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Oh no. Drug companies do indeed do some massive research. Just via intermediaries that receive Federal tax dollars.

See, you pay out the ass first for the research. Then you pay out the ass to get the medication because "we have to recoup the cost of research" that you already paid for via tax dollars.

See, why rob the average American blind once when you can rob them blind twice?

Catholic priests: That's what I keep telling the alter boy!

No. Your intestines are not rigid enough to withstand a vacuum strong enough to move liquid rapidly through you. Just look up any story about someone who sat on the drain valve of a pool and had their colon and parts of their large intestines sucked out their anus.

I mean, it could be both.

Nah, much like shit gets tested on mice, tobacco is the goto for testing on plants.

Yeah, there's time we need to test on pigs and whatnot. But mice are usually good enough in multiple domains, cheap to get a lot, and are pretty easy to handle in a lab. So that's the usual selection for testing shit on.

Pretty much same deal with tobacco, checks enough boxes for interesting things to test against, is super cheap, and pretty straightforward for dealing with in a lab.

You do initial testing on dummy cheap shit. Once you work out the bugs on the cheap thing, pretty much you do roughly the same thing on the expensive stuff that you're actually going to sell.

Tobacco is super cheap and editing the seed gene on it is pretty similar to the seed gene in grapes. So you do most of the work on cheap ass tobacco. When you've got tobacco down switching that same process over to grape only requires a few tweaks.

So you've got seedless grapes, but say this one flavor of grapes you really like is seeded. Boom! Now you can make it seedless. We've got seedless oranges, but say you really like the taste of Valencia oranges (which are seeded). Boom! Now you've got seedless Valencias. And you go from there.

SEC. 2010. OPERATION STONEGARDEN.
(a) ESTABLISHMENT .—There is established in the Department a program to be known as ‘Operation Stonegarden’, under which the Secretary, acting through the Administrator, shall make grants to eligible law enforcement agencies, through State administrative agencies, to enhance border security in accordance with this section.

Well that's escalating fast. This would allow local police to "enhance" border security, which is... Ungood. So this is obviously going to die in the Senate.

To be eligible to receive a grant under this section, a law enforcement agency shall
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a State or territory with a maritime border.

Ah shit, we're going to give a ton of money to Florida's State army. Boo!

Man, Division C of this just sucks giant donkey balls. Also, some of it doesn't even make math sense. Use the budget allocation pre-2021 for 900 miles of solid wall? There's not enough dinero amigo! And yes, even with the oh so clever item (3):

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall waive all legal requirements necessary to ensure the expeditious design, testing, construction, installation, deployment, integration, operation, and maintenance of the physical barriers, tactical infrastructure, and technology under this section

Just ignoring all the construction regulations isn't going to save that much money on nine followed by two zeros of miles of solid wall in a lot of the land that Congress is requiring. It's just a non-doable thing, even if we were building the wall out of papier-mâché. Also the whole "oh don't worry about documenting anything during the construction" that seemed to work "oh so well" with the PPP loans. Let's clearly do that again.

Oh also of note is the lack of any guidance on E-Verify. Clearly we cannot be going after "innocent" employers who "forgot" to check if the person was a legal immigrant or not.

All I have to say is that whole thing is a BIG ASK for just kicking the can to October.

SEC . 101. (a) Such amounts as may be necessary, at a rate for operations as provided in the applicable appropriations Acts for fiscal year 2023

Just FYI for anyone who doesn't know. The US fiscal year is from Oct. 1 to Sep. 30. So FY23 ends on September 30th and that's literally the first thing this bill covers. "We're just going with it until the end of FY23."

All I'm going to say is that I'm putting a shiny quarter on this being told to pound sand by the Senate. Just a hunch.

Child molesting and former police. That's like the top two thing prisoners do not like in jail. I think Russell is NOT going to make it to his next birthday.

The US never repairing the infrastructure was just preparing us for this.

Picks up my Portugal after it turns itself, in a puff of smoke, into a small green leaf. Shouts, "Woohoo". Shoves green leaf into pocket. Proceeds to smack an alligator in the head with a butterfly net for two hours.

It WILL set you apart

As being a gullible schmuck who takes advice from opportunist dumb fucks.

Not her first time her bullshit being called out because someone was recording it. She should start assuming that someone has recorded her before she opens her mouth to spew bullshit.

It might run into some troubles along the way though.

John Riccitiello

Dude is fucking cancer in the gaming industry. Completely unwanted and unhealthy for the gaming community but too insidious to fucking stomp out.

Everything this guy touches becomes shit nobody wanted.

but he definitely has an M.D. from Harvard

Yeah, of Internal Medicine. Infectious diseases is a specialty of that domain for the reason that most internists hand off to specialist for specific diseases and mostly deal with generalized management. I don't go to a gastroenterologist for hip replacement. Someone who is into family medicine ain't my first choice for diagnosis and treatment options for something like lymphoma, I'll likely go to a specialist who knows what the hell they're talking about for specifically dealing with the disease and they'll hand off notes to my PCP for generalized management. Ladapo is no different here, Internal Medicine doctors are ones that usually look at a patient and try to figure out who to send them to for specialized care and then handle general management based on the notes from specialist.

Ladapo is indeed a doctor. He's got a domain of mastery. But that domain isn't on infectious diseases, but instead of deferring to those who have devoted their lives to this specific domain of study, he's just spouting off at the mouth about something in his professional career he'd refer patients off to a specialist for.

So, I find it humorous to say the least that when he was an internists that whole being held accountable for running his mouth off about things was next to nothing and routinely handed off for specialty care. But now that he's in a political position where he can be held less accountable for BS he spouts off, he's got no problem indicating that he's got the answers to it all.

It's just funny how once that accountability goes out the window, he's less affable to defer to specialist's wisdom.

The quip about me heading to my optometrist is going a bit extreme indeed, but still, guy has a background in knowing when to hand off to others when he's being held accountable, and now has a background of running his damn mouth when he's no longer being held accountable for the crap he's saying. But that said, guy better hope to hold tight to that political career now. Making a lot noise needlessly isn't a look most hospitals like for their residents.

Wow, let's cover some of the gems there.

After her trial, St Cyr had said in a Facebook livestream that she wasn't sure the case would ever move to sentencing because "the truth" would come out before then.

I'm sure "the truth" is coming right after infrastructure month.

"So just keep watching Tucker, keep spreading the truth, keep talking about the corruption, keep sharing, and we will bring the system doooooowwwwn.”

Tucker Carlson's show was canceled.

At her sentencing hearing Wednesday, St Cyr's attorney, Nicole Owens, said her client was at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, because of a “misguided sense of duty.”

C'mon don't leave us hanging, who was the source of that misguided sense? Also, getting ice cream on your first date with someone only to find out they're lactose intolerant, that's misguided. Attempting to overthrow the government, that's a few levels past misguided. Just saying.

“I’ve been on a spiritual journey,” St Cyr said. Then she launched into a bizarre 45-minute rant — until the judge cut her off with a stern warning to wrap up — on a series of topics, including her beliefs about the air we breathe, her spiritual being, radio frequencies, her difficult upbringing and a woman she watched being arrested on a playground during the Covid pandemic.

Actually I blame the judge on this one. After sitting for weeks listening to this lady's crazy Facebook streams, figuring "what's the worse that could happen if I let this lady speak freely?", you're just opening yourself up for that.

That said, I'm sure the 45-minute jam packed insane stream of consciousness diatribe was something to behold.

She also talked about her actions during the Capitol riot. She didn’t express regret or accept any responsibility for her actions that day, and she indicated that she wasn’t concerned about the prospect of serving jail time

Shocking. Been a pattern of that with folks who attempted to overthrow the government. It's like these small jail sentences aren't deterrent enough.

“I did the right thing,” St Cyr said about her actions on Jan. 6. “I know it sounds delusional.”

Oh sweetheart, it's a bit past just sounding that way.

In a Facebook livestream after her sentencing, St Cyr also said she hadn’t filed taxes since 2019, and she encouraged her followers not to pay their taxes.

I foresee another court case in her future, just a hunch.

Florida Surgeon General who has no formal education in infectious diseases, gives advice about infectious diseases. Seriously, the guy's medical background is "PhD in Health Policy, clinical training in internal medicine, and clinical studies for 'weight loss, smoking cessation, and cardiovascular disease prevention among people with HIV'."

I may as well just go to my optometrist and ask what they think about the vaccine while I'm at it. Good professionals command what they have mastery over and become supportive on that which they are not. Shitty professionals run around acting like they know everything. This guy is very much the latter.

This hits a lot different when you work from home.

When you're against something you should stop financially support it.

Yes. But it should be said, it cannot just stop there. People need to indicate to their various governments that union busting should be prosecuted no matter the billionaire doing the busting or the third party they hired.

I think too often people rely on the “you should vote with your wallet” that they forget, we cannot buy our way out of social ills. Spending our money on the “correct” product and not spending it on the “incorrect” product isn’t a panacea. And worse it can breed superficial support in companies to simply convince you to buy more of their shit. I think we’ve made enough memes about Eddard Stark warning us that with Pride month, the rainbows are coming to social media.

I think that’s the key point. Not going to Starbucks is one thing BUT it cannot stop there, otherwise no Real ™ change is actually going to happen. Lots of people are just tangentially caring about the issue for lots of various reasons. We need to implement change at every level. People should talk to their mayor, their city council, governor, State assembly, and what not.

Starbucks spends money so they can see results quickly, and since us common folks are not wealthy beyond belief, we’ve got to take the long and time expensive route. It cannot just be “just stop spending your money there” that alone is never going to work and breeds even worse results, with ads just pretending they’re buddy buddy with you.

See this? These are the comments I live for. You are technically correct, the best kind of correct.