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TwiceHorn

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  1. If you stop testing, there will be fewer cases!
  2. Let;s not overlook the fact that being a criminal informant pretty strongly implies that Trump knew of and/or was guilty of criminal behavior and failed to do anything about it until it served his interests. Otherwise, he's just a witness. So, someone needs to start pressing pretty hard for the details there.
  3. More of the administration going balls deep on regular folks and calling it something else.
  4. One of the factors there is oil money. I don't think so much money has ever come so fast to people in the right place at the right time, by skill or luck. And the money typically wasn't tied up in stock, either. So, whether from just vast excesses of money, or maybe a sense of embarrassment, Houston oil-rich generously endowed the arts, especially. Also, I think a lot of them were basically rubes and wanted to improve perception of Houston and of themselves. That doesn't really explain Dallas, though. However, Meyerson, Perot, Jonsson, McDermott, etc. did their philanthropy when they had moved up and out, mostly, of their business endeavors, while a lot of Austin's rich and young rich everywhere are somewhat disinclined and badly positioned to do a lot of philanthropy.
  5. I also didn't say your criticisms were invalid either. Is it potentially unnecessary? Sure. Does it hurt? Not much. Does it cost? Some.
  6. Actually, you don't even need such a clause, mitigation of damages mostly builds that in You actively have to disclaim mitigation to get the aggy result.
  7. You laugh, but it's a true statement. It is fundamentally unfair to criticize judgment calls based on after-acquired knowledge.
  8. That prompts the question about what provoked political wailing and gnashing of teeth? Is it Covid recommendations or fear from the rationals that an administration that politicizes every fucking thing is politicizing this? And with a complete crackpot Secretary of Health with zero background in public health. Things that make you go hmm.
  9. Note that I didn't say his criticisms were valid. I said he "can" make valid criticisms, which the vast majority of MAGA cannot.
  10. I know Jonsson was deeply ashamed of the Dallas that killed Kennedy and Goals for Dallas was at least partly a response to that and the belief that moving Dallas forward as a city could mitigate the rural darkness. And, however wrongheaded Hamilton Park may have ultimately been, he was also deeply ashamed of the city's racism.
  11. Yeah, this is all a judgment call. In the legal world, you don't base claims of malpractice, legal or medical, on judgment calls.
  12. Too many posts on football board to be GRU, methinks. Also negged me for calling the Arch hype Trump-level stupid on the football board. Clearly doesn't want any politics outside the CR. 😭
  13. You are one of the few people on this board of educated and informed people that can make valid criticisms of the public health apparatus. The hoi polloi that brought us Trump and RFK absolutely cannot. The public perception of CDC/FDA was not driven by valid criticism from valid sources. It was driven by ignorance. And RFK is not a valid response to any criticism, valid or otherwise.
  14. Hahaha like you aren't 100% political. Your opening post here was defending the appointment of RFK on this bullshit. Fuck you. Im sick to death of your lying asses.
  15. Newsom should take that verbatim or nearly so and substitute Trump and GOP for Democrats.
  16. It was complained about in real time, but no one knew with any certainty who was right and who was wrong. It was a balancing of one harm against another. No one knew for sure whether schools would turn into virus incubators. And people would have absolutely shit themselves if a couple dozen kids got real sick or died. And how, pray tell, were mask recommendations harmful? At worst, they were ineffective and inconvenient. These were all judgment calls made in the heat of battle. One side really didn't like them, but not because of any superior knowledge or judgment. Over time, it may have been shown that there may have been more validity to their complaints than was known. At the time it was nothing but "my freedumb."
  17. Lets take a look at your one kind of objective assertion, that the UK, in 2025, five years after the pandemic commenced, has different vaccine recommendations than the US did five years ago. Our understanding of the virus, the virus itself, and the vaccines have all improved or at least changed in the last five years. There's no clearer example of hindsight bias I can really think of.
  18. Replacement of CDC/FDA personnel was pretty much inevitable with the change of administration. Replacement of CDC/FDA personnel with these assclowns was only inevitable with Trump and MAGA and their throne of lies.
  19. This is all hindsight-biased nonsense. As with everything Trump, it's the wrong answer to the right question.
  20. And the best philanthropists in Dallas have been the quiet ones like Erik Jonsson and Eugene McDermott. That quote from 1964 above was during the early years of Goals For Dallas, Jonsson's plan that was very inclusive for its day and tamped down the worst instincts of the Citizens Council. Hell, his service as mayor itself was an act of philanthropy.
  21. City licensed it to them. SMU is kind of especially getting its ox gouged by the rapper, since they're both selling a lot of apparel, but to two distinct markets that don't necessarily want to be identified together.
  22. Not into pegging, personally, but definitely getting it from Oncor lately.
  23. Big part of that is the icemageddon recoupment fee the PUC let Oncor and Center point insert into your rectum. And mine.
  24. That seems to be a new development associated with the disposable vapes. I am more familiar with the older, sort of DIY vape apparatus.
  25. I dug around, People and other gossip mags have continuously reported for months that Carrie likes playing farmer, but it's more work than she anticipated and has trouble hiring help recently. I don't believe there's any danger of the farm going under, though.
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