Jackie Chan did a lot of bad things. Why do so many people still like him?
For the same reason I still love Kevin Spacey in just about any movie he’s ever done — because we seperate the art from the artist. Jackie Chan, the man,…
What is the most likely catastrophe to occur to the United States within the next 50 years?
One that no one here has mentioned yet, but everyone should be talking about: The U.S. will run out of easily mineable domestic deposits of phosphorus within the…
If a plane crash is imminent, are the passengers informed?
As Pacific Southwest Airlines (PSA) Flight 182 took a 19-second plunge to the ground after colliding in mid-air with a Cessna, the 727’s captain warned over the cabin…
If I want to buy a baby wolf and raise it, will it be friendly to me and would it be like a dog?
A wolf is a dog without a few tens of thousand years of careful selective breeding needed to make it friendly and compliant towards humans. Which is a…
Have you read Mein Kampf? Would you recommended it to an intellectually curious person?
Yes. I read the Finnish translation in my fcucked-up teens. My impression was that this is a rant of someone who is undeniably intelligent but completely fcucked up. It…
Trump Voters, are you happy with how the Trump Administration has performed so far?
YES! IN JUST ONE MONTH THEY HAVE:
Is Japan pretty much dead now?
There are a great many political, international economic reasons and I am sure most answers will centre around this. However the real reason is that the Japanese culture…
As an American, when I visited Britain and Germany, I was shocked by how people in Britain spoke my country’s language but Germans didn’t. Why is this?
A Spanish friend of mine was stopped by a patrol on a road in Texas. The policeman inquired about her nationality. She answered, “I’m Spanish.” He quickly replied,…
Why can’t Donald Trump stand straight up? Why does he always stand leaning forward?
Apparently French neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot once gave a lecture (in 1888) in which he described Trump’s very posture as one of the main symptoms of so-called “frontotemporal dementia.” Other symptoms…
If 99% of humanity goes away, how long could survivors scavenge to survive?
If 99% of humanity simply disappeared, the remaining eighty million humans would mostly be able to get by on the available resources. The biggest problems would be fires…