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Jesus fucking christ. This clearly isn't the board, intellectually speaking, for you. Take your shit to aggy.

We live in a time where people of science (gasp), NOT RELIGION, have worked very hard to figure out this vaccine shit and yet people refuse to act not only in the interests of those around them but in their own interests. Why? Because mankind is kinda stupid. Like Voltaire (or somebody) said: man is smart. Mankind is dumb. Vaccines have basically done away with smallpox, polio, and other diseases. Those diseases can come back. And if they do, let the anti-vaxxers reap it.

Look, the world/universe is, in parts, a cruel and indifferent place. If you wanna go full retard/anti-vaxx then that's up to you. I just hope you've taken care of your family, updated your will, and by god don't expect public/medicare funds to pay for your stupidity. Is it really such a bad thing to get these idiots out of the gene pool? I don't think so. Good. Don't get a vaccine. Increase your odds of dying. Next.

It's nature's way of receiving you. It's nature's way of retrieving you. It's nature's way of telling you something's fucking wrong.

And that drunk aggy dude. Billy Ray Cyrus Gillispie or something like that.

I'm sure that I don't agree with her reasoning. She sounds like she's so smart that she's stupid. Which to be fair, describes about 80% of lawyers. Law school fucks up their thinking process.

Catching up on my podcasts of As It Happens and just heard about this. Thanks for the post.

Sad news. I was wondering how Professor Weinberg was doing. As in, is he still with us? Do they light the Tower for something like this? Or light it with a different color? He had some (imo) great quotes regarding religion. I don't want to clutter up this thread with it but here's a link to some of his better quotes. https://www.inspiringquotes.us/author/8122-steven-weinberg

But... that doesn't mean she can't so a stellar job here as well.

I may be taking this comment out of context, but what kind of fucked up policy would that be? A nation cannot go to war unless the parents agree? Both parents? So a nation could be held hostage to mothers who don't want their children to go to war? That would be fine if everybody did that.

Look, I'm not against the name change, but it's not a racist name. Injun? Probably. But then you'd better not read Huck Finn. If you get bent out of shape over the word "Indian" then the real world isn't for you.

Eric Clapton: great guitarist, but a piece of shit as a person.

And I never said otherwise.

Do you really want the state/govt to pull this sort of bullshit? Promising that there will be no prosecution, thus depriving (from what I've read) one's ability to use one's fifth amendment rights? Try to think of the broader issue here. This isn't bullshit. It's bullshit if people are comfortable with the government doing this. Just my opinion. There's a reason why we have the Bill of Rights placing limits on the powers of government.

Like I respect a broken clock that's correct twice a day....

Good. This and the bullshit over at the southern baptists just keeps telling us how fucked up religion is. And we need a lot of reminding.

1. I don't agree with Mack's politics. 2. I don't give a fuck if he uses write-off floor inventory, he's still helping. 3. I don't care if he uses it as a marketing opportunity, he's still helping. 4. I don't really get how this proves that Mack figures that he can "just rub the whole city's nose" in it.

Holy shit what is going on I don't understand but lets just do whatever the smart science guys are saying to do. That's actually a good approach for most things, especially public health. You know what's not a good idea generally? Listening to evangelicals. For anything.

As foretold in Two Corinthians.

Seems like a mash-up from the B-52's and Rick and Morty. Can't go wrong with that.

I've said for a long time now, Texas needs a governor who will STAND UP for Texans! Abbot is not that person.

Yeah, I guess good luck to him. Fuck him if he doesn't want to be a part of Texas, a part of UT, a part of Austin for his college football days. And he clearly doesn't want to be any part of that. So... fuck Ewers.

Nothing comes close? Not even a shorn scrotum?

Let's see if this comes back to bite the GQP in the butt come next election. God, I hope so.

Here's an essay from The Economist. THE FIGHTING lasted less than two weeks, but there was no shortage of explosions. By the end Hamas, a Palestinian militant group, had fired some 4,000 rockets at Israel. Most were intercepted by Israel’s missile defences. Israel responded with hundreds of air strikes on Gaza, a cramped enclave ruled by Hamas, which had no shield. More than 200 people were killed, all but 12 of them Palestinian. The battle began to wind down on May 20th; after nightfall Israel and Hamas agreed to a ceasefire. Assuming that calm returns, who knows how long it will last? Fighting between Israel and Hamas has become almost routine. Since the Islamist group grabbed control of Gaza in 2007, the two sides have fought four wars and several smaller battles, costing thousands of lives (again, mostly Palestinian). The spark for the latest outbreak came in Jerusalem—but were it not Jerusalem, it would have been some other cause. Israel and Hamas are stuck in a perpetual crisis, trapped by the logic of war, which dictates that they keep going through the same motions. Start with Hamas, which sees fighting “the Zionist invaders” as its raison d’être. Its campaign of suicide-bombings in the 1990s and 2000s bears much responsibility for destroying the Oslo peace accords. Because of its incessant attacks, Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005. The group expelled Fatah, its Palestinian rival, two years later. Today most Gazans see Hamas as authoritarian and corrupt. Unable to point to any achievements, it instead blames Israeli aggression and poses as the one true defender of the Palestinian cause. It had no plan to attack Israel; it merely saw an opportunity to assert itself after Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president and leader of Fatah, indefinitely postponed legislative elections. Hamas’s attacks are futile: its rockets inflict relatively little damage. But Israel feels it has to respond. “If it happened to Washington or to New York? You know damn well what you would do,” said Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, on American television. So the cycle has continued. Israeli bombs hit Hamas’s offices, rocket launchers and tunnel complexes. Several of the group’s commanders were killed. Israeli officers say they have significantly degraded Hamas’s capabilities. But even they don’t think the group will be down for long. When the next spark comes, the militants will undoubtedly be there to fan it. And be in no doubt that it will come. Both sides are content to leave Gaza a festering pit of misery that periodically erupts. Hamas’s control in some ways suits Mr Netanyahu, inasmuch as it weakens the Palestinian leadership and dims the prospect of a Palestinian state. Israel will still try to keep the group down, though. It and Egypt have kept Gaza under blockade since 2007, making it harder for Hamas to arm itself—and making life grim for ordinary Gazans. Restrictions on travel mean they cannot leave. The isolated, impoverished territory draws comparisons to an open-air prison. Hamas’s policies make it more like a shooting range. The group sometimes shows little interest in actually governing. Its schools and hospitals can be used for storing weapons. The idea is that Israel won’t attack such sites or, if it does, Hamas can use it for propaganda. The militants were surprised by how hard Israel hit back after they launched their first barrage on May 10th. Still, even as the death toll mounted, they did not stop. Yet there were new elements to this round of violence. A wave of clashes between Jewish and Arab citizens in Israel itself unnerved Mr Netanyahu. There are new types of pressure from abroad, too. Whereas President Joe Biden emphasised “Israel’s legitimate right to defend itself”, some fellow Democrats called for putting conditions on American aid to Israel. But for now, none of that is likely to stop the cycle of violence. Israel and Hamas will come out of this battle much as they went in. Nothing has been gained; nothing has been resolved. And yet they are likely to do it again.