The interesting thing is that the media trained us to admire these people, and listen with bated breath to their advice. When in fact they are the last people we should ask for any kind of moral guidance. Their greed has made literally every major societal issue worse. Fortunately, I think that illusion is dissolving, and more and more it’s a majority opinion that the rich are too rich and it needs to stop. Lots of disagreement on how to stop it, unfortunately
Some of them were born this way I suppose lol. They are a self-selected group of greedy people. There has never been an easier group to vilify, because they are literally villains, hoarding resources that others desperately need
Beat me to it
Eh maybe not that, careful about the tan clam man with the van
Best mascot ever, tied with the banana slugs!
Oh, all the time!
Yosemite actually is a Miwok phrase meaning “those who kill”, referring either to the Ahwahnechee people who were feared by the Miwok, or to European colonizers themselves. Colonialism produces a lot of misnomers.
Clam expert here. It comes from the Salish word gʷidəq, a word whose exact etymology is not well understood. Why that became anglicized as “geo-”, I am not linguistically experienced enough to know!
Franchises where the second film is more broadly acclaimed than the first: Star Wars, The Godfather, The Dark Knight, arguably Alien, Terminator, Star Trek, Paddington, Rocky, James Bond, The Pink Panther, Mad Max. Ones where the third film is the most acclaimed: arguably Indiana Jones, maybe Toy Story, LOTR (kind of all a merged movie so doesn’t count), The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Star Wars prequels
As a scientist, yes, it is a horrible scam. The scientists give them rights to the paper for free. The reviewers review for free. Then they charge other people to look at it. And now they came up with open access where the scientists have to pay out of pocket (aka usually with public funds) for the whole process. Meanwhile the review process gets worse and worse, and their profit margin gets bigger and bigger. Last time for a ‘high impact’ journal, I had people in Sri Lanka copy editing my article writing messages to me in broken English. It is all a horrific scam
Yes, I am unapologetic about demanding politicians nationwide of either party clearing this very low bar of wearing clothes, and not having sex in their office and/or vomiting on themselves without explanation.
Why wouldn’t a random dude want someone like this out of office? I do too.
Yes, if I had sex at my workplace and got caught literally in public with my pants down, I’d expect (and deserve) to be fired. Come on. It is such a low bar to clear. Society has basic expectations
Nvidia Shield. Years old but still the best.
He copied it from another martial arts movie
Yes, John Ashcroft also lives rent free in my mind https://youtu.be/woLQI8X2R6Y
it’s not about selling it as a product. it’s about determining what molecular pathways are interchangeable between plants, fungus and animals.
They synthesize a ton of stuff with bacteria these days! Bacteria are really good at making almost any compound you can think of! I think with this study, part of the novelty was harnessing multiple molecular pathways in animals, fungus and plants, all with with analogs in a single plant. A lot of the paper was about discussing the different enzymes available in the plant, like a kind of toolkit that just had to be tweaked
I don’t want to let her off the hook for her repugnant views, but I do think we have a real issue with globally rising mental illness, and it seems like there is pipeline for people with certain types of mental illness finding Trump very appealing.