Yeah, the interview I heard with a WHO guy he was emphasizing that this is not so much a "downgrade" as a change in status. The emergency has emerged, not gone away.
Depends how widespread those strains are. It's not the 1980s, so improved detection/prevention could buy us quite some time, during which medicine still gets to progress.
Yeah, I used to cut that slack to "homeopathy" but given what those running under that banner then proceeded to do, I think we can safely say the word has shifted meaning over time to refer exclusively to the bunk.
Except they aren't looking out for their own self interests, they are falling prey to their baser instincts. Those don't work anymore in modern civilized society. They are hurting themselves by squandering the opportunity they were presented to spread their culture and foster a sense of goodwill. Instead of future trade partners, translators, intelligence assets, and neighbors, they get instead resentful, easily radicalizable transients. Bum deal.
It's much more likely that they screwed up than they were nefarious.
What you are suggesting is that the entire ordeal in that wikipedia article was a giant orchestrated charade done at great expense. I generally don't like to throw Occam's razor around carelessly, but I think it pretty clearly applies here.
Every country that recently harmed their populaces by importing tons of immigrants has lost elections and had to reverse direction.
I won't contradict your assertion that voters in many countries are pathetically stupid. You are probably right, there. I'd doubt such a sweeping statement is entirely true, though.
No. Are you denying that there is an international community, and that in that community, shouting the equivalent of "I'm the best you all suck you should pay me more than everyone else and fuck you all I won't help you with your problems but you should help me with mine" does not damage our standing?
No, they didn't. They were provided the documents and fell way short on properly vetting them. This was exposed by other mainstream media outlets, and resulted in a huge internal investigation. It is all very well documented.
Now, if one of these fake news sites was called out for, I dunno, lying that Trump won the popular vote, what do you think they would do... seriously try to improve their processes by finding out what went wrong, or try to sell you some viagra?
Claiming that the fourth estate is "corrupt to the core" and suggesting we believe random people posting click-bait online instead puts you squarely in the "utter lunatic" camp in my book.
I probably print about 30 sheets of paper total a year at work. At home I gave up even having a printer, because I'd forget to exercise it witjh aj ob at least one a month and the ink cartridge would go all screwey for not being used.
I use more sheets of notepaper for scribbling temporary notes than I do sheets of laser printer paper.
Explain to me how nationalism valuing America first is anti American
Because it is counterproductive and leaves the country in a worse place than being a responsible member of the international community does. Also, it is too easily leveraged into white nationalism.
For them to put the interests of foreign nations or even the international community above the interests of the US seems treasonous on its face.
We have many conflicting interests as a nation, many of which are the same interests as the international community (like defeating ISIS.) In order to make progress on some of our national interests, it is necessary to compromise on others.
In other words, you can wish really hard that America exists in a vacuum, but wishing does not make it so.
The cultural connotations of the "cuckold" term allows them to combine derogation of their opponent's masculinity with devil imagery, given the historical association with horns, and can be construed (depending on what brand of lunatic you are) to apply to either immigration/cultural purity or generic ideology if you don't have the stomach for overt racism.
The whole thing is rather ironic considering trumpistas look more and more like rogonosets with each passing day.
I'm more curious of what brought marakesh or islam into a conversation about energy policy.
We pay Mexico several hundred million per year to patrol their side of the border.
Nope. You must have gotten that statistic from fake news. The 200 million figure seems to match the figure for all security/military (non-economic) aid, only a small portion of which is earmarked for their northern border, and which was probably a lot less this year..
Total foreign aid, some of which boosts our own economy in indirect ways, is in the $400-$500 million range.
Even if we take Trump's own underestimation of $8 billion and canceled all foreign aid to Mexico, which would cost us dearly in the economy, it would take 20 years to make up that much money.
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Well, It's the World Health Organization not the Upper Latitudes Health Organization, so....
Yeah, the interview I heard with a WHO guy he was emphasizing that this is not so much a "downgrade" as a change in status. The emergency has emerged, not gone away.
Depends how widespread those strains are. It's not the 1980s, so improved detection/prevention could buy us quite some time, during which medicine still gets to progress.
One of my biggest academic regrets... no organic chem, no serious cellular biology. Such an exciting time in those fields these days.
Heh. Or your mturk balance.
Better yet, can you use your gift card balance?
My money is on no cryptographic side-channel protection.
Yeah, I used to cut that slack to "homeopathy" but given what those running under that banner then proceeded to do, I think we can safely say the word has shifted meaning over time to refer exclusively to the bunk.
He'll bring positive results to all American patients no doubt. There will be so many positive results, the most positive ever. It'll be yuge.
No, honestly, is Richard Spencer a lefty liberal plant? We need to know where you stand on that.
Except they aren't looking out for their own self interests, they are falling prey to their baser instincts. Those don't work anymore in modern civilized society. They are hurting themselves by squandering the opportunity they were presented to spread their culture and foster a sense of goodwill. Instead of future trade partners, translators, intelligence assets, and neighbors, they get instead resentful, easily radicalizable transients. Bum deal.
OK, so what you're saying then is that Richard Spencer is a lefty liberal plant?
No seriously, keep it coming. This is comedy gold. Best self-satire I've seen all day.
Do you even know how Occam's razor works?
Apparently better than you do.
What's more likely
It's much more likely that they screwed up than they were nefarious.
What you are suggesting is that the entire ordeal in that wikipedia article was a giant orchestrated charade done at great expense. I generally don't like to throw Occam's razor around carelessly, but I think it pretty clearly applies here.
Every country that recently harmed their populaces by importing tons of immigrants has lost elections and had to reverse direction.
I won't contradict your assertion that voters in many countries are pathetically stupid. You are probably right, there. I'd doubt such a sweeping statement is entirely true, though.
No. Are you denying that there is an international community, and that in that community, shouting the equivalent of "I'm the best you all suck you should pay me more than everyone else and fuck you all I won't help you with your problems but you should help me with mine" does not damage our standing?
They made them up out of thin air.
No, they didn't. They were provided the documents and fell way short on properly vetting them. This was exposed by other mainstream media outlets, and resulted in a huge internal investigation. It is all very well documented.
Now, if one of these fake news sites was called out for, I dunno, lying that Trump won the popular vote, what do you think they would do... seriously try to improve their processes by finding out what went wrong, or try to sell you some viagra?
Claiming that the fourth estate is "corrupt to the core" and suggesting we believe random people posting click-bait online instead puts you squarely in the "utter lunatic" camp in my book.
I probably print about 30 sheets of paper total a year at work. At home I gave up even having a printer, because I'd forget to exercise it witjh aj ob at least one a month and the ink cartridge would go all screwey for not being used.
I use more sheets of notepaper for scribbling temporary notes than I do sheets of laser printer paper.
eww! They used "eq" for numeric comparisons? Gross.
Explain to me how nationalism valuing America first is anti American
Because it is counterproductive and leaves the country in a worse place than being a responsible member of the international community does. Also, it is too easily leveraged into white nationalism.
For them to put the interests of foreign nations or even the international community above the interests of the US seems treasonous on its face.
We have many conflicting interests as a nation, many of which are the same interests as the international community (like defeating ISIS.) In order to make progress on some of our national interests, it is necessary to compromise on others.
In other words, you can wish really hard that America exists in a vacuum, but wishing does not make it so.
I was going towards 'hairpiece' myself but then again ....
Rogainosets?
The cultural connotations of the "cuckold" term allows them to combine derogation of their opponent's masculinity with devil imagery, given the historical association with horns, and can be construed (depending on what brand of lunatic you are) to apply to either immigration/cultural purity or generic ideology if you don't have the stomach for overt racism.
The whole thing is rather ironic considering trumpistas look more and more like rogonosets with each passing day.
I'm more curious of what brought marakesh or islam into a conversation about energy policy.
We pay Mexico several hundred million per year to patrol their side of the border.
Nope. You must have gotten that statistic from fake news. The 200 million figure seems to match the figure for all security/military (non-economic) aid, only a small portion of which is earmarked for their northern border, and which was probably a lot less this year..
Total foreign aid, some of which boosts our own economy in indirect ways, is in the $400-$500 million range.
Even if we take Trump's own underestimation of $8 billion and canceled all foreign aid to Mexico, which would cost us dearly in the economy, it would take 20 years to make up that much money.
They do not teach the Laffer curve in the Republican school of Voodoo Economics.
Oh yes, they quite definitely do... they just lie about which side of it (or related macroeconomic curves) we are on.