Cartoons, and why I love them

I'm sure by now that many of you have already heard about the recent Supreme Court ruling. It's a great breakthrough for LGBT people, but Terri already covered it, and probably covered it better than I could. So, hop over to her post if you want to read about it.
What I'm going to talk about, is cartoons. Many of you might say, oh, cartoons, how childish. What does it matter if they are? Does everything in life have to be serious? Am I not allowed to relax and shut down my brain at some point in my day?
 
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The answers are no, it doesn't, and yes I am. Many of them also have adult themes in them, subtly hidden so children don't notice them, but not so much that I don't. The show Rocko's  Modern Life has more masturbation jokes than a high school classroom. Rocko's favorite game is punch the weasel. It doesn't even try to hide them. Other shows also do it, like Cow and Chicken, or one of my favorites, Ren and Stimpy.
One show I really like right now is Teen Titans. It is a show about five "teenagers" with some form of powers, be it superpowers or ninja like abilities. I admit, it is a lot less dark than the comics, which I love, but for its medium, it was great. There was violence, slapstick humor, relate-able characters, and even outright betrayal.Each character had their own story, strengths, flaws, and emotions, and as the show progressed, they changed.  
                                    
Another was Samurai Jack.It was about a Japanese samurai, who, just as he was about to beat his arch nemesis, Aku, he was flung into the far future, where evil is rife, and Aku is ruler. The show is about his travels, and it tries to stay true to the samurai movies, despite censorship. Instead of human enemies, he fought robots and monsters. Instead of blood, there was oil and goo. It really was  a great show.

But in life all things are fleeting. Cartoon network canceled all of these shows, despite high  ratings in the teen demographic, and the fact that the animators enjoyed making them. It really was a dick move. They did similar things to the shows Generator Rex ans Symbiotic Titan, which I also enjoyed.
What they replaced the shows with was far worse than if they had simply canceled them. When they created Teen Titans Go, I had a brief hope that the series would be continued. Nope. Just some stupid kids show with the same character names and no adult themes. What did I expect? Their main demographic is children after all.
Similar to cartoons is anime, which is awesome, but it would take to long to talk about it. Just know that is is very diverse, and most of it is awesome. Especially Death Note.

TL;DR
Fuck Cartoon Network

On Science and Morality: Exploring the Deeper Issues

A great many people assume that science, in its barest form, is moral. It is not. Nor is it immoral, as many fundamentalists would have you believe. Science is instead amoral; as in, it has no distinct morality. It is not a set of beliefs, nor is is a person, it is not a prophet, nor is it anything with sentient mind. Science, in its barest form, is a process, and a tool. It does not make people better, and it does not make them worse, it merely provides them with a means to explore their universe, and create tools based off what they discover. The process follows the route shown in the picture below.
The scientific method is not a set system of beliefs, is is a way of gathering data, making hypotheses, and testing them until they are true beyond all doubt. However, once a theory is accepted, its position is not guaranteed. If future scientists discover evidence that disproves it, than it either changes to accommodate new evidence or is thrown away.
What science does give us, is a rapid progression of technology, that doubles in complexity roughly every ten years.This gives us a great many tools, which can create or destroy, harm or heal, or any number of things.  However, though these tools can be used for good or ill, you will find that a great many are used to help humanity. Advances in biology allow us to both cure smallpox and weaponize it, but today, you will find not a world spanning über-plauge, but instead that we have removed it from the face of the earth. Though science does produce many things that could cause great harm, they are generally outnumbered by the things that help people. Modern medicine saves lives. Modern geology helps predict earthquakes, Modern meteorology helps predict hurricanes and tornadoes. Hell, even nuclear science has given us medical treatments using radium.
 
The bottom line is, science isn't perfect, but that doesn't matter. What does matter is who uses it, and how they use the fruits of their labor.

Learn more about science on The Internet. You're already on it, so just use a search engine and it's a click away.

Hello (also)

I will also be posting to this blog, because I can, and you can't stop me. You can however, read it, or not, it doesn't really matter. I am a 17 year old boy who likes a wide variety of things (as well as a wide variety of girls), an will talk about most of them. Hopefully you like it, but if you don't, fuck off, you don't have to be here.