Long-overdue questions are finally being asked about gain-of-function research and specifically the role of virologists in suppressing discussion of the risks and dangers associated with such research. Thank you @dwallacewells! https://t.co/0W0cRqfKs0
— Nils Gilman (@nils_gilman) March 1, 2023
About fucking time. GoF research is hella dangerous.
crazy that people treat "seasonal affective disorder" as some sort of mystery brain disease rather than a natural human response to the world being very grey and lifeless suddenly
every spring im surprised, i completely forgot how beautiful the world can be
— Emily (@the_aiju) February 20, 2023
Yeah, that is weird. In past times humans basically did nada all winter and were soporific slugs. When the whole world dies, why wouldn’t you be depressed? Completely natural response.
TIFU when I was trying to be a gentleman. But ended up in a situation that looks bad.
Stay far, far away from this person. She will fuck you over in the end. I’ve met people like this and it never ends well.
The intern I was mentoring a while ago got very drunk one night at a work event as she wasn’t used to drinking at all — and the drinks had more alcohol in them than usual. I kept some skeevy guy away from her, drove her to her home, carried her up the stairs and put her in bed. I took her shoes off and turned her on her side so she wouldn’t choke on vomit and then covered her up and left a note on the night table that said, “Mike took you home and put you in bed. You were totally passing out and incoherent. See you tomorrow if you feel well enough.”
Unlike the person above, she was thankful for me doing that and kept telling me how kind I was to treat her so well. Just seemed like basic human decency to me, though.
Americans are always surprised when they go to work in a civilized country and stuff like this happens:
It was a big shocker to a lot of my American co-workers when I was working at a German-owned corporation and their German colleagues were unreachable for an entire month is summer due to being on vacation.
Most people don’t realize how much the US is a hellscape in comparison to a lot of other places.
Russians have always treated their troops this way. For me it is just amazing to see. I can even see how it is done with infantry movements, a rifleman stays ten yards behind each platoon. https://t.co/hKSBe52ip6
— Julian Domain (@DomainJulian) February 28, 2023
Yeah buddy, that looks like winning to me.
Degrowth is a toxic British/Scandinavian ideological import that America must resist
— Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 (@Noahpinion) February 28, 2023
Yes we should. That’s a terrible path.
FBI chief Christopher Wray says China lab leak ‘most likely.’
And he is correct, though there is no solid evidence.
Why, fucking why, does this make the Covidians and some others cry so big? I saw one such type claiming yet again the other day that lab leaks do not happen pretty much ever. The reality of course is that they occur quite frequently — which is exactly what makes GoF research so very dangerous.
I don’t know for sure that Covid-19 was a lab leak. Perhaps no one ever will with definitive evidence behind it. But that’s by far the most likely occurrence here. Otherwise, there are too many bizarre coincidences to explain.
Another day, another “impossible” celebrity workout.
w00t.