So with a fascist, authoritarian repressive government in place, democracy and the economy failing and the natives getting ever restless, what did they expect? That folks would restrict their wrath to supporting roving gangs of old ladies blowing raspberries? Or mobs peering at Trump with baleful eyes out of Chuck Schumer reading glasses?
People are fuckin’ furious!
I’m ready to go hunt Nazis, keeping a family tradition. My uncles were the original Inglorious Basterds.
Ah yes…the dystopian novel none of us asked for…
:sigh:
Look, I’m all for pointing out how Trump is fucking up the economy… but gas prices go up every year from January to April. As the weather gets warmer, people go out more, so demand rises. It’ll rise more over the next 2 months, too, just like it does every year.
That’s the important bit: The rising prices are normal, and if it drops significantly, it’ll be because of the economy tanking, not because of economic strength.
Ugh. The shit those animals are gonna have to deal with…
They’re not dire wolves. They are not, in any meaningful way, A. dirus. They’re gray wolves with 14 genes modified in 20 locations. The wolf genome has something like 19,000 genes, which means they’ve changed less than 0.07% of the genome of the gray wolf.
Aenocyon dirus and Canis lupus share 99.5% identical DNA according to Colossal themselves. That means these animals aren’t even 1/5 of the way to being A. dirus. Colossal’s claiming they ‘basically’ have the morphology, therefore they’re the species, but even that’s bullshit. That’s like claiming that putting a fiberglass body shell on your Volkswagen makes it a real Alfa Romeo Spyder.
I get why they did this: It’s a lot faster as a proof of concept to show investors so they can be like ‘yes, this is possible’ when you’re working with canines that take 2 months to gestate instead of pachyderms that need two years. (And by all accounts, including the Humane Society who oversaw their animal husbandry, they are doing everything the right way as far as the surrogate mothers are concerned, including planned c-sections. So no shade on their treatment of animals, either.)
I even get why they made the announcement now: With grant money drying up, a lot of research labs out there are going to be looking for the private investments that Colossal’s been living on.
So, yeah, I get it… but it’s a lie, and I don’t like it. Not one little bit. Talk about it as proof of concept: the technique they’re using for getting stem cells to reprogram from blood instead of needing painful and invasive biopsies is, itself, a huge leap forward, and something every medical lab should be cheering on. It opens the door to much more accessible research lines for things like using your own edited stem cells to grow a bone marrow graft for treating sickle-cell anemia, and hundreds of similar applications.
Just that should be massive. But they wanted to go for the splashy headline, and they deserve every single bit of pushback they’re getting.
Man, the stuff that grinds your gears . . .
we have not seen any of these so-called ‘agreements’ , who signed them and who was party to them.we only know what the TRUMPFERS have put out there…as we all know, they lie…
Fair point, and I just read the front-page piece by Josh on this topic. Why Aren’t We Seeing Any of These ‘Agreements’? - TPM – Talking Points Memo
They do rely on bluff quite often, so yeah, would be fascinating to see them. Based on TSF’s history he’ll probably claim they are some form of NDA.
Knowing how petty, jealous, and vindictive Trump is, he has President Obama’s portrait hanging in a closet. When Trump leaves office in disgrace, his portrait should be burned, with the ashes tossed into a dumpster.
We can only hope his funeral tops that of GG Allin.
“You don’t have to actually investigate the Hunter/Bursima corruption just say you are…”
Instead, it issued a strained, tone-deaf order that left open the possibility that some justices might have been content to abandon Abrego Garcia.
They’ve already abandoned America and the Constitution…individual Americans are meaningless…
