Funny that not too long ago it was you who were overreaching.

Sure, but then you’re taking it in small cup form rather than as a larger volume drink. That still makes them two very different things.

If I want a nice, large margarita, telling me I can have a couple shots of tequila misses the point. Nothing against tequila, but a mixed drink and a shot are different enough that one is not a substitute for another.

Same with espresso. Americano is much closer in form factor to a latte than straight espresso. And more to my post’s point, most times when people say black coffee they mean drip.

Me too! Last time I had a reaction the hives lasted for 8 hours.

But black coffee and espresso are two completely different things. Are you suggesting instead they get an Americano?

Hold your hand to what?

Are you a member of a religious group where raping children is a core belief? Yeah, you’re a bigot if you’re making false claims about religion, but what about true claims?

Yes, we should hold people accountable for their religion if their religion is based around doing shitty things. If someone is literally a member of the Westboro Baptist Church, they are literally supporting a hate group by virtue of being a member. Regardless of whether they are literally holding a “God hates fags” sign in that moment, they’ve given time, money, and support to those who do and are directly culpable for that behavior as long as they remain a member.

Again, if your religion revolves around kicking puppies, then you are to blame for kicking puppies. If you don’t want to be associated with puppy kicking, don’t literally make it your religion.

There’s a difference between judging people on a category they don’t choose vs. a set of beliefs they choose to follow.

If I tried to claim all brown-eyed people are evil, I’d be bigoted because eye color does not determine who you are as a person. But if I claimed that all members of the Puppy Kickers Club are evil because they literally believe in kicking puppies and require doing so frequently as a requirement for membership, then my claim is valid.

https://youtu.be/_ChQK8j6so8

That’s what the original song was about…

They’re actually more zombie sheep, but there is a sheep-man hybrid.

Great film, I strongly recommend. It’s deliberately in the style of early Peter Jackson, even using Weta for the effects.

Subbed, thanks!

I think “I fucked your wife” would work without needing to explain the visual joke.

Well yes, and that was the point of the scene.

Polio is a great example, because:

• 72% of people who get Polio never know they have it.
• 24% develop a mild sore throat and fever
• 1-5% get severe illness
• 0.1-0.5% actually get paralysis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polio

Compare to COVID-19:

• 33% of people who get COVID-19 never know they have it
• 81% who get sick (so about 54% of the total) get mild symptoms
• 14% of those who get sick (9% of the total) get severe symptoms
• 5% of those who get sick (3% of the total) get critical symptoms such as respiratory failure, which can lead to death.

All things considered, COVID-19 is actually way worse than polio. But people feared polio more because kids in iron lungs is way more marketable than old people dying (horribly, I may add.) People today will get the polio vaccine but decline the COVID vaccine, despite COVID being the worse virus.

Measles was somewhat similar: about 1 in 4 people were hospitalized, but only 1-2 out of 1000 died. Tetanus is indeed way worse, with 6.4% of cases leading to death, but it’s not an infectious disease and a lot of people will just get vaccinated post-exposure.

I think it’s clear why a meme campaign today that implied most people who refuse the COVID shot will die of COVID is flawed, but memers are using the same logic with the old illnesses and are thinking it’ll sway antivaxxers. The actual discussion needs to be a lot more nuanced.

I typically tell my patients that vaccines are the best way to protect themselves and their families, and that the best way to keep you from being sick in the first place is to stop the virus from circulating so no one can give it to you. And the way we stop viruses from circulating is to vaccinate everyone, so the virus can no longer spread.

I’d prefer to not use propaganda at all and instead be honest with people:

• Vaccines reduce your risk of getting serious illnesses, and if you get them anyway they tend to be mild.
• Without vaccines, many people will get ill, many will be hospitalized, and many will die. Some will have permanent medical problems or even disabilities. We have no way of knowing who exactly these things will happen to until after they already get sick.
• Most vaccine-preventable diseases have little to no treatment options after you get ill other than just waiting them out. Antibiotics do not work for most vaccine-preventable illnesses.
• Vaccines have been medically proven to be very safe and very effective.
• You can only catch a virus if someone else gives it to you. By getting vaccinated, you are protecting not only yourself, but all your friends, family, coworkers, and everyone else important in your life.

I hate memes like this, it’s as stupid and harmful as the “If you even look marijuana once you’ll end up selling your body for crack a week later” crap from the 1990s. And it’s stupid and harmful for the same reasons.

The reality is that the vast majority of antivax kids will be perfectly fine and never get any major vaccine-preventable Illness, and even if they do they’ll probably be ok. And that’s why memes like this are harmful. People on the fence can easily observe that these claims are false, that the anti-vax kids are not getting sick, and that can push them into becoming anti-vax themselves.

What are you talking about? TikTok isn’t the internet, just like Facebook wasn’t and MySpace wasn’t.

TikTok is like Snapchat. 13 years ago Snapchat was the cool app all the kids were using and making fun of older people for not getting it. 13 years later and it’s still just shitty text messaging, with the only people using it being those who cared a decade ago who got their family and friends to sign up just for them.

TikTok is just shitty Youtube and in 10 years will be replaced by something else. Plus, what exactly am I out of touch with? My reddit feed is already crammed with crappy TikTok videos. Take something mildly amusing with the volume off that would be moderately amusing with sound. Replace that sound with the most godawful music you can think of. Now repost it 100 times with the image cropped to oblivion and half the screen taken up by an emoji or some random mobile game. Woo yeah, that’s the future of content, let me tell you.

Thank goodness. It’s about time the Republicans did something good and had to deal with the political fallout instead of relying on Democrats to do everything.

My wife and I always give each other 2-3 options and take turns narrowing it down. Same with movies: We start out with our Trakt list and take turns narrowing it down until we get something we both want to watch.

In the show, typically something out of the ordinary would happen during the opening scene, and the narrator would foreshadow how that small thing would have major consequences before declaring that the characters had entered The Twilight Zone.

In this comic, the narrator might say something like, “Meet Mrs. Anderson, a typical American wife who’s never quite sure where she wants to eat. But after a strong craving on a fateful night, she finds her next meal in The Twilight Zone.”

Anyway, he’s smoking a cigarette, not crack.