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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

No thank you I well not trust nerds. Zuch Elon they are all nerds.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago

Elon is not a nerd, maybe a geek.

Not every neurodivergent is a nerd.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 17 hours ago

I’m sure many people who are science deniers will point to “the Bible” for facts. Try to quiz them on things in that book, I am sure they couldn’t answer a single question.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 15 hours ago

NERDS OF THE WORLD, UNITE!

[–] zlatiah 18 points 1 day ago

I was at one of the local rallies. I think the organizers also know that this event alone won't be effective & is only the beginning; there will be more to come. A lot more if (and most likely, when) the administration doesn't comply with the demands.

Fun fact... My local rally literally featured a startup founder who scaled their company & attracted investors using NIH funding as seed money, and a community college student from a nearby red state. I would imagine that even the most die-hard traditional conservatives would find such stories inspiring/good use of tax payer money... Science support has traditionally been bipartisan too.

Again, if they don't comply, more actions would come

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Someone on my Facebook posted a video with cherry picked facts to make Russia look like the good guy over the war with Ukraine. That’s an easily verifiable history. People are dumb.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Russia is the bad guy. Was that a typo?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah, I’ve edited it. Thank you.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago
[–] eran_morad 52 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Where do the republican moron traitors think their tech and medicines come from?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They know, but they can afford going abroad for treatment if needed, so they don't give a fuck.

[–] eran_morad 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Nah, I mean Billy Bob and his ~~clan~~ klan.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

They think its hurting them or controlling them and thats why they use codliver oil and witchhazel.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Right, alternative medicine. To quote Tim Minchin, "Do you know what they call 'alternative medicine' that has been proved to work?" Medicine."

[–] Boddhisatva 2 points 1 day ago

Don't forget the vitamin A. That's the new wonder drug for the MAGA crowd. RFK is telling them that it will cure measles.

[–] Poem_for_your_sprog 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The dinosaurs that lived immediately prior to the great flood just a few thousand years ago.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 18 hours ago

And some of them will tell you that pterodactyls are dinosaurs while denying that dinosaurs exist!