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How did he get approval to do experimental surgery on primates for this?

First the Streisand effect led to her home. Now it leads to her entire discography. Poor Barbara Streisand.

When you have all that money and fame to insulate you, self-preservation is no longer a concern.

To be fair, it appears that by definition anyone who disagrees with them might have a hard time getting through.

skeptical of social change, instead tending to support the status quo

A more polite way of saying they’re firmly stuck in their ways, unwilling to accept a different perspective.

Was the check engine light virtue signalling again?

It’s so ironic because we even have an inferno planet next door with a runaway greenhouse effect that everyone can use as an example. With an average surface temperature of 464 degrees, Venus got through to me as a small child. But knowing the type of ignorant person we’re talking about, Venus would just be held as further “proof” that Earth’s climate change isn’t caused by human activity.

I agree there were so many screw-ups in the response, especially in the early days. China insisting upon secrecy until it spread across the globe, the WHO’s confusing statements on the efficacy of masks in order to preserve supplies for the front lines, the ridiculous pro-masker vs anti-masker mentality, the Trump fiasco where he suggested doctors use lemon fresh Lysol or whatever the hell he was on about to disinfect people’s lungs as if he has a goddamed clue, the alt-right losing their minds over a dangerous vaccine with Bill Gates computer chips in it, etc.

But remember CFCs and the hole in the ozone layer? Scientists were like “Hey, guys. There’s a hole here. We need to stop using this crap or we dead.” And everyone banded together and stopped using CFCs, and the hole in the ozone layer closed happily ever after. Sometimes we can actually do it right. I don’t know, maybe it’ll take a crisis like losing Florida to the ocean for Americans to collectively give a shit again and start doing things right. Or maybe we’ll all die before we get a chance to see that happen.

My mind immediately went to Karen Wetterhahn. Usually it’s just you, but sometimes it is mercury.

I was going to ask where’s Facebook’s CEO, but we all know Data can walk the ocean floor and take no damage.