To me the weird part is that one of LOTR’s main themes is that power corrupts.

WTF is up with these defense companies named after LOTR items?!

Time to start calling it Fashla.

Can’t wait to see how TSLA stocks prices will react once people realize what an amazing target Musk’s own fleet will be for vandalism and public furor:D

Ironically, even without the vandalism these cars were ridiculously expensive to insure. When I bought my EV I checked insurance premiums, and it would’ve cost $100/mo more to insure a model 3 similarly priced EV from another maker.

this is what the fanbois never bragged about when the brand used to carry some level of prestige

Bradley, hopefully you’ll choose more wisely with your next wife.

(/s)

“Fun” story, I got my MMR 3x as a kid and another 3x as an adult because my antibody titers were and remain undetectable (i’m not immunocompromised on any level). With the current events I really hope my T-cells are ready for the heavy lifting 😅

Of course, according to RFK Genius, I’d need lower doses not higher because “race”.

For a fascist disapproval of a slim majority definitely isn’t “underwater” just a “minor inconvenience”.

Goodness, this guy is a fucking charlatan. Perfect man for the current administration.

One, people don’t seem to realize that many of the places hardest hit by Helene, like Asheville and the immediate area, are bastions of liberalism who voted for Harris by a 2 to 1 margin

Unless it exclusively hit Buncombe county and avoided the surrounding counties, it did hit a region that actually predominantly voted for this.

it is horrifying to jeer for someone losing their home regardless of who they or their neighbors voted for.

On one hand I agree. On the other, it’s much more horrifying that a track record of extorting governors for FEMA aid wasn’t an immediate presidential dealbreaker.

to apply right-wing logic to this: “if you label everything domestic terrorism, the term will lose it’s meaning!!!11!!!”

Is it too early to call it the Trump Slump?

the problem is exactly what we see with measles.

1. children who have no choice are the ones who suffer the consequences
2. because most vaccines cannot be 100% effective (e.g., I got 3 extra MMR shots and I still don’t have detectable measles antibody levels despite being fully immunocompetent), they do rely on herd immunity protecting those who don’t mount full responses to the shots.

The thing about public health is that it’s public interest over personal choices. In a functioning free society those personal choices would still align with public interest based on the understanding of societal good. So the antagonism is totally artificial.

sadly, if we told them the “dems definitely don’t want you to drink methanol, because it’s bad for you”, there’d be some who’d do it out of spite. this is literally what’s happening with vaccines, but one’s mental blindness leading to physical blindness has some poetry to it.

This is the thing that distinguishes the intellect of orbán and trump. Orbán developed what he officially named “the system of national collaboration” with an unofficial motto of “those with us will thrive [and those who are against us will struggle]”. So initially they made sure that it was a lucrative thing to align with the system making it very inconvenient for systematic resistance to emerge. Trump seems to be failing this idea already in the acute phase: maintaining pressure even when companies realign with him makes it much more convenient to push back straight up…

The way Ryleigh presented her story made it sound like she was expecting the trump administration to impregnate her. Incredibly absurd…

At least there’s still an option for her: all she has to do is message Musk…

“SLAMMED” I say! “SLAMMED!”

What is this open mic night? FFS.

I thought he wasn’t into DEI. Europeans were underrepresented among the deportees, now trump’s promoting equity there.

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This guy is a charlatan. He doesn’t understand medical facts or human behavior.

1. Despite what the vitamin industry says, nutritional deficiencies are quite rare in the USA (except for vitamin D)
2. As mentioned in the article, if your population isn’t vitamin deficient, you can’t assume that vitamin supplementation will have similar (or any) role as in developing countries with high prevalence of nutrition deficiencies to reduce mortality of infections.
3. Vitamin A (along with the other fat-soluble vitamins) can actually be overdosed. (Fun fact: Polar Bear liver is toxic for human consumption because it contains vitamin A in huge concentrations)
4. This kind of communication will lead for Vitamin A overdoses and vaccine avoidance.
5. RFK will take no responsibility for either.

It’s AI slop… Reddit’s BS stories were much more creative until LLMs came along. still remember Colby…