I don't think it was even worth half of what he paid for it when he paid for it. Musk is a complete god damned moron. I'd be surprised if the company was even worth $19 billion when he bought it for $44 bn. And there's no way in fuck that it's worth $19 bn now. Absolute dogshit assessment. Not that I'm surprised, mind. It's Musk's assessment, after all.
I could probably take my cat in a fight. There would be significant casualties on my side, to be sure, but I believe I could emerge victorious in the end.
I feel like the word "the" in your first sentence is misleading. He most certainly is AN anti-democracy extremist, but by no means THE anti-democracy extremist. The Republican caucus is lousy with them.
To be fair to Emmer, he did actually vote to certify the election results. So he's not actually a traitor like 3/4 of his colleagues. He's just traitor-adjacent.
It's interesting to note that 4 out of the 5 people that were brought up as candidates for Speaker are traitors. Each of them voted to overturn the election results on January 6th.
The one who didn't, Austin Scott, actually signed his name to a letter to Congressional leadership stating that Congress doesn't have the authority to object to the EC votes absent an investigation by one or more states into the validity of their slate of electors. He also attended Biden's inauguration, and is on record condemning the violence of the Jan 6th protestors. So... there's probably no way the majority of the Republicans will ever vote for him.
That being said, he is incredibly racist. So there's a chance.
Oh shit - thanks! I appreciate that. So how is it that benzene is able to get in there in the first place? Is it just because it's non-polar? Or is it more that it activates certain pharmacophores on cells due to its shape, and is brought inside?
It seems that the main problem is the existence of benzene in the natural gas. It's not an additive; it exists in crude oil and comes through in the final product after cracking and refining. I haven't been able to find anything showing the exact method for which benzene acts as a carcinogen, but there are several studies that show a strong correlation between benzene exposure and leukemia.
Benzene is also in gasoline, so it's also recommended that you don't spend a lot of time huffing gasoline.
TL;DR: quantum mechanics is freaky. In the double-slit experiment, it was shown that un-observed photons behaved like a wave, interfering with itself (top pic), while observed photons acted like particles (bottom pic). The phenomenon is known as wave function collapse.
Ooh - very cool. A. baumanii is a really nasty little fucker. It's the A in ESKAPE, a list comprised of the 6 most virulent and antibiotic resistant pathogens out there. A. baumanii is also sometimes referred to as Iraqibacter because of its prevalence in US military personnel returning from Iraq. It's a soil-borne bacteria that was local to the middle east, but has now been spread around the world by hitchhiking in people. One of the main reasons why it's so difficult to kill is that it is gram negative, which means that it has both an outer and inner membrane, which makes it difficult for existing classes of antibiotics to penetrate into the cell. Some of the other notable gram negative bacteria are E. coli, Y. pestis (the bacteria responsible for the black plague), and C. trachomatis, the bacteria responsible for chlamydia.
This study is pretty significant because, in addition to targeting a nasty little fucker, it's possible that the approach used could be repurposed to target a number of that nasty little fucker's nasty little family, too.
Same! I moved over from lemmy.one, and was re-creating my block lists when I discovered that lemmy.world had already defederated from hexbear. So that saved me like 40 blocklist entries right there! Good job, admins!
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I don't think it was even worth half of what he paid for it when he paid for it. Musk is a complete god damned moron. I'd be surprised if the company was even worth $19 billion when he bought it for $44 bn. And there's no way in fuck that it's worth $19 bn now. Absolute dogshit assessment. Not that I'm surprised, mind. It's Musk's assessment, after all.