Omfg fucking retire you fossilized continuing source of inspiration

ALL GAS NO BRAKES WCGW

Seriously though, where can I get a polio vaccine before they revoke the auth? Because this makes me think that polio’s gonna make a comeback in a big way, globally

It’s far more profitable to treat the symptoms of chronic conditions instead of addressing the root causes

(Formerly known as Disease Twitter)

You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like

Literally unplayable

I mean I’m not surprised they’re trying to whitewash his history, but I am a bit shocked at how hilariously blatant it is. And I am simultaneously greatly entertained by how the public is for the most part - and across the political spectrum, to boot - having absolutely fucking none of it.

Ngl, what with the direction HHS, the CDC, and the FDA are going to head over the next few years, I’m struggling to feel anything more than a resigned, fatalistic ennui regarding yet another potential pandemic.

So like… what’s going on with VAG? A lot of the crap going on with their factories right now is starting to look a bit more like a systemic collapse of their manufacturing facilities

Ferrengi and Pakleds, but yeah

Yeah, sorry, didn’t mean to imply that’s all that is going on with Alzheimer’s, but I was under the impression that prion formation/presence in neurological tissue was extremely highly correlated with the condition, though the precise mechanism of their effects aren’t yet well understood. Then again, I haven’t seriously looked into that stuff since my grandfather passed from it a while ago.

Oh wait. NK is getting fighters? I thought it was just missiles and trade goods and so on.

Edit: yeah - tracked down some other articles indicating MiG-29s and Su-27s - many of which are still crates of parts, which NK wants to assemble (and, tbh, probably try to reverse engineer to some degree) themselves

He’s going to be like J Edgar, only without any semblance of actual patriotism, or desire to actually do anything approaching what the intent of the job and the FBI actually is. All of the bad traits, and none of the good. Counter-intelligence will be dropped on the floor, most likely. Political persecution and witch hunts will become de rigueur.

Yeah, knowing how fucky simple protein molecules can get when you flip the chirality (prions, which are essentially the root cause of Alzheimer’s and CJD and a few other neurodegenerative conditions), making whole-ass microbes on that principle without understanding what that could even mean sounds like a WILDLY insane idea.

Tbh I’m really beginning to think that the whole “fuck around, find out” thing needs to just play out in cases like this. I know people will be hurt. But like… if the patient insists on a stupid fucking medication that’s not going to help, and will instead have catastrophic side effects… you know, you do you, I guess. The people who will actually leverage this law are, shall we say, not swimming in the deep end of the gene pool. This is very definitely Darwin Award territory. I’m genuinely having difficulty mustering any sympathy for people who are so thoroughly idiotic.

Also, firewalled

And what do you sacrifice?

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Someone needs to get Bret Stephens a stepladder so he can climb down from being so far up his own asshole

Biden did a lot of deeply frustrating and very wrongheaded things, but Garland for AG, imo, cleanly takes the cake. I genuinely cannot think of a more feckless, functionally useless, and societally harmful nomination that he made.