Maybe they’re pals with Larry Ellison?
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Nailed it! Good job Petey!
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China has had its pandemic under control since 2020, when Trump was screwing lawyers on a daily basis.
Blinken, however, did not indicate the rate of vaccinations in the US that the Biden administration is eyeing before the country begins sharing COVID-19 vaccines worldwide.
Was he asked?
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It’s because they come to believe their own propaganda. Remember, the claim at the time was that Obama couldn’t string together two coherent sentences without the aid of a teleprompter.
… Same as they’re now claiming about Joe. Huh, funny coincidence, that.
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I wonder if that’s why he even bought it
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Despite the reputational hit to America during the Trump years, our brand as it applies to consumer and healthcare goods still soars above China’s, and deservedly so.
China’s vaccine does not appear to be as efficacious as the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, not to mention there are issues with China’s transparency regarding their data. Given a chance, most countries will prefer the American vaccines, which gives us a huge opportunity to restore our global standing.
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Typical Republican:
Gov. Greg Abbott publicly slammed Facebook. Privately, he’s courting the social media giant to build a second data center in Texas.
As much as Texas is growing population wise, I worry about water holding out more than the power grid.
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Texas is prone to severe periodic droughts. The big increase in population since the last major drought only guarantees that the next one will create major problems. A lot of their water storage is in reservoirs, which are going to dry up faster as the temps increase. I would not buy a house there without investing in a large cistern (10,000+ gallons) as a backup to municipal water supplies.
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Perfect time to flip the script. Instead of “Voter suppression, Covid freedom,” the Biden administration should be talking “Covid suppression, Freedom to vote.” In the first instance, covid needs to be treated like polio. Global eradication efforts got global cases below 800 in 2018. Similarly, what really matters is getting the global number on par with say, Taiwan, which has had 10 covid deaths in total during this pandemic. Indeed, it was always weird that the US did not seek to suppress like China as soon as covid onshored in late January 2020 (and probably earlier).
In the second instance, the GOP emphasis on suppression of poorer, darker and younger people contradicts the “freedom” ethos. As the Young Rascals noted, “All the world over, so easy to see, people everywhere just wanna be free. I can’t understand it, so simple to me, people everywhere just got to be free.” Also a winning message.
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I remember that drought back in 2011 or 2012 when much of the state was on fire.
Not a lot of forest to burn there except along the Eastern border North of Houston and South of Texarkana.
But grass fires can burn a lot of buildings.
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For those not familiar with the case, it’s not that Google merely jacked a bunch of functional code out of what Oracle got when they bought Sun, and called it their own as if they were a young Bill Gates.
97% of the code in Google’s Java-interacting code was original. 3% was the header files that defined classes and methods; those had to remain the same for programs to interact. Oracle had no legit claim over Google’s making code to interact with the formerly open-source Java language; Oracle merely was trying to abuse copyright law to block Google from going around them when licensing negotiations failed. Java was meant to be used freely and interoperatively, then Oracle tried too hard to monetize the customer base that had gotten established everywhere.
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Tyrannical dictatorships have their plus sides in handling things like this. Just like North Korea has likely managed this by simple prison camps and execution as needed to keep it under control.
Which is why similar measures don’t exactly work in western democracies.
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Secretary Pete definitely ought to be wearing a tan suit when does that.
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The description sounds increasingly as if such measures will work very effectively in a [hypothetical] castor_troy regime.
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Methinks all is not well with Trumpers
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We were there for that. We went east for a vacation and to get away from the fires and barely got out. There were fires everywhere and they were popping up faster than the rural fire departments could get to them. All the water oaks (Quercus nigra) in the area we lived in died, that drought had a longterm impact on the flora and fauna and the next ones will undoubtedly be worse.
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