…are the WEIRDest people in the world.
Personhood For Non-Humans
Elizabeth Price Foley is appalled at some recent court decisions, and the trend.
I’ve got mixed feelings on this. I agree that they shouldn’t be given full human rights, but I do think we should make distinctions as a function of intelligence, and perhaps even recognize some degree of moral agency (e.g., dolphins). It also raises the issue of how we would treat extraterrestrials as a function of those things.
Apollo 13
The day it crashed into the earth, or something.
This story is depressing to me in what it says about the state of public education.
Military Morale
If you wonder why it’s low, it’s because of things like this:
“Attendance is mandatory and if we miss it we get a negative counseling and a ‘does not support the battalion sharp/EO mission’ on our CDT OER for getting the branch we want. So I just spent $16 on a pair of high heels that I have to spray paint red later on only to throw them in the trash after about 300 of us embarrass the U.S. Army tomorrow,” one anonymous cadet wrote on the social media sharing website Imgr, IJReview reported Monday.
What has this country come to?
[Afternoon update]
Katherine Timpf points out the real problem with the march: How offensive it was to the trans community.
.@KatTimpf It's hard to get out of bed in the morning (or even stay there) these days without offending someone.
— Rand Simberg (@Rand_Simberg) April 22, 2015
[Friday-morning update]
a sharing website Imgr, IJReview reported Monday.
What has this country come to?
[Afternoon update]
Katherine Timpf points out the real problem with the march: How offensive it was to the trans community.
.@KatTimpf It's hard to get out of bed in the morning (or even stay there) these days without offending someone.
— Rand Simberg (@Rand_Simberg) April 22, 2015
[Friday-morning update]
It was female officers who made the cadets march in high heels. Seems like sexual harassment to me.
Also, Alinsky wears high heels.
[Bumped]
Homeland Security
…working overtime to import new Democrat votes for the 2016 election.
High-Speed Cars
Honda has an alternative to both HSR and the Hyperloop.
Makes a lot more sense to me.
The Martian
io9 likes it.
If it’s true to the book, it would be hard to screw up. Well, other than casting Matt Damon, anyway.
Same-Sex Marriage
Does it increase the abortion rate?
I don’t know, but if so, I suspect a lot of proponents will consider that a feature, not a bug.
Michael Brown’s Parents
They’re suing the city of Ferguson. I’m sorry they lost their son, but I don’t think they have a case. It appears to have been suicide by cop.
Space Situational Awareness
I haven’t read it yet, but this looks like an interesting paper on doing it commercially, from some people at Analytical Graphics.