Given the facts presently known, I don’t buy into the lab leak theory. However, the facts presently known do not indicate a zoonotic origin with a high enough degree of certainty for me to exclude all other possibilities, such as the lab leak theory. I reserve the right to change my mind when/if the facts change.

Whether someone or something is or isn’t funny is obviously a matter of taste—a purely subjective determination. There’s no winning this argument, anymore than you could win an argument over what the most delicious ice cream flavor is. You don’t think Seth Rogen is funny, however wide audiences obviously find him…

Also dart your eyes around and ask if the cctv cameras are real.

I love whiskey sours so much but I’m not making them with my top shelf whiskey. Good whiskey, yes, but not my “sip in the bathtub while I watch outlander” whiskey. 

There’s a reason that hard cheese was a favored travel food and ration material if you could get your hands on it for thousands of years. The outer layer of hard cheese is an efficient storage container. A little bit of water won’t hurt it, and even if it gets dirty, you just scrape it away.

Neat. It’s wild seeing tiny, adorable things going psycho like that.

Exactly.

blame fucking Fox News for the most part. They have old white American farts convinced everyone (and by “everyone” I mean “the blacks”) is coming to knock them off the top of the ladder by force.  Ironically, these are also the same assholes ready to take on the US federal government should they decide to take their…

Gun nuts, “I’m afraid, *they* are coming for me, my family and my guns!!”

99% sure there’s a line-item in his budget for that too.

“Australian outlaw Ned Kelly used an iron plow to create the first suit of armor.”

Fandom “stepping in” wasn’t so good. The vote was already going the way it should have been, with deadnaming being banned. The way they “stepped in” is by completing disrespecting the policies of Wookieepedia that have been good for 16 years, and the admins didn’t strike votes with the intention of changing the…

Classic Tory sleaze.

it’s one of those things that you can’t do wrong, because whatever way works for you is right. I personally prefer to do cleaning on daily basis. while you very well may be right that the total time is less, for me the actual mental toll feels less to break it up in to these increments.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

But see, to me, whether it’s ignorance or grift, the moment you start manifesting that sort of nonsense, sensible people everywhere should take serious issue with you doing things, like, say, run a multi-racial women’s coalition designed to stand up to racism, sexism, homophobia and other forms of bigotry.

So Rice is perhaps understandably skeptical of some of the corporate infrastructure that has been built up around what is, at its core, an organic, grassroots movement.

And Jez doesn’t profit off celebrity gossip, right.  

Thanks for that perspective. I think back on it, and it’s tough to remember clearly because the friendship was 8-15 years ago, but I think it took on a flavor of toxicity in that I was judgmental and rude about her lifestyle choice 97% of the time. We’d have fun together and could talk about other things, which is how…

In the early aughts I worked at a company where a very senior person was a total Luddite. I only got to interact with her because she would sometimes receive communiqués in a foreign language only I could speak. (It was a global corp. and HQ was abroad and they had a very bad email distribution list team, so she’s get…