I’m not sure why he thought making this video while sitting on a golden couch in an echoing room of his mansion was the best move in terms of optics. Also maybe wear something a little more professional than a bathrobe? I mean, this is ignoring that he’s also full of complete shit, but you’d think that his PR team…

The Confederacy was formed because they wanted to keep the right to enslave people. Yes, individuals might have felt they were defending their home states, but the whole thing started because the Confederate States wanted to keep people as property. They didn’t try to secede because of “states rights”, because those…

No one’s hands were clean in WWII, but the Germans still tried to subjugate Europe, and while not all Germans were Nazis, most of them were still a-okay with what the Nazis were up to. Just because Britain fucked over its colonies as per usual doesn’t negate the genocide the Germans were perpetrating. Pointing out…

Seriously. I’m pretty sure she’s prefer good old fashioned US tabloid shenanigans (plus or minus the usual racism) to the shit that she was subjected to over in the UK. I mean, Christ.

That was the one thing I kept thinking as I read this. It seems her issue is her kids bugging her, but they’re 10 and 12. At that age, I was able to just muck around on my own for a good number of hours without bothering either of my parents. It doesn’t even have to be video games, too! Give them books or sit them in…

The photo of the Swedish prince looks like a still from an IKEA ad.

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.