• andros_rex@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    You’ve clearly never worked in a university biology lab.

    Out doing fieldwork Graduate student: “Hey [my name], smell my finger!”

    Turns out, certain species of ant smells like blue cheese if you crush it.

    My favorite was a post grad that let a tick feed off her for a week to prove it could prey on humans.

    RFK Jr is the kind of unhinged mind that did deserve better. That doesn’t make the perhaps thousands to millions of deaths that we will be able to trace back to him both directly and indirectly less reprehensible, but I really have had very similar conversations to the one you just tried to “reductio ad absurdio” describe.

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      5 months ago

      I guess the absurdity that really jumped out at me was laser focusing on the act of raccoon penectomy to make him seem like a pretty relatable dude in the face of those thousands or millions of preventable deaths on his head. Maybe I’m just too rigid, but I also won’t be celebrating the incredible skill and luck of Trump hitting a hole in one due to, you know, all the intentional suffering and death.