Epistemic Status: very confused

doing increasingly sociopathic bullshit and getting away with it cuz it’s new media

In your opinion, what is the best intellectual history book written since 2000.

Today is Jerome Powell’s last day as chair of the Federal Reserve.

"Hi there! My name's Kieran. I hope I can count on your support for our fantastic local Reform candidate in the upcoming by-election"

A peer-reviewed paper published last year in the journal Bioethics by two professors at Western Michigan University School of Medicine argues that it is "morally obligatory" to genetically engineer ticks to spread alpha-gal syndrome, a permanent condition that makes you violently allergic to red meat. The paper is called "Beneficial Bloodsucking." Their argument: if eating meat is morally wrong, then preventing the spread of a disease that forces people to stop eating meat is also morally wrong. Scientists should gene-edit lone star ticks to enhance their ability to carry alpha-gal syndrome and expand their range into urban environments to infect more people. They call this a "moral bioenhancer." They frame releasing genetically modified disease-carrying ticks as a "vaccination" that only "infringes" on your bodily autonomy rather than "violating" it. The distinction, apparently, is that a tick bit you instead of a government official holding you down. Alpha-gal syndrome is not mild. The CDC estimates up to 450,000 Americans are already affected. Cases have surged 100-fold in the last decade. Symptoms include anaphylaxis. There is no cure. Alpha-gal cases are exploding across the United States. The lone star tick's range is expanding far beyond its historical territory. And two academics at a medical school published a paper arguing this is a good thing that should be accelerated. At what point do we stop treating papers like this as fringe academic exercises and start asking whether anyone is already acting on them?

American strength back on the world stage. 🇺🇸🇨🇳

one succinct observation is that nicholas decker thinks his experience is worthy of a two-page resume

Meet The Domestic Terrorist Who Is Now Worshipped As A Hero

This reply is just incomprehensible. He’s critiquing the data and so I look at the paper that they actually get the data from? Just funny to me that the example he uses to deboonk the authors is the literal example they use as a reason to do the thing he says they don’t do