Given the nationality of this woman in particular, I’d say the British royal family should first.

Most video games I’ve ever played have seizure warnings on them, but there’s a pretty huge difference between the what the normal warnings are for and what was described as the issue in Cyberpunk 2077. I saw this as someone who plays video games with someone with epilepsy.

Seriously. The seizure warning on most games is just the companies covering their asses. This thing sounds like something that needed a warning for it specifically.

Dude, wide swaths of the US won’t be able to do efficient vaccine deployment with the Pfizer vaccine. It’s cold chain requirements are bonkers, even for the developed world.

Wow, papers with male last authors are more likely to get published? This is brand new information.

I mean, Phineas Gage survived for years after a 1.25" in diameter, meter-long tamping iron went straight through his skull and took a chunk of his temporal lobe with it. If this video game character was still up and about with the axe in his head and talking coherently, I’d assume that removing it (properly) would…

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.