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On 1/31/2023 at 8:44 AM, TheStoicPaisano said:

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My first reaction is claustrophobia. I always wondered how tight it was in those flying tubes. I can see myself midway to DC from Dallas chomping Xanax and trying to tune out these two idiots who won't shut up. I'd rather fly commercial. Hell, I might choose the trunk of a '69 Buick Electra over what I see above.

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On 1/29/2023 at 8:35 PM, jimmyjazz said:

I never understood that angle.  I always referred to my college professors as "Dr. So-and-So", and none (to my knowledge) held MDs, but rather PhDs.  Has that recently been deemed inappropriate, or is this just uninformed gotcha politics?

What's weird is when you go to law school and none of them are Dr. anymore.  JD's don't count.

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16 hours ago, NameAlreadyInUse said:

Ejaculating at least 21 times a month is one of the easiest ways to fend off prostate cancer.  I'm good with all of these crazy people getting on the no masturbation trend.  But it's a no for me dawg.

 

So, by the time I was 18, I was safe from prostate cancer until at least my 80s?

 

 

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On 1/29/2023 at 8:35 PM, jimmyjazz said:

I never understood that angle.  I always referred to my college professors as "Dr. So-and-So", and none (to my knowledge) held MDs, but rather PhDs.  Has that recently been deemed inappropriate, or is this just uninformed gotcha politics?

 

13 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

What's weird is when you go to law school and none of them are Dr. anymore.  JD's don't count.

 

As an undergrad I was taking an ancient civilizations class to fulfill a fine arts requirement. Huge class in one of those monstrous lecture halls in Welch. Some dipshit down in front would always interrupt the professor (a Dr.) during lectures with some inane question by raising his hand and going "Ms.? Ms.?"

I couldn't tell if the professor cared, she was always gracious about it. But finally she told the dude to come to her office hours if he had questions.

 

 

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I can’t believe our republic and society is going to die at the hands of, literally, the dumbest fucking people imaginable.
We were ready for a lot, but not weaponized stupidity at this level. They’re just overwhelming functional society with sheer volume and degree of their stupidity. And they can’t be thwarted by intelligent rebuttal or facts. There’s no way to stop them. Facts and truth only make them double down.
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Look, I don't expect evil, ugly Marisa Tomei to understand the detailed inner workings of automobiles.  But if you're gonna run a story on catalytic converters, maybe understand what they do and why thieves would risk being caught, or shot to get one.  Hint, it's not to take it to their mom's house so she'll get two more miles to the gallon in the city.  It's the metals valuable inside.  Not one cameraman or maintenance guy coulda told her that?  Even a FoxNews viewer has to ask, "Wait, they're stealing them to get better gas mileage?  I would think it would be for money."  

Here's a fun fact:  National Insurance Crime Bureau.  No real reason to have a political slant.  They track claim trends like any other trade group would.  Here's what they found:

2019 claims on stolen converters: 3,400

2020 claims ":  14,400+  

325% spike in year-over-year.  Guess what changed politically in our country from 2019 through 2020?  Nothing.  Same Commander Dipshit in the Oval.  

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23 hours ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

No words.

 

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22 hours ago, YGIFS said:

Look, I don't expect evil, ugly Marisa Tomei to understand the detailed inner workings of automobiles.  But if you're gonna run a story on catalytic converters, maybe understand what they do and why thieves would risk being caught, or shot to get one.  Hint, it's not to take it to their mom's house so she'll get two more miles to the gallon in the city.  It's the metals valuable inside.  Not one cameraman or maintenance guy coulda told her that?  Even a FoxNews viewer has to ask, "Wait, they're stealing them to get better gas mileage?  I would think it would be for money."  

Here's a fun fact:  National Insurance Crime Bureau.  No real reason to have a political slant.  They track claim trends like any other trade group would.  Here's what they found:

2019 claims on stolen converters: 3,400

2020 claims ":  14,400+  

325% spike in year-over-year.  Guess what changed politically in our country from 2019 through 2020?  Nothing.  Same Commander Dipshit in the Oval.  

The maga brain doesn't even think this far.  The argument is that gas is expensive so people need more money.  That's it.  Y'all are reading too much into it.  You've got to think dumber.

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The maga brain doesn't even think this far.  The argument is that gas is expensive so people need more money.  That's it.  Y'all are reading too much into it.  You've got to think dumber.

Contrast that with the MAGAt's inherent tendency to vote against their own self-interest . . .

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On 2/19/2023 at 2:10 PM, Brisketexan said:

I can’t believe our republic and society is going to die at the hands of, literally, the dumbest fucking people imaginable.
We were ready for a lot, but not weaponized stupidity at this level. They’re just overwhelming functional society with sheer volume and degree of their stupidity. And they can’t be thwarted by intelligent rebuttal or facts. There’s no way to stop them. Facts and truth only make them double down.

Easy to fool them.

Hard to convince them that they've been fooled.  Doesn't matter how outlandish their belief is.

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https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/02/bonkers-republican-bill-in-idaho-would-make-mrna-based-vaccination-a-crime/

 

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Two Republican lawmakers in Idaho have introduced a bill that would make it a misdemeanor for anyone in the state to administer mRNA-based vaccines—namely the lifesaving and remarkably safe COVID-19 vaccines made by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna. If passed as written, it would also preemptively ban the use of countless other mRNA vaccines that are now in development, such as shots for RSV, a variety of cancers, HIV, flu, Nipah virus, and cystic fibrosis, among others.

The bill is sponsored by Sen. Tammy Nichols of Middleton and Rep. Judy Boyle of Midvale, both staunch conservatives who say they stand for freedom and the right to life. But their bill, HB 154, proposes that "a person may not provide or administer a vaccine developed using messenger ribonucleic acid [mRNA] technology for use in an individual or any other mammal in this state." If passed into law, anyone administering lifesaving mRNA-based vaccines would be guilty of a misdemeanor, which could result in jail time and/or a fine.

 

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While presenting the bill to the House Health & Welfare Committee last week, Nichols said their anti-mRNA stance stems from the fact that the COVID-19 vaccines were initially allowed under emergency use authorizations (EUAs) from the Food and Drug Administration, not the agency's full regulatory approval. "We have issues that this was fast-tracked," she told fellow lawmakers, according to reporting from local news outlet KXLY.com.

The EUAs for the two mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines were issued in December 2020, and the FDA has subsequently granted full approval to both (Pfizer-BioNTech's in August 2021 and Moderna's in January 2022). This was pointed out to Nichols in the hearing last week.

 

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"They ultimately were approved under the ordinary approval process and did ultimately, you know, survive the scrutiny of being subjected to all the normal tests," Rep. Ilana Rubel, a democrat from Boise, said.

Nichols seemed unswayed by the point, however, with KTVB7 reporting that she responded that the FDA's approval "may not have been done like we thought it should've been done."

It's unclear what Nichols meant by that statement or why any potential questions about the regulatory review of two specific vaccines would justify criminalizing the use of all vaccines using a similar platform.

 

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To date, more than 269 million people in the US have received at least one COVID-19 vaccine, and over 700 million doses of mRNA-based vaccines have gone into American arms, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The agency keeps close tabs on safety through various national surveillance systems. Although the shots do carry some risk (as is the case for any medical intervention), they have proven remarkably safe amid widespread use of hundreds of millions of doses in the US and worldwide. A study released late last year found that COVID-19 vaccination averted more than 18 million additional hospitalizations and more than 3 million additional deaths from the pandemic coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2.

There have been rare reports of adverse events, including blood clots and inflammation of the heart muscle and lining (myocarditis and pericarditis). However, these problems are very rare, and, in the case of myocarditis and pericarditis, they tend to be mild. Independent health experts who advise the FDA and CDC have consistently determined that the risk of developing these conditions does not outweigh the benefits of vaccination.


mRNA-based vaccines made their public debut amid the COVID-19 pandemic, but researchers at the National Institutes of Health and pharmaceutical companies had been working toward these vaccines for decades beforehand. In fact, by 2016, Moderna began working with the NIH to come up with a general design for mRNA-based vaccines. One of their first targets for such a vaccine was a relative of SARS-CoV-2, the Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) coronavirus. By 2019, Moderna and the NIH set out plans for a clinical trial of an mRNA vaccine against the Nipah virus.

Generally, the vaccines work by delivering to our cells a snippet of artificially stabilized genetic code—in the form of messenger RNA—which is packaged in a fatty coating. In the case of COVID-19 vaccines, the bit of genetic code is for making a critical protein from SARS-CoV-2 called the spike protein, which typically juts out from the surface of the virus and helps it invade human cells. Once the vaccine's fatty package is delivered, our cells translate the mRNA code into a protein—the spike protein, in this case—which can then be used to train immune cells to identify and attack invaders with the same protein—in this case, SARS-CoV-2.

With the massive success of mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines, expectations are high that the platform can be used to target a wide variety of other infectious and non-infectious diseases. Moderna, for instance, has a wide pipeline of mRNA-based vaccines in the works. Already this year, the company reported findings from a late-stage clinical trial indicating their mRNA-based vaccine against RSV (respiratory syncytial (sin-SISH-uhl) virus) was highly effective. RSV is a common respiratory virus that can be deadly to older adults and young children.

In Idaho, it's unclear if Nichols and Boyle's bill will make it through the committee and, further, into law. However, its introduction fits into a worrying trend by conservative lawmakers for attacking lifesaving vaccination and evidence-based medicine, generally.

 

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58 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

The bill is sponsored by Sen. Tammy Nichols of Middleton and Rep. Judy Boyle of Midvale, both staunch conservatives who say they stand for freedom

So neither one of them is a doctor or biologist, and one of them attended three different universities but I can't tell if she graduated with anything, and they stand for freedom.

But they want to tell the rest of us what vaccines and other medical treatments we can have.

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