Are you expecting a train of Democrats to line up here defending Rachel Maddow as a credible source of information on vaccine efficacy? I wouldn't exactly put her in the "innumerate imbeciles with abysmal comprehension skills" category, but also certainly not my first choice as a source of information for, well, just about any topic of consequence.

Annoying and overly literal puzzles are my generation's jam. And really any generation going at least as far back as those who read Alice's Adventures in Wonderland or the Oz books.

I still haul Zork out once a decade and play at least the first one. I rarely have the energy to power through the second or third. I also occasionally pick up Return to Zork (1993) which is more of a full motion point-and-click game. A genre that really has no equivalent today and is perhaps more obsolete than a text adventure, as the low-res videos and acting have not aged that well.

No, but 30 years ago people thought I was being paranoid, a crank, or just being difficult (troll, contrarian, etc)

This is simple biological science

Your claim has been debunked here like 12 times. Be 13!

First take them off the ACA, I don't want to pay for MAGA coma-care as they overdose on Ivermectin or some other brainworm-oil.

We are a Christian nation

MAGAs are fake Christians, ignore most of Bible, especially all the "don't be greedy" and "don't be an asshole" scriptures. You worship Fox Jesus, not the real Jesus.

Jesus said NOTHING about LGBTQ+, yet belted the shit out of greedy money changers grifting in the temple lobby. Trump would probably be one of the belties if he were alive then. The plutocrats want you to forget about the second and focus on the first so that you allow them to continue to sin and grift. Many don't even believe in your fairytales, they just swindle you for money and votes.

You are TalibanJelicals. Stay in the hills, keep your stupidstition out of our towns, and drink all the Ivermectin you want! We want nothing to do with you ignorant gullible haters. #DontTouchMagas

Pedophilia is not just about age or physical characteristics it's about exerting power over a helpless individual.

Once you're an adult in most countries you at least have some agency. But the reason Trump targets children is because they don't have that agency and he enjoys abusing that fact.

So the difference you're talking about might matter for the purposes of a psychiatrist treating Donald Trump for his particular form of psychopathy but from a practical standpoint he is very much a pedophile.

And he is effectively above the law so it's not like he's going to get treatment. He's just an unrepentant pedophile and a substantial number of the people here voted for him knowing that.

So your argument is "we can bigly suck because YOU guys also bigly suck"?

Yup. My Samsung TV remote has this feature, and it works pretty well (as long as you don't lose the remote under the couch cushions for too long).

Are going to make it back over the Europe right? Also eventually we're going to need to invade your countries in order to loot them and fill our coffers because that's what failing empires do and our empire is very much on the skids.

Now would be a good time for the rest of the world to stage and intervention and maybe try to stop Russia from getting Trump a third term as president.

The problem is you're ruling class is hoping that if America falls they can't get their currency in as the de facto world currency which would put them in the running to become trillionaires.

In other news I'm using Google text to speech to write this out on my phone and it now recognizes the word trillionaire. A year ago it didn't it replaced it with billionaire and I had to edit the b to be a t...

At least what we most commonly refer to as autism. It's genetic.

There are also some factors in the womb that can cause symptoms we associate with autism specifically things like mild fetal alcohol syndrome. That isn't technically autism though and a actual doctor would know the difference.

The beauty of autism from a political standpoint is that the term is used so broadly in the public that you can create a lot of fear and confusion that is highly useful politically. And you can get parents to vote for things that hurt their kids while promising to help their kids.

Along with gender affirming healthcare it's one of the most effective things the right wing has to rob you of your money and your property right now.

Assuming our country and democracy somehow survives the next 3 years then eventually the current moral panics will run their course. Which makes me wonder what the next moral panic will be.

If you happen to know what that is and how the right wing will use it then you could probably make a hell of a lot of money getting out ahead of that. You can be the next Charlie Kirk or Tucker Carlson or Alex Jones...

It also be a monster but hey, you'd be a rich monster right?

It is amusing how many times we see the thin client / fat server model again and again.

Never been there, but that "chili" sounds awful.

No argument from me on that one. To quote Ron White: "I don’t even think you all told the Mexican boys you were having a [Cincinnati, chili capital of the world] contest. That’s right, ’cause a Mexican boy’d come up here with a goat and an onion and kick your ass."

I thought that the source got eaten by a Grue.

I don't think autism is caused by anything. It's not like there is a definitive test that reads positive or negative. It's a collection of symptoms and behaviors. I'd wager that many scientists and inventors were autistic long before vaccines were discovered.