Sounds like something the opening news segments in a zombie movie would say.
“I want to be unequivocal here. This is not SARS-CoV-2. This is not the start of a Covid pandemic. This is an outbreak that we see on a ship,” she said. Van Kerkhove explained that hantavirus does not spread in the same way as coronaviruses, but rather through “close, intimate contact”.
I would think that would be even more indicative of a bot account, or a throwaway maybe. How many active human users choose an autogenerated username?
Always love to see more Alien content! Rough way for the captain to wake up though.
I’ve also heard anecdotes about companies leasing land for energy production. Windmills have similar restrictions on the landowner. Like no permanent structures within 100m. So, no barns, stables, corrals, etc. can be built for the 100 year term.
I don’t have an issue with green energy, but those agreements are not nearly fair enough to the landowners.
Boooooo
Top tier excuse here
“He has publicly apologized for what he called an innocent visit to town hall, spurred by a bad reaction he had to alcohol and medication that eventually made him vomit. He has told people he took off his pants to clean them,” according to The Journal.
Thanks for posting that link. Truly mind-blowing results and it’s cool to see it visualized.
I know they’re being disingenuous about medical autonomy, but the hypocrisy just infuriates me.
So, no flu vaccine because we care about our soldiers choice, but we’ll still force them to take dozens of other vaccinations, remove wisdom teeth, shave, weekly haircuts, subject them to unknown chemicals, run them ragged and feed them government slop. The flu vaccine is the least of their worries.
This is just more using the military to push their culture war bullshit and make it seem like they’re doing them a favor, when all it does is further weaken the US.
Because we get asked a lot.
The Technological Republic, in brief.
Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation.
We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible.
Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public.
The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software.
The question is not whether A.I. weapons will be built; it is who will build them and for what purpose. Our adversaries will not pause to indulge in theatrical debates about the merits of developing technologies with critical military and national security applications. They will proceed.
National service should be a universal duty. We should, as a society, seriously consider moving away from an all-volunteer force and only fight the next war if everyone shares in the risk and the cost.
If a U.S. Marine asks for a better rifle, we should build it; and the same goes for software. We should as a country be capable of continuing a debate about the appropriateness of military action abroad while remaining unflinching in our commitment to those we have asked to step into harm’s way.
Public servants need not be our priests. Any business that compensated its employees in the way that the federal government compensates public servants would struggle to survive.
We should show far more grace towards those who have subjected themselves to public life. The eradication of any space for forgiveness—a jettisoning of any tolerance for the complexities and contradictions of the human psyche—may leave us with a cast of characters at the helm we will grow to regret.
The psychologization of modern politics is leading us astray. Those who look to the political arena to nourish their soul and sense of self, who rely too heavily on their internal life finding expression in people they may never meet, will be left disappointed.
Our society has grown too eager to hasten, and is often gleeful at, the demise of its enemies. The vanquishing of an opponent is a moment to pause, not rejoice.
The atomic age is ending. One age of deterrence, the atomic age, is ending, and a new era of deterrence built on A.I. is set to begin.
No other country in the history of the world has advanced progressive values more than this one. The United States is far from perfect. But it is easy to forget how much more opportunity exists in this country for those who are not hereditary elites than in any other nation on the planet.
American power has made possible an extraordinarily long peace. Too many have forgotten or perhaps take for granted that nearly a century of some version of peace has prevailed in the world without a great power military conflict. At least three generations — billions of people and their children and now grandchildren — have never known a world war.
The postwar neutering of Germany and Japan must be undone. The defanging of Germany was an overcorrection for which Europe is now paying a heavy price. A similar and highly theatrical commitment to Japanese pacifism will, if maintained, also threaten to shift the balance of power in Asia.
We should applaud those who attempt to build where the market has failed to act. The culture almost snickers at Musk’s interest in grand narrative, as if billionaires ought to simply stay in their lane of enriching themselves . . . . Any curiosity or genuine interest in the value of what he has created is essentially dismissed, or perhaps lurks from beneath a thinly veiled scorn.
Silicon Valley must play a role in addressing violent crime. Many politicians across the United States have essentially shrugged when it comes to violent crime, abandoning any serious efforts to address the problem or take on any risk with their constituencies or donors in coming up with solutions and experiments in what should be a desperate bid to save lives.
The ruthless exposure of the private lives of public figures drives far too much talent away from government service. The public arena—and the shallow and petty assaults against those who dare to do something other than enrich themselves—has become so unforgiving that the republic is left with a significant roster of ineffectual, empty vessels whose ambition one would forgive if there were any genuine belief structure lurking within.
The caution in public life that we unwittingly encourage is corrosive. Those who say nothing wrong often say nothing much at all.
The pervasive intolerance of religious belief in certain circles must be resisted. The elite’s intolerance of religious belief is perhaps one of the most telling signs that its political project constitutes a less open intellectual movement than many within it would claim.
Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures . . . have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful.
We must resist the shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralism. We, in America and more broadly the West, have for the past half century resisted defining national cultures in the name of inclusivity. But inclusion into what?
Excerpts from the #1 New York Times Bestseller The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West, by Alexander C. Karp & Nicholas W. Zamiska
I love this movie! Just goof after goof.
It’s called The Wrong Guy for anyone curious.
That is…not the Boone I remember.
Macron, who landed in South Korea on Thursday after visiting Japan, also expressed frustration at Trump’s statements on the conflict. “You have to be serious. When you want to be serious, you don’t say the opposite every day of what you said the day before. And perhaps you shouldn’t talk every day,” Macron said.
He shouldn’t speak ever again tbh
I forgot about this comic! Used to love reading it in the newspaper back in the day.
Pretty sure that’s a scene from Dr. Strangelove.
This is my go to as well. Add in some music or audiobook and stroll all over town. Come back home and sleep like a baby. It’s a great combo and makes you feel good about getting that exercise in.
And now we’re wondering too
Neither Bartley nor Pique have a good explanation for why the popular petroleum jelly is so liberally spread about the area.
“Maybe lots of people here using Vaseline,” said Pique.
Bartley thinks it’s just “people with a lot of time on their hands to do something stupid.”
“Just wonder what kind of weirdos we got living in the neighbourhood,” he said.
Thanks for posting the full quote. Still, it’s not much better. Even if queer folk only made up 3% of the population, did Pat not consider that straight people would support them? Perhaps even a significant portion of the population?
Just another tech loser who wants to keep the US at war for profit.
He reportedly wants to design an entirely new avionics system from the ground up that will help the company create the “first light jet to focus on artificial-intelligence flight,” which could open the door for defense contracts.
The Terror is my favorite book! I picked it up based on the cover art and texture and it turned out to be a fantastic horror novel. I love how he integrated it with actual historical events. RIP.
Whew, I’m safe. Had me worried for a bit there.
Well, back to sniffing rat turds.