Crap, this is terrible news.

I wonder if anyone around here has the medical or biological knowledge to say whether or not dengue can spread wildly in Europe or give reasons as to why it’s not likely.

I found this Nature article here but it’s paywalled.

The BBC has an accessible article here

While I fully agree with you, for a second there I wondered what could have been proper clothing and footwear for this type of trip. I normally wear Chaco sandals in the Summer and they seem to be sturdier and more appropriate footwear for this walk and then I thought they could melt too, so… Hiking boots? Those would possibly not melt, so maybe they would have been appropriate, but I’m not sure…

A strange game, the only winning move is not to play… You don’t go to Death Valley in the boiling hot summer (I myself have been in June of many years ago and it was a chillier day)

WTF? He tasted one “for science”! While I understand there wasn’t any other way to know… What if it Hay been a poisonous mixture? I suppose he’d tested it before against common poisons! Still, wow!

“Online fury” is a most excellent expression.

Online furies have been awakened and now you can’t stop them, Wendy’s!

Edit: fixed grammar

I don’t mean to defend him at all (in fact, I do eat cereal, but it’s local store brands and not Kellogg’s), but isn’t it normal for a person selling a product to tell people to buy its products?

At the same time, I agree it’s terrible advice he’s giving!!!

Hit 'em hard!

That’s something I could never understand: how do people sign up for as many as 10 credit cards and then buy stuff with money that isn’t really there, then dealing with debt collectors?

It doesn’t make sense to me, but I’ve met people who are OK with living like that