Downvote for not ending with

"vote muthafuckas!"

not normally a fan of Winston, but that was gold.

He's not going to be around (in a political sense) after the weekend though.

A recent episode of the excellent Science vs. podcast discussed this.

TL;DL "There is no such thing as a miracle drug. And that’s an important message for everyone to know, There are no miracle pills, that’s science fiction.

So we don’t know if chloroquine will save the day here. There’s some promising research - but then there’s some not so promising research. "

Once again, for a supposedly "civilised" country, many aspects of the US health system feel utterly barbaric.

Ireland has already adopted the Internationale as it's anthem, and that's from a centre-right government!

Possibly. Right now, it looks like COVID is deadliest to the elderly and those with underlying medical conditions.

So, inner city inhabitants will be more likely to *get* COVID, but most of them will only suffer mild symptoms. Obviously, poorer people with less access to healthcare will suffer more.

It's hard to say what the ultimate effect will be in terms of voter demographics. Disasters can sometimes favor the incumbent, as the country gets behind its leadership, but Trump's handling of this has been a total clusterfuck. OTOH, *everything* Trump has ever done is a total clusterfuck and that doesn't seem to deter his supporters.

Yes, and marriage meant "man selling his daughter to another bloke" and decimate meant "to kill 10% of a roman century (which meant unit of 100 soldiers as opposed to unit of time)".

Definitions change, language evolves .... move on.

Keas are awesome. They're really cool and will actually open backpacks to get at your lunch.

I have no idea why NZ went with a boring flightless bird as the national animal when they have keas available.

Doom 3 is a completely different animal. DOOM 2016 is much closer in spirit and speed to the originals.

I really thought I'd hate the glory kill system (in fact, I'm on record here being deeply "meh" about it), but it really works to drive the player constantly into combat like a psychotic pinball on steroids.

Damnit, I think I'm gonna go home and replay it... again.

Oh man, that's a hard question.

Classic Doom is probably the smarter game, in how it uses its weapons and monsters as puzzle elements.

But modern DOOM is just so goddamn metal.

Ultimately classic is the more important game and its' mulitplayer laid the ground work for online FPS, but in terms of what I'd play today... DOOM all the way.

If we’re the most intelligent part of the galaxy, the galaxy needs to do better.

*quality

Love me some gunship.

*skillful

That's the hilarious thing with the new movies.

TFA came out and everyone complained that it was just an update of a New Hope.

TLJ came out and broke with tradition and a very vocal minority hated it (the movie still made over a billion dollars... you can't say that everyone hated it).

WWANRGLD? At what point was Lucas not rich? Before A New Hope (even then he already had a few successful movies under his belt)? or do you mean before he was ridiculously rich (prequels? disney buy out?)?

It's possible that Kylo Ren will be redeemed, but it'd be very predictable.