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Russia considers itself entitled, if necessary, to take steps to deploy land-based intermediate- and shorter-range missiles< Kremlin spokesman Peskov said.
mRNA vaccines are one of the most important tools we have for preventing future catastrophic pandemics because we can update them more quickly than any other vaccine technology in response to new emerging viruses and variants.
RFK Jr cancelling millions in mRNA research makes the world far less safe.
I love them because they come with fewer allergy concerns than traditional vaccines. It's just another reminder that they want people like me with any kind of special medical need to die.
I'm not defending this person. But you can't measure a programming job by physical labor. I spend maybe 25% of my time banging on a keyboard. The rest of my time is spent figuring out what to bang on the keyboard. And that doesn't start at 9 and end at 5. it's happening most of the time I'm awake. To varying degrees, sure, but that's why I have no problem going and folding laundry during business hours. Because I'm also working through program flow while I'm eating dinner.
I have an idea I would like to call a Freedom Test. The idea of this test is to determine if you really value freedom or if you value something else. Many people will claim they are about freedom, but often they either are conflating freedom with another value that is not actually freedom.
One example of the misuse of this term is by those who call for "free healthcare." Whether or not you value this, it is not freedom, but a provision.
The Freedom Test is helpful in determining who is for freedom and who is for "freedom."
The test is this: if we remove government entities from the equation, are you able to get what you want? The answer should be quite clear if you think about this.
For those who want their freedom to have firearms, the government being out of the way would not change your ability to have firearms. But if your "freedom" is paid for by the government ("free" healtchare), then you do not have true freedom.
Not everyone is going to be all about genuine freedom. And that is not necessarily a bad thing. But people should not be so quick to proclaim that they are about freedom if they require others to be forced into some action in order to attain their "freedom."
I would not consider myself anarcho-capitalist, but they at least are those that would be genuinely about freedom. But considering we have yet to have an ancap example in the world, that might show that 100% freedom might not be possible.
We can apply this test in multiple facets too. For example, gay marriage.
Whether you like it or not, if there are no restrictions to marriage, then gay marriage would be possible under the value of freedom.
The problems start coming in when the state is involved, such as lawsuits for gay wedding cakes or forcing others to acknowledge their marriage as valid. Many gays fail the freedom test the moment they are confronted with the fact that others do not want to participate.
@shortstories Another good example to use. Without the government, these spouses would not have this provision, thus making it not pass the Freedom Test.
Hmm, have any countries start to think about an LA Olympics boycott yet? Will we be seeing a complete choreographed opening ceremony celebrating Dear Leader? Will they be renditioning and probing the gender of athletes at the events, or at the border?
LA Times: Trump names himself chair of L.A. Olympics task force, sees role for military during Games
Trump’s news conference may prompt questions about whether a president with a penchant for showmanship might assume an unusually active role in planning the Olympics.
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“Among the 22 contracts the Trump administration said it is winding down is a Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority award to Moderna to develop a new line of defense against H5N1 bird flu.”
Well, we certainly don’t urgently need a bird flu vaccine this very second, do we? And if the shit hits the fan, maybe it will be in the next administration.
It’s like that sleazy SOB who wrote you an unpayable balloon mortgage loan in 2006 is running our health policy.
This sounds to me like the perfect time for a class action suit against RFK Jr. & HHS on behalf of the 343,000,000+ Americans he’s trying to kill with his idiocy.
A new report was immediately panned by onlookers that Ghislaine Maxwell told the Justice Department last month nothing that would prove "harmful" to President Donald Trump.
what happens during sweaty sex with all this chemical crap floating about those? Glue, wigs, make-up, polish, fucking gross man, I'll shag a fugly natty before touching any of this chemical landfill.
“many people are saying they are a nuisance and must be defeated, and we’re going to take a look at them, if they want to make a deal maybe we’ll be able to make a deal, I’d love to make a deal…”
@Sir ALF How many people escaped from West Germany to East? And then there was North vs South Viet Nam? Or how about the Bolshevik revolution, how did that work out? Or the Cultural Revolution in mainland China, there is a real winner. But rather than learn from history people will just say they didn't do it right, like there is ever a right way for a top-down dictatorship which every communist regime ultimately decays to in very short order.
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@Killer_Mule the districts are so preposterous already, but Gaysom could make it worse. My district is totally mutated, as they all are. Its the entire north coast! The remote northerners are repped by Sonoma and Napa. Its unreal. So gay too tired of it. And I'm in Sonoma, which is bifurcated itself. The eastern and urban dorks and the west county rural muscle. The system is broken. And getting worse.
@Killer_Mule they'll just Ruby Ridge us. Its baked in. Not to be a downer, but seriously considering liquidating and exiting. Many factors involved, a constant undergirding stress in my life.
The idea that Del Norte residents are repped by the same critter as Santa Rosa is absurd. They have no rep ever under this construct.
I'd split Sonoma County into two if I had such an axe.
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Hmm, if someone tags you but then deletes the post, Hubzilla notifies you about it anyway. That's kind of concerning for both sides of the interaction.
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Everyone has been galvanized, in condemning Epstein. It's been comforting to assume this means there is wider recognition that sexual exploitation through money and power of young vulnerable people is seen as criminal. A violation of self-determination and of bodily autonomy.
I think part of why I keep following this story so closely is the creeping sense that maybe we aren't all talking about the same thing.
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We most definitely are not all talking about the same thing
I sadly do not agree with your assumption. Like #metoo, I believe this will be swept away. I think there is some frustration with everyone's non-favorite elites being able to act with impunity, but they still want to excuse their faves
And I think those of us who actually give a shit about the victims is a vanishingly small percentage
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We absolutely are not. People like you and me are talking about the widespread sexual exploitation of women and girls, and how fucked up it is that this is embedded in our culture, and how Epstein is an exemplar of but ultimately just another symptom of that. MAGA world is talking about Pizzagate. QAnon shit. It never went away, they just got better at sounding normal when talking about it.
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I remember some comments I heard during his first presidency (where he wasn't a nice guy to begin with) from voters with a Christian Nationalist leaning to the tune of: "He may not represent our Christian values, but he will get us what we want."
Well, he did and he will certainly try and continue to do so if he keeps his free reign.
The rules of the "political game" have changed massively.
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So far, there seems to be a concerted effort to protect the "Victims" And, culturally, the victims are defined as the fucking politicians who fear their consequences are not only political but indictable.
Why else would the focus be on a list of pedophiles rather than listening to the many actual victims who are still around and can speak for themselves?
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I was a reporter in the late 90s and covered the Clinton impeachment and it was so wrong. He was guilty and should have been removed, but, it was the wrong charge. He was illegally harassing his employees. But to charge him with that would have exposed the rest of Congress to the same standard. So they had to keep it narrowly on “he cheated on his wife.”
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that would fit, if so, yeah. it's been absolutely astonishing to us to see that the people who've consistently voted for these atrocities and cheered them when they happen, actually seem to have sincere beliefs that aren't just what their favorite commentator is saying that week. like, it's not as if CSA is normally a dealbreaker to far-right voters, so we've been confused that it appears to be in this case.
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The hint that this could all unravel comes from the relative indifference of large segments of the public to the obvious womanizing, sexism, and public lechery of the president.
Could there be people who don't see any connection between these things? Or is it that it only matters if you don't like the person doing it?
First you had "movies" because the photo was "moving" then you had "talkies" because the "movie" was "talking" but when the dust settled, society considered "talkies" gay and unworthy and "movies" the term, um, moving on.
In the first part of the program, Andrew Crespo, professor of law at Harvard University joins us to discuss the mass incarceration system, a system that’s upheld by lawyers and promoted in our institutions of higher learning.
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Trump’s news conference may prompt questions about whether a president with a penchant for showmanship might assume an unusually active role in planning the Olympics.
At the White House, speaking in front of banners adding the presidential seal to the logo for #LA28, Trump said he would send the military back to #LosAngeles if he so chose in order to *protect* the Games. In June, #Trump sent the #NationalGuard & US #Marines to the city amid widespread immigration enforcement actions, despite…condemnation from Mayor Karen Bass & other state officials.
“We’ll do anything necessary to keep the Olympics safe, including using our National Guard or military, OK?” #Trump said. “I will use the National Guard or the military. This is going to be so safe. If we have to.”
Trump’s #ExecutiveOrder establishes a *task force* led by him & #JDVance to *steer* federal coordination for the Games.
looking forward to how the most corrupt man on the planet further corrupts the second most corrupt organization on earth (after fifa). It’s gonna make his parade look professional.
It wasn't me but someone here posted about Hunga Tonga and I looked it up and it makes perfect sense for the weather we have been getting where I am for the last three years. Water vapor is #1 greenhouse gas and HT lit 1M surface acres of water into the atmosphere. We have had the best three years of weather here, great rains in the winter, fog belt in the summer, cool summers, but the rest of the world is getting heavy rain and great heat. People can't do this. Only volcanos.
Jaws is being released this weekend in the theaters for its 50th anniversary. Think about this… if you had gone to the theater in 1975, the year Jaws was released, to see a 50th anniversary movie release, you would have been watching a silent movie (sound wasn’t added until 1927)
Software designed to give spacecraft more autonomy could support a future where swarms of satellites navigate and complete scientific objectives with limited human intervention. Astronauts living and working on the Moon and Mars will rely on satellites to provide services like navigation, weather, and communications relays. While managing complex missions, automating satellite communications will allow […]
Everywhere I go, the odd time someone mentions using ChatGPT or Stable Diffusion or whatever, they get panned for it immediately. This is the state of our culture, now, and it's a good thing: the "generative AI revolution" is over because no one fucking wants this shit.
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