Also if bird flu blows up he’ll again have the opportunity to not save millions from dying.

It’s the opposite of face-eating leopards. “Surely making myself more appealing to racists and fanatics while empowering them won’t eventually lead to any consequences for me!”

I miss when Colbert’s comedy wasn’t hamstrung by needing to play to milquetoast network audiences. His stuff is ok-ish nowadays, but he’s not pushing the envelope on anything anymore

I wish they’d make a podcast app with a playback feature that’s not just a single seekbar. If for some reason you need to scroll through something, having a small bar represent an hour or two doesn’t give much granularity. I’ve been using audiopo, where your entire screen becomes the playback bar, but it’s not really a podcast app so it doesn’t have a good way to organize your files.

OP:

This is not money wasted. If they want to lower it, it needs to be done gradually to give universities time to adjust.

What exactly about the orange blob made you think he would have a carefully measured plan to do literally ANYthing?

These people are so fucking delusional-- they hear and see exactly what they want. Check out this galaxy brain:

One of the things they are doing is identifying waste. I’m sure if enough researchers make a racket about this specific thing it will get attention.

Oh yeah, I’m sure that’ll happen. Dumpy responds so well to listening to what the plebes want. He’ll get right on fixing a problem he created just as soon as he gets off the golf course. Aaaaany day now…