I know my bar has dropped a lot, but he spoke for an hour and fielded questions. He was pretty damn coherent, and knew what the fuck he was talking about defending his foreign policy decisions, etc. it kinda sucks all of that is boiled down to he said the wrong name.

I want him to step aside for another candidate. His “bad debate night” was scary as fuck. But this article is ridiculous.

he spoke confidently on a range of complex issues from the tax code and trade policy to Russia and the Israel-Hamas war.

BUT…

Takes one to know one

Alternative facts, thank you very much

God this server is stupid as fuck

But the article is about Columbia University. A private institution. It is not a public university

Columbia University is not public space

So ACAB, and we are a country with stupidly low quality of freedom despite the morons who just think guns=freedom, and fuck this was a BS move.

However, the Constitution states only that the government will not pass laws that interfere with freedom of assembly. Courts have decided that this includes protests, picketing, labor strikes, etc.

Courts have also concluded that this doesn’t mean you can assemble wherever you want, namely on private property. These students were essentially just trespassed by the university. Can’t really blame the policeor government for this one, unless you want to lean more extreme that they should be saying “fuck off, we disagree”. But I’d rather have a system where the police follow the law because I don’t trust any of them to make any good decisions on their own morals.

The chief even came out with a statement that was a dig at the university president that he only observed peaceful protest, not the bullshit she was claiming.

I need a fix while waiting for silk song. So this looks like it!

My house had wrong directions for both Apple and Google maps. Google had it fixed within the first year. Apple, going on 6 years and 4 attempts, remains incorrect.

I don’t know, it’s what they said. Maybe bottles are easier to clean up. They said “among” the most frequent items, so perhaps you’re right that those other things are worse, but there haven’t been reasonable alternatives suggested

They were thinking that those caps were among the top items found littering beaches. So they put forward this measure to attempt to curb that issue.

Nobody should be buying single use bottles anyway if there are alternatives available. Maybe that’s the quiet part - making them less attractive to consumers

Drinking from a can only works from one side, so I guess think of it that way.

She absolutely did, but she isn’t even a footnote. People having kids today might not even know who she is.

If you look at data, vaccination support was lower in 2008 than it got in 2014 when it dipped again due to Wakefield. He is blamed for specific incidences, like measles outbreaks at the time. But a bigger dip happened in 2019 with the bullshit nationalism messaging (don’t let the government tell you what to do)

https://data.unicef.org/topic/child-health/immunization/

He’s all of one half of one sentence in the main wiki article on the centuries-old antivax movement, shared with a 1980’s similar scare.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccine_hesitancy

I think we have age bias – it was the story of our time so we as more weight to it. There are so many true and false stories of vaccines for centuries.

I think a better analogy is you’re trying to say without Bill Gates, personal computing wouldn’t exist, when it was already moving in that direction, and Hell, I’m pretty sure apple and Microsoft build their idea on an operating system that was created by xerox first.

Tom Scott did an episode where he explained that going back and retrofitting old videos with the shock face and click bait titles upped his views by a lot

Mans needa yeet the whack ass non-Gucci words bruh

what a terrible way to live in such modern times, the year of our Lord MMXXIV

What I mean is that whether he existed or not, something was bound to mainstream the antivax movement

At this point, he was a symptom. He was pushing a narrative those people already wanted to hear. They’d likely still be the way they are. They’d have found their excuse somewhere. And by now, anyone not immediately, loudly, aggressively pushing back on the bullshit narrative are bad actors with ill intentions

I think it’s important to see that people might enjoy nerding out for a bit on an obscure bit of science. Not everything has to be a fight to take down the establishment. What you see as a useless waste of time some people find joy in. Not everything has to be about an evil corporate ploy. It doesn’t make everyone else stupid wrong shills for thinking differently than you. Fuck the racists, but also enjoy some fun, meaningless contemplations

I really hope you read and considered the top reply to your post. Science is a good thing