WTF-Beta

I don't think he intends it to cost very much per ... inmate.

Need a redhead on that cake ...

Not satisfied with destroying the next generation of scientists and scientific discovery, the Trump administration takes aim at current science.

We will need to rebuild lots of scientific infrastructure in 2029, human and physical. I would suggest a confiscatory billionaire tax of, oh, maybe 25% of all individually owned (including tax avoidance trusts) exceeding one billion dollars. Would help with the wealth distribution while enabling the nation to recover from the wanton destruction the GOP is deliberately wreaking.

It's total bullshit, like everything that comes out of this administration.

ArtI.S9.C5.1 Prohibition on Taxes on Exports
Article I, Section 9, Clause 5:

No Tax or Duty shall be laid on Articles exported from any State.

The plain language of the Constitution will certainly not discourage Trump, or the "originalists" on his court who justify every Constitutional outrage he initiates.

@wtg said in Goodbye, mRNA vaccine funding:

Even the NIH knows it. The administration hasn't scrubbed this page yet:

https://www.cancer.gov/news-events/cancer-currents-blog/2022/mrna-vaccines-to-treat-cancer

It's just the six major media conglomerates....

This used to be one of my favorites at Busch Gardens in Williamsburg. They dismantled it in part because it was "injuring" too many people who thought the "take your earrings off" sign didn't apply to them.

@Mik said in Yes or No?:

At a younger age? Absolutely. having survived that era I find my appetite for thrills much diminished.

Not to mention the problems with the inner ear.

That would leave me feeling sick to my stomach for the rest of the day/night.

Democrats don't have a serious choice here. This is a classic prisoner's dilemma. The moral high ground where both sides "understood" the unspoken rules is long gone. If the Democrats continue to play nice in the vain hope that Republicans have a conscience, we surrender to the Fascist Republican Republic of America.

I haven't seen a reliable national map yet of likely outcomes if both sides "do it," but my guess is that there is more scope for partisan gerrymandering in Democratic leaning states, since GOP states are mostly well-gerrymandered already. California is a particularly rich source of potential Democratic seats because they have a commission that redistricts independent of Sacramento. That's gotta go so that seven GOP seats can be eliminated. Too damn bad the GOP will be reduced to a rump even though they have 35% of the vote. That's what the GOP is doing in most other states.

Sigh. I remember the whole Apollo XIII event as it unrolled in real time.

@Daniel. said in Goodbye, mRNA vaccine funding:

Try getting beyond the six major media conglomerates

I can read the professional medical literature. You cannot, and you will substitute "your own research" for an understanding of that professional literature.

You are irrelevant.

@Lisa said in Goodbye, mRNA vaccine funding:

All because we as a country can't seem to grasp 7th grade biology.

Mhmmm. Yep. That's what drives people to accept bullshit from the internet and stupid anecdotes as the equivalent of the best peer-reviewed evidence. Even people here ...

@Steve-Miller said in Visa deposit:

Malawi and Zambia?

Seems odd.

Black people ...

@Mik said in Goodbye, mRNA vaccine funding:

If credible science to that effect exists he'd be wise to share it. Otherwise he's a nut case. I got vaxxed early and regularly. I've had Covid four times, none of which has been worse than a cold or a mild flu.

I have had it twice, and neither case was worse than a cold. I intend to get the next version in the fall, if it hasn't been regulated out of existence.

RFK isn't a nut case. He's an exemplar of a personality type. Super confident in his own views. Driven by his own experiences. And he generalizes from his case and from the tiny biased sample of stuff he has read (mostly bullshit) and what a small set of people have told him. This personality type is now seemingly prized, and dominant, in the Republican party. It's common in many/most authoritarian movements as well.

All too few Republicans remember (or understand) the old adage ...

"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt."

Well, the tapestry I posted is wool.

Not me.

Is the fading driven by any light, or more by direct sunlight? In other words, can you preserve the color of a weaving by putting it on an interior wall that is never in direct sun?

@Mik said in Crazy Man on another rampage:

In his defense they were constantly adjusting the Biden numbers down after announcing.

Maybe you should learn a bit more about how the BLS works.

https://www.bls.gov/opub/btn/volume-2/revisions-to-jobs-numbers.htm

It may mean the end of some stations in rural areas with a small donor base that cannot pick up the slack.

Hospitals, labor & delivery, radio ... soon perhaps postal services and subsidized electricity. What will our rural red areas do ...