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Tired: horse paste Wired: actual, legitimate anti-covid pill that wasn't on my radar https://twitter.com/kaitlancollins/status/1443888989140815885?s=19 Pill turned out so good that they terminated the clinical trial early and it's only $700 a treatment without any fancy infusion bullshit.
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Milo and POTUS posted:I don't know what's funnier, that it's "only 700" or that that really is relatively cheap I'd expect insurers to cover that thing at drat near generic-levels of copays, though the feds are covering the first 1.7m courses of it. Monoclonals are $2100, plus labor expenses for the nurses/infusers, plus you have to go to a facility. It's possible that my brain is hosed due to the American healthcare systems stupid poo poo, but $700 for a full treatment just doesn't sound terrible. Of course, the vaccines top out at like $30/dose, though the storage costs/steps are a bit nuts, but it's apparently a hell of a thing developing a new pill to fight a disease that's not even two years old yet. A shitload of them crashed and burned without doing anything.
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I got my hopes up for about a sentence. https://twitter.com/SCOTUSblog/status/1443923224593637394?s=19 Edit: there's now a Derek Lowe post on the anti-covid pill here, but it has one hell of a funny quote in it as for how good the vaccines are: quote:Note that Merck specifically was looking at unvaccinated patients, because if the trial had been run in vaccinated ones not enough people would even have been hospitalized yet to be able to tell if the drug was doing anything. facialimpediment fucked around with this message at 14:19 on Oct 1, 2021 |
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boop the snoot posted:Spooky month off to a bad start. https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1443408269628878851?s=19
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MazelTovCocktail posted:Personally they should keep exploring this. On/around October 18th, every single option is bad. You can default and obliterate the economy. You can outright stop spending, which is not just impossible, but an unconstitutional halting because Congress told you to spend it. Or, you can simply ignore the debt ceiling and issue more debt like usual, which might not be bought because it's unconstitutional to raise debt above what Congress says. The platinum coin idea exploits a loophole, but still has some downsides of #3 as bond buyers are all like "uhhhhh is this going to be legit?" and your only debt buyer becomes the Federal Reserve. And the Supreme Court has basically said that per the Constitution, Congress controls the purse strings (unless Donnie uses money for his wall). So I'm on Team Coin, gently caress the stupid ceiling. Congress is basically telling the White House to spend money, but being dumb each time. Under a CR, you're given a credit card to spend their $10K, and you're ordered to spend their $10K, but it magically turns off when the fiscal year ends. That at least makes some sense. The debt ceiling is like Congress handing you a credit card with a $10K limit, then telling you that by law, $15K is going to be charged against it any day now. Biden/Yellen are saying "hey, raise the credit limit so we can follow your law to spend $15K and this thing doesn't default" and Congressional Republicans are all like "lol no get rekt follow the law"
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As Nero Danced posted:Not much of a current event, but I'm fighting a cold (waiting on test results to know if it's covid, but I'm feeling fine and I'm through the worst parts of it) and it's hosed my throat up. On the plus side, I sound like Duke Nukem. Anyone have any funny voice lines or overly dramatic movie trailer voiceovers they'd like to hear? Might as well get some mileage out of this while it lasts. https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Bauer-capitol-motion-dismiss.pdf
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As Nero Danced posted:https://vocaroo.com/1arU3vLI8iSN I posted that as a gag, but I giggled pretty hard at the opener when it gets particularly weird. I do wonder how nuts it would be in a celebrity reading, like Morgan Freeman or Christopher Walken.
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I still can't figure out if she's just making noise for attention because Manchin's also holding up the bill, or if she's actually serious and will actually torpedo the thing when it actually comes to voting time. Would be extremely odd if when he's on board, she isn't. Until then, it's a bunch of weird Girlboss noise.
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The story of the past month or two has basically been the vaccine mandates are cool and good. https://twitter.com/carriemelago/status/1445045667580235776
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Oct 4, 2021 16:22
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It appears that facebook really, really hosed up. https://twitter.com/briankrebs/status/1445081561536339970 https://twitter.com/sheeraf/status/1445099150316503057 Hopefully they can't figure it out. https://twitter.com/Twitter/status/1445078208190291973
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https://twitter.com/PhilipinDC/status/1445108187355566086 I wonder how many lives are being saved by all this downtime 
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Wombot posted:Yeah the routes going away is the real nuke. It is not outside the realm of possibility that there will need to be in-person visits to all of FB's data centers to recover their connections with each other (because they can no longer communicate securely with the outside world). https://twitter.com/MikeIsaac/status/1445118465258364928 Wellllllllp.
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gently caress https://twitter.com/oliverdarcy/status/1445142563934048264
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This dude is a NYT tech reporter so lol https://twitter.com/MikeIsaac/status/1445185560214048770
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Wingnut Ninja posted:Also: Boooooooo 
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:It's someone's job to go around daily and check that line for breaks, too. The advisory panel's meeting on the 14th/15th for Moderna / J&J boosters, then the 26th for Pfizer's Age 5-11 EUA. Approvals probably a week after each meeting. There's talk that the Moderna booster is going to be a half dose, which I'm sure as hell not complaining about and want in my arm immediately. OPM memo just released too, all feds have to be vaccinated by November 22nd, which means mRNA deadlines are October 11th/18th to get started, or a J&J on November 8th. Going to be an epic shitshow if the debt ceiling doesn't kill us all first.
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Platystemon posted:Was the debt ceiling not kicked down the road to December? Nope, that's the continuing resolution (direction to spend money). Debt ceiling explodes on October 18th (borrowing exhausted, no money available). And right now, it's looking like there's no general way out, as McConnell isn't even taking a hostage while his caucus filibusters and doesn't allow Democrats to raise it unilaterally.
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With the kidney stone, I was on flomax/tamsulosin and I was not very welcome.
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Somewhat surprised by the lack of an I'M BEING PERSECUTED message from Head Fucker, since he's such an rear end in a top hat in general. https://twitter.com/MylesMill/status/1445549443080544260?t=9Y2-yrbTr_INEu1d0x3KIw&s=19
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1) Accept deal, give $ value equivalent to Trump Tax Cuts https://twitter.com/LauraLitvan/status/1445814152598102019 2) In BBB Reconciliation package, set Debt Ceiling at eleventy trillion facialimpediment fucked around with this message at 19:18 on Oct 6, 2021 |
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The Tobacco Technical https://twitter.com/TaskandPurpose/status/1445855446196056066?t=ewV0tKsCfhlngMOONPeL9w&s=19 quote:On Aug. 17, when the Afghan troops informed Bravo Company that they were moving to another area of the airport, the paratroopers asked if they wouldn’t mind handing over the keys.
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boop the snoot posted:Does this mean it goes to SCOTUS? 5th Circuit of Appeals next (heavily conservative and dishonestly so), then Supreme Court. I bet the 5th Circuit stays it, just because they're a bunch of lunatics, plus: https://twitter.com/steve_vladeck/status/1445913428489609222 So evil all around, mostly.
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M_Gargantua posted:Wait so they evac'd a Hilux but left tons of allied Afghans? The story has more details about it (RedState had yelled about something similar - except slanted to "y u no evac Americans"). A whole lot of the military/civilian evacuation flights were half-empty because of the logjam at the airport. Said logjam was a Stephen Miller special - processing speed for SIVs was essentially nil throughout the Trump administration and the early months of the Biden administration were essentially the same as the process was still completely broken. And it's not like an emergency process is going to get everyone out when you're about 30 feet from Taliban and manning a guntruck just to keep them honest. Best to read the funny story without thinking too hard about it, you'll always find a plot hole full of pain.
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pantslesswithwolves posted:The sequel, Evil Dead 2, was kind of a sequel-remake to the first Evil Dead movie, and was the first notable time that Raimi and Campbell really found their "splatstick" formula of excessive gore employed in a kind of tongue and cheek way. An old high school memory - friends and I were watching Evil Dead 2 in my mom's basement. I was told it was a Bruce Campbell movie, so my idiot brain decided that Bruce Campbell was the name of the character coming in to save everyone at the end. My dumbass had to be told that Bruce Campbell is the actor's name and he's playing Ash in the movie. Bubba Ho-Tep is underrated.
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Lake of Methane posted:I'm seeing people dance on Twitter about "Trump is Broke" because some documents released by the House Oversight Committee indicate the D.C. Trump International Hotel experienced a net loss of $70 million while he was president. It's also because he got booted from the Forbes 400-richest list that he actually cares about, plus Deutsche Bank's general shadiness involving a loan break given to him regarding that hotel. Don't really think about it too hard, especially when it comes to twitlibs basically saying HAH, GOT HIM NOW. So just giggle that he couldn't even be competent at getting bribed.
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There was a follow-up: https://twitter.com/NickFrancona/status/1446837281151668228?t=Mk7WyDbUFi5v17Ap9xsQgA&s=19 Someone at work is vaccinated and her husband isn't and she's always like  about it. Not really sure how you can mentally get around a spouse failing such an obvious intelligence test like that.
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He'll unfortunately/probably be fine, since he's actually getting real treatment instead of the dumb poo poo he's selling to his people.
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MazelTovCocktail posted:Also how Gruden escalated from childish name mocking to SUPER HARDCORE RACIST poo poo in five seconds. Been a thing for years behind closed doors apparently. The "big lips" thing is a common racist trope things and (again) I should've known more was coming, I was only surprised that it took another day or two for the bulk of the stuff to come out. I mean, look at the company he was keeping in these email chains: https://twitter.com/cwarzel/status/1447734185863483393
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I really don't have anything for today, especially with angryposting coming out, but this blessed my feed and ergo y'all get it too. https://twitter.com/LethalityJane/status/1448343091035852807
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Kellogg needs to hurry the gently caress up and cave to the strikers so I can buy some more goddamn frosted flakes. They're not getting a loving cent from me until they do. It's good to see strike culture coming back again. In a labor shortage, it should be. https://www.battlecreekenquirer.com/story/news/2021/10/12/kelloggs-strike-continues-second-week/6090946001/ facialimpediment fucked around with this message at 14:28 on Oct 14, 2021 |
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Finally sat down to watch this clip and it's as good as you'll ever see out of American media: https://twitter.com/GMA/status/1448605991826857984?t=ajB6OWzAnA7Fsoj20V46jA&s=19 Probably was a mistake that it got through a lot of pro-corporate filters, I don't usually see this pro-labor framing from most media.
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Another sidebar, it's entirely possible that Q himself is going to be running against Dumbest Dentist and/or Person Ever Rep. Paul Gosar for AZ01 next year. Watkins has been showing up all over Arizona endorsing people. https://twitter.com/Garrett_Archer/status/1448697892961591300?t=etMAROp8VxWhpcVAqYA37Q&s=19 That primary is going to set a new level of insanity unless Watkins just hosed up or something (very possible).
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