I guess we are going to have to ban assault knives.
#3 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER AT 2024-03-28 10:53 AM | FLAG:

Scary pommel?

That's a paddlin'.

Trump is an abyss of hedonism and self gratification.
#29 | POSTED BY SNOOFY AT 2024-03-28 10:20 AM | FLAG: | NEWSWORTHY 1

Wait, I thought you were against him, and here you are talking him up lol

And they're horribly overvalued. Can we say "bubble?"

Please tell me the covers are on upside down

See that's why I buy Nikes. Keeps the kids off the street, and you just can't beat those tiny hands and their tiny stitches.

In times I am more irritated at the democrats - their corporatism, indistinguishable foreign policy from neocon republicans, failures to bring real change like single payer, or their seeming embrace of identity politics over far more substantive class issues, I absolutely consider voting Trump.

I don't know where they came up with "shake up for the better" though.

Maybe I'm just realistic about the effects. I'd call it accelerationism.

I try extremely hard not to get that angry over politics though.

I'm forced to agree with her precisely - I have no problem with trans people just wanting to live their lives, but sports are one of the areas where physical realities just can not be overcome. Of those that are relevant, male skeletal structure and pulmonary volume are both too advantageous to discount, and even though testosterone can be blocked and there will be decline in strength and speed, any person who has gone through male puberty will ALWAYS have more myonuclei than anyone born female - at least who hasn't done some very extreme steroid cycles. Myonuclei never go away, and will always confer a greater response to strength training.

It's for this reason also that a male who has used steroids can never truly compete against purely natural athletes on a level playing field again, and I feel should be banned for life, or minimally, barred to their own league.

It's just an unfortunate fact, that does not apply to transgender men in the same way. No one cares if you're trying to compete "up," but competing "down" is always going to be perceived as unfair, and carry a risk to women athletes in the more combative sports.

fact he ran a brothel don't add up.

#7 | POSTED BY BRENNNN AT 2024-03-24 01:27 PM | FLAG:

Did he at least advertise his girls were "out of this world," or do we have to worry about his marketing sense on top of ethics concerns?

Not great - antibiotic resistance is rapidly hitting the point where diseases we thought eradicated are coming back strong - and I'm not even referring to the (hopefully) obvious difference with vaccine hesitancy we're also dealing with.

That said, where do I find milk that still has added growth hormone? Do you know how expensive that stuff is on the black market?!?

Really? Did you apply for a refund?

#73 | POSTED BY LIBS_OF_DR AT 2024-03-20 11:19 PM | FLAG:

Do a long rant to make sure there's plenty nuance, and somehow still don't get it?

I have my problems with the vax, which is why in another thread I complained about the politicization of it - it's hard to ask real questions when you have bad faith nut jobs polluting every conversation. There are clearly possible side effects for instance, and they need more research into how and why. But guess what. Vitamin C has side effects. Water has side effects. Yet like I said, I've gone from a near 20% mortality rate in an at-risk population to near 0 since it came out. Think I won't take that over a rough few weeks?

Touche. Ugh. Stupid autocorrect. Close enough

I guess that depends on how you see one million dead Iraqis and 30-50 years of Talibaptist SCOTUS rule.

#22 | POSTED BY CENSORED AT 2024-03-20 07:59 PM | REPLY | FLAG:

I'd say touch - but Obama didn't exactly help with the US imperialism body count.

I got nothing on the SCOTUS part lol

#57 | POSTED BY AMERICANUNITY AT 2024-03-19 03:19 PM | FLAG:

Long Covid is the one that freaks me out now.

A little personal take - Eberly, might want to take note, including that I'm being fair on all sides to this.

I'm not a huge fan of the vaccines, but I am still a fan - I strongly suspect the spike protein itself is highly inflammatory, whether the rest of the virus is included or not - but it's hard to say if it's that, something different about the adjuvants, or what other factor - all I can say anecdotally is first shot (all Moderna)- nothing. Second shot - 103 degree fever, chills, worst body aches ever. I mean like there are joints in your feet I never thought of a day before in my life, until standing on them hurt that night lol. Gone after 48 hours. First booster almost a year later - 2 weeks after I had hives all over my body and a huge autoimmune flare up. As in, I have psoriasis, but not bad. Scalp gets a little flaky in winter. But this - on my arms, scalp, hands. Signs of psoriatic arthritis as joints all over were painful and inflamed. Ended up on a couple courses of prednisone and constant antihistamines for weeks.

I'm still glad it's out though. I've worked long term care a couple decades by now. Close to one in five residents at my facility died in the first wave. It was one of the most awful and heartbreaking things I've ever seen. And many of those who didn't die struggled for months afterwards. Fatigue, altered cognition, respiratory distress.

Nothing like that has happened since the vaccines. Nothing close.

And Covid itself, particularly the long covid bit is unpredictable. I'm in extremely good shape for my mid 40's, still weight lift, snowboard, mountain bike, SCUBA - you get the picture. The first time I got it, the November before vaccines were released it affected me the way I kind of expected - that is to say, couldn't smell anything for 4 days, and then smell returned and fine. A little over a year ago last fall got it again - and had a light cold for a week. Except for two months afterwards also extreme fatigue, shortness of breath I could only describe as like being at altitude - lungs were clear, breathing was fine, it just didn't do anything. Just air hunger, gasping for breath from mild exertion, etc, and the whole time resting pulse minimally ten bpm higher than normal and when I tried to out-exercise it, rocketing up to 185 from something small like trying to pedal slowly up a hill. It was frightening and unexpected, I thought I had the fitness to justify my arrogance. Covid does not care.

And yeah - it's weird that was after several vaccines - but go back to the previous line - I've never had to go through anything like the first wave with our patients since the vaccine either. And thank God, because I think I'd have to change careers if I did.

Getting really aggressive about upcharging for things like extra protein these days.

If you want to transition back to Trump, you know what to do.

#15 | POSTED BY SNOOFY AT 2024-03-20 02:29 PM | FLAG:

I do not. Which was the point of that statement. A moldy ham sandwich could beat Trump.

Biden, I'm not so sure about. And that's kind of the problem. All I answered was to the point of the original question - why is Biden so unpopular? Not "is Trump better than Biden." Obviously not - but all this should be being taken into account. And the left has never been sheep to line up for Dear Leader like the republicans. It takes a little more than that.

#5 | POSTED BY CENSORED AT 2024-03-20 07:29 AM | REPLY | FLAG

That is neither stupidity, nor "disastrous."

It's telling the DNC to wake up and start serving their constituents again, because not all of us will continue to settle for the barely lesser of two evils, and they are not entitled to our votes - they need to earn them.

Why is Biden so unpopular?

Well above all else - it's not the economy, "it's the inflation stupid."

Second, it's hard to enthuse an electorate for a guy that's basically Trump lite - especially with the aforementioned inflation.

I mean - sexual predator? It's not helpful when your own VP previously said they believe your accusers.

Racist? Biden was against busing, mixed race schools, and remains responsible for more black men in prison than anywhere else on the planet. Anyone familiar with the Constitution will know - that's just legalized modern slavery.

Classified documents? What Trump did was worse - what Biden did was still idiotic.

Lies? They're both pathological self-aggrandizing liars.

Immigration? Trump is actually better. Sorry, I hearken back to the Bill Clinton take that we don't need undocumented people driving down wages on an already struggling working class, and I'm an economic hard leftist of the type that says if you can't pay a fair living wage for a job - the type that would attract US workers to it - you don't deserve to stay in business. Remember when that used to be a common leftist take?

And on and on. They are in every way comparable. It always comes out to a matter of degree. The definition of "lesser evil." Add on a personal take that Biden is just really incompetent - either the right thing, wrong time, or just half-assing what really needs done. Obama was right about him. Infrastructure? Great idea. Maybe don't pass a bill costing over a trillion dollars when we're in the throws of horrible inflation. Student loan forgiveness? A bandaid on a bullet wound. Maybe nationalize colleges and universities, offering higher education the same way we do k-12 and open to everyone instead of rewarding predatory lenders with instant payouts and letting education costs continue to spiral out of control multiple times the rate of inflation. EV mandate? I'll be the first to scream we have to get serious about climate - but maybe we should have worried about the power grid that can't even handle everyone turning on their air conditioners at once in numerous states and the charging stations first. Israel? Great job on that "come to Jesus" with Netanyahu lol. Really fixed the whole genocide issue.

Messaging is an issue of course - but some of it isn't a lack of getting the message out - it's sending the wrong message. Cumulative wage gains are not even close to catching up to cumulative inflation. May not be for years, and wage gains are even faltering now. While the lower classes face mounting credit card debt, record vehicle repossessions, unaffordable housing, Biden totes the stock market and gets angry that the news is not reporting how good it is. The news is. And it's causing backlash. Maybe less "the economy is the best in the world" (for the one percent) and more "I feel your pain."

Don't take this wrong. I probably will vote Biden. And on virtually all but one of those issues, he is better than Trump. That's not where you should be setting the bar. The only difference enough to possibly warrant it is J6. But you want to know why Biden is so unpopular? Because no one voted for him, and most likely no one ever will. They just voted against Trump. And that's not highly motivating.

Biden should have kept to his word about only being a transitional president.

"Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power."

Benito Mussolini

The dishonesty and politicization surrounding the vaccine - yes, from both sides of the aisle - is what's really going to set us back hard in the future.

The right's straight up Covid denialism and the politicians that fed into it is literally murderous.

The left may have been better intentioned, but their inability to grasp human nature - ie, when you try to suppress competing viewpoints, even if they are based on faulty or even flat out false information, it just lends them credence and Streisand Effects them - and their virtually religious refusal to admit at first that the vaccine didn't prevent infection, and later to admit there could be side effects won't do them any favors either. It just makes people less likely to trust them in the future.

Coming from someone that's worked in long term care forever, and still has PTSD from what Covid did to the cohort in our care. Almost one in five lost. And have fortunately lost virtually no one to Covid since the vaccines came out. Yet at the same time, one of the ones who ended up with serious side effects from the vaccine. Which isn't even unexpected. ANY medical intervention has side effects.

This should never have been politicized. And the next pandemic, we're going to pay the price for it having been.

I'm always in the middle on this argument.

In principle, I'm utterly in favor of the personal choice to die with dignity. The fact we give our pets more mercy in the end than fellow humans is disgusting.

In practice, I worry about implementation and a capitalist society that may push people towards choosing death over cutting into an insurance company's quarterly revenue.

The ever scientific part of me is truly intrigued to see what happens when the oceanic currents shut down. Will we just see warming accelerate, or will it as sometimes theorized, dump us straight into an ice age, as cold (and now fresher and with a higher freezing point) water fails to circulate and caps the northern hemisphere in a nice shiny ball of ice?

The rest of me wants to know why Zuck is building a prepper cave in Hawaii and how I get in on this.

Stupid backwoods superstitions. They didn't have a single duck to weigh them against?

It's going to get ugly before it gets better. Yield curves inverted for an absurdly long time. M2 falling like it is for the first time since the Great Depression. Stocks are absurdly overvalued. The national debt hitting the point of no return. Housing market beginning to stagnate and both personal debt and repossessions are going for record highs. Virtually all jobs recently added are government jobs in one way or another, meaning they're recycled money out of our deficit spending and not contributing to actual growth, while the private sector is only adding part time jobs. Meanwhile the first rumbles of job losses are happening - tech, automotive, etc.

Housing, stock market, and everything else are essentially bubbles, and we've been kicking the can down the road for over a decade by now with artificially low interest rates. The correction will not be pretty.

#4 | POSTED BY MSGT AT 2024-03-14 05:22 PM | FLAG:

An understandable misunderstanding. Boeing is just still in the beta.

Love him or hate him, I HIGHLY doubt Musk would endanger his government welfare golden goose of Space X by selling to Russia

Alex Jones was right. They're turning the kids into gay frogs!

Seriously though, they're finding microplastics and endocrine disrupters in everything. It does actually make you wonder how much that contributes to the increasing number of LGBT+ vs just increased social acceptance.