AmidFuror

They need to legalize those bird pitches ASAP!

Che or bust!

Eh. It was either that or have another liberal Democrat in charge and seeing EPA authority maintained or strengthened. We might have seen National Parks expanded too. But they wouldn’t have promoted Trotskyism, so no good.

If it were Gueverra Gas “for the people,” I’m pretty sure quite a few here would laud it and dismiss any economic arguments as the last gasps of late stage capitalism.

The way I read it, the commenter does not believe moderation prevents harm. Hence the “wisdom” in quotes. But they’re for the freedom to self-“abuse.”

The gist is that science funding is under attack by Trump. The tie-in to GLP-1 peptides is that scientific research funded by the government more than 30 years ago led to the discovery of such compounds. It’s the usual story of the eventual utility of basic research being a good reason to fund it. This is the particular story the writer chose to highlight.

A headline stating they are costing the earth thousands of dollars each would be much more underwhelming. The top 10% consists of 830,000,000 people.

We find annual damages owed by the global 10 percent to be $1.7–$5.7 trillion, equivalent to $2.3k–$7.5k per person (in 2017 US dollars).

It was valid speculation for someone who hadn’t read the article. There’s no reason to doubt the sincerity, as journals are pretty awful.

They were ejected for protesting the upcoming speaker. I don’t agree with it, but it wasn’t for criticizing Trump.

Presumably one of the scientists is Dennis Quaid.

Eh. Conforms to my worldview about evil capitalism, so I’m just going to accept it.

The thumbnail is one of those magic 3D images of a schooner.

I get it now.

Were any if them arrested by the fascists? Otherwise, it seems off-topic.

In science?

Apostrophe

If your name’s Barrett, you might have a precursor to esophageal cancer.

Unfortunately, the researchers were going through menopause.

Can’t wait to use their by-products in my salad dressing.

It looks like that study shows that people who grow up with high fluoride levels in drinking water are more likely to smoke tobacco.