Meteorologist Chris Gloninger will step down from Iowa station KCCI partly because of PTSD he suffered after receiving threats related to his climate coverage.

Who had this on their bingo card?

Teachers, doctors, journalists. And now meteorologists.
Next will be anybody who wears glasses.

Those dirty four eyes! They think they’re better than us!

Wait, I wear glasses as well!

I’m so tired of people being riled up against eachother :-(

Yeah but I need my glasses to see. That nerd over there wears glasses just to make me feel stupid.

That’s a mirror

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Our society is edging closer and closer to that depicted in Neal Stephenson’s Anathem…

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2845024-anathem

I worry that we’re moving closer to the society depicted in Idiocracy

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Yeah… that is frighteningly close to the truth

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