This is a stupid take because the vaccine absolutely prevents the spread of virus. If you don’t get sick you don’t spread the virus. The vaccine does not 100% prevent you from getting sick, but no vaccine does. It raises the bar as to how much virus you need to be exposed to in order to get sick. If everyone is…

The problem with masks is specifically that they protect *others* if *you* are sick, but if you are a right-wing Trump supporter, you literally can’t ever do anything wrong ever, which means you can never be sick, which means that wearing a mask is *punishing yourself* even though you’ve done nothing wrong.

Fear of flying. Flying freaks me out, I will have a few beers at the airport bar to calm my nerves and then switch to wine on the plane to make me sleepy and doze off during the flight. Doesn’t help much if we hit bad turbulence, but it’s a damn sight better than gripping my armrests so tight the blood drains out of…

Yeah I work for doctors who specialize in patients with HIV, and there are a *lot* of immunocompromised people out there who are just trying to live their own lives.

Imagine being mad that someone else is wearing a mask. Like, how is that your fuckin’ business?

Yeah flying freaks me out so I definitely will have a few beers before I get on the plane, but being nice to everyone, especially the flight attendants, will get you through a lot of doors

You put tariffs on imports, those countries put tariffs on US exports to their nations, people stop buying our stuff, our economy takes a dump

My guess is moving the shifter to the touchscreen was a Musk demand in order to help justify the existence of that massive screen. Bigger screen == more futuristic

Trump’s account is already active on Twitter, it auto-posts copies of a bunch of stuff he posts on his social network. But I don’t see him going back to Twitter directly, because that would be admitting his own social network sucks. Doesn’t matter if it would benefit him, he’s too egotistical to admit to that

Honestly, Trump getting his cases delayed might hurt him more than help him at this point. He’s still got to pay his lawyers a shitload of money to keep working on the cases, but he won’t have the advantage of using the courtroom to campaign from, so he would have to spend money on actually campaigning, money that he…

Trump is spending about $10 million/month on legal bills. Even taking over the RNC and having that pay his legal bills will basically only buy him about a month, as the RNC started the year with only $8 million in the bank, due to funding all of Trump’s other legal cases.

The UN’s figures for Gaza fatalities has matches Hamas “ministry of health” in every single other conflict since Hamas has been control of Gaza. There’s no reason this conflict is any different. 

Six years is a decent chunk of time to find evidence to demonstrate either guilt or innocence more strongly than just hearsay.

You mean aside from the white nationalism and the “anti-woke” cultural wars? Yeah he’s a shitty dude. 

Typically the pun would be in quotation marks to make it more clear. 

It’s a great example of just how screwed up our wealth inequality is. There are, apparently, loads of people who can drop $70k on this and it’s nothing, and then the other 99% of us are scraping by.

She switches districts to a “safe” red district, but has been polling poorly (since she’s not an incumbent), so it’s fairly likely the voters are going to give her the time off she so desperately needs

The $2k was what she had to pay up-front to begin the order, before it was cancelled. She wasn’t out the full cost for the order. 

The person originally called for half the order, and the owner worked up the forms for the payment. Then the Tesla person came back and doubled the order, and she basically had to start immediately, or she wouldn’t have been able to complete the order on time. So it was about $2k in materials to start the order by the…

I’m hopeful Kai somehow got in there and saved him, but I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s dead. She’s probably with Ackerson