I keep hoping for a single year where this article can't be dusted off.

That's the thing about these myopic assholes. Even if they don't care about doing the moral thing (they don't), even if they think compassion is weakness (they do), it's still in their best interest to have an educated, healthy population, because a happy society is a productive and safe society...

Well, damn. We had to make our own “TNT” out of crushed up model rocket engines, pvc, and sparklers. 😛

Ha

Kristi Noem’s gotta’ go too. If Republicans in Congress still had a shred of a modicum of an iota of decency she’d already have been impeached, removed, and indicted.

I'm a biophysics PhD, and it would be hard for me to be in the same room as him without my head exploding. There's little you could ask him that would get a substantive response, but I do wonder why he thinks he has access to an entire body of truth that's been somehow denied to ACTUAL SCIENTISTS...

One of the most Japanese things I’ve ever seen

Wow. What a scumbag. I don't understand how anyone with a military background could vote for these imbeciles.

I came here to say "why stop there?" Then I remembered...

You know, when I was a little kid, Mark Hamill (well, Luke Sykwalker) was my hero. How satisfying it is to see your childhood impressions of someone be repeatedly validated as an adult! Turns out the Empire exists, now, in the future, and we're in dire need of some effective Rebels.

Apparently Trump thinks Tel Aviv and the continental US are the same size. And that ICBMs and jury-rigged rockets are the same thing. And that 2025 = 1986.

Such a delightful weirdo. "Lightning striiiiking agaaaain!"

I grew up in a small town where we were given fluoride pills regularly because we used well water! #ISurvivedFluoride and I have a PhD in biophysics...

"Pam Bondi continued, 'they were doing drugs to each other and cussing. Some bad guys had guns and they were shooting each other. And they were spitting on the flag and making babies and I saw one of the babies and the baby looked at me!'. CNN was unable to independently verify these statements."

Nancy really needs to bone up on her vowels, and learn that "sometimes Y".

Motive. Obviously the guy had a problem with FSU's admission policy! Don't know what else it could possibly be...

blowing themselves up with nukes/bioweapons/etc. The idea is that such an enlightened species wouldn't then be likely to go randomly blowing up alien civilizations.

a plausible alternative is that to advance to the level of technology you're talking about, a civilization would perforce have to have solved their own societal problems. The only way for a species to survive long enough to develop such a technology would be to advance socially far enough to avoid

Ha. I'll take the optimistic tack here and give you a sunnier scenario. While, sure, it's possible that there's a predatory and likely extremely efficient intelligence out there that wants to kill everyone (see the Fermi Paradox),