Look, I don't want to throw shade on chiropractors, as I've known some very intelligent, thoughtful, and introspective ones. But fact remains, if there's an idiot online using the title "Doctor" to confidently spread medical misinformation, 9 times out of 10 it's a chiropractor.

Wild animals are vaccinated all the time. (For example, oral rabies vaccines left in bait.) But I guess they wouldn't teach you that in chiropractor school.

My 5-year old, yawning: "Monsters aren't real." Me: "That's right." 5-year old: "There are no monsters in Canada." Me: "Mmhmm." 5-year old, just as he falls asleep: "But there are many robots on Mars." True. But the way he delivered it: chilling.

One of the things about waiting late in life before having kids is that I looked forward to sharing my many tales of adventure with my son. So imagine my joy when my 5-yr old asked me, "Dada, tell me stories about you." But my happiness faded when I realized none of my stories is kid friendly.

Is Peter Thiel the worst person in the world?

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RFK: Vaccines cause autism! Result: Vaccination rates decline, but autism continues. RFK: Tylenol causes autism! Result: Tylenol avoided by pregnant women, but autism continues. Maybe.... RFK causes autism! Let's remove RFK from office and see what happens to autism rates.

Found on IG. I’m still good at DND 😅

You tell 'em, RFK. Can't trust those journals peer-reviewed by the world's top scientists. From now on, we'll only get our science from blogs, podcasts, and vision quests!

OMG. While Trump is dismantling the civilization of the West, why is anyone wasting time and breath on Melania's wardrobe?

Everyone is sharing this video, so I will, too. The H1-B visa is America's "secret weapon", and the reason the USA has continued to dominate in intelligence-driven endeavours, even though the actual intelligence of Americans has been declining. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NK0Y...

Just got off the phone with a reporter, talking about how Canada can respond to Trump's H1B visa nonsense. Nice to see people are paying attention and looking for policy responses.

Describes much of my 20s

One of the many joys of being an older father is that I only just watched Mary Poppins for the first time this year. I hadn't realized it was this good. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzCs...

My 5-year old has just invented a new colour: "pnurple" It's a combination of pink and purple. So now you know.

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Tiktok Christian lunatics are saying the rapture is happening on Sept 23. That's also Karl Pilkington's birthday, so who knows.

Greta was always such a zero IMHO. Was the government involved in your firing, Greta? Did the FCC Chair pressure MSNBC to fire you because you were unfriendly to the regime? No? Then STFU. JFC these people.

There are about 20K non-US citizen medical residents, and about a quarter of those are on H1B visas. With Trump now making it unaffordable for hospitals to sponsor new H1B visas, there is an opportunity for Canada to attract 5K IMG doctors. Of course, we'd have to make training spaces for them. 1/2]

Don't worry. Companies seeking exemptions to the new $100K H1B visa fee will probably be able to get them.... for unspecified reasons having to do with how friendly they are to the White House. You can all see this coming, right?

70% of H1B visas are given to Indians. China is a distant second. So I think we know what this is really about. This is what a variety of studies believes will happen if the H1B visa is truly stifled. Thread [1/6]

Hahaha. 1. on the one hand, there's probably a market for this. 2. on the other hand, it's the ultimate information bubble 3. on the third hand, we already have a name for this: it's called your brain.

Just found this on Farcebook

In addition to English, I speak a lot of French, a bit of Hindi, and a tiny smidgen of Japanese. I'm thinking I need to learn a new language, just to give my brain shock therapy. But I want it to be fun & useful. What do you recommend? -Spanish? -Portuguese? -Mandarin? -Italian?

Perhaps the most prescient thing to come from Frank Herbert's "Dune" was the Butlerian Jihad: “Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.” I believe this will prove prophetic.

Pause your doomscrolling and listen to this story.

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I liked a point I saw on Rick Perlstein's FB feed, which I translate as: trying to divine Tyler Robinson's politics is a category error. He doesn't have politics. He has a jumble of memes from one of the less enlightened corners of the Internet: gaming. His mind is a howling wilderness.

I was wondering who else was at that giant ballroom table at Windsor Castle with the King and the Orange Shitgibbon. Not surprisingly, it's the worst people:

TIL Wizard of OZ came out in 1939 Blade Runner came out in 1982 That's a difference of 43 years. Know what came out 43 years ago? Blade Runner.

Such a classical beauty she was, IMHO. Taken by pancreatic cancer at age 71.

Michael Eisner, who served as CEO of Disney for 21 years and acquired ABC while he was in charge, slams his successor Bob Iger for bending the knee.

I'm on the weirdest Moderation lists

Oh wow. SurveyMonkey now has Excel and Google Sheets integration. Now THAT is useful.

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NY Times Feb 4, 1939

As with all impactful matters of arising from the politco-economic and entertainment miasma that defines the modern zeitgeist, I always wait until I hear from the guitarist from Stryper before I form an opinion. Also... who the fuck is Stryper?