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The amount of hate people are willing to heap on anyone with a low-status food opinion is really something to behold.

There should be bad fansubs of EGA.

"*Translator's note: étale means spread"

Not sure if I feel tired and unmotivated because of vaccine side effects, or because I'm a lazy piece of shit.

People who read a lot of books referring to themselves as "readers" and people who read few or no books as "nonreaders" is the cringiest shit imaginable.

RT @DellAnnaLuca
MEGA-THREAD OF ALL THE TIMES VIRUS LABS "LOST" DANGEROUS PATHOGENS

1/ SARS is documented to have escaped virus labs multiple times; twice from the same one

2/ The Institut Pasteur lost 2349 vials of SARS and once transported vials on a regular plane breaking protocols

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"Noooo you can't just do a big intervention in the biosphere like that what about the precautionary principlerino" Listen, the precautionary principle is fine, but have you considered the "fuck mosquito bites principle"?

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If the plans to exterminate malaria-carrying mosquitoes using gene drives ever get off the ground, can we drive normal mosquitoes extinct too? Thanks.

"Oh, number theory is the basis of all modern cryptography? Yeah thats cool I guess. Quick question, how are you crunching the numbers? Yeah that's what I fucking thought"

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Mathematical logicians really don't talk enough about the fact that they invented computers. They shouldn't be letting any other field live that down.

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RT @StrangeFactoid
Five African grey parrots were removed from their display in a Lincolnshire Wildlife Park because they were swearing at visitors and then laughing with each other. t.co/gRdD9qwmyc
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