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BIG HEADLINE posted:Hypersonic delivery vehicles and poo poo like Russia's ~Doomsday Torpedo~ are, first and foremost, an opening gambit in forcing the US/NATO to develop similar technologies and *counters* to them. You'd have assumed Russia's economy learned its lesson years ago about getting into a game of one upsmanship with Raytheon et al. Especially since we have the political will to cut the MIC a blank check and 50% of the population not caring if 99% of the population starves so long as we maintain the ability to destroy the
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Defenestrategy posted:You'd have assumed Russia's economy learned its lesson years ago about getting into a game of one upsmanship with Raytheon et al. Especially since we have the political will to cut the MIC a blank check and 50% of the population not caring if 99% of the population starves so long as we maintain the ability to destroy the I think it's a lot cheaper for them to just make a few prototype doomsday weapons and watch as our own mic eviscerates us a little more every year.
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Current event: I think Banana Pudding is my new favorite flavor of Blue Bell ice cream.
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Quick political gerrymandering update - a lot of the "Republicans will take Congress just due to redistricting" takes are basically clickbait at this point: https://twitter.com/Redistrict/status/1473749734745677827 https://twitter.com/Redistrict/status/1473752773837602823 Democrats basically gerrymandered the poo poo out of NY State, IL, OR, and NJ (though not super-aggressively in NJ). They also caught extremely lucky breaks with the California redistricting commission (5/11 Republicans are now weaker) and the Arizona redistricting commission (a weak/reasonable 5D-4R map). A lot of the Republican states decided to shore up incumbents versus redistricting away Democratic seats. Gerrymandering is still bad and should be illegal, but this time Democrats didn't unilaterally disarm and it won't be the reason why Congress likely flips to Republicans next year. It will be due to Democrats sucking and being bad, not so much the structural gerrymandering stuff. Edit for addition: But democrats are still dumb about unilateral disarming https://twitter.com/Redistrict/status/1473757016518705153 facialimpediment fucked around with this message at 21:49 on Dec 22, 2021 |
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joat mon posted:
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facialimpediment posted:The good pill is a go: That looks like a giant meat grinder. I can hear it now: you wouldn't be making that pill out of PEOPLE, would you Mr Pharma Guy? The reality will be dumber. "See? I don't need to take the evil 5G DNA-altering adrenochrome-derived Pfizer vaccine being pushed by the evil NWO and their pharma lapdogs. I will take the Pfizer pill instead. Checkmate lib!"
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Madison Cawthorne is getting divorced. (They married in April.) https://twitter.com/MrTooDamnChris/status/1473842677321981959?s=20
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Lol at Russia taking the “forcing us to invade now to prevent an action in the future that will prevent us from invading …. And it’s all your fault!” Seems on par with our logic for invading Iraq. Sure it will go great for them.
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:Not going to lie, thought this was Twitter thread numbering at first. If this was Seth Abramson instead of Dave Wasserman, that'd likely be true
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not sure why russia wants to invade Ukraine when Poland is due to be partitioned again.
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Eason the Fifth posted:If this was Seth Abramson instead of Dave Wasserman, that'd likely be true Lol my thoughts exactly
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The Merck pill is now on the board, but in a "lol, this thing kinda sucks and might not work and has side effects, but it's better than horse paste" kind of way https://twitter.com/statnews/status/1474027664184856577?t=7a6azojkm7cpOa6YF1TLbQ&s=19
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Its good that Paxlovid and the Merck pill are coming on the board since some of the existing treatments don't look to be holding up to Omicron. https://mobile.twitter.com/carlzimmer/status/1474078584708939776
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Terrifying Effigies posted:Its good that Paxlovid and the Merck pill are coming on the board since some of the existing treatments don't look to be holding up to Omicron. This is especially darkly hilarious since a lot of Red States that have pushed antivax stuff were dependent on the monoclonal to treat their non-vaccinated populace
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CommieGIR posted:This is especially darkly hilarious since a lot of Red States that have pushed antivax stuff were dependent on the monoclonal to treat their non-vaccinated populace that's ok live antibody transfusions still work I'm sure the early survivors of omicron in those regions will generously donate their ahahahahhaa sorry I can't finish
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Double guilty on the woman cop that shot a black dude after "thinking" she was pulling her taser https://twitter.com/KatiePhang/status/1474100431131451394?t=Q-l5l2jIUE-gpVqnTezPTg&s=19 https://lawandcrime.com/live-trials...-daunte-wright/ quote:"It was a tragedy of her own making,” Assistant Attorney General Erin Eldridge told the jury. facialimpediment fucked around with this message at 20:39 on Dec 23, 2021 |
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quote:Albert Watkins represents the rioter who has come to be called the QAnon Shaman, and when Talking Points Memo asked him about motive, he had this to say: "A lot of these defendants — they’re all loving short-bus people. These are people with brain damage. They’re loving retarded. They’re on the goddamn spectrum." Yikes. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/12/january-6-insurrection-us-capitol-riots.html?utm_source=pocket-newtab
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CBJSprague24 posted:Yikes. Yeah it's this dude, he's colorful. https://twitter.com/nowthisnews/status/1461165513506123777?t=EallxRWNrHAJxZQ6clDyoA&s=19 https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/the-bio-of-the-lawyer-representing-two-gun-toting-st-louis-attorneys-will-leave-you-speechless/
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CommieGIR posted:This is especially darkly hilarious since a lot of Red States that have pushed antivax stuff were dependent on the monoclonal to treat their non-vaccinated populace And it was also pretty useful for breakthrough cases so maybe it's not quite partytime. Godholio fucked around with this message at 21:24 on Dec 23, 2021 |
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Got my Moderna boost to complement my prior two doses. 24 hours later my shoulder aches but thats about it. Had some minor chills last night. Got invited to a bew year's eve event in Denver... Pretty sure its a bad idea but Im still considering it like a dumbass.
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CommieGIR posted:This is especially darkly hilarious since a lot of Red States that have pushed antivax stuff were dependent on the monoclonal to treat their non-vaccinated populace For further irony they were dependent on something exclusively from stem cells, so I guess that it’s gone now, they should be happy since now so many aborted fetus tissue won’t get used (I know that’s not actually how it works, it’s just these people are morons, and that’s all they think).
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Grip it and rip it posted:Got my Moderna boost to complement my prior two doses. 24 hours later my shoulder aches but thats about it. Had some minor chills last night. Man, lucky. The booster knocked me on my rear end for a day. Spent about 36 hours with some brutal muscle aches (just about how it was for my second shot, too).
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Also, have to say I didn't see the Potter verdict coming.
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Eason the Fifth posted:Also, have to say I didn't see the Potter verdict coming. Really? If anything this seems like the perfect case for manslaughter (either involuntary or voluntary). A person goes for a taser and grabs the wrong thing, so they’re clearly negligent, but don’t have the requisite intent or mental state for it to be murder. I should say I’ve only cursory looked at this case and it’s entirely possible I’m not read up on a key element that changes what I’ve written above.
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My knee-jerk reaction wasn't based on the merits of the case so much as it was based on my expectation (despite the Chauvin verdict) that most juries would side with the cops. I'd read something along that lines in the WaPo a while back. Had to look for it, here's the link if anyone cares -- https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/04/04/when-police-kill-people-they-are-rarely-prosecuted-hard-convict/ I'm glad to see that me being a cynical shithead in this instance was wrong, though.
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Eason the Fifth posted:Man, lucky. The booster knocked me on my rear end for a day. Spent about 36 hours with some brutal muscle aches (just about how it was for my second shot, too). I had the most violent chills of my entire life about 12 hours after (at 4am, which was fun) and slept most of the next day.
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Yikes. https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1473818157144064006?t=jtoc-mbrV83Tpp1iHG98Uw&s=19 Ignore the shitheel conservatives in the replies making the bogus comparison between a statue honoring murdered democratic activists to removal of statues honoring traitors in the US.
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shame on an IGA posted:that's ok live antibody transfusions still work I'm sure the early survivors of omicron in those regions will generously donate their ahahahahhaa sorry I can't finish Those didn’t work very well in 2020. Maybe progress has been made, but yeah even if they were super effective, the logistics is a nightmare.
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Crab Dad posted:Lol at Russia taking the “forcing us to invade now to prevent an action in the future that will prevent us from invading …. And it’s all your fault!” The biggest thing that bothers me about a potential invasion of Ukraine is that nerve agents might be employed. Or at the very least, extremely liberal use of WP and "it's practically phosgene"-grade lacrimating agents. Russia's tossing Novichok around as an assassination weapon, I don't think it's a stretch to imagine them using it offensively against Ukrainian strongpoints. They don't give a gently caress about the UN or sanctions, all they need is China and the OBOR.
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BIG HEADLINE posted:The biggest thing that bothers me about a potential invasion of Ukraine is that nerve agents might be employed. Or at the very least, extremely liberal use of WP and "it's practically phosgene"-grade lacrimating agents. They're already constructing the narrative that Ukraine/NATO are planning to use chem or bio warfare against them, which could simultaneously excuse their own deployment or just pivot straight to "any NBC use was obviously NATO provocateurs". TASS, yesterday posted:US brings botulinum toxin to Ukraine — Donetsk Republic https://tass.com/world/1379319
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BIG HEADLINE posted:The biggest thing that bothers me about a potential invasion of Ukraine is that nerve agents might be employed. Or at the very least, extremely liberal use of WP and "it's practically phosgene"-grade lacrimating agents. The Russians do love their insane themrobaric weapons. https://youtu.be/buvL1SHixL0 https://youtu.be/AWMVPhyAi54 And let’s not forget good old classics like the Katusha, which granted is just high explosives, but who knows if the Russian variations possibly with other types of warheads. https://youtu.be/5Vkz3opneLo
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I want to stay positive and believe that Russia isn’t interested in using NBC hwachas in Ukraine because that would break a mind boggling number of treaties, but I also know what timeline we live in.
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Kesper North posted:They're already constructing the narrative that Ukraine/NATO are planning to use chem or bio warfare against them, which could simultaneously excuse their own deployment or just pivot straight to "any NBC use was obviously NATO provocateurs". Well this is grim.
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The booster shot absolutely hosed me up my fever is finally breaking. I was hovering around 103 most of the day At least I’ve finally got that over with
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Nick Soapdish posted:https://twitter.com/isaacstanbecker/status/1474103343828156419?t=TNixl3qpZeQnrYAl42PZdw&s=19 What a nice Christmas present.
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facialimpediment posted:The good pill is a go: We got some hard numbers on this: https://twitter.com/Alexander_Tin/status/1473797129936199691
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