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  1. Over 5 million global deaths were associated with antimicrobial resistant bacteria (data from 2019) and that doesn't show any signs of slowing down, so by all means, let us just let the chips and bullets fall where they may. Close, my friend, close. CDC details problems at Texas A&M biodefense lab Article from 2007. Incident of infected lab workers occurred in 2006 but the university didn't report it right away. In 2008 A&M settled with the CDC and paid $1 mil. If not for the Sunshine Project there might not have been enough applied pressure to investigate. Note the complaint that protective lab clothing was worn outside the laboratory and the ventilation complaints. This happens more than it ought.... Spoilered for length:
  2. The party that not only endorsed a multiple personality mentally ill candidate from Georgia for Senator but refused and continues to refuse to call out a congressman who is a confirmed liar on so many levels I’ve lost count and we’re questioning whether a military veteran has enough bonafides and charisma to consider a presidential run? What a feckin’ world.
  3. Apparently it’s just Lachlan. IIRC the other children have distanced themselves somewhat from the operations. However, Lachlan is arguably more RW than his Dad so we’ve got that going for us.
  4. Monday and my spouse had a grenade dropped in his lap at a meeting this morning and he comes home: you want a martini cause I’m making martinis…. Two martinis in and that grenade is just a minor inconvenience and everyone we don’t like are assholes. What a nice start to the week. Us vs. the world. Cheers!
  5. You are correct, of course. IMO, the narrative (white victimhood) is being pushed and pushed much harder, the search for something to coalesce around to have a reason is a slow drum beat right now. Ads like this seem to serve more than one master and neither are good.
  6. It was a poll written up in Rasmussen Reports and was discussed in the Elon Musk thread because those two dipwads intersect and amplify each other in too many ways. Maybe a page or two back. It was a dog whistle poll.
  7. Aaaand apparently this is the back of the t-shirt: Seems like S&W has chosen their side of history. Anyone surprised? Sales of $1B during the pandemic but dropped by quite a bit over the past year.....
  8. Um, when I looked just now on their official twitter straight from their website it is up, so they own it. However, it is slightly different than what you see above: It's the plausible deniability route that fascism uses. See the troll they use with the same colors, same typography, same letters. They love doing this and their fan bois eat it up. Marketing to 'tactical athletes, to promote the image of those naked bronzed figures cavorting in the fields and meadows, dodging meth trailers and poison ivy as they brandish their weapons sweaty and hugging each other in ecstasy as they realized another lib has been owned or another school shot up. I'm not going to visit their website right now, but they have a YouTube channel with a couple of shorts of people target shooting, among other things. The company markets itself as veteran and LEO owned which doesn't exactly make one sleep better at night.
  9. Anyone else think Scott and Elon are sitting in a bar somewhere drinking vodka cranberries and bitching about David Lindhagen? Such bro energy and not in a good way the way the good kind is. *David Lindhagen is from Crazy Stupid Love and if you haven't seen it, well you should.
  10. I phrased that quite poorly so no surprise it was confusing. What I was attempting to say: based on your comments regarding insecurity, word and speech patterns along with his interest in Dale Carnegie coursework and hypnosis (thanks @chainsaw!) Adams has this contradiction between seeming like a person interested in self-improvement who is also inflexible in his worldview of others and their abilities/capabilities. Most folks don't want to date someone like that.
  11. Derail--did you hear the news that Watterson has a book coming out later this year? Collaboration with John Kascht titled The Mysteries. Adult fable running about 72 pages and scheduled for October 10th. https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Mysteries/Bill-Watterson/9781524884949
  12. Oh. Arkansas allows abortion to save the life of the mother and since Jessa Duggar Seewald had a miscarriage this was apparently in accordance with the law although it makes no mention of the health of the mother as others have had to continue until no heartbeat is detected or infections grow bad enough. No other details regarding heartbeat etc. are known due to privacy details.
  13. It's true he has mentioned that taking Dale Carnegie courses changed his life, but in addition to the traits you mention, the dedication he applied to transition into a career as a cartoonist has this quality of inflexibility that bleeds into other areas of his life?
  14. Ya know, the Rx for anxiety was a good suggestion and all but seems to me if those engineers can figure out a way to make those oxygen masks drop down from the overhead, they could figure out a way to make an emergency alcohol supply line drop down just as well. I dunno, two four to six ounces ought to take the edge off.
  15. His seems to stem more from what was (I think posted in the Elon thread?) related to his GF/Wife leaving/rejecting him. One can be a total asshole, a dick, a dirtbag, and so on (and even halfway be self-aware about it), but when one wasn't in charge of making that decision it can sometimes trigger all sorts of behaviors and rationalizations. Especially for men. So, TL/DR--she broke him.
  16. One could name several Supreme Court justices but unfortunately their jobs are secure.
  17. how is that going, though? Mastodon was one that was rolled out and what was the name of the other one? Post? Are those gaining any steam at all? Twitter was rather useful for being able to get a quick aggregate of more than just AP/Reuters type news. Also great for the 'now as it's happening' event such as when the power fails or there is a coup and such.
  18. I don't have the issue of followers/notifications as I lack an account, but the growing RW presence on the twitter platform is ballooning. Normally I just check a few journo or other specific accounts now and then to get an update but now I'm noticing a lot more of the RW stuff in the replies to people's tweets in general. Even more than usual since the most egregious were initially let back on. Lot of Christian nationalist stuff, lot of women belong at home or 'innocent' type comments about how women are happier and have more opportunities when they don't go to college but stay home and get married. More of the anti-trans, anti-semitic, anti minority posts--often with little graphs and charts 'proving' the tweeter's point. I'm sure Elon's retweeting doesn't help, but the algorithm or what have you seems to have yanked things further to the right and is really amplifying it. Those tweets then get rebroadcast on sports forums and other places where folks congregate online to yell at each other and the clouds. Given the various authoritarian funding (besides Elon's) I am not surprised at how this is going. So, when twitter worked to remove accounts that disseminated misinformation, etc, some people left for Parler (dying), and others joined up with Truth Social (also dying) and Gab (no idea how it's doing). So those three platforms plus twitter are unfettered RW leaning platforms where the disenfranchised voices are being increasingly Gamergated aside. Anyone have a solution? There is an election closer than you think.
  19. Have you seen Empire of the Sun? I've mentioned it in this forum before, but one of my favorites of his. In case some haven't viewed it, I'll spoiler one of the parts that just really got to me:
  20. I have yet to finish Elvis; it wasn’t because I know his life story and I’m not sure what it was exactly. I know the Col’s background and thus the kind of distracting accent by Hanks (to which I grew accustomed) but somehow using his POV didn’t hold my attention if that makes sense. I can understand why it was written but as a whole, the movie became a slog even though Butler was doing alright. So, I have bailed twice. Not usually an award show watcher other than recaps but caught a bit of the SAGs last night because Sally Field was receiving a lifetime achievement award and I wanted to see that unedited. She has sure had a long and varied career. EEAAO won a lot of awards.
  21. It was a nice day for a woke wedding?
  22. Thanks for the summary notes, big help for people like me that only give this a onceover during the news read of the week. The potential crimes related to the employee death/insurance policy really chaps me; the family is stupid crazy entitled but ruining others in their orbit the way he did. Stone cold.
  23. I have a debate with myself occasionally where I question whether Tucker is more dangerous as a Fox host or if the CIA had not rejected him and he worked in their employ.
  24. Here are some of the reviews on GoodReads where around 26 people out of 26 ratings gave it one star: 1. "Manhood: man-hood noun 1. The act of raising a fist, while protected by barricades and Capitol police, to the treasonous masses you're attempting to fleece, then fleeing like Chicken Little when the same insurrectionists actually storm the Capitol building you're cowering in. Not even Josh Hawley can embody his toxic ideal of masculinity. Sad." 2. "This book has bestseller written all over it. Learn about manhood by a "man" who helps incite a mob and then runs like a little girl, a "man" who uses his sister's address to run for office representing a state in which he doesn't reside, a "man" who pretends he's just one of the little guys but graduated from both Harvard and Yale. Truly a load of bs from a con artist." 3. "I hear they’re making the book out of glass, so it will be as fragile as his “masculinity.”" 4. "The blurb says, "No republic has ever survived without men of character to defend what is just and true." What on earth does that have to do with Hawley? A book that doesn't need to be read." 5. "Manhood is a topic rarely discussed by people who are secure in their own." Barnes and Noble has zero reviews and whether that is because no one has read it or they disabled reviews I cannot answer. Similar with Amazon. Only editorial reviews. The Onion, however, has a nice slideshow about the book: (SIAP) https://www.theonion.com/biggest-revelations-from-josh-hawley-s-new-book-manhoo-1849356408
  25. Oh man, I am so sorry. That was my bad. Will try and remember to spoiler next time.
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