I want to invent a new kind of involuntary gambling: I force you to pay 15% of your income into a fund—for your entire life. At 67, you start slowly getting that money back. If you live to around 82, congrats—you break even and start making a profit. But if you die before then?

And here I am getting paranoid about whether or not the AC is set too high.

I’m not for open borders, but I do support legal immigration. Lately, it seems like the goal post on here has been shifting to "open borders bad" to "all immigration bad," and sorry but I just can’t get on board with that.

Can someone explain to me why all the women doing these crazy sex challenges are British? Lilly Phillips? British. Bonnie Blue? British. Annie Knight? British. What's going on with the brits, man?

People are rightly concerned about artificial intelligence taking over government, but the fundamental problem is not the new technology. It’s the rigid structures of government (and people’s collective belief in their legitimacy), which imposes top-down, coercive authority onto

Is it irrational to worry that because we named our dog Sushi, now our son will never want to eat actual sushi because he will associate it with eating the dog?

Are people confusing "Ellis Island style immigration" with "open borders"? That is not open borders lol. I think there's a bit of a misalignment on defining these terms.