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Posts posted by wildcat09
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1 hour ago, Hank Kingsley said:
Many don't believe he gave a Nazi salute. Even if he did, it was just to troll, and everyone took the bait. Musk has done more meaningful damage to Americans than culture war bullshit.
There's a discipline needed to beat these fuckers and convince the convincible, and we don't have it.
Oh shut the fuck up man.
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3 minutes ago, Brian Fantana said:
The idea that nationalizing SpaceX is some kind of crazy notion is so funny to me. Like, why do you think he basically immediately walked back the Dragon capsule threat? He knows how the game is played.
If he actually seriously tried to follow through with that threat, not only would they instantly invoke the Defense Production Act to nationalize SpaceX and fold it in under NASA, they would also make good on the threat to revoke all of his contracts and subsidies and he would never receive a dime of taxpayer money ever again.
Don't kid yourself, Elon may be extremely powerful but he is not as powerful as the US government and it would launch even him into the sun if he dared to seriously threaten US natsec interests.
Elon has been pretty openly threatening US natsec interests for several years though.
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2 hours ago, Vegas64 said:
From Semafor (below) that confirms that when unofficial negotiations between Biden’s team and Iran collapsed, U.S. officials cited Iran’s refusal to cooperate on UN nuclear inspections. Specifically, Iran resisted addressing uranium traces found at undeclared sites and blocked International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors. This lack of transparency led Western nations to pass a censure resolution against Iran at the IAEA.
So yea, I guess if you turn a blind eye to someone not honoring the deal you can pretend the deal is a great success. It's like your wife cheating on you and pretending like you don't know about it so you can say you have a healthy marriage to others.
By the way, life comes at you fast and progress enables speed. What took a year in Obama's day to enrich the uranimum and make a nuke, they can now do in days and since Trump's election they've gone from enriching 16 lbs of uranium per month to 75 lbs (and apparently for civilian use you only need a fraction of that, so clearly they are building)
Oh my god man. Are you fucking seriously trying to pretend that 2024 and 2018 are the same time?
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12 hours ago, Vegas64 said:
Wut? By all accounts was working? I'm pretty sure on this thread a few pages back everyone agreed it was FUBAR'ed with Iran openly flouting the agreement. This is one of the few bipartisan agreements and issues that both D's and R's seem to agree on the general problem (Iran).
But yes, to your point, nobody in the Trump administration will ever be confused with being diplomatic giants, but luckily enough other countries (and even Arab states) have an interest in keeping Iran in check as well.
Oh yeah? Shouldn't be hard for you to quote some examples of this then, huh?
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1 minute ago, Brisketexan said:
Really? As fast-moving as this shitshow has been? Hell, I'm surprised it took this long. I mean, we're on a path where it's reasonably likely that in a fit of petulant, childish rage, Trump launches a salvo of nukes at....someone....before the year is out.
When shit falls apart, it falls apart at incredible speed.
I originally predicted they'd split in March. They actually beat expectations.
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35 minutes ago, usmc0331horn said:
WHy in this country does there always have to be responsibility and punishment for shit that just happens? These kids are riding the subways and buses alone or with other kids all the time in Germany. If something happened there's no way in hell they'd charge the parents. Shit just happens. I walked home from school every single day when I was 7-13 years old. And I got hit by a car when I was 13 in 7th grade not looking the other way as I crossed the street. Why would it be anyone else's fault but my own lol? Like every single person scolded me and knew it was my fault. When did society change when suddenly everyone else is responsible and they have to be punished if something happens?
I mean, generally speaking if a driver hits and kills a kid the driver is and should probably legally be held responsible. I'll allow for the possibility that it could theoretically happen without the driver having been negligent, but that's not fucking likely.
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TSLA down $50.
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17 minutes ago, Hawndoh said:
The ultimate leopard face eating would be Trump canceling all of Elon's government handouts and deporting him. Then Elon spills on all the shady stuff he has done to get Trump elected.
How's he going to spill anything from CECOT?
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Elon will enjoy CECOT.
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6 hours ago, ChickenSandwich said:
Yes. We need to waste tax payer dollars because an unelected non immigration judge disagrees with a black and white immigration law regarding asylum.
They should run for office if they want to change the law.
The dependents of an asylum seeking terrorist have no legal right to remain in the country.
billable hours.
Either the law protects everybody, or it protects nobody. These are your only options.
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1 hour ago, ChickenSandwich said:
“The family first arrived in the US from Kuwait in August 2022, but were only allowed to stay until February 2023, the Department of Homeland Security said Wednesday.
Soliman, a 45-year-old Egyptian national, filed for asylum a month after arriving, and listed his wife and their five children as dependents in Denver, according to the department.“
Do these not apply?
2. The father has clearly demonstrated that his claim to asylum is invalid and not in the interests of the United States.
3. Under the law, any dependents attached to his claim are decided in lines with the principal applicant.
Why are you so eager to deny them due process?
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Well Democratic candidates for office have literally never had anything to do with DEI policies anywhere.
I'm just going to keep quoting myself from this very fucking thread every single time someone parrots Republican propaganda about how Dems were just too far left/too focused on race or trans or identity or whatever:
Just stop this bullshit. Stop believing it, stop repeating it, stop tolerating it from others. It's literally Republican propaganda and you don't beat propaganda by telling everyone it's correct.
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Just now, The Original Greaser Bob said:
The National Dem party has never remotely attempted to eliminate or de-emphasize race and focus solely on class.
Surely then you have plenty of examples of them talking about race during 2024 campaigns?
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Hillary beat Donald in the popular vote.
Would nominating a white guy improve our chances? Depends on who, specifically, we're talking about, but probably yeah. Is it the only option? No.
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2 hours ago, The Original Greaser Bob said:
My takeaway - Dems need to really focus on color-blind class issues. Progressive taxes, econ issues, etc. Reclaim patriotism. And focus on representing people and not traditional interest groups.
So they need to just keep doing what they literally do in every election. Got it.
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57 minutes ago, Dutchrudder said:
For those of you who don't want to see dozens of Russian planes being exploded by drones, don't click this link: https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/s/LPNNbukWnl
Fucking amazing. Forget making Canada the 51st state, let's add Ukraine.
They deserve better than having to deal with our bullshit.
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Is Brisket Judd Stone?
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1 hour ago, Dnaguy said:
The Ezra Klein episode on this was astounding.The muzzle velocity of corruption is real.
For most people to hear about it, Dems would need to be talking about it constantly for months on end, and the media would need to be covering them talking about it. The Dems don’t understand the need for repetition and the media wants to help Trump so won’t amplify Dem messages even when they hit on a good one.
That doesn’t mean it’s hopeless. It just means Dems have to learn to repeat their attacks and to also bully media members for trying to cover up Trump’s corruption.
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The MAHA Report Cites Studies That Don't Exist
QuoteHealth Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says his “Make America Healthy Again” Commission report harnesses “gold-standard” science, citing more than 500 studies and other sources to back up its claims. Those citations, though, are rife with errors, from broken links to misstated conclusions.
Seven of the cited sources don’t appear to exist at all.
Epidemiologist Katherine Keyes is listed in the MAHA report as the first author of a study on anxiety in adolescents. When NOTUS reached out to her this week, she was surprised to hear of the citation. She does study mental health and substance use, she said. But she didn’t write the paper listed.
“The paper cited is not a real paper that I or my colleagues were involved with,” Keyes told NOTUS via email. “We’ve certainly done research on this topic, but did not publish a paper in JAMA Pediatrics on this topic with that co-author group, or with that title.”
It’s not clear that anyone wrote the study cited in the MAHA report. The citation refers to a study titled, “Changes in mental health and substance abuse among US adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic,” along with a nonfunctional link to the study’s digital object identifier. While the citation claims that the study appeared in the 12th issue of the 176th edition of the journal JAMA Pediatrics, that issue didn’t include a study with that title.
As the Trump administration cuts research funding for federal health agencies and academic institutions and rejects the scientific consensus on issues like vaccines and gender-affirming care, the issues with its much-heralded MAHA report could indicate lessening concern for scientific accuracy at the highest levels of the federal government.
The Department of Health and Human Services did not respond to a request for comment on the report’s citation inconsistencies.
The anxiety study wasn’t the only one the report cites that appears to be mysteriously absent from the scientific literature. A section describing the “corporate capture of media” highlights two studies that it says are “broadly illustrative” of how a rise in direct-to-consumer drug advertisements has led to more prescriptions being written for ADHD medications and antidepressants for kids.
The catch? Neither of those studies is anywhere to be found. Here are the two citations:
Shah, M. B., et al. (2008). Direct-to-consumer advertising and the rise in ADHD medication use among children. Pediatrics, 122(5), e1055- e1060.
Findling, R. L., et al. (2009). Direct-to-consumer advertising of psychotropic medications for youth: A growing concern. Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology, 19(5), 487-492.Those articles don’t appear in the table of contents for the journals listed in their citations. A spokesperson for Virginia Commonwealth University, where psychiatric researcher Robert L. Findling currently teaches, confirmed to NOTUS that he never authored such an article. The author of the first study doesn’t appear to be a real ADHD researcher at all — at least, not one with a Google Scholar profile.
In another section titled, “American Children are on Too Much Medicine – A Recent and Emerging Crisis,” the report claims that 25% to 40% of mild cases of asthma are overprescribed. But searching Google for the exact title of the paper it cites to back up that figure — “Overprescribing of oral corticosteroids for children with asthma” — leads to only one result: the MAHA report.
The corticosteroids study’s supposed first author, pediatric pulmonologist Harold J. Farber, denied writing it or ever working with the other listed authors. He pointed to similar research he’s conducted, but said that even if the MAHA report cited that study correctly, its conclusions are “clearly an overgeneralization” of the findings.
“It is a tremendous leap of faith to generalize from a study in one Medicaid managed care program in Texas using 2011 to 2015 data to national care patterns in 2025,” Farber said in an email.
Spread across the footnotes of the 73-page document, those missing papers are listed alongside dozens of citations with more mundane errors like broken links, missing or incorrect authors and wrong issue numbers.
NOTUS also found serious issues with how the report interpreted some of the existing studies it cites.In one section about mental health medication, which Kennedy has railed against for years, the report cites a review paper it claims shows that therapy alone is as or more effective than psychiatric medicine. But one of that paper’s statisticians told NOTUS that conclusion doesn’t make sense, given their study didn’t even attempt to measure or compare therapy’s effectiveness as a mental health treatment.
“We did not include psychotherapy in our review. We only compared the effectiveness of (new generation) antidepressants against each other, and against placebo,” Joanne McKenzie, a biostatistics professor at an Australian university, said in an email.
Another paper, which the report says shows “antipsychotic prescriptions for children increased by 800% between 1993 and 2009,” actually found an eight-fold increase from 1995 to 2005.
Another medical researcher whose work was cited in a section about how screen time affects children’s sleep told us the MAHA report mischaracterized her study.
“The conclusions in the report are not accurate and the journal reference is incorrect. It was not published in Pediatrics. Also, the study was not done in children, but in college students,” Mariana G. Figueiro emailed NOTUS. She added that she even had more relevant research the authors could have used: “I was not aware of the choice, or else I would have suggested one of the other ones.”
The Trump administration commissioned the report to investigate the root causes of chronic illnesses in the U.S. From exposure to pesticides and microplastics to cell phone radiation and food coloring, the report points to many potential culprits — and claims it offers “a clear, evidence-based foundation for the policy interventions, institutional reforms, and societal shifts needed to reverse course.” The commission is also scheduled to release a “Make Our Children Healthy Again Strategy” report in August.
Kennedy has enthusiastically promoted the report, calling it a “milestone” in a post on X after its release.
“Never in American history has the federal government taken a position on public health like this,” Kennedy wrote.
Shocking. Who could've predicted this?
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Chopper what the fuck are you talking about?
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56 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:
So he’s a weeb, a neckbeard, a sex pest (allegedly), AND, of course:
He was a Scalia clerk too.
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Just now, TexasHooch said:
Um... What?
Was just coming here to post this. Literally all a Texas Dem running for statewide office should do is point to this and yell loudly and often how they're all fucking like this.
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12 minutes ago, Gatorubet said:
Somebody help me out here. Trump yammering about a 50% EU tariff followed by his normal walk back for 90 days always seems to make the stock market happy.
How is it good for business keeping everyone on pins and needles and not making decisions until late summer - when hopefully everyone will figure out what tariffs there are and how they work when many products contain parts from different countries? My decidedly uninformed mind keeps thinking that the longer there is uncertainty and business people can’t make plans, the worse off the economy will be in the long-term.
This seems like it should be feeding a looming recession instead of a cause for stock market joy. Why is another round of no one knows what the fuck is happening a good thing?
Most stock trading these days is just gambling on short-term movement, so the longer-term effects of uncertainty don't really factor in.
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25 minutes ago, Iceman said:
No.
Edited now. Fuck AI. LMAO.
What did you learn?
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LA ICE protest escalation
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Lol, I’m pretty sure I spent an entire evening trying to explain the historical basis of property law to incredulity before and he literally couldn’t understand it.