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1. Third Wave Feminism 2. Exaggerating problems 3. Gaming elitists who constantly complain and insult newer players 4. Overly nostalgic people who always complain how "the first season/ game/ generation" was better 5. Obtrusive paywalls

1: We actually haven't perfected cloning and it's still very much in its infancy. Cloning Dolly took 277 attempts. Human embryos are possible and have been cloned before, but there's no legitimate reason for a regular person to do it because of the sheer several hundred attempts just to get one successful selected baby. Cloning a complete adult human is impossible as of now, and the controversy behind cloning had caused most countries and the UN itself to ban reproductive cloning due to ethical issues. Right now most scientists are keeping it small and working on cloning other things. Stem cells have successfully been cloned, and there is continued development to clone more things, going as far as cloning organs (hasn't been done yet but will be done very soon). Also, while there are a lot of grafting going on for strange parts, a pair of wings probably won't be functional for flying. Human anatomy unfortunately don't allow that, especially with your lower body being too heavy. Humans aren't made to fly like that; they need rigid wings and fuel on them. 2: What will happen in the future besides scientific progress is very hard to predict. Computers can already do a lot already, and Moore's Law assures that they will get better and better. It could be closer than you think.

Thailand, South Korea, Hong Kong, Philippines, India, and the Maldives. I've visited most of Asia but I stull have a few countries left to go. I went to Japan three times already but honestly the country is very hyped up by tourists, kind of like France. There's some lretty good locations, though.

Although I don't have a girlfriend yet, I probably won't maintain the love very well, especially if there's a lack of communication involved. I'll respect the decision but more likely than not we'll break up...though it's very strange for someone to suddenly change their sexual orientation during a relationship, and LGBTs will usually tell you their orientation before they get into a relationship.

Cremation is rather cheap and you're not obligated to use a coffin. You have many options for cremation or burial, and the reason why traditional burials are so expensive is because people somehow feel obligated to buy extra commodities that are unnecessary or have cheaper options. Caskets can go for less than $2000 easily if you just chose steel or decent quality wood, and calling for extra funeral services, body decoration, outside concrete vaults, or embalming is completely optional. Direct burial and cremation significantly reduces costs as well. Cremation has the benefit of also reducing space (or not using any at all if you're just going for a burial urn) and newer technologies are making the process much cleaner and faster. Some religions and cultures practice cremation as well.

Cremation is rather cheap and conserves a lot of space, and traditional burials are actually not that expensive overall if everyone settled with wooden or steel caskets and removed all the extra "services". While we've heard of burials going upwards to at least $10K, in reality you can settle for $5K or even $3K, which is a bit more expensive than cremating, if you opted for a direct burial without the outside vault, embalming, using a cheaper casket, and comparing funeral home prices. Green burials cost a bit less than cremation, though it should also be said that cremation or traditional burial's effect on the environment is far less significant to that of other ground or air pollutants, so it really doesn't make that much of an impact. The pesticides used in some cemeteries do have much more negative effects, though it isn't even necessary to a cemetery.

That's actually...not that far off. Within the next five years we'll see the introduction of the revolutionary 5G standard, which allows for higher network capacity and increased Internet service; devices would be more personalized and interactive. Around that time we'll have the capability to text or type by simply thinking about it. A few years ago we already had something called the "Brain Twitter Interface", and while we haven't seen any public trials yet, it's very much expected that these devices will function fast enough to make words within seconds (though it still requires some mental concentration). With that kind of technology at hand within five years, imagine how close we are to instant communication directly from the brain.

Stated no opinions? These are facts. According to the EPA, crematoriums make only about .32 imperial tons of mercury...compared to at least 160 imperial tons from cement production and as much at 700 tons from mining and refining. I can cite much more, if anything you're basing your evidence off of vague "facts" that have little relevance. Back to the topic. While I would agree that refrigerating the body is better than embalming, embalming uses 800,000 gallons of formaldehyde yearly. While that may sound like a lot, that translates to about 3000 imperial tons of formaldehyde...out of 3.4 million tons of the same product manufactured yearly. It's a harmful chemical but in burials alone it is hardly significant enough to account for overall pollution. And more recently there's been embalmers that do not use formaldehyde but other oils. The embalming process in burial can be removed all together in traditional burials as well. Other than the embalming fluids, metal caskets have very little effect on ground pollution and wooden caskets are easily degradable. In fact, "green burials" can still cause groundwater pollution, not because of any sort of toxicity, but that human bodies can increase concentrations of naturally occurring organic and inorganic substances, and pathogenic organisms can be retained within the soil. They're no different regarding the corpse on environmental effect, but green burials does remove most of the hassle. If you really want to go for climate change, focusing on cemeteries when there are other pollutants that do several times more damage is silly. And cremation is receiving newer and newer technologies that significant reduce any sort of small environmental impact it has. If I wanted to be concerned about traditional burial, maybe it'll be about the space it takes over but environmentally it's hardly significant enough to bother.

I never avoided the point, and others have already answered for me. People are not denying death by trying to preserve bodies, and people can rightfully do so for religious reasons, or donating to science or just doing it out of plain respect. Death can be dealt with in many ways, and your assumption of death denial is based off the idea that you know what other people who have gone through a loved one's death is thinking. Plenty of people have voiced solid reasons with clear evidence here, if anything you have been completely missing the point. When I voiced the illogic of Russia attacking the US you never even counter-argued on any of my reasons, of which I showed five, and you go off a tangent of saying "money isn't real". You're doing the same thing here, I've shown more than enough of my reasoning and evidence while you're blowing off with your own opinions.

Standard burial is actually a lot cheaper than $10K; caskets that are at least less than $2K are readily available. Regular wood caskets and steel caskets can easily be worth much less than $2K. Deathcare in the US isn't intentionally trying to inflate prices, but you have consumers who are vulnerable and end up paying for more funeral benefits than they need, usually forgetting that deathcare is still a business and not some government-run clergy (and really, there's no reason for the government to run it – it's just unnecessary). Purchasing caskets plated with titanium or copper greatly jumps the casket price, and you don't even need to pay for every single deathcare service. Cremating is a much cheaper option though, and while it's been done by Hindus and Buddhists for quite some time it's even gained significant popularity by Christians. Even outside of religion it still remains popular because it's quick, only costs a few hundred dollars at most, and rather clean. Yup, the Japanese, Taiwanese, and Chinese are rather conservative regarding deathcare, and sometimes you are not even allowed to talk about death openly. These Asian groups tend to be subtle in communication and stay away from these topics, much more than Western cultures. Interestingly, for a long time in China, cremation was seen as barbaric by Confucian scholars and the general public. While the Jurchen continued to cremate anyway, the Manchus finally made it popular, slowly but steadily during the Qing Dynasty. The Chinese Communist Party today enforces cremation policies with few exceptions. Taiwan and Japan more readily accepted cremation, however. In Taiwan, around 92.5% of bodies are cremated; in Japan, it's a shocking 99.97%. Part of it has to do with practical reasons outside of religion or culture, especially since both Taiwan and Japan have very high population densities. Most flat space that isn't used commonly turns into farmland, which is why both countries cremate to save space and money. Cemeteries are usually placed in mountainous areas.

Those three anime aren't actually a good representation of anime as a whole. You're watching long running or very popular anime, which usually vary in quality from the start to its current form. For example, the Pokemon anime was rather boring in the Kanto and Unova (Best Wishes) arc, but its Kalos (XY and XYZ) arc have been widely praised and liked. The original Naruto had way too much filler while Naruto Shippuden had bad pacing. And while SAO looked cool and all, the problem with that is that Kirito, the main character, is just too perfect, too overpowered, and lacked development (the author of the light novel series even admitted this and made another light novel series, Accel World to try to remedy it). Certain anime are indeed pretty mediocre, though, and some literally spell out cliches. But it's not that different from Western cartoons; there are some that are great and some that are just...boring and hard to watch. "Mary Sue" characters, dark and overly tragic pasts, and some annoying double standards (and I mean actual ones, not stuff SJWs make up). A bit of digging and you'll find some good anime. Fullmetal Alchemist is very popular but it's actually rather good, especially the Brotherhood remake. Watamote has been gaining popularity online, too. Neon Genesis Evangelion, Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, and Fist of the North Star are well known classic anime. And for some reason, Oreimo has been gaining an Internet following...with plenty of memes. Personally one of my favorite anime is Nichijou, Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei, and Hyouka.

You're jumping to conclusions. Many cultures, not just Western ones, embalm and preserve corpses for various reasons, whether it's religious, paying respects to certain people, or even purely scientific or archealogical. We wouldn't have nearly learned as much about ancient history if we didn't have mummified people (not just the Egyptians, by the way). And while this doesn't necessarily go with a burial, corpses donated to science do have to be preserved anyway for researching diseases or various other disorders. Like what someone said on here already...plenty of cemeteries have been converted into parks or even historical locations. Some cemeteries, mostly military, in the US are designated national cemeteries, and every year famous cemeteries like Gettysburg or Arlington Memorial are visited by hundreds of thousands of tourists. Some are very beautiful and have a lot of historical meaning. And actually, after living several years in Taiwan I can testify that Asians are actually more squeamish than whites on cemeteries or deathcare. Some Chinese, Japanese, and Taiwanese believe in the ideas of Fengshui (literally "wind and water"), which revolves around harmonizIng with your surroundings, and cemeteries are seen as giving out very bad fengshui while in the US it's seen in a more moderate light (and sometimes even increases property values!). Asian cultures tend to talk about death less, like I said. And in Japan and Taiwan, where most people are Buddhist, cremation is almost always the option for deathcare. Spreading ashes is a thing too in some Buddhist or Hindu sects.

...That's not possible unless you say your brain was literally connected online. Brain augmentation is done to either treat certain disabilities, disorders, and diseases or enhance certain abilities. Home computers commonly get viruses, trojans, worms, or malware because they received it from a carrier online, whether its an email, website, link, or installing something suspicious (thankfully most malware you get are more annoying than harmful). Augmentations are not home computers. They do not connect to anything outside or have some sort of WiFi that makes it possible for you to be hacked, unless someone physically got into your brain and modified your augmentations. And like what Steel said, rejection and malfunction is much more likely to happen than a part of your brain being hacked and mind-controlled. I don't expect brain augmentations to actually replace any parts of the brain, but rather lie on top of it like a pacemaker. But if we can have any of that technology, a lot of our medical worries will be permanently over, like Alzheimer's or multiple sclerosis or even some behavioral or mental disorders. I'm more on the fence for people who want to place enhancement over treatment, however. More priority should be placed on ones who are suffering rather than people who are already fine and want more. On another note, though, there is plenty of research being done on augmentation, and scientists have successfully done trials on animals to restore some memories. Yes, it's very likely we'll get it within a decade. And while it's not completely related more efficient artificial organs are on the way. Maybe within the century we might become more machine than flesh. Stem cell research is already being done now, and there are even some ongoing clinical trials. Some scientists are going as far as to research ways to 3D-print certain organs (though some others remain too complex) that are purely organic (there are already 3D-printed skeletal parts though), partially through stem cell therapy. If achieved the sick would receive great boosts in life extension efforts.

I watched a good part of the video and it just feels like whenever people say they've found this "religious structure" or whatnot it tends to be a lot of bull. Don't get me wrong, I practice another religion entirely, but most of the time I'm very skeptical about these kind of news.

Um, you know that's psuedoscientific bogus, right? The Ark has been "found" multiple times, and as much as I respect Christianity I find that all these claims are usually just made up or unfounded. If you can say some parts of the Old Testament may be based off some historical event but warped, then that have some basis, sure, but I never take most of the Bible seriously. Then again, I'm not a Christian.

Cities Skylines? Surprising no one said that yet. I've played it for hundreds of hours and have so many Steam Workshop props that it's actually lagging my laptop. This city building game never disappoints. It's also rather cheap, even with the DLCs, so it's definitely worth the money. It also has a very active modding community, and it's considered the spiritual successor to SimCity, especially after the recent disappointments by EA. Other games I spend a ridiculous amount of time in also includes Geometry Dash, Fallout 4, and Stellaris. I've beaten some pretty hard demons in Geometry Dash, too, though I haven't really tried serious level building yet.

Intending to major in Cognitive Science in university, but I get a good amount of money from playing in chess torunaments regularly and tutoring others. I'm doing my best to maintain my rich California Asian kid stereotype. I imagine some university kids yelling about how privileged and patriarchal I am. Here in CA being Asian is the same as being white for SJWs. xD

What are you talking about? People have been buried very differently from "green burial" for thousands of years as well; the Tibetians saw birds of preys as a path to heaven and left corpses for them to scavenge, while Indians and Bengalis have been cremating for several centuries now because their culture believes burial was "impure" (the Indian subcontinent was heavily agricultural and this came from the common belief that it made the land infertile and took up space). Also, cremation's effect on air pollution is insignificant; it only pumps .3% of yearly gaseous emissions and mercury. You'll have better luck dealing with cars rather than crematoriums. Also, plenty of Western cultures openly discuss or even accept death. Mini-cemeteries are popular in Northern Europe, Christians and Muslims see death as a transition to an afterlife state (atheists don't care about all that), and in Central America people have days that celebrate the dead. Many deathcare practices have creeped into the US and Canada as well. If anything, Asian cultures treat death more quietly than Westerners and often get a bit uneasy on standard deathcare there. (White is the funeral color, not black, qnd in some cultures it can take weeks or even months to actually do ceremonies.) Honestly most types of deathcare are fine by me. Their effect on the environment is very insiginificant compared to other than pollutants. Do a green burial if that's your thing. Personally I would like to be religiously cremated and have golden Chinese paper thrown onto my body.

The "third wave feminism" and "social justice" movement that's been spawning around the US for the last decade. As much problems at the US has, it doesn't take much for some armchair "intellectuals" on Tumblr or other social media to exaggerate those problems and create some when there is none. It's especially irritating when they throw around certain terminology, sometimes incorrectly, to make themselves look like oppressed snowflakes. Rape culture doesn't exist in the US, crime is decreasing, sexism and racism is virtually gone, and safe spaces shut off freedom of speech.

Mars would most likely remain leaderless and owned by no one for decades to come, and much like Antartica will become a scientific (and commercial) preserve meant to benefit all of humanity. Companies might land on Mars for planetary mining, though I totally doubt it since the voyage there is not worth the cost and it's far cheaper, faster, and efficient to mine on the Moon and asteroids anyways. Well, Mars' gravity is not that low, it's 38% of the Earth's gravity. Your ball will go awfully high, though.

We likely won't get off Earth for a good few hundred years, unfortunately, at least not when we hit peak population. We'll have to deal with what resources we have right now (and with signs of certain resources running out people are forced to come up with cleaner conserving technology anyway). Thankfully we would already be long gone before the sun expands and burns the Earth into an inhabitable wasteland, which is a few billion years. We got plenty of time to work with.

NASA's doing it at the latest around 2030, so they're not far off either. You have to think about it, NASA is a government agency, they can't just jump into Mars colony things like SpaceX does. These experiments do mean a lot (and unfortunately are rather thankless), and NASA had its fair share of failures before to justify why. A simple failure can cost lives and can delay projects for several months, if not years. They can't afford any risks of losing massive amounts of money, human lives, and infrastructure. The government is still funding NASA rather well, and NASA's been doing their own things with fair progress; it's not really that NASA hasn't been doing nothing, but more that people don't really care for satellites and probes and want to see something big happen. If you look closely you'll see that NASA has done plenty of breakthroughs recently, with Scott Kelly and Mikhail Kornienko staying nearly a year on the ISS (the Kelly brothers even did an year long experiment to research the effects of the human body on long-term space travel), Juno is within Jupiter orbit and studying the gas giant, and New Horizons gave us new pictures of Pluto. ESA has the ExoMars mission on going, and in two more years the James Webb Space Telescope, several times larger than the Hubble Space Telescope, is going to start its revolutionary mission.

Online IQ tests tend to be not very reliable and often poor, so taking one doesn't give a great representation of your actual IQ. The best kind of IQ test you can get is from a school counselor or a psychologist, not someone online. That being said I officially have an IQ of 128, though unless someone asks me about it I usually refrain from answering, especially online, since people are a lot more skeptical in general. The IQ test doesn't measure intelligence, it measures developmental ability. Those with lower IQs may have some developmental delay, but in no way does IQ actually show how smart you are. There are many chess grandmasters, professors, and even child prodigies who have average IQ. Some people also think that the IQ test doesn't actually do a good job of measuring most aspects of human intellect: memory, reasoning, and verbal ability, and going further there's also creativity and understanding, which isn't necessarily covered well in IQ tests. Acquired skills and hard work is also not accounted for in IQ tests. Someone with an IQ of 105 can get straight A's while another person with an IQ of 130 can struggle in class. It's very possible.

The Carabinieri did adopt more German features into their gear during WWII, and they sure didn't have the classy capes and hats; most of these good-looking ceremonial clothing they have on them are mostly recent, since the Carabinieri has become less of an armed corps and more of a gendermerie, kind of like the RCMP, though they are still dispatched to other countries for peacekeeping, more recent ones being Iraq and Kosovo. All in all Europe was pretty great with modern military uniforms, though you don't really get many modern Asian uniform praise, mostly because they're rather plain or just mundane. (Samurais don't count since most made their own armor rather than mass produced it.) Most Asian military uniforms are based off Western designs, even the ceremonial ones. There is this interesting Japanese uniform mix in the 1860s and 70s at the start of the Meiji period, though: On another note, don't forget the USMC:

By the way, does anyone want to talk about how Brazil's INTZ, of all teams, absolutely smashed Edward Gaming, one of the best teams in China, yesterday?