One other thing I forgot to mention: if you’re not already doing it and you want to (the desire is key), there’s not a goddamned thing wrong with therapy.

I had an unfortunate experience with the first person I went to for therapy—frankly, they don’t belong in the field—but I found someone that worked for me and was…

Here’s hoping Amofah is found alive and well—and gets the help he needs. It’s not looking good, and dragging that kind of body of water for one person is very much the epitome of needle-in-a-haystack work, but until his whereabouts are confirmed one way or another, all anyone can do is hope he set his stuff down and…

1918 would like a word. 

Yep, all his shots on schedule.

I think you wildly misunderstood what I was saying. I believe vaccines are good for society.

I was articulating (maybe not that well) that the anti-vaxxer argument is that it is good business for pharmaceutical companies to have clients for life. That the real money isn’t in the initial vaccines, but rather the…

I know a 30 year old woman who died of the flu this year. Your anecdote vs. mine. Who wins?

Bolsonaro is so bad he makes Trump look like Abraham Lincoln in comparison.

It’s strictly a coincidence that the Polio vaccine innoculations and Ray Kroc’s aquisition of McDonald’s happened around the same period in time. Note that the number of reported cases of Polio dropped year by year as the number of McDonald’s outlets multiplied almost exponentially. So-called “scientists” and…

Sightly OT, but Sherri Tenpenny sounds like a name Charles Dickens would have made up - and perhaps not for one of his more sympathetic characters.

As he should be. All the progressive policy with none of the toxic baggage? Yes please.

The episode Pale Moonlight is peak Sisko. I would compare it in many ways to the TNG episode Family where Picard goes home to visit his brother and finally comes to term with (or at least accepts) the horrible things he did while under the control of the Borg. The only difference is that Sisko’s coming to terms with…

A scientist. An explorer. A diplomat. An ambassador. A patron of the arts, be they the classics or the pulpier stylings of Dixon Hill.

“It is easy to see villians who twirl their mustaches, Mr. Worf. Those that cloak themselves in good deeds, however, are very difficult to spot."

That’s cute. Really.

As a kid watching episodes on tv I really preferred Riker, really I wanted to be Riker. As an adult binge-watching TNG on Netflix I was blown away by how incredible an actor Sir Patrick Stewart is. There is not a single episode he is bad in. His big moments still pop and the smaller ones still seem so genuine. The…

One of the best Picard quotes IMO:

“How am I supposed to run my landscaping business now?! I can’t afford to pay my workers above minimum wage!”

Wait what? No!

I mean maybe for you its more intuitive because you grew up with Fahrenheit, but 0° being water freezing temperature and 100° being water evaporating temperature its much more intuitive than 32 freezing and 212 evaporating.

I want the metric system. Stuff makes more sense.