Is that the worst you thought? They also blatantly in-your-face rigged the election and barricaded themselves behind guards and fences thinking Americans would rise up against them over it, and then continued to systematically dismantle national energy and food infrastructure, printed money as fast as they could in order to trigger inflation to erode the wealth of the middle-class and then use the newly-printed cash to buy up everything, and unleashed a flood of welfare migrants on America such that there are now more non-white than white children. We could go on, but...
Edit: By "they" I mean the group that runs the democratic party, and the republican party, and the media, and the banks and other asset management institutions.
I have no explanation for straws, or know if they are faked at all, but have seen some of those pictures yes. But there other examples, like wooden planks that get shot through or deeply embedded into trees which have the same densities - you wouldn't be able to make them penetrate that way at low velocities or by hammering on them; they'd splinter first, but at high speeds they shoot through. I don't think those are faked.
If there were some unknown physical phenomenon that could increase the strength of chemical bonds, we should all drop what we were doing and research that, since it would mean near-infinite money for whoever figured it out, and might start a new technological leap forward similar to when we tamed metal and electricity. Are there fringe research out there looking at that? I don't remember ever coming across it.
If people included image links in their posts, it wouldn't be too difficult to add a Greasemonkey/tampermonkey script that converted it to an image. But yeah, ideally the board itself would support it, probably with it being opt-in so people had to click some icon next to the link to expand it into an inline image.
Mature AI would be able to produce a post-scarcity world for everyone, not just the currently rich. Anyone claiming it'll only be for the rich is either naive, i.e. not knowing better, or cynical, thinking the rich want to kill everyone, or evil, thinking this is their own chance to screw everyone over.
Edit: This guy seems to fall into the third category...
Neither side has it right, in my opinion.
For weeks after conception, the fetus really is just a clump of cells, not much different from an unfertilized egg or a sperm cell. A woman should absolutely be free to abort it, with the only concern being the medical and emotional toll it takes on her. Sure, it's a sign of being irresponsible if she does it for most other reasons than for example if she was raped - but as an adult that is her problem.
At some point neurons begin to form and link up, when that's gone on for long enough, the fetus becomes able to feel pain and must be said to have some level of consciousness. I don't know exactly when this is, and believe nobody really does. It could be 7 weeks, or it could be 15, but it's a question that ultimately has an answer. After that the fetus should have human rights, and it's no longer an abortion but a killing. Sometimes it might not be unethical to kill it, for example to save the life of the mother, but it would then be the same kind of decision as being in a falling plane with two people and one parachute.
Stealing server resources isn't the way to go if it is to become anything more than a shortlived gimmick. If you need servers, someone will need to provide them legally.
I don't see an obvious way for a regular searchengine to be distributed/p2p; both the indexing and search execution aspects would have to be extremely redundant (i.e. inefficient) if the were to withstand the inevitable attempts at sabotage.
Lets hope central banks never turn off conversions from fiat to gold so it'll be game over.