These newly unearthed emails from @USRightToKnow (huge credit to them) about NIH deliberations on funding the Wuhan lab through Peter Daszak are jaw-dropping. They show that the NIH’s gain-of-function “review committee” was an absolute joke, a club of self-important… https://t.co/ZCpZaZzkDQ pic.twitter.com/Y0x71zyXJp
— Hans Mahncke (@HansMahncke) October 2, 2025
That’s about what I expected to see. Those idiots were playing with fire and then lying about it before, during, and after.
Air travel is a modern marvel we completely take for granted
‣ 45,000 daily flights in the US
‣ with only ~1% cancelled and ~0 accidents
‣ taking you about anywhere on the planet in <1 day pic.twitter.com/D3cpjllfJY— Christian Keil (@pronounced_kyle) October 1, 2025
It is a miracle. And the evil degrowthers relish the thought of taking that away from everyone so so much.
I hate them all.
This reminds me of when I’m on calls with customers. Where I work now, I do many, many things. Too many, but it’s a small company. What can make it challenging is that we serve extremely large enterprise customers, mostly1. That creates weird imbalances.
Often, I’ll be on calls alone where the customer has 12+ people. And it’s funny when they don’t realize that I’m doing the role of those dozen or more people on the other side.
They’ll be like, “Is the compliance person here from the vendor?”
And I’ll say, “I’m here, on the call.”
And then someone from the customer will say, “Is the security lead here?”
“Right here,” I’ll chime in.
“Is the technical architect here?”
“Also here,” I’ll offer. At that point I’ll usually cut in and say that I’m the one on the call doing all the roles they had listed and I’m the only one who will be there.
It’s always funny.
Do men inspect every girl they see?
“Inspect?” What is this shit?
Yes, I build a complete 3-D mental model of every girl that comes within sight range. I run sims of every aspect of her physique and likely personality and spend 75,000 years exploring them until the perfect scenario emerges. I have millions of mental virtual machines alone devoted to this.
Reality is that I barely notice anyone I see. Most men are like that most of the time. We aren’t some girl-hunting cyborgs.
Jesus Christ.
Why did Dave Chappelle perform at the Saudi Arabian festival?
It starts with “m.”
And ends with “oney.” That’s why a lot of people do a whole lot of things. Sequere pecuniam semper.
People who get their hair cut where they look like a human mushroom…why? I mean, I like mushrooms but I don’t need to look like a toadstool. At all.
That is not aesthetically beneficial to almost anyone.
You don’t have to swallow frogs. Klein and Coates show that if you don’t know what your core beliefs are, you’re going to get played. “But pundits rarely shape politics.” LOLWUT?
The Government Has Been Shut Down for Months.
Inflammation now predicts heart disease more strongly than cholesterol.
How has mathematics gotten so abstract?
Trump Is Shutting Down the War on Cancer. America’s cancer research system, which has helped save millions of lives, is under threat in one of its most productive moments. Fully fucking moronic beyond any words.
Is This the End of the Dictionary?
Getting Yelled at By Dumbasses. The defining experience of fascism.
Trump Has No Mandate to Destroy America.
Funds Shifted To Develop New LC-130J “Ski Bird” Polar Airlifters.
A Memo To Corporate America: How To Stop Being Cartoon Villains.