Stand aside, naysayer! This new enterprise will be nearly the cultural juggernaut of the least of those!

Yes, that was the joke.

Not sure why everyone wants to shit on Mark. They laughed at him for the metaverse, but who’s laughing now? And now he’s working on his new innovation that could be just as big, yet no one seems to believe in him.

Edit: Apparently y’all need a sarcasm tag, so /s.

Good. Hopefully reddit will get worse and drive more people to Lemmy.

Sir, you’re on Lemmy asking if anyone’s on Lemmy.

This is exactly what she voted for.

Trump gutted the department whose job it was to track this parasite.

Just like he gutted the pandemic response team before COVID. And the team that followed screwworm before the screwworm epidemic.

He’s time and time again showing why these departments exist, by releasing the face-eating leopards and then acting shocked when leopards started eating faces.

According to Bloomberg’s Billionaires Index, Elon Musk’s estimated net worth began the year near $630 billion before the SpaceX IPO frenzy briefly pushed his fortune above $1.3 trillion. As SpaceX retreated, that paper wealth evaporated just as quickly. By Friday, Bloomberg estimated Musk’s fortune at approximately $718.8 billion, representing a decline of roughly $600 billion in about a month.

Ok but he netted nearly $90 billion. By comparison, if he gifted that to a random American, they’d be the 16th wealthiest person in the US.

I guess this is news in the sense that the only thing to take from Musk is his precious trillionaire label, but his failure still made him richer by an absurd amount.

Scientists: We did a buttload of studies looking at millions of children and conclusively found the MMR vaccine does not cause autism.

CDC: But what if it does?

Yeah, it’s super difficult. /s

The hardest part is remembering to uncheck Debian DE if you don’t want GNOME.

Good

Jurassic World: Dominion has feathered dinosaurs. Including several in the prologue and a badass therizinosaurus.

https://youtu.be/NkEU6fC_nhY?is=2rMRC0u92-6LQpvc

I’m reading the Bible now (on 1 Samuel,) and yeah, unless you’re already a believer, there’s nothing in there that will make you believe. I found Leviticus fascinating as a look into an ancient religious society, but when it describes in detail how the fat around the intestines and kidneys should be burned in the various types of animal sacrifices, of which Deuteronomy demands thousands per year, it’s clear that this is very foreign and very old.

Problem is that believers are taught to ignore the uncomfortable bits: “Jesus fulfilled the Old Law so we don’t have to do that.” Ok. But why before Jesus did God care about the order in which a sheep’s organs were burned? Why did he find the aroma of burning fat pleasing? Believers won’t answer that, they’ll handwave it as something necessary in old Jewish society but that no longer applies.

Even if you ignore all that, though, the whole thing reads like a giant Skywalker saga. Every tribe and group of people traces their lineage back to someone in Genesis. Every town and site has an origin story: “And then Bob farted on the hill, so they named that hill Smeltit, with means scented wind.” Enemies cower in fear because they hear how awesome the Israelite’s god is and how much better he is than their gods. People freely give out blessings and curses (both of which work), and roll dice as a form of divination, and believers still insist the blessings work today while sweeping the rest under the rug.

It’s obviously all myth meant to explain the world in which the ancient Israelites lived, but you’re only going to see that if you’re not already blindly believing that God orchestrated all of it.

He’s right in that lower information voters are voters too and need a party that represents them.

He’s wrong in the implied solution that lying to low information voters and screwing them over is the best way to serve them.

Yes, I’m an actual practicing family physician. The vaccines are known to be both safe and effective. They reduce the chances of you getting COVID, they reduce the chance that you’ll spread it, and they reduce the chances of hospitalization and death from COVID-19. I get them and I recommend them to my patients.

So I’m actually a doctor and this is just wrong. The vaccine was developed properly built on decades of research and produced quickly with appropriate funding. Though I detest Trump, signing off on Operation Warp Speed was an actual sensible thing he did during his first term.

Your comparison to the polio vaccine is interesting because you’re clearly not aware of the Cutter incident or that OPV causes polio in a small percentage of recipients. By comparison, the COVID-19 vaccines had a much smoother rollout and cannot actually cause COVID-19.

So you’re saying the Chinese government released a virus so that vaccines could be released by:

• A German company
• A British-Swedish company
• A Chinese government owned company
• Three different US companies
• A Dutch biotech subsidiary of a Belgian subsidiary of a US company
• An Indian company
• A private Chinese company
• A French company
• The Russian government
• The Cuban government
• An Iranian company

So their goal was to release a virus so they could be one of many countries to develop a cure, with most of the cures being made by private companies in countries that are their enemies? And what was the goal of this? So they could say, “Look, we are one of several countries to make the same cure?”

It is clear you are unable to answer the question that is central to your conspiracy theory.

Also, despite your claims elsewhere in your thread, you have accidentally revealed here that you are indeed JAQing off.

No, your comment is stupid. 16,000 is a big number. 0.00000001 is a small number.

Now that we’ve established that some numbers are smaller than others: namely, that 22.1 million is smaller than 8 billion, 16,000 is smaller than 22.1 million, and 0.00000001 is smaller than 22.1 million, will you quit stalling and answer the question?

The more you dodge it, the more you prove that you have no answer. And without an answer, your entire conspiracy theory falls apart.

So I’ll ask one more time: Why would a government release this specific virus?

Was it because they had gone diamond hands in Zoom stock calls and needed to cash out? We’re all waiting.

Yes, I think 0.28% of the world’s population is small. You still haven’t answered the question. Why, Ted? Why?