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Jon Stewart's classic lab-leak rant on Colbert's show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSfejgwbDQ8&t=178s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSfejgwbDQ8&t=178s

danesparza 4y ago
Thank you for this. I hadn't seen it.
OrvalWintermute 4y ago
Jon Stewart has a rare talent of imparting both logic and comedy simultaneously. Ridiculously awesome guy.
BiteCode_dev 4y ago
I dig it because it's like a summary of half of the Marvel movies, where the protagonists spend the entire adventure solving a problem they caused themselves. Like, without the Thanos thingy, iron man is not a bloody hero, he is a villain. He is responsible for so much death and destruction it's not even funny. Black Mamba, killer. Black panther ? Maintains in place a political system that clearly allows any psychopath to access absolute power. Hulk, a time bomb. Thor ? He let his genocidal brother of the hook as soon as he is nice for 2 minutes. Spiderman ? Give an deadly bot swarm to the first father figure that smiles at him. Dr Strange ? Accept the request to GHB the planet and almost destroys it because a kid ask for it for 30 seconds. It's a well known trope in sups stories, but for some reasons a lot of viewers really believes they are heroes. Even as a kid I though Batman was stupid for spending times fighting one criminal at a time with all his money. Now, we are seeing a lot of this in today's IRL world. Progress is saving you by giving you drugs for all the diseases it increases: diabetes, cancer, obesity, hormonal dysfunctions, etc. It's giving you a car so that you can you can go work in a remote place you would never have to work to without progress. It gives you software to organize your day to fit all the thing you would not have to do without progress. Ok, it's tongue in cheek. I love progress. But still.
- jessaustin 4y ago
  It is common for popular fiction to replicate themes and situations that people observe in life but cannot freely discuss.
walls 4y ago
There's all these tornado research facilities in the same place we keep getting tornados!
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- jaywalk 4y ago
  Unlike a virus, you can't just grab a tornado and move it somewhere else to study it. If you want to study tornadoes, you have to be where tornadoes occur.
- xdennis 4y ago
  Wuhan is quite far from where most bats life in China. It's like having a tornado research facility in New York.
- kaitaincps 4y ago
  The WIV was not set up in Wuhan to study bat-borne coronaviruses in the surrounding area. This is a widespread myth, one popularized by Maggie Koerth on Twitter.

danesparza 4y ago

Thank you for this. I hadn't seen it.

OrvalWintermute 4y ago

Jon Stewart has a rare talent of imparting both logic and comedy simultaneously. Ridiculously awesome guy.

BiteCode_dev 4y ago

I dig it because it's like a summary of half of the Marvel movies, where the protagonists spend the entire adventure solving a problem they caused themselves. Like, without the Thanos thingy, iron man is not a bloody hero, he is a villain. He is responsible for so much death and destruction it's not even funny. Black Mamba, killer. Black panther ? Maintains in place a political system that clearly allows any psychopath to access absolute power. Hulk, a time bomb. Thor ? He let his genocidal brother of the hook as soon as he is nice for 2 minutes. Spiderman ? Give an deadly bot swarm to the first father figure that smiles at him. Dr Strange ? Accept the request to GHB the planet and almost destroys it because a kid ask for it for 30 seconds. It's a well known trope in sups stories, but for some reasons a lot of viewers really believes they are heroes. Even as a kid I though Batman was stupid for spending times fighting one criminal at a time with all his money. Now, we are seeing a lot of this in today's IRL world. Progress is saving you by giving you drugs for all the diseases it increases: diabetes, cancer, obesity, hormonal dysfunctions, etc. It's giving you a car so that you can you can go work in a remote place you would never have to work to without progress. It gives you software to organize your day to fit all the thing you would not have to do without progress. Ok, it's tongue in cheek. I love progress. But still.

jessaustin 4y ago
It is common for popular fiction to replicate themes and situations that people observe in life but cannot freely discuss.

walls 4y ago

There's all these tornado research facilities in the same place we keep getting tornados!

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jaywalk 4y ago
Unlike a virus, you can't just grab a tornado and move it somewhere else to study it. If you want to study tornadoes, you have to be where tornadoes occur.
xdennis 4y ago
Wuhan is quite far from where most bats life in China. It's like having a tornado research facility in New York.
kaitaincps 4y ago
The WIV was not set up in Wuhan to study bat-borne coronaviruses in the surrounding area. This is a widespread myth, one popularized by Maggie Koerth on Twitter.