"Be glad you live in a country where you can believe whatever the hell you want, and we're not going to put you in jail for it because it's a free country." - @neiltyson
Apologizing doesn’t erase the fact that they started with racist shit and kept escalating. The guy saying “just cause you are black doesn’t mean you are right” is straight up instigating and minimizing. That’s not accountability, that’s still being racist while trying to sound reasonable.
You don’t get to say something fucked up, escalate when confronted, then act like one “sorry” makes it all go away. That’s not how this works.
@viralvortex51 Lmao! That PVC pipe repair at 1:18 is money. The whole point of the sand was to keep the pipe from kinking. You can even use heated sand to help soften and bend the pipe. But this, this is amazingly bad.
Neil deGrasse Tyson: “Whatever [the next outbreak] is, we ain’t ready for it. We still have anti-vaxxers running around.”
“I don’t trust scientists. I saw a YouTube video, so I’m not going to take it.” (mocking)
“I don’t want you to ever forget this story.”
“20,000 years ago, we’re in the cave. Do you know what the life expectancy was?”
Shannon Sharpe: “10 years? 15 years?”
Neil deGrasse Tyson: “30. Half of everyone born was dead before they were 30.”
Shannon Sharpe: “Wow!!!”
Neil deGrasse Tyson: “Fast forward to 1840… everyone born in the world was dead by the age of 35. We gained five years of life expectancy. And every one of them ate organic, breathed clean air… Science matters here.”
“We’ve doubled the life expectancy with antibiotics, vaccines, and sanitation. The three biggest forces operating on our longevity. So to come around and say I don’t need vaccines because I’m not getting sick, that’s like saying, why are you using dandruff shampoo? You don’t have dandruff.”
Shannon Sharpe: “Well, I don’t want to get it.”
Neil deGrasse Tyson: “That’s my point. If you’re successful, people think you don’t need it when that’s what’s creating the ongoing success in the first place.”
It's a bad time for free speech in Britain. Two controversial American left-wing influencers have had their visas blocked by the British government after being deemed not “conducive to the public good”. Sacha Nauta, The Economist’s Britain editor, explains why this is a bad look for a country that sees itself as the birthplace of free speech. Read why such governmental power should be used sparingly: https://t.co/fS0nkCpZaP
A planned luxury resort in Albania linked to Jared Kushner, US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, is under an anti-corruption investigation over changes to protected coastal land, amid growing protests.
Al Jazeera's Cara Legg reports.
I know it’s become pretty cliche and cringey to talk about at this point but if you’re under like 25 I cannot stress enough how one time Obama wore a tan suit and people spent a week arguing over whether or not it was demeaning to the Oval Office and they were serious about it.
'This was the opposite of an intelligence failure'.
An x-CIA analyst predicted the Iran crisis years ago - so why was Trump surprised?
He spoke to @RichardEngel on The World podcast about the war game he ran and what might happen next.
Listen here: https://t.co/2OJFtgT37h