What Fauci has on Trump is the respect of the international scientific community, including (in all likelihood) the director of the NIH (his boss, technically) and the head of HHS.

Fauci’s the head of a subsection of the NIH, so Trump would have to pressure the head of the Department of Health and Human Services to pressure the head of the NIH to pressure Fauci. What the hell could Trump threaten? It would be career suicide for the head of HHS, the head of the NIH was appointed by President…

As an Ohioan, this has been the most surprising part of the whole mess. My home state has chosen this moment of all times to have its shit together.

I’d recommend The Coming Plague, by Laurie Garrett, and Spillover, by David Quammen, for how zoonoses and epidemics arise. The first is actually part of the reason the current framework for handling epidemics is the way it is, and the latter talks about diseases that jump from animals to humans. They’re even-handed…

Not really. A disposable face mask would end up becoming moist, and breathing through the mask would then aerosolize whatever is trapped in the moisture. It’s only effective as a barrier to pathogens for the first couple minutes.

Wait, they fucking killed off Chewie again?! God dammit.

This is super off-topic, but your username is amazing.

Yeah, I mean, why shit on O’Rourke for actually doing something helpful and generally expected of politicians—supporting other candidates—with some sort of clout?

Look, I personally find the proposed dating app to be veering into eugenic territory, too, but you clearly don’t really know what you’re talking about regarding genetic inheritance of disease. I could go on about Mendelian and non-Mendelian inheritance, but honestly that would likely be a waste of time, seeing as you…

Roo has been on here for years and years, unlike you, who has been commenting since late November.

Um, I wasn’t talking about the symbol in the header image, which is not a Chi-Rho. I was talking about the symbol BulletBill64 remembered from Catholic candles.

That’s why they specifically are charging him with only abuse of power regarding Ukraine and obstruction of Congress. That way he can’t say he’s been exonerated from all accusations about him, because they’re only hitting him with the Ukraine issue and being a righteous asshole about the investigation of the Ukraine…

That’s the Chi-Ro, which is an old shorthand for Christ.

How did Reboots win over the GoT dudes? Some reboots are actually good. The GoT dudes on the other hand are consistently tone-deaf at best.

I’m still confused myself about what exactly the Moon has done, but Alexa was mentioned in reference to the robots, I think.

I completely agree. I mean, seriously, who the hell would want to cancel goofy people doing goofy shit over LITERAL CULTS. Seriously, if that choice isn’t a landslide victory for celebrity religious cults, I will scream.

When a helicopter is a valid option, why ever take 495?

If I’m counting right, there’s 97 pokémon from the original generation missing.

There’s a pig at the SF airport? Why is there a pig at the SF airport? Look, I get that some people get crazy stressed about flying, but it’s a goddamn airport, not a zoo.

If enough people in Columbus, Cincinnati, Cleveland, and Toledo vote, maybe. The spread in the last presidential election was godawful for Ohio as a whole.