lazyscience.bsky.social
bluestocking spinster, purveyor of felines.
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Aside from the egregious lack of urgency, the resemblance to auction paddles was... unfortunate at best.
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Because they think no one who isn't already a multimillionaire should retire. As far as they're concerned, if you can still get up, you can still scrub around a billionaire's toilet where the robot floor cleaner gets stuck and taste his McDonald's to make sure it's not poisoned and be grateful.
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What she apparently failed to realize is someone else spouting that rhetoric is why her kids got sick in the first place. Circular firing squad ass logic. Anyway hope her kids don't have long term effects, they can't help it their mom's a jerk.
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When we've gone far enough down the rabbit hole the RABBIT is like "you people are bananas, I'm out" that's not a great sign.
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Tell you what, I accept this take as soon as age appropriate sex ed, blood borne hazard ed and narcotics overdose for first aid get taught. It's the same damn principle. But all those gun toting parents scream "it'll give kids bad ideas!" They can't have it both ways.
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can people who aren't journalists play? Department of Grifters and Extremists? Oh, wait, you said shorthand. "Bond villain scheme"? "anarcho-capitalist coup"? "Scooby-Doo caper"? "bank-examiner con"?
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Nah, it's trying to rehab his image as a Decent Family Man, not someone who has 9 other kids whose mothers won't let him see them and offers to buy flight attendants horses in exchange for groping them.
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in the eyes of the techbroligarchy, only people with faulty genes from non-WASP origins have these problems. And too many useful MAGA idiots believe you can cure cancer with juice cleanses and Alex Jones supplements, and medicine is all A Scam From Big Pharma.
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As a reluctant voter for Amy Klobuchar, thank you for calling her out. Since her constituency calling her to tell her "stop talking about bipartisanship with CRIMINALS, you're trying to play chess in a burning building, grab a fire extinguisher" does jack shit.
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They don't just want that; they want to be what they think Roman emperors were, slaveowners with the divine right of kings, who can do whatever they want to whoever they want who isn't also a broligarch. They want to treat other humans as objects, not thinking beings.
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Tell him the stock market crashing from investors panicking about government funded R&D/non-payment of contracts is bad for business. Also point out the Lutheran Care thing and ask what happens if Musk's Hitler Youth decide ALL churches are a grift? Why's an unelected pervert targeting Christians?
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We still shouldn't be doing that. Fuck, Shep, the SHAMELESSNESS of people asking YOU to do more. Where do people get off on wanting someone ELSE to do the work, do we not all fucking live here???
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How scary for both of you. Thinking good thoughts for no lasting effects for poor Peter getting his bell rung.
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late Gen X and I saw that shit happening in real time post 9/11 when people collectively lost their goddamn minds and went all-in on the surveillance state. "if you don't have anything to hide why would you care? Surely, there's no way this unprecedented lack of privacy could be abused!"
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If Richard cares more about cats than Being Right on the Internet he could post his own positive cat content instead of scolding other people for theirs. I get that fundraising is thankless but trying to guilt other people into doing it is not a good look. You're doing amazing without guilting.
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Political consultant (although it'd be cat's-whisker close)
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Money. If no one has to prove their claims, anybody can sell whatever they want. The more they deregulate, the less insurance has to pay. Win for grifters, private equity and insurers, the rich assume they can buy what they need and the poor already have trouble accessing evidence based medicine.
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like their children, they regard them as possessions rather than beings with feelings.
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lol, I was tempted for a hot minute to get one to just like, hold pencils or put a succulent in but there's a bunch of people who did buy them posting angry videos. I wouldn't have minded CUTE fake rocks but they look like if Dollar Tree made a kids' version of these pictures out of molded plastic.
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You were probably kidding but refresh your Tdap (tetanus, diptheria, pertussis) if it's been more than 5 years (10 is the usual but if they're going after vaccine makers' liability, who knows?), HPV and meningococcal meningitis for teens/young adults who haven't gotten it, shingles if over 50.
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If we're going on occupancy via religious doctrine from hundreds of years before current boundaries, I have some interesting news for Mr. Huckabee re: the title deed to Arkansas and the Caddo, Quapaw and Osage tribes, among others.
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Dengue too: www.msn.com/en-us/health...
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Brainworm thinks that FDA regulations are somehow helping Big Pharma instead of a necklace-weight chain of good manufacturing practice for things that could easily kill, holding back a legion of rabid MBAs stripping those pesky safety margins. Imagine Boeing, but anesthesia meds and gene therapy.
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A lot of otherwise decent people think that if they have to work for food and housing, so should prisoners, without appreciating the 14th amendment connection or the fact that their labor isn't restorative to victims or the community, just further enriching plutocrats.
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What is it with failson white guys and their discipline fantasies, imagining that one day they will attain distant abusive father figure status?
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can tell the vision doesn't skip leg day their calves are bigger than their buttcheeks.
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Yarn!
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And Texas Pete.
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They're all so egotistical that they think they'll be able to ride it out and the last man standing after Great Depression 2, having bought out their failed compatriots and become God-Emperor.
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deep cut here - George Bailey in It Would Have Been A Wonderful Life. Or, swap him with Ewan MacGregor for Obi-Wan Kenobi in the Star Wars prequels (yeah, I know, you said 'beloved' but you didn't specify 'good' and a lot of people have a soft spot for the prequels).
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I remember a variant of that going around about RDJ in the 2000s (www.snopes.com/fact-check/r... ) When I saw it I was like "good Lord, how freaking old is their media team that that's the best they can counteract the couch with?"
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Reasons I can never testify -"in a bag? Why, to match your pointy pillowcase with eyeholes?"
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I am saying it's equally fallacious to assume selfishness as selflessness and that no one is owed an explanation of a choice as personal as being responsible for another human life for decades.
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Sir, why is my choice to not pass on a potentially fatal and at best debilitating condition not an act of care for the future? And why is some people's prurient curiosity more important than my privacy?
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Translation: "you can't eat the rich, do you know what's in that shit? Botox! Plastic! Cocaine! Brain worms! Horse tranquilizer! All kinds of toxic garbage!
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That reminds me, did the Feenstras ever get their accounts unfrozen after daring to speak unfavorably of Mother Russia after taking refuge there from the socialist wilds of Canada?
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I feel like somewhere Jordan Peele sat up and yelled "that bitch stole my IP" because wow the Get Out vibes.
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Did she have to have a class before they let her leave the lot? My 72 y/o dad just bought a new Subaru and before they gave him the keys he got an hour-long orientation to everything that was on the touchscreen, not manual.
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I was thinking Cate Blanchett as Cinderella's stepmother, but that also feels correct.
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the hierarchy must be kept intact.
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Or consent for medical treatment.
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So it's given that comments on a story about a wealthy white guy being caught in scummy behavior towards women won't pass the vibe check but WOOF, the comments. "Someone repeatedly deceiving others to get what they want? How could that have implications for him professionally? It was just women."
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I think it's also that we teach history in terms of single "great men" and iconoclasts, isolating them from the work they built on and the standards that make their work accepted. So many people don't understand that extraordinary claims need extraordinary evidence to support them.
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Feature not a bug for ChatGPT enthusiasts. "That reference is not a bot hallucination, it is the archives at fault!"