I suspect it's because I came to the 80s films far far too late to be able to appreciate them but I very strongly enjoyed Furiosa and considered it both artistically strong and beautifully written. Also I loved Tom Hardy's Mad Max but, again, I suspect this is because I was never a Mad Max fan to start with. So I'd give MMFR an A or even A+.
This analysis strikes me as about right. The retreat outside identarians incubating environments seems pretty widespread to my casual glance. Defund the police, for instance, has transitioned into "no one anywhere advocated that, you're misremembering" for example.
I suspect it'll endure longest in acadamia until the larger acadamie reckoning arrives as the endlessly bloating administrative element runs increasingly up against declining enrollments/revenues.
We should- he is, after all, both a Democratic and a liberal president; easily the most liberal President of our lifetimes. Likewise Conservatives should be held accountable for W Bush and Trump.
Sure, and all these people might be vitamin deficient, or have lupus, or cancer, by this reasoning people shouldn't be just taking Ivermectin but entire wheelbarrows of potentially useful drugs that'll be helpful (if) they have relevant afflictions.
But the core point that Ivermectin doesn't treat covid remains unchanged.
Sure Jay, in D&D terms it's like casting curse poison when you have a disease.
GM: Your cure poison spell is useless in removing the Covid you are afflicted with.
Jay: But cure poison cures the poison status. If I was poisoned and had Covid then cure poison would make me a lot better off and that'd help with Covid!
GM: But you aren't poisoned. You have Covid and your cure poison spell doesn't effect your Covid status.
Jay: But characters in D&D frequently get poisoned. There are a good 15% of monster manual encounters that have venomous attacks or poison related abilities.
GM: All true, but you aren't poisoned right now; you have Covid which is a disease and your cure poison spell doesn't effect Covid.
Yeah the doctors not prescribing a mostly useless regime of drugs for a paycheck and endorsement from a famous right wing celebrity probably are the more trustworthy doctors if y'ask my opinion.
I mean, unless Rogan and Cumo are just riddled with parasites? Have they been hanging out with candidate brainworm?
They'll never shut up, the identarian left of course, but since the identarian left currently has no power to effect change or damage on Israel whether they gibber or not is irrelevant. What is relevant is to eliminate the one thing that makes the anti-istrali's strength grow- the occupation. We've watched the identarians strength swell slowly over time, pause and reverse for a decade or so when Sharon pulled out of Gaza and then resume. The writing on the wall is pretty clear. The only question is what the Israeli's will do about it.
I'm not surprised I missed it since podcasts and streams are completely outside my orbit/interest/media consumption habit. Sounds like it's just being consumed because it is countercultural, fashionable on the right and harmless.
Oh there's a little kick left in the can. Another ten years, plausibly, 20? I have doubts and the longer it goes the worse it gets. And there's no way Israel gets normalization with the Saudi's without sorting something out about Gaza and the West Bank. Not after all this. The Saudis ruling class probably doesn't give a fig about the Palestinians but they do give a lot of figs about public opinion and their masses aren't going to put up with the previous deal on offer after all this.
It's an astonishing thing to me to watch as Bibi is, presumably inadvertently, letting the Palestinian Authority look like the reasonable actor in the region. Though it may be that the PA has been comparably quiet and orderly simply because their leadership is so old and corrupt but at this point old, crooked and peaceable beats the pants off Bibi's old, corrupt deranged and belligerent.
For covid? In 2024? I mean they're kooky and have the right audiences to do so but it seems crazy considering there are actual efficacious treatments around now.
I did not call ivermectin blanket useless; I called it useless for covid treatment and, so far, haven't seen or read anything to suggest it is in any way efficacious when dealing with Covid. That makes it basically a sugar pill or a placebo. That's harmless in of itself, sure, but if it displaces actual efficacious treatment- which is has in many instances, that is very harmful. It would be the same thing as using ivermectin to treat HIV: ivermectin isn't going to hurt you, but it's not going to encumber the HIV and the HIV, unencumbered, will kill you. Pushing it and promoting its use as a treatment in an area where it's been shown to be ineffective is foolish.
As for Rogan and Cumo, not to be mean, but their getting into ivermectin seems very on brand for them.
I'm generally sympathetic to the founding of Israel, Lee, but one can't pretend that certain mistakes were made- especially once the Israelis started acquiring more and more land that they wanted with people that they didn't want on it.
And, more to the point, it's a fait accompli. Israel will never up and vanish into the ether anyone who pretends otherwise is silly. But the Palestinians, likewise, aren't going to vanish and the Israeli's have the agency in that matter currently. They're going to have to decide what to do about it. The decades of can kicking, I fear, are coming to an end.
The partition of Pakistan and India was done internally by the Muslims and Hindu of India and it was a simple binary- two states were made and you lived in one of them.
The transfers in Europe, similarly were of groups of people from one state to another state with powerful forces pushing it and everyone in the shadow of WWII basically looking the other way.
Israel was a brand new state (in modern state terms) and the Israeli's had a whole bunch of people on their hands that they didn't want on land that they did want. Israel was also, early on, not in a position diplomatically or militarily to force her neighbors to take those people or to force them off the land without diplomatic consequences the Israeli's couldn't abide.
In the 1700's or 1800's the answer would have been butchery, slaughter and/or expulsion. That wasn't going to fly in the mid 1900's when colonialism was in its death throes. And then it got worse in the 60's and 80's when Israel got control of a bunch more land that they wanted with a bunch more people they very much didn't.
That is, with much greater detail on the particulars, in line with my own memory of that even and a lot more empathy into Trumps state of mind than I'd want to hazard.
That is wishcast a drug that wasn't yet proven to work doesn't because he was desperate to find a magic bullet against Covid doesn't strike me as at all sympathetic and that he didn't walk it back when it proved to be harmful instead of helpful and let it rampage off into the rights broad alt-medicine scene strikes me as down right malevolent.
You'll have to lump Marchmaine in with your gullible or cynical story Pinky. Even if we accept your extremely generous reading of Trumps bleach escapades you, surely, have to admit that having the President on national television desperately speculating about bleaching lungs is... sub optimal? That's without getting into your feeble dismissal of the horse deworming mess. And that's just two example. I understand you're desperate to oppose liberals but to go to the mat for Trump? Why on earth bother? He's not even remotely conservative.
What is the most curious wrinkle, Jay, is that in a lot of those surveys the surveyors ask "How are your personal finances doing?" and the respondents say 'Great!" while also saying that the overall economy sucks.
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I have watched it. Tina is something else! I just don't think, I fear, that I have the right mindset for camp.
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I suspect it's because I came to the 80s films far far too late to be able to appreciate them but I very strongly enjoyed Furiosa and considered it both artistically strong and beautifully written. Also I loved Tom Hardy's Mad Max but, again, I suspect this is because I was never a Mad Max fan to start with. So I'd give MMFR an A or even A+.
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This analysis strikes me as about right. The retreat outside identarians incubating environments seems pretty widespread to my casual glance. Defund the police, for instance, has transitioned into "no one anywhere advocated that, you're misremembering" for example.
I suspect it'll endure longest in acadamia until the larger acadamie reckoning arrives as the endlessly bloating administrative element runs increasingly up against declining enrollments/revenues.
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We should- he is, after all, both a Democratic and a liberal president; easily the most liberal President of our lifetimes. Likewise Conservatives should be held accountable for W Bush and Trump.
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Heheheh yeah gotta love libertarians.
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Gotta love libertarians, and I mean that genuinely. Do you remember the year all the libertarians on the stage couldn't keep their shirts on?
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I am so sorry Michael, thank you for the reminder to treasure the present.
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Considering their poses and your identity that is not at all surprising.
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Sure, and all these people might be vitamin deficient, or have lupus, or cancer, by this reasoning people shouldn't be just taking Ivermectin but entire wheelbarrows of potentially useful drugs that'll be helpful (if) they have relevant afflictions.
But the core point that Ivermectin doesn't treat covid remains unchanged.
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Sure Jay, in D&D terms it's like casting curse poison when you have a disease.
GM: Your cure poison spell is useless in removing the Covid you are afflicted with.
Jay: But cure poison cures the poison status. If I was poisoned and had Covid then cure poison would make me a lot better off and that'd help with Covid!
GM: But you aren't poisoned. You have Covid and your cure poison spell doesn't effect your Covid status.
Jay: But characters in D&D frequently get poisoned. There are a good 15% of monster manual encounters that have venomous attacks or poison related abilities.
GM: All true, but you aren't poisoned right now; you have Covid which is a disease and your cure poison spell doesn't effect Covid.
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Yeah the doctors not prescribing a mostly useless regime of drugs for a paycheck and endorsement from a famous right wing celebrity probably are the more trustworthy doctors if y'ask my opinion.
I mean, unless Rogan and Cumo are just riddled with parasites? Have they been hanging out with candidate brainworm?
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They'll never shut up, the identarian left of course, but since the identarian left currently has no power to effect change or damage on Israel whether they gibber or not is irrelevant. What is relevant is to eliminate the one thing that makes the anti-istrali's strength grow- the occupation. We've watched the identarians strength swell slowly over time, pause and reverse for a decade or so when Sharon pulled out of Gaza and then resume. The writing on the wall is pretty clear. The only question is what the Israeli's will do about it.
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I have no doubt at all that he did. There are lot of doctors out there.
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I'm not surprised I missed it since podcasts and streams are completely outside my orbit/interest/media consumption habit. Sounds like it's just being consumed because it is countercultural, fashionable on the right and harmless.
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Oh there's a little kick left in the can. Another ten years, plausibly, 20? I have doubts and the longer it goes the worse it gets. And there's no way Israel gets normalization with the Saudi's without sorting something out about Gaza and the West Bank. Not after all this. The Saudis ruling class probably doesn't give a fig about the Palestinians but they do give a lot of figs about public opinion and their masses aren't going to put up with the previous deal on offer after all this.
It's an astonishing thing to me to watch as Bibi is, presumably inadvertently, letting the Palestinian Authority look like the reasonable actor in the region. Though it may be that the PA has been comparably quiet and orderly simply because their leadership is so old and corrupt but at this point old, crooked and peaceable beats the pants off Bibi's old, corrupt deranged and belligerent.
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For covid? In 2024? I mean they're kooky and have the right audiences to do so but it seems crazy considering there are actual efficacious treatments around now.
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I did not call ivermectin blanket useless; I called it useless for covid treatment and, so far, haven't seen or read anything to suggest it is in any way efficacious when dealing with Covid. That makes it basically a sugar pill or a placebo. That's harmless in of itself, sure, but if it displaces actual efficacious treatment- which is has in many instances, that is very harmful. It would be the same thing as using ivermectin to treat HIV: ivermectin isn't going to hurt you, but it's not going to encumber the HIV and the HIV, unencumbered, will kill you. Pushing it and promoting its use as a treatment in an area where it's been shown to be ineffective is foolish.
As for Rogan and Cumo, not to be mean, but their getting into ivermectin seems very on brand for them.
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I'm generally sympathetic to the founding of Israel, Lee, but one can't pretend that certain mistakes were made- especially once the Israelis started acquiring more and more land that they wanted with people that they didn't want on it.
And, more to the point, it's a fait accompli. Israel will never up and vanish into the ether anyone who pretends otherwise is silly. But the Palestinians, likewise, aren't going to vanish and the Israeli's have the agency in that matter currently. They're going to have to decide what to do about it. The decades of can kicking, I fear, are coming to an end.
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The partition of Pakistan and India was done internally by the Muslims and Hindu of India and it was a simple binary- two states were made and you lived in one of them.
The transfers in Europe, similarly were of groups of people from one state to another state with powerful forces pushing it and everyone in the shadow of WWII basically looking the other way.
Israel was a brand new state (in modern state terms) and the Israeli's had a whole bunch of people on their hands that they didn't want on land that they did want. Israel was also, early on, not in a position diplomatically or militarily to force her neighbors to take those people or to force them off the land without diplomatic consequences the Israeli's couldn't abide.
In the 1700's or 1800's the answer would have been butchery, slaughter and/or expulsion. That wasn't going to fly in the mid 1900's when colonialism was in its death throes. And then it got worse in the 60's and 80's when Israel got control of a bunch more land that they wanted with a bunch more people they very much didn't.
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Except it's not truth- it's just your own charitable spin.
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That is, with much greater detail on the particulars, in line with my own memory of that even and a lot more empathy into Trumps state of mind than I'd want to hazard.
That is wishcast a drug that wasn't yet proven to work doesn't because he was desperate to find a magic bullet against Covid doesn't strike me as at all sympathetic and that he didn't walk it back when it proved to be harmful instead of helpful and let it rampage off into the rights broad alt-medicine scene strikes me as down right malevolent.
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You'll have to lump Marchmaine in with your gullible or cynical story Pinky. Even if we accept your extremely generous reading of Trumps bleach escapades you, surely, have to admit that having the President on national television desperately speculating about bleaching lungs is... sub optimal? That's without getting into your feeble dismissal of the horse deworming mess. And that's just two example. I understand you're desperate to oppose liberals but to go to the mat for Trump? Why on earth bother? He's not even remotely conservative.
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It'd have been very easy to not rise to the occasion and we hear about it all the time.
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Someone in PR at the Bluejays was on top of their game.
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What is the most curious wrinkle, Jay, is that in a lot of those surveys the surveyors ask "How are your personal finances doing?" and the respondents say 'Great!" while also saying that the overall economy sucks.