Bill Nye has been nothing but a sell out for years... dude hasn't been about actual science in two decades.

The generation of the perpetual victim and easily offended claims another victim... truth that hurts your feelings is truth not worth knowing. It can't be enough that they don't have to click on it, they can't let you have the option of clicking on it either.

The CDC is just now acknowledging what anyone with a brain knew 18 months ago... and the sheep are eating it up with a fresh dose of fear.

I have zero pity for anyone who tries to do business with China and gets screwed for it...

Not an issue on my S10... I haven't seen a single ad anywhere in the Samsung apps or OS. In fact, the only ad I see that's drawn my attention is Amazon Music constantly trying to get me to upgrade to a family plan instead of an individual plan. I think this might have more to do with where you're buying your device from than it does with Samsung.

You know you can use that button to do other things, right? It's not locked to Bixby...

Twitch is over here bringing up old shit like a pissed off girlfriend reminding you of the time she thinks she caught you checking out some hottie three years ago when you were really looking at something else.

Funny how reasonably applicable usage of the word slave and master can cause such deep pain in the black community but dropping "n**ger" every third word throughout popular music and in common speech isn't remotely problematic...

They don't give a damn about their policies on "incitement of violence"... I personally reported a post last week that showed a cop shot dead, laying in the street, and which read "the only good cop is a dead cop" ...and got a response that it wasn't found to violate their policies.

This has nothing to do with inciting violence, they just don't like Trump.

The companies don't have a right to free speech because they're not content creators... the entire reason they're not liable for the content they host is because they're ostensibly unbiased and uncensored platforms for the hosting of content rather than creators of content who would then be protected by free speech regulations. If they argue that they have a right to free speech in the form of selective censorship then they negate the protections they're currently given and open themselves up to being liable for the content they host.

This is nothing but liability management and you can't really blame them. They're highly recognizable bikes associated with their brand that require maintenance and lack any sort of consumer facing support infrastructure to facilitate independent ownership or even charging and use. It's not worth the blow back on their brand image or the potential financial liability to sell them, give them away to individuals, or otherwise donate them to anyone and risk having one burn down someone's garage or get a stuck throttle and mow down some kids on a sidewalk in the litigious climate that exists today.

And trying to tie this back to some "bike shortage" is idiotic. No one looking to buy a bike has any interest in buying one of these and there really isn't a bike shortage, I literally just finished building a new bike (https://ep1.pinkbike.org/p5pb18730647/p5pb18730647.jpg). Took a couple extra weeks to get the frame from Santa Cruz and about an extra week waiting on parts from RockShox but otherwise business as usual. What there is, is a shortage on open bike shops who can do this work for people who lack the tools or know how to do it themselves thanks to forced business closures resulting from COVID. Shops are overwhelmed and understaffed where they are open, and they're faced with backlogs of work to be done that hampers building new bikes for new customers.

Literally no one said "do your own research"... I linked multiple sources and told you to look AT the factual data rather than repeating what you saw on CNN. That's not research it's just basic reading comprehension.

Where did I say do your own research? I've linked six separate sources... how many have you shared?

Actually, that further testing in clinical trials is bearing out the same results... from France to China clinical trials are showing positive results.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p...

https://www.medrxiv.org/conten...

http://subject.med.wanfangdata... ...and no, in vitro, does not mean "in the test tube". Literally translated from Latin it means "in glass", however the actual meaning of in vitro (vs in vivo) is just referring to cellular isolation outside of a living organism whereas in vivo is testing within a living organism. In vitro testing is the basis for the overwhelming whole of virology and in vivo testing is merely the last step. Suggesting that in vitro testing is somehow invalid or presents irrelevant conclusions is absurd.

No.. it wasn't a field study. It was a retrospective analysis of patients. You don't seem to understand the difference between a study and an after the fact analysis.

A study involves laying out the parameters for the study, isolating variables, establishing controls for testing, and executing blinded research... often double blind... to eliminate bias.

The analysis you're referring to is where they went back over conclusive cases and set out variables they deemed relevant and then cherry picked data they were looking for to present conclusions. It's the effective difference between giving people water and isolating other consumption and seeing if or how many people die versus looking back at dead people and saying "all these dead people drank water so clearly water increases your chances of dying".

And the huge majority of virology research is done in vitro, what's your point. That's the foundation of virology.