I am looking for people to experiment to find good ways to attach fruits to a Grav-mass tree.

Ajit Pal, the troll's head of the FCC, supports charging prisoners $14 an hour for phone calls.

This panders to those who want to grind the heel on prisoners, and will please many supporters of the troll. It will have the byproduct of increasing crime in the future, as prisoners who have limited communication with their families and friends will be less likely to fit back into society after they are released. (Most prisoners are released, you know.) So they will be led back to a life of crime.

But the main effect will be to enrich some companies, whose owners Pai seems to consider his cronies.

Sherry Turkle: campaigning to reestablish direct conversation between people in a world of people who are addicted to portable phones.

She doesn't put this together with the fact that the technology, being proprietary, is designed to be addictive. The users generally don't have control over this or any other aspect of it, so they can't make it less addictive.

The Army Corps of Engineers is rushing to complete the Dakota Access pipeline, skipping the steps that are normally required.

This is to make sure that the environmental impacts are never studied and that no court can rule on the legality of the project before it is too late.

Since the pipeline will contribute to mass murder, I think that sabotaging it with violence so that it cannot be used would be justified on the principle of necessity for preventing a greater crime.

Republicans claim that the protests against them are full of "paid protesters".

How much money would it have cost to pay a million people to protest? We progressives are not backed by billionaires — we can't afford to do that. Only Republicans can.

It is standard Republican practice to accuse the opposition, falsely, of using the methods that they themselves use.