I’ve been disagreeing with a lot of what you’ve had to say lately, but this is accurate.

Dems are terrified of appearing unpatriotic, particularly during an election cycle. It’s infuriating, because regardless of how you feel about Iran, this is an act of war, and clearly designed to boost the asshole in the presidency’s approval ratings. It’s all bullshit and needs to be called out precisely for what it…

“God DAMN IT.”

That’s not really something to mess around with, especially if you’re nervous about it. The research in this area is based upon specific dosages of the active ingredients (which varies greatly from mushroom to mushroom, even in the same batch) in controlled settings. The last thing you would want to do is have a panic…

That’s a fair point. The last thing he would ever want is to be deemed “unimportant”. He’d rather be hated than that. At least being hated means people are paying attention to him.

Wow. He sounds so... triggered.

If they have in fact cut out other scenes, then they’res no reason to believe they were targeting him. Occam’s Razor, and all.

Yep. It’s honestly a little disappointing that they weren’t targeting him, specifically.

I’m actually a little disappointed to learn that this was simply a time edit. It would have been deliciously petty if they were specifically trolling him.

Absolutely. They delight in the suffering of others and have an authoritarian streak going back decades as a party (or centuries, if you broaden it to conservatism).

Archaeologists and paleontologists make very little. You have to be passionate and committed to go that route, because the work takes a lot of time and effort (and luck), and the pay sucks (assuming you get paid at all).

It’s even more insane when you consider that the vast majority of basic research is done at the academic level, and the ones doing all the work are grad students that don’t even make enough to live on (I’ve been there). Their advisors are lucky if they even get any grant money to put together a laboratory, let alone…

[fatal] Xception

The private health insurance industry profits off the suffering of others. Fuck them. I’ll be glad when that’s no longer a viable career choice.

I doubt it’s meant to be used in such quantities as he does.

Five syllables is a lot for him. The only reason he can count that high is because he has that many stubby fingers on one hand.

No lie, as a kid that notion was one of the things that made me question the catholicism being forced down my throat. “What, my cats won’t be in heaven with me? This is some bullshit!”

It’s about him, so of course he is.

Oh, this is totally about Warren making billionaires cry. Somebody is trying to muck things up enough that she loses some support (unlikely to succeed, but the richies are desperate).

The median is not a good measure of central tendency in this case. The mean is more meaningful, but the mode(s) would be more representative, imho.