A lot of nobel laureates believe/believed a lot of unhinged nonsense. Some of my favorites:

1. Linus Pauling thought overdosing on vitamin C could cure all kinds of medical problems

2. James Watson and William Shockley were eugenicists

3. Irving Langmuir believed large-scale weather manipulation was possible with the technology available in the 1970s

4. Luc Montagnier was really into homeopathy and spread COVID vaccine/5G conspiracy theories

5. Kary Mullis denied that HIV causes AIDS

Just winning a Nobel doesn't automatically make someone right about everything, even in their own field.

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Could have moved that knee around 1970 to the left a decade or two if Mao hadn't caused the greatest manmade famine in human history

If that was true, why do we even have so many distributions?

Don't ignore the fact that part of the reason there are so many distributions, desktops, window managers, etc etc is because a large number of skilled coders have outsized egos

Occupy Wall Street: 2011

Obamacare: 2010

Haven't sorted laundry in like 20 years at least. If I get a brand new pair of jeans or something like that I'll separate it for a load or two but that's it.

I wish the internet would get over its collective obsession with pointing out conservative double standards. They don't care that they have double standards. In fact its a power move to show that they're above whatever petty moral code everyone else has tied themselves to

Because this isn't about parenting or children, it's about a creeping surveillance state

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_McCandless#Death

Turns out no one knew that some of the plants he was eating were poisonous until after he died

It's still wild to me anyone uses or recommends Brave after their crypto scam and all their other shady dealings

always lol @ brave

I might be in the minority here but I will not use a phone that I can't strip Google Play and other Google services out of, so it would need support from something like Lineage, Graphene, e, Linux, etc before I would consider it.

Nixon and Reagan both conspired with hostile foreign governments to win elections and we let both of those guys off the hook. Why would this be different?

This guy is from Maine, and they do have ranked choice voting for federal elections, one of the steps on the way to breaking the two-party stranglehold.

Of course the Republicans fought it tooth and nail, because they will never win another race with a system like this, and exploited a loophole in the state constitution to keep ranked choice out of state races.

He was flirting with holocaust denial decades ago, was a Trump supporter from the beginning, became more and more of a generic unhinged conspiracy theorist following that, and yes as you noted was a pretty blatant racist. Sprinkle some misogyny in there for good measure as well.

Behind the Bastards has some good episodes about him

Everyone on the Internet is a bot except you.

The other side of this coin is that the banana is the largest herb; the banana tree is the tallest plant that doesn't produce wood

Of course mixing up culinary and botany meanings deliberately is dumb and leads to people saying things like "a tomato is a fruit" and "a strawberry isn't a berry" those people can go produce their own wood if you know what I mean

You can install router software on any computer

https://opnsense.org/

Is "remain ‘impartial’ to political agendas" a dogwhistle for "tolerates Nazis" or have I just become too cynical

Using any Chromium browser contributes to Google's ever-encroaching monopoly on all things Web. Hard pass.