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OK, this comments on a Gizmodo post made me spit out my Diet Coke.

from The Creepiest Things You Can Do on Facebook • 2015 Feb 3 • Ashley Feinberg • Gizmodo

We’re already seeing the consequences of having a SCOTUS that can end up in 4-4 ties.

Scalia’s Death Prompts Dow to Settle Suits for $835 Million • 2016 Feb 26 • Jef Feeley and Greg Stohr • Bloomberg Business

So ﾐA彡’s niece is the one who introduced me to this anime.

The premise is that you jack in to the server via a direct mind-machine interface. The creator of the game goes insane and makes it so that you can’t log off without dying in real life. Dying in game will also kill you. Basically, the only way out is to kill the final boss.

So apparently IBM is demonstrating their body motion controlled VR system run by Watson (of Jeopardy! fame) using Sword Art Online as the setting.

IBM’s Supercomputer is Controlling a Massive Virtual Reality Game, and They Need Beta Testers • 2016 Feb 25 • Futurism

But it’s not a real game. It’s just a marketing demo.

Sorry, Internet. The ‘Sword Art Online’ VR MMO Isn’t Real • 2016 Feb 25 • Ben Lang • Road to VR

There are articles asserting that 1 out of 5 Trump supporters oppose the Emancipation Proclamation.

These are your Trump voters: 1 in 5 wish the slaves were never freed • 2016 Feb 27 • Robin Scher • Salon

The Economist/YouGov Poll asks this question: “Do you approve or disapprove of the executive order which freed all slaves in the states that were in rebellion against the federal government?”

In the full analysis (see question 128), there is no breakdown by candidate support, but it does point out that 19% of all respondents who identify as Republican and 19% of all respondents who identify as conservative disapprove of the Emancipation Proclamation (although in comparison 7% of all respondents who identify as Democratic and 5% of all respondents who identify as liberal also disapproved.)

Lynn Vavreck published her analysis of the data as well. Besides the fact the 20.5% of Trump supporters disapprove of the Emancipation Proclamation, what disturbed me more about the data is how many people still believe that Executive Order 9066 was a great idea. Even 23.4% of Clinton supporters and 17.2% of Sanders supporters approve of the Japanese internment during WWII.

I mean, I guess disapproval of the Emancipation Proclamation shouldn’t be surprising since the U.S. just passed a law banning real slave (vs. wage slave) produced imports and people are already freaking out about where the hell we’re going to get our chocolate and our Nikes.

While wage slavery is bad, real slavery still most definitely exists, and there is a major political party in this country where almost 1 out of 5 of its constituents seem to want to take America way back.