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Takatakatakatakatak @ bandario @lemmy.dbzer0.com
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  • You are being distracted. Focus. You CAN eat your local representative. One bite at a time.

    People don't need to know what is in the chilli at the cookout.

  • Nah, maybe just that it is fuckall business of government and they should concentrate on real issues instead of poking their nose into what clothes people wear?

  • I for one am fucking sick of hearing about this particular subject. Why is anyone talking about this?

  • Pure libertarians do not support the existence of a body with the kind of authority required to implement that sort of economic bullshittery.

    It's important to remember that the horrid thing that Americans generally know as libertarianism was simply the right wing of their political system co-opting the NAME alone in the mid 20th century. It's not at all representative of actual libertarianism from any stream.

  • Chocolate is less of a poison to dogs than grapes are. Must be some kind of sliding scale.

  • Boot weirdo reporting in. I wear boots pretty much all day every day.

    My current favourite are "Steel Blue" brand, model: Argyle.

    They've been around for years now and each iteration has actually been an improvement.

    These things are so god damn comfortable, which is quite rare in a boot with such protection and a 300C sole.

    Can't recommend them highly enough.

    I bought a ridiculously expensive pair of hiking boots and ended up going back to my steel blues because they just fit me so well.

  • It seems like you've read enough to get halfway there.

    You should go back and read the source documents and go over what ecohealth alliance were actually doing, and where they were doing it. The funding proposals were extremely detailed, right down to carrying out gain of function research to aerosolise the corona viruses harvested from bats.

    It is almost impossible to immunise bats using droplet transmission and this is the source of the global fuckup.

    At some stage during this process, the modified pathogen from very early stages of developing a corona vaccine FOR BATS (the stated goal of the funding request) it somehow got out of one of the labs involved. (Malice or stupidity, we'll never know)

    At that stage it would still be fair to call the original escaped variant a VIRUS because it had not yet reached the development stage of being attenuated sufficiently to be called a vaccine, but it was a long way from a wild type variant.

    This lines up with early sequencing of the virus that is widely documented. Those with any scientific integrity have acknowledged from day 1 that there were portions of the sequence that can not occur without human intervention.

    In short, this was all being done with US funding in labs with woefully inadequate safety protocols.

    So long as we are prepared to accept the risk/reward profile of gain of function research being carried out anywhere in the world, the risk of a similar global pandemic will never go away.

  • I had issues with that lack of HDMI 2.1 support.

    Tried to pair mine with an LG CX OLED and could not for the life of me get it to reliably run at 4K.

    It chooses its own dogshit res and it looks bad even though it scales well. Not about to watch a bad picture on such an expensive display.

  • Pretty sure space Karen is a common nickname for musky boi

  • They're right though. We will be scratched from the earth like fleas from a dog's balls, having only existed a mere blink of time.

    The earth doesn't give a fuck about us. It will heal when we're gone.

  • Is that their new 'fold' on the right in the article thumbnail? I like the chode form factor.

  • Have you considered the possibility that any deep state actors (that may or may not exist) actually crave the type of destabilizing force that Trump represents?

    Counter to the fairlytales, a country divided is a country easily ruled.

    If you can sew enough division, using fear as a weapon is much easier.

    What better pawn to install as President than Donald fucking Trump?

    They knew his debts. They knew the people who had dirt on him. They knew he was incompetent. They knew he was easily controlled. They knew he was for sale.

    This isn't rocket science and I'm pretty sure history will eventually prove me right. He's a weak little piece of shit. A dog that does as he's told by his masters, including the current line to tow in his definitely 100% real legal dramas.

    It's all theatre. Barely better acted than American wrestling.

    Your former president is simultaneously fighting to stay out of prison whilst doing his best to run for president again? Please.

    Vince McMahon would be proud.

  • Really? I disagree. I have this crazy belief that high value, high quality goods do not need advertising. Instead they create their own reputation and word spreads organically.

    Then as profits begin to increase they will cheap out on materials and labour to eek out a few dollars more and destroy themselves because this is the game.

  • Protest is now illegal. You will be brutally bashed by the police and locked up regardless how just the cause.

    They are and have always been the blunt instrument with which the state monopoly on violence is maintained and exercised.

    We are also subject to random roadside tax extortion based on whatever the fiction of the day happens to be. I would actually prefer the open faced honest corruption of simply being asked for a bribe to go on with my day ala India or Thailand. At least we don't need to pretend the interaction is anything other than what it is.

  • We don't have a lack of morality. We're just aware of the role of police in society. They are the oppressors and everyone else is the oppressed.

    If you want to lick the boot on your throat that's your choice. The rest of us just have to celebrate the small victories and hope there are more of them.

  • Our sense of humour is different than yours is all. If we couldn't laugh at ourselves and our mates we would kill ourselves.

  • Constantly having to charge your phone...not really a flex.

  • Starlink won't beat FTTP or FTTN, but it sure as shit beats fixed wireless and sky muster.

    Shit, just not having to deal indirectly with NBNCo every time there's a problem (multiple times per month) has got to be worth $100 per month to me.

    No regrets. FUCK NBNCO sideways, with an axe.