Nah, we just have to wait another month or two for the vaccines that are okay to store in normal fridges to be approved.

This isn’t the fault of our healthcare infrastructure. The vaccine you’re referencing—the Pfizer one—was only ever going to be able to be given to people in urban areas with research hospitals anywhere in the world. The other vaccine of the same type (Moderna) is able to be kept at more reasonable temperatures, and…

The vaccine in question has to be kept at -80 degrees Celsius because it’s made of RNA and will thus degrade easily. The freezers in question are not really used much in hospitals outside of those that do research. Normal freezers tend to be kept at -20 degrees Celsius, which is good enough for most things for a…

I was watching FiveThirtyEight pretty consistently up until Election Day, and most of the swing states that went for Trump instead of Biden were well within the margin of error based on the polls. They were absolutely right about the outcomes they published from their models, though. If I recall correctly, they did…

Just in case you’re not talking about the Game of Thrones reference that The Ghost of Hames Madison’s Rage Boner meant, the orange abomination of a Muppet is Gritty, the Philadelphia Flyers’ mascot (NHL). I’m not entirely certain why Gritty and not the Philly Phanatic, but it could be that Gritty is definitely the…

Every time I’ve ever voted in the US, I’ve filled out a paper ballot. That’s admittedly 3/50 states, but all three of them are in the top 20 most populated. So, some of the national vote will be counted by hand, but you still need people to physically feed the ballots into the voting machines where there are still…

Dude, if immigrants couldn’t vote, then my mom’s been committing election fraud for decades. Any immigrant can vote if they’re a citizen. Documented and undocumented resident aliens and refugees can’t vote until or unless they become citizens.

Do any of the exit polls try to capture the mail-in vote? As the election results have been showing pretty clearly, a shitload of Democrats have been voting by mail instead of at the polls. I mean, hell, all the people I’ve talked to about voting did it either early or by mail/dropoff except for me.

Unless that “commode” has a secret toilet in it, that chest of drawers isn’t the right kind of shape/size for the older kind of commode. Honestly, I’d be more impressed if it was a secret toilet cupboard than just an ugly IKEA knock-off made of solid wood instead of fiberboard. Still wouldn’t justify the price-tag.

It’s been widely understood that HP fandom surpassed Star Wars and the other older established fandoms a long way back, and the Snapewives are usually cited as the reason.

I disagree with you regarding Snape, specifically in his characterization in the text and Rowling’s intent with him. (Just to get this out of the way, though, Snape, Harry’s parents (had they lived), Remus, and Sirius were all actually 31 in the first book, which really sort of changes how you look at them.) I’m…

Considering that they both tested negative, I doubt he’ll be able to get out of it that easily, but I also really want to see the jackass eviscerated live on TV.

Once you pass your qualifying exams in a PhD program, it’s definitely a question of whether or not you’re bullheaded enough to finish your degree instead of how smart you are. I knew some dumb motherfuckers in graduate school, let me tell you.

Or I was referring to the period during the First Republic that everyone is usually referencing when mentioning the French Revolution and not the relatively chill period to which the Tennis Court Oath and the Declaration of the Rights of Man belonged.

Rebuild it how? Based on whose government? Whose constitution? How do you know that tyrants of either side wouldn’t take power like they always do? The French and Russian Revolutions went after the nobility first, then the intellectuals, and then the disenfranchised and vulnerable. The US pulled off a hell of a magic…

People who are anti-vaccination, anti-fluoridation, and are pro-magical thinking are anti-science and will easily adopt new conspiracy theories? I’m so surprised.

I’m from a state in the Midwest, and if the weather hasn’t been noticed by farmers, then they’re being willfully blind. A couple years back, there were floods and cold weather for so long it was uncertain if the corn crop was going to be planted on time or get drowned out from the rain. The weather’s become more…

Not everyone can afford to throw out a perfectly good piece of bread.

Yeah, that’s still legit. I personally just can’t understand how anyone would waste the food.

God forbid. They wouldn’t take us because they’d have to give us equal representation, which would land us back in the same situation we already have but with England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland having about as much power as California + New York, Minnesota, Iowa, and West Virginia, respectively. That said,…