"Even demented old boomers like me are smart enough to figure out how to defeat paywalls.

Since you have a lot of time on your hands, maybe you could teach your fellow boomers how to do it and post a followup link in the first comment as a courtesy, for those of us who actually lives outside of the Retort. Or just post a version of the story that isn't behind a paywall to begin with, instead of being an ass.

If you are an example of the generation that is going to save us all from Skynet then we are surely doomed."

The first rule of my generation is you do not talk about my generation.

"I can say, without hesitation, that you don't understand this topic if you think that's what is going on."

I'm aware that there's an element in this that Republicans are only doing it to make a passive-aggressive point about regulations and to 'troll the libs'. It's also true that many are eagerly taking the bait.

"The side effects are because it works a little too well"

They said that about electroshock and insulin shock therapy and other treatments that were akin to torture as well. If you put people's immune systems into overdrive again and again, the long-term consequences could be as bad as being infected with the disease again and again, or some kind of autoimmune disease.

"GFY with your hateful ignorance and lies.
Millions died because of the misinformation spread by people like you."

You GFY you worthless POS. I know what that ---- did to my body.

Ironically, I had to get an updated Covid shot last week, as mandated by my employer. Fortunately, it was the Novavax version. The side effects were very mild compared to the mRNA junk. On one hand, I think it's sad that this version of the vaccine will be delayed for those who want it. On the other hand, I think it's even sadder than many people here are arguing against rigorous safety and testing regulations, just because of politics.

Article is behind a paywall.

too *stupid to realize

Whenever someone asks how anyone could have voted for Trump, I'll just point them to an archived copy of this thread. Seriously, many of you here are too realize you helped him get elected, both times.

These criticisms are playing right into the Trump regime's hand. "oh look, they criticized us last time for separating children from their parents, and now they're complaining about us not doing that".

You can't have it both ways.

Some people in this thread appear to be literally arguing in favor of allowing people to use anchor babies to stay in the country illegally.

Thos never would have happened if they were wh- oh, wait...

I already know how the leftists will react to this, but I'd really like to see what the people who used to claim to be independent/libertarian/conservative have to say about it. The Patriot Acts were just a warmup compared to this BS.

"I'm MoViNg To CaNaDa."

I've never understood this. It makes much more sense to move south than north.

"And then they don't, because liberals are lazy."

Democrats are about as liberal as Republicans are conservative. Which is to say, not at all. But partisans still use those terms in a way that's completely lazy.

"Make the pie higher."
"If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor."
"Learn to code."
"You can have all the eggs you want."

Hate to say it, but this country is truly ----ed, no matter which way you look at it.

Remember when everything was going be replaced with Expert Systems? Yeah, that didn't work out so well either.

The "edge of space" is a misnomer/false advertising. The edge of the Earth's atmosphere is not the edge of "space".

Did this flight already happen? I was looking forward to them being stranded in space... all alone... with each other.

Sounds like the mobile version of this site.

This is nothing new, actually. Even legal permanant residents are supposed to carry their documentation with them. Don't flame the judge for making a sound legal decision just because you don't like the ------ way Trump will probably enforce it.

It's more of speech crime than a thought crime, but I agree about the slippery slope that the country is being led down. It feels like Patriot Act 3, except it's all being done by executive orders.

Probably, but it would be difficult to prove since Trump told people very publicly when it was a good time to buy.

Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) later told the state-run TASS news agency that
President Vladimir Putin pardoned Karelina, adding that she was exchanged with Arthur
Petrov, a German-Russian dual national arrested in Cyprus in 2023 at the request of U.S.
authorities for allegedly exporting sensitive U.S.-made microelectronics to Russia.

""If they have no civil rights...NEITHER DO YOU OR ANYONE ELSE.
#34 | Posted by Effeteposer

"If you are here illegally, you should be immediately catapulted back across the southern border. I guess I would also embrace tattooing their foreheads with a giant "I" in case they try to come back across the border."
#36 | Posted by ScottS

Oh look, two queer trolls arguing with each other.

President 4Chan strikes again.

I usually say never assume malice where incompetence will suffice, but not in this case. It's as foolish as it is dangerous to assume that Trump is just an idiot who doesn't know what he is doing. He does, and he is profiting off it.