Yeah, let's incentivize a for-profit entity to reject claims. What could POSSIBLY go wrong?
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Yeah, let's incentivize a for-profit entity to reject claims. What could POSSIBLY go wrong?
So, I grew up a Republican. I voted Republican for years. The party moved away from me. The Tea Party is when I finally gave up on them. Am I still a Republican? Times change. People change.
They'll be at least as free and fair as Russian elections ...
Who's surprised? I'm looking around the room and don't see any hands in the air. These fuckers are hell-bent on destroying the health and well-being of working class Americans.
Yep no guarantees it will stay the way it is. It will depend on the finances. Porn and other vices can generate a lot of revenue. It's always a balancing act. Will an increase in porn content drive off more $$$ than it brings in? We'll all know when the scale tips in favor of the vices ...
Bluesky has its seedier side. The difference is, bsky does not force the content into your feed like "some other platforms"
Gotta play to the oil barons that feed his ego (and likely his bank account)
Such stupidity! The impacts of these funding cuts will be felt for generations, if not centuries 🤬
Just what we need... More "opinion" foisted upon us. Why can't we get "The facts. Just the facts" without someone's spin attached to them.
A tangential career is CART captioning. AI makes real-time captioning more accessible, but I imagine it's making it difficult for captioning professionals.
Email is weird!
Make the population sick, but not too sick. They want compliant workers, not intelligent workers with spare time (because they're healthy) to consider how bad off they are. If they're not spending all their time worrying about staying alive, workers may decide to rise up against the overlords.
They don't want anyone who can - with authority - contradict what they're saying. They want to be able to lie to people's faces with impunity. If you control the information people consume, you control the people.
And, don't forget that the plan is he'll have the plane for private use after his term ends (assuming it does) so this is effectively a payment to him personally.
A 300-level course in how to "legally" rape and pillage the environment.
It's not spite. It's a carefully orchestrated campaign to remove any source with the knowledge and will to challenge pronouncements coming from "leadership." That makes it even more frightening.
More gaslighting ...
This is all part of the strategy to keep the workforce just "healthy enough" but not "too healthy." When a population can focus on higher value activities (as opposed to basic survival,) they have time to consider their station and realize that they're being shit upon by their overlords.
So shocking! /sarcasm Another reputable study that will be discounted and ignored.
So short-sighted!
@sea-level no. Mathematics is a byproduct of intelligence. Not all intelligent people are mathematicians. The same for medicine, astronomy, cooking, chemistry, etc. They each take intelligence. Not everyone can heal, use a sextant, be a chef, or understand a chemical reaction.
The closer they come to human-level intelligence, the more they exhibit human-level corruption. Is corruption simply a byproduct of intelligence?
Typical. No surprise at all.
So much hate, just more red meat for the base.
Stupidity ...
A "ground stop" basically means "if a plane is on the ground, don't allow it to take off"
Evacuate? To where?
Is this a typo? Microsoft said that a vulnerability "allows an authorized attacker to perform spoofing over a network." It issued recommendations to stop the attackers from exploiting it. If the attacker is authorized, doesn't that mean they should be able to do it...thus not a vulnerability?
It feels like a lifetime or two
How the Trump admin blurs reality using kayfabe, controls the narrative, and gaslights away from legitimate allegations of fascism:
Not the auto industry. The oil and gas industries.
If he's trying that hard to bury it, there must be some juicy stuff in it 🤣
Ugh. That is all.
Also, I know that a lot of folks from the US in this field will be unable to share this post due to certain restrictions on what they can and cannot share online these days, so it is up to the rest of us to spread the word and help keep GBO going. After the loss of Arecibo, GBO is critical! 🔭📡 🧪
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If it's up to him, it would be the "X Party"
So, now, not only did dipshit not science his objective (whatever that was), but also, Iran now knows that our "bunker buster" bombs won't bust their bunkers.
Trickle-down economics has never worked. It will never work. Feeding the few in the hope that they'll feed the many has proven unsuccessful over and over and over and over again and again. Support the many. They'll drive the economy and feed the few.
Who's surprised? I'm not!
Shocking ... That anyone would believe a word he says, when that word benefits anyone other than himself.
But, it's a wonderful word when your intent is to leave a loophole!
I'm embarrassed to say that I spent several seconds trying to figure out if that blue pen was a microphone 🤣 A lovely portrait!
The shit-show continues apace...
Turbo Pascal on a Zenith Z-100. 768K of RAM and two (yes, two!) 5.25" floppy disk drives. I even did some COBOL on that machine. You had to change floppies for the various compiler passes. Those were the days!
The totally trustworthy, believable "witnesses" receiving special dispensation to testify against KAG-just to "prove" a point.
This wouldn't happen. If they come for you, they're not going to ring the bell and wait for you to open the door. They're going to knock the fucking door down and charge in with overwhelming force.
Pakistan is playing the game. They know dufus loves to be fawned over. It costs them nothing and could pay huge dividends.
#ShowYourStripes day Warming stripes for Washington, DC. Do you notice a trend? showyourstripes.info/s/northameri...
Another example of extreme ineptitude from the current administration.
Here's a prime example of why the current administration's vaccine posture is so dangerous ... www.facebook.com/share/v/1Dob...
Sadly, I think that sentence needs to be modified so that it's in past tense. The current administration has done irreparable harm, not only to NIH, but also to science as a discipline 😕
Reminds me of the low contrast design craze from a few years ago. At first glance it looked cool. After the first 10 seconds, it was impossible to work with.
They owe an apology, but it will never happen. The damage is done. They've gotten the eyeballs they were after.
Yeah, he's an idiot, and he didn't write that. It's his sentiment, but not his words (he doesn't have command of that many words.)
A clear message to other states/organizations: Fall in line or pay the price. Why does that sound so familiar??
Thanks! That's helpful.
What's the most effective treatment? My squash are affected nearly every year.
In a healthy information environment, he would never have been elected the first time.
AI is their vision of what will allow them to rid themselves of all those pesky humans.
I'm happy to hear they're not sugar-coating the message. Although, whatever they said will probably prove to fall short of the eventually reality of harm.
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Such an idiot
I've got an idea! Let's cut funding to the organizations responsible for either doing or funding major scientific research activities! That should REALLY boost the number of innovations! I'm case you can't tell, there is a **tiny** bit of sarcasm here...
Not a surprise, but ugh! Why??
Add your name to the list and share widely! I verified at multiple news outlets (NPR, CNN, AP, AHA.org, etc (
They don't want anyone to be qualified to call bullshit on their stupid ideas.
Watch the tree that's visible just to the left of the right side of the gate ... And then watch again and pay attention to the ground on the other side of the fence on the right.
It took me watching the video a few times to truly appreciate what happened. It looks like there was a 10+ foot slippage-however much it was, that's amazing!
I hope you're right. I fear that the takeover will be silent and the majority of voters won't care enough to revolt.
After he was elected in 2015, I said "if he's reelected, we've seen the end of free and fair elections." I feel that more fervently than ever.
Nothing inappropriate about this. Nothing at all 🙄
I have never understood why another person's sexuality is such a threat. Live your life and let others live theirs. Well, I do understand it's all about control and having an "other" to focus people's hate.
New research reveals that much of the spring runoff in the Western U.S. is not from recent snowmelt but from snow that fell 3–15 years ago. This challenges existing water models and has significant implications for water management. #Hydrology #Groundwater #WaterResources #ClimateScience 🧪⚒️
I've being tagging @bsky.app asking for this for a long time. Some things just aren't heart-worthy.
I guess that's what I get for disparaging the AI overlords.
Shocking. Not in the least 😞
Yep. Illegal as hell, but this administration doesn't care. They're going to push the boundaries until someone stops them. SCOTUS is our last resort. I'm not holding my breath.
There are lots of places where AI usage is acceptable. Victim impact statements is not one of them. This would be HIGHLY prejudicial and doesn't reflect the victims position (sadly, he's dead)
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I love a good judge! “This purpose amounts to no more than unconstitutional retaliation for plaintiff’s First Amendment protected activity,” she added www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
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Shocking! Truly shocking! At least it would have been shocking prior to the King of Corruption taking up residence at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
RISE UP WISCONSIN 💪🏼🇺🇸💙
Made a cocktail for my wife and she put it in the freezer, inadvertently creating a new superorganism please hel—*glurk*
There used to be a First Amendment that protected citizens (and corporations are citizens) from government restrictions on free speech. Like so much else that "used to be" that seems to have flown the coop.
Absolutely!
This is the person leading our nation's health policy organization. We're doomed to hell (or something like that)
Another casualty of this administration's "war on science and decency"
No sympathy here, either. Just lamenting that the ones most responsible always manage to escape unscathed.
As usual, the fall guy(s) suffer the consequences of the true culprit's actions.
More for the haves. More disdain for the have nots.
You can tell some of these folks have never HAD to work a job to feed their family ... "State Sens. Mike Moser of Columbus and Kathleen Kauth of the Millard area said that if workers wanted a higher wage, they needed to work for it."
changes include additions stating there were “discrepancies” in 2020 election results including “sudden halting of ballot-counting in select cities in key battleground states, sudden batch dumps, an unforeseen record number of voters and unprecedented contradiction of ‘bellwether county’ trends.”
The Russians are coming! The Russians are coming! Oh, wait, it's just a Russian satellite/probe returning to Earth.
Short-term gain for a small subset of people. Long-term pain for the planet.
Please watch and, in particular, share this with non-scientists. Researchers are more than aware of the damage that is being done to the NIH, but many in the public simply aren’t aware of its importance. This 60 Minutes piece can help with that. 🧪 #AcademicSky
“We are at a loss for why the legislature is pursuing these changes.” I think it's pretty clear. They want to make it difficult to vote. Especially for black and brown and rural voters. Getting to a polling place doesn't sound difficult-unless you don't have a car, have to work every hour you can
Yep. If you don't monitor/measure/manage it, does it even exist?
Only the best people. Truly, the best 🙄
Lists are typically bad news ...