I think you need to get your eyes checked; your prescription seems to be out of date. That is a perfectly cromulent Ultra-CX-30. It’s aggressively bland, but that the worst I can say about it.

I was *briefly* one of them, circa December 2020, until I talked to a statistician friend who was modelling the spread. He was very right that it was going to be very bad, and I changed my stance.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. I always say that about myself when I'm embarking on some experimental method I only understand in theory, but haven't actually done with my own two hands.

Yeah, that and a heaping helping of Christian “fundamentalism."

That is truly baffling.

My brother is/was very smart, but not one for school. Then one day he drank the fundamentalist Christian kool-aid. My whole family (except me) is Christian/religious, but he is WAY off the deep end. Women, including his technically-not-a-child bride, don’t get to make decisions, get educated, or have any kind of…

The thing that really kills me about all that nonsense is that people are putting their kids at risk. It’s fine and dandy for an adult to make a stupid, ill-informed decision for themselves, they can all go die if that’s what they want to do. But children don’t have that agency. Putting innocent children at risk…

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Pretty sure he meant the abject poverty part. But who knows? Poverty can make people do some wild stuff. We might be sanctioned by other countries for the shenanigans we’d have to get into to survive. There might even be a civil war.

It’s an opportunity cost problem. Would manufacturing return? Yes, but it wouldn’t be easy, nor would it be cheap, no matter how you slice it. Either things would be more expensive or they would have to be heavily subsidized by the government to control prices. That means either more taxes or cutting something else.…

First Gear: The media has GOT to stop equating “some dude skimming a few Google search results” and “scientists painstakingly subjecting a falsifiable hypothesis to experiment.”

I tried to form an opinion about the wheels and failed.

Unfortunately, Joe Rogan can yell much louder than me...

Compromise is dope haha

I wasn’t trying to insult the arachnids or the anemones! They do important work, maintaining populations of numerous prey species!

This is the problem that “SCIENCE” has. The actual, painstaiking work that constitutes actual scientific research is given equal footing with people who “googled some shit and skimmed a link or two” in the media. News organizations need to be clear about the difference between actual science and “some guy just googling…

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I think he’s more of a sea anemone. Capable of receiving and reacting to outside stimulus, but not capable of any real executive functionality that would allow him to decide what sort of response to give to a particular stimulus.

I don’t know if it counts, but the Mirth Mobile was the first thing that came to mind. I know this scene and the song make certain joyless clods nauseous...

Looks like they missed a few spots.