Dr_Aust_PhD

We wanted to understand how mRNA vaccines work. So we talked to three cocaine addicts in a gas station bathroom off Route 6.

Harvard, MIT, Tufts, Boston University, Boston College... the MAGAts seem to have Boston identified as the capital of anti-Trumpismo. Though Univs in New York and Wash DC also seem well represented too.

Seven out of eight Ivies. What's Dartmouth got to do to get on this list?

Grim.

Over 50 Academics Warn That Voting System Is Not Fit For Multi-Party Politics Dozens of academics have written to the government to warn that the current voting system risks producing distorted results on an 'unprecedented' s...

"The collision of a multiparty electorate with a voting system designed for two parties is creating new risks for Britain".

I signed this letter. It's not about blocking Reform;it's about the danger to democracy of a system that can't cope with multiparty voting
www.politicshome.com/news/article...

Somewhat ditto... by my 9th birthday I'd spent ⅙ of my life in the US - 18 mths, inc an entire 3rd grade school yr - and had a Green Card. Also spent a Sabbatical Yr in Wash DC in my 30s... but can't imagine going there now. Often wonder how my DC friends (none a likely Trump fan) are coping.

We bought Article II of the United Nations Charter with the blood of a hundred million human beings, and less than a century later, it's being sold for nothing by people who don't even understand what they're doing.

I don't disagree with either of John or Stephen here, but I do think an accounted factor is that a good chunk of print media think a lot more like Reform voters than normal people, so politicians get a bad sense of what is typical.

Latest in the series of “literally every poll question you can think of shows how dumb and fatally flawed the strategy that the McSweeneyites have pursued is”.

If you discovered that a British politician took money from the Russian government or any part of the Kremlin’s vast propaganda machine, would that politician ever be fit to hold any public office in the UK? (Just wondering…)

An utter tragedy. Science solved this problem, but a bunch of charlatans fucked everything up and brought it back

Reminded of when my late dad ran unsuccessfully for parliament in the 60s. Dad:

"[My opponent] used to say that he started work as an apprentice cutter & ended up Managing Director of the company.

<pause>

He didn't say that when he started his father was MD, & that the family owned the company."

Reform to British girls:

'Our call to you: BREED for Britain!'

Next: special 'Empire Motherhood Medal' for any mother with four kids (provided they're deemed 'sufficiently white' by Matt Goodwind).

Appalled and creeped out.

These are also people who mostly were net contributors to the US economy

Also, it's not like the right wingers defending slavery are thoughtful historians challenging an academic consensus through a rigorous peer-reviewed presentation of primary and secondary sources.

They're just yelling, "Did not!" and then adding, "... but low key if we did, it was good actually."

“I’ve said it time & time again - we need to leave the ECHR” says Reform candidate Matt Goodwin

The ECHR protects us all. The rights within it – firmly implanted into UK law by the Human Rights Act – are the reason why families devastated by disasters like Hillsborough could demand justice

not sure she understands how elections are supposed to work

Sometimes I do miss messing around with big fluorescence microscopes and imaging.

Dark rooms were good for an at-work doze, too.

France and Germany are part of a shared civilisation but it didn't stop them from going to war with each other four times between 1800 and 1950

RFKJr's 'snorting coke off toilet seats' line reminded me of a pathologist pal who used to do a lecture on thrombosis that mentioned it being caused by 'foreign matter'.

'Imagine you score heroin in a dodgy pub. You need to inject it. Now. In a toilet stall. So... where do you get the water from?'

Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn’t stopped. Hundreds of judges around the country have ruled more than 4,400 times since October that President Donald Trump’s administration is detaining immigrants unlawfully, a Reuters review of court records ...

Chuck Schumer’s insistence on “reining in” ICE is so infuriating because they simply do not believe themselves bound by the law. The only solution to ending the concentration camps, the torture, the abductions, the murder, is to disband the agency and prosecute the lawbreakers.

Though... isn't this really how British parliamentary gov't is *supposed* to work? (Hutton-dissing aside).

I don't vote for a Presidential PM. I vote for a party, an ethos, & the outline of a programme. If I were a govt Minister, & No.10 tried to micromanage everything I said or did, I'd be fuming.

Valentine's day through the generations...

My son and his new girlfriend: sharing romantic gifts and planning a day of activities.

Me and my wife after 20 years of marriage: going to buy drain unblocker after partially flooding the bathroom.

Rubio's speech at the MSC was not (and should not be) in the least bit reassuring for Europe, the fundamental substance not different to Vance last year

This US Admin and Europe no longer share the same values

This will continue to throw up risks in Ukraine, Greenland, big tech etc

Oh, FFS*

This guy is an ‘advanced contrarian’. He actually has _some_ basic background in zoology, tries to be more sophisticated, but gets tangled up in his sophistry, and comes to idiotic conclusions.

He’s been doing this for *years*

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How long, do you think, before Viscount Ridley defects to Reform?

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Vanguard of the Republic.

Great thread :)

I shall be interested to see what sort of reception Sir Monaco Ratb*stard gets at the next Old Trafford home game. Pretty sure Michael Carrick and the players will be cheered. SirJimbo... not so much. Cf JD Vance at the Winter Olympics is my prediction.