did not begin as a racist tool. Connecticut adopted the first literacy requirement for voting in 1855 as part of its new state constitution, with the stated goal of preventing voter fraud and ensuring voters could understand ballot questions. Massachusetts, Maine, and several other Northern states followed with similar requirements in the decades that followed."

https://www.cuip.org/what-were-literacy-tests-for-voting/

A test will inherently disenfranchise a group, that's the point though; disenfranchise the least intelligent and easiest to manipulate across the population. Like I said, I'd rather we just educated people better and they weren't so easily manipulated but how do you deal with existing adults who will never be able to meaningfully detect bias and propaganda? I don't think there's a correct answer.

I work on the corporate side of retail and it makes me so frustrated that so many people fall for this bullshit. Most companies are planning these sales a year in advance and making cheaper versions of their product to sell thousands of units. People buying the bullshit year after year just encourages company's to be shitty.

Sweet and salty go great together, as do fruit and pork. I'm convinced half the people who say they don't like pineapple on pizza have just never tried it.

I remember thinking it would be gross as a kid but then tried a slice when a friend's family ordered one and really enjoying it. Told my dad I wanted it next time we ordered pizza and he refused and made me buy my own because "nobody wants that garbage and it'll get thrown away". Ate some that night then went to bed, went to eat the next day and he'd eaten every leftover slice overnight. From that day on, he only ordered Hawaiian and I got completely burnt out for years.

Yup, we need lions and tigers not ragdoll kittens.