We’re so fucked.
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Again, remind me why you didn't vote because of Kamala's stance on the Palestinian genocide and because she was picked without a primary election when the alternative was this?
This is terrible news, if he bans vaccines I hope there would be a massive petition for many states to join Canada.
Chevron could actually save us here since courts, not agencies can ultimately decide policy. This could be their entire strategy to "prove" that they were right.
I am not a prognosticator, I can't say how bad things will get. I can say that Covid didn't just magically disappear, and Bird Flu won't just go away. The reality is ignoring zoonotic pathogens is a surefire way to kill off a large portion of the population. RFK Jr is just another old fucking shit bag that wants to be right even if he is wrong and who doesn't care if his ignorance or self-righteousness kills you or anyone else. Your health is not his priority. His wealth and power are where his priorities lie. Please take care of yourselves and don't rely on a person with a letter by their name or fame and fortune to save you, they won't. Check on your loved ones, volunteer to help those vulnerable, and be empathetic and kind and we will get through this. Good luck.
He is also missing pieces of his brain ... Just reminding people he claimed to have a brain eating worm.
Alls ya need is a horse paste and bleach cocktail
I'll take mine on the rocks. lol.
Cloud you spread mine along a florescent bulb and let me deep throat it? Gotta get the light involved too.
You’re not gonna believe your luck, it’s a full flourescent spitroast!
Well damn, now that would have sold it!
Such great good fortune!
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What a bunch of fuckin rubes, we just put all the people who should be prosecuted in charge.
What a fucking stupid period of history to live through
Shouldn't have wished to live in more interesting times.
If only the times we lived in were actually interesting instead of boring, tedious, and deadly.
Even the rockets and global satellite internet thing that objectively is kind of awesome is completely ruined by just having the worst people involved. Although I guess it's classic USA to have your rockets being built by Nazis.
"Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down?
That's not my department, " says Wernher von Braun.
Eh, I'm done thinking rockets are awesome. We're busy burning the one planet we have down and we're not learning enough in my opinion from space science to be justifying the pollution it creates. The Starlink satellites are creating way more space junk than we need and risk creating a Kessler syndrome.
We can worry about space when we've handled climate change and mass extinction and topsoil depletion and so on. Until then, it's just wasting fucking time and energy.
The Starlink satellites are creating way more space junk than we need and risk creating a Kessler syndrome.
Sorta good news on that front. Starlink satellites are in such a low orbit that without regular boosting of their orbit they re-enter in short measure. The bad news is that means there are hundreds of pounds of e-waste re-entering and burning up on a regular basis and there have been studies suggesting it's damaging the ozone layer.
Yeah, I'm leaning towards the same, even though I loved all this space stuff as a kid. Not wanting to sound overly dramatic, but it's like seeing Musk stealing your childhood or something like that.