Hah, definitely, although he’s probably at the higher end of the competence scale and we’d expect him to underestimate his abilities. But maybe the asshole metric is on a different scale 

This. I’m sure he’s quite brilliant and can apply his knowledge and skills to a problem and make a meaningful difference. The problem is that a lot of people like him don’t have good self awareness of where the knowledge and skills end, and assume that with some self-directed research they can master any problem,…

The problem is that even if some states that started early effective lockdowns manage to stop new infections, there are always going to be states that were behind the ball on that. It’s not really feasible to close state borders

I was debating whether to get the box set - I own IV-VI on DVD, and that nice new 4K UHD one looks so pretty once I’m fully employed enough to afford that kind of splurge. I think I’d watch the newer movies again at some point, but honestly have little desire to go back to the prequel. I assume most people here have…

I was debating whether to get the box set - I own IV-VI on DVD, and that nice new 4K UHD one looks so pretty once…

I don’t necessarily object to him sending the stuff over there - after all, if China were able to stamp it out quickly, the likelihood of it spreading over here would be lower. The issue seems to be that there was no strategic vision - nobody with any decision making power seemed to have any idea of what we had in…

I’m legitimately worried that the COVID19 situation is going to be used for some serious census fuckery by the the Republicans (even more than the usual), but at the same time very impressed by how many people are working hard to make sure that doesn’t happen. Got a message from my barber a few days ago- his business…

If only there was a government agency focused on disease control and prevention to provide reputable information, perhaps at regular briefings given by this “presidential” leader you’ve dreamed up

I hear all the Republican politicians who think the old people should sacrifice themselves for the greater good are signing “do not intubate” orders for themselves, refusing PPE, and are volunteering to hand-ventilate the sick patients to save money on ventilators. Anything for the greater good!

I’m OK with the Republicans pushing this point of view as long as they all sign do not intubate orders for themselves and refuse all PPE. It’s always easy to make sacrifices on behalf of others

But won’t someone please think of the virtue-signalers? 

I wish someone would take a giant coronavirus shit inside this man’s gasmask. 

Fucking around with dangerous wild animals really seems to be an American white people thing. My very unscientific survey of my friends and people I shared that video with shows that immigrants and non-white people would also get the fuck out of there

It’s not like the landlords would be able to find a financially solvent tenant with a use for that space or a desire to remodel it to not look like a fucking cheesecake factory. They’ll probably have to eat the rent for a few months with the hope that they can at least have payments starting again in the summer or so. 

The only thing worse than a yelling tantrum toddler is a toddler who has been quiet for more than 5 minutes. Because you have to get up and go investigate that shit to make sure they’re still alive and not just quiet because they’re trying to stick their tongue into the electrical outlet. 

You look at infection rates in populations that got the vaccine versus placebo. Vaccine trials are hard to do, because unless you have a disease running rampant, you need large trials with long periods of observation, or you need to focus on high risk populations (that has been the approach with some of the HIV…

Eh, some of these people are so stupid that they would blame Obama with their dying breath.

I was discussing one of his conferences with my mom, and she goes “That Cuomo is so confident and decisive, I bet he knows how to please a woman.” At that moment I wanted to die of COVID19

I’ve used this stuff in lab on some very hardy cells, and there’s definitely a pretty narrow dose window of “it works but doesn’t kill everything in the dish”. I would certainly not be eating it from a bag of fish drugs with a teaspoon. 

Normally I’d say that anyone taking medical advice from this asshole is best removed from the gene pool, but the problem is that when they go blind or get really sick, they end up in the hospital taking medical attention from people who actually deserve to be cared for. So maybe Trump and his lackeys can just do the…