While I am generalizing about your average rabidly proud MAGA Tesla driver, I’m not saying that every Tesla driver is a Nazi.

Your original comment:

Tesla has become the official automobile brand of magastan. When you see one rolling down the road, or more likely stuck in 2 inches of snow, at least you’ll know where its owner stands on things like equality and the new national norm of fascism.

You’re the one who just pivoted into the Nazi word use. Your original comment was clear. If you call for a false dichotomy, don’t be surprised when “true patriots” push back as that rhetoric is what fascists use. I don’t want you to drag the rest of us down with you.

I’m going to break this response down.

Lots of rage here, but you know the right answer.

Are you just trolling? No rage, I’m simply pushing back against people who paint people like me as “fascists and fascist supporters” with a broad brush and encourage others to do the same. They’re actively making my life worse.

I won’t even dignify “you know the right answer” with a response.

I’m a federal employee in the process of losing my career over this shit.

I see you missed that I’m LGBTQIO+. I’m not cishet. I’m in fear for my life and the lives of my partner and friends, so I’m fleeing the country and starting over, hoping the next place doesn’t want me to die at some point too. Sorry about your job though.

Your last paragraph is just a big, lazy strawman that similarly suggests you never bothered to understand my previous comments before responding. I wasn’t going to respond to it as I’m now quite sure you’re just rage baiting at this point, but then realized someone on the fence about thinking like this might be reading.

I’ve been actively protesting the US decline into fascism for over thirty years. I’m a scientist that worked in public health. I’m disabled and am a disability advocate. I am this “true patriot” you pretend I’m blaming with the radical notion that we…/checks notes/… not assume everyone who drives a particular vehicle that has been sold for over a decade is a Fascist or fascist supporter since the CEO went mask off as a neo-Nazi and in the last few months. That clearly means I’m “hating the haters” and “blaming the true patriots”. Clearly.

It’s not the alt-right! It’s just…*proceeds to regurgitate bog-standard alt-right talking points*

FTFY

They went mask off so fast that I’m surprised we didn’t hear a sonic boom.

Tl;dr: imagine the success and continuity of not only your career but the careers of your employees had a significant element of random chance involved. Welcome to research.

Now former scientist here. I see the typical “people would do this anyways” comments but I’d wager they don’t understand what it’s like to work in science and academia. It’s publish or perish. In the United States, it’s an absolute capitalist meat grinder and it can be brutal.

As a lead researcher, you are dependent on securing grant money not only to keep your job, but to keep the jobs of your co-workers and the very lab itself afloat.

How do you secure grants? By showing you have the experience and ability to complete the research.

How do you show you have the required experience and ability? By your lab’s record of publishing the results of successful research.

What is successful research? In an ideal world, it would be what was found at the end of an investigation, regardless of if it disproves the null hypothesis or not. In reality, it’s the results of research that have further application, either in industry or that disprove the null hypothesis and act as a step to get you further related grants.

What happens when an investigation flounders? So you didn’t disprove the null hypothesis. In an ideal world, you publish a paper explaining what happened and everyone knows what not to do in the future. In reality, it’s basically unpublishable as journals want what will make them money. Your lab now has the research equivalent of a gap in your resume. You continue with other research and hope it is publishable. If your lab has a streak of bad luck and multiple projects crap out, now it’s harder to secure grants. The downward spiral begins.

Is what this researcher did wrong? Absolutely, but I get it. I 100% get it.

We need serious reform that removes the profit motive. A functional research system would better catch fabricated results before they’re published. It would alleviate the pressures that drive good people to do bad things in the pursuit of doing further good. It would actually enhance scientific discovery as ALL results would be published and without parasitic publishers as unnecessary middlemen.

Funny thing, the same things weren’t happening at the Al Shifa hospital.

Seconded, I use a Define 7 and it’s fantastic. Best big black box I’ve ever owned.

Have you checked out United Allergy Services? They claim to have self-administered allergy shots.

It’s 100% worth it. Not only does it get rid of the pollution, it tastes a lot better too.

Thank you. I was just wondering why the hell anyone would work for AA to begin with. This helps explain some of the draw.