My Wife has become a militant vegan and I can’t stand it any more.

Genuinely sounds like a mental illess (I think this is true of many if not most vegans).

Welcome to Texas. Today abortion, a medical procedure, is now a felony. Punishable with up to life in prison. No exceptions for rape or incest. If you don’t think this will seriously impact medical care, you are wrong.

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— Natalie Crawford, MD (@ncrawfordmd) August 25, 2022

Many people are eternally wrong, even in the face of massive evidence. I hate pro-lifers so, so much. What they really are is women-killers.

Here's an attribution table for 2021 (ignore the younger ages — their mortality barely increased)

Homicide — 29% of the increase
Drug ODs — 20%
Motor vehicle accidents — 20%
COVID — 12%

Did you hear much about those top 3 for teen deaths? pic.twitter.com/E4PzTPvVGj

— Mary Pat Campbell (@meepbobeep) August 26, 2022

That’s just what I expected to see.

The COVID lab leak theory is dead. Here’s how we know the virus came from a Wuhan market.

I still have my doubts. There’s just enormous political pressure for it not to have been a lab leak. This would’ve been the conclusion even if it had been a lab leak, so it’s extremely hard to believe it.

And besides that, that the leak hypothesis was seen as some crazy conspiracy theory is doubly harmful because lab leaks are a real and substantial risk and this means we’ll do absolutely nothing about them. I give it 50/50 odds the next pandemic is actually the result of a lab leak no matter what caused Covid-19.

Covidians, watching a baby be born in the delivery room: Why is that infant not in a mask?

People neither remember nor care about anything more than like 3 years ago https://t.co/ukchLF1sQ0

— Misha – Visiting the bay area Nov 19 – Jan 3 (@drethelin) August 25, 2022

I’ve often said that 90% of people forget almost everything that happened more than six months ago, and that nearly everyone forgets almost everything that happened more than two years ago. This isn’t just speculation; I’ve seen it in action.

When Russia invaded Ukraine for the second time, I mentioned to more than one of my smart friends that Russia had already invaded Ukraine in 2014. Most had no knowledge of it and didn’t recall it occurring, even though at least one of them I’d spoken to about it in 2014 (I have a good memory for most things, including conversations).

This is how most events are. Quickly forgotten, and when you bring them up people act like you’re some crazy conspiracy theorist or that very relevant history is of no consequence. Human cognition is inherently defective and mismatched to modern contigencies.

what the editor of (squints) Nature Human Behavior is proposing is that we expand the purview of IRBs to anyone who might be affected by the _findings_ of a study

which is to say that any study related to "people", even if it doesn't use data at all, ought to be evaluated pic.twitter.com/Hpf2nEdC0P

— eigenrobot (@eigenrobot) August 24, 2022

IRBs are already fucking crazy.

This will “Papers please” all of science. Fuck no.