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I once wrote an episode of Adam Ruins Everything where he said that IQ is a bad measure of actual mental ability. It got some of the most wild, furious responses online. There are people who base their entire world view on a relatively meaningless number

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In this house we believe: - whatever a man with a sufficiently tall hat says - things we read on discarded sandwich bags - anything spoken in iambic pentameter

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments

i gotta say as a jew im not a big fan of the sieg heil coming back into vogue!!!

submitted 4 days ago • 42 comments

Yet more evidence that science is, and has always been, political

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

hello cis friends this is what people mean by trans genocide if a type of person does not officially exist, then any harm against them cannot be measured or reported this headline change isn't even being caused by an executive order it's simply the NYT editors deciding we don't deserve to exist

submitted 6 days ago • 154 comments

I’m becoming increasingly convinced that anyone seriously talking about how the US should take over Canada is unaware of the existence of Quebec

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

i do kinda lub land honestly

submitted 345 days ago • 10 comments

The way you know “Judeo-Christian” isn’t a thing is how these folks would react the moment someone tried to Birkat Ha’Mizon after lunch.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

The Ontario Canada ad about the importance of our economic relationship is an all timer Super Bowl ad imo

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

This makes me so sad and angry. Some of the best scientists I know are under represented minorities. We know that diversity makes research better, but mediocre white men can’t handle not being the best researcher in the room. Segregation is the point.

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

ah trump’s merit in action. only certain people can be meritorious

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submitted 21 days ago • 9 comments

Everyone needs to understand - every hospital withholding healthcare from trans children will do the same to trans adults as soon as the orders come down.

submitted 20 days ago • 16 comments

Now the whole country gets the experience of what it's like when private equity buys the place you work

submitted 20 days ago • 212 comments

Helping someone move is non-toxic masculinity

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Someone is going to write a piece about how that executive order claims it’s defending women but now the National Science Foundation is shuttering programs that serve women and trying to cancel grants that mention women, right? 🧪

submitted 21 days ago • 13 comments

Idk about you but I enjoy having a base line expectation of safety while existing in society.

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

Probably shouldn’t have gone into regulatory huh?

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Do those astronauts up there even want to come back? I sure wouldn't.

submitted 26 days ago • 3 comments

outside the water consumption problem, i think we've culturally tilted too far into almonds. almonds are ultimately a bench warmer nut

submitted 43 days ago • 99 comments

gwyneth balatro

submitted 52 days ago • 4 comments

I think about rabies a lot for someone who doesn’t go outside

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

Proceed

submitted 66 days ago • 159 comments

Every time the GOP threatens to shut down the government because of debt I think about how debt based economies helped support the rise of nation states and have existed since like the 14th century (at least in Europe)

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