In the scientific community the “lab leak” theory is shorthand for someone did something dumb and accidentally infected themselves with a research specimen (which everyone believes wasn’t altered by human hands). It’s attributing the jump to human error in the laboratory, which is a much less scary and more easily…

Yes, we still would have had a pandemic on our hands, because international travel from China is what caused other regions of the world to be infected. The US would likely not have been hit as hard if we had had an adult in the Oval Office, but COVID still would have hit the US and still would have gotten to Europe.…

Among the scientific community, it’s generally agreed upon that SARS-CoV-2 is a naturally evolved virus with no fiddling of the genome by humans. The question actually being asked is if someone accidentally infected themselves with a previously collected sample, which is a lot less concerning from an epidemiological…

Re: D: Human error happens in laboratories. As a scientist who works on infectious diseases, I’d feel a hell of a lot better if someone accidentally fucked up their PPE instead of there being a naturally occurring zoonosis.

Dear God, that dress is hideous.

Shit, Pete Davidson? The poor guy’s got enough mental stuff on his plate as it is without this sort of nonsense. He’d been in an upswing lately, too.

Part of the issue with the 10-14 billion vaccine doses is that you’re talking about 6-8 billion vaccinated people there in the absolutely best case scenario with no waste. J&J is the only one-shot vaccine approved, if I remember correctly, and they had been predicting 1 billion doses by the end of the year before…

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Dude. The only point I was interested in making outside of what everyone else said was that you’re talking out your ass about Northern Ireland to bolster arguments I also found distasteful. I read all of what you wrote about Northern Ireland, don’t mistake me, and if you don’t know why Lisburn means something…

First, I’m going to say that I intentionally did not read your entire comment. The Meghan Markle business is something that people have been rehashing with you even in this thread. I’ve said my piece on it, and I’m not going to reply to anything about it.

By the way, I thought you’d appreciate knowing that Mortal Dictata is full of shit regarding the Troubles in addition to literally everything else. Everything’s calmed down in Northern Ireland. Honestly, I’ve got the sneaking suspicion my American ass has spent more time there than his English one has.

You do realise The Troubles have never really ended right? Still “peace walls” up all over Northern Ireland, police are still armed and armoured unlike everywhere else in the UK, shootings and bombs are still going off, and people are still dying (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-10866072).

If the kid’s born on US soil and they claim American citizenship, they can’t hold a noble title. Thus, not in line for the throne.

Please let the kid be born in the US! I would like nothing more than for one of the people closely in line for the throne be ineligible for it. I mean, hell, if I were Megan, I wouldn’t want to fly back to the UK just to have a kid, especially with all the crazy going on.

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…