Of course the Argentinian Trump would support the embargo, so he must be full-diaper angry.

I love how she voted against it. This woman is based.

Space Karen always behaved as one would expect, given that he was born into the oligarchy.

On the plus side, Boris wasn’t gifted an Israeli pager.

This is a beautiful story. Thank you for sharing that!

Is this, perchance, the FO phase of having a libertarian capitalist Trump-like leader at the helm?

I hope something can be done to quickly change course and improve the lives of the people.

Yes. That’s terrorism.

He adds:

“This is going right into the supply chain,” he added. “And when you have terror going into the supply chain, it makes people ask the question: ‘What the hell is next?’”

Which makes perfect sense.

It appears the terrorists aren’t thinking ahead concerning their tampering with the supply chain and one might wonder what other dreadful developments might unfold from this.

Further, they’re showing little regard to innocent people being maimed and killed. It’s not surprising, but it’s horrible nonetheless.

Same, I hear you.

You’re awesome - have a great day. Thank you.

If I’m not mistaken, the attackers were using this URL for Reliable Recent News - which appears to be seized indeed:

https://rrn.media

This reference is found on page 50 of the following lawsuit by the United States of America versus “certain domains”:

https://www.justice.gov/d9/2024-09/doppelganger_affidavit_9.4.24.pdf

Interesting how the malign actors are colloquially referred to as “Doppelganger”.

It’s incredible to what lengths this racist and his cohorts went to bring harm unto others. Notably, immigrants who gave up all they had because of great desperation.

Imagine if you will, going from one hell and entering another where people like Thomas Birley placed flaming bins by the hotel exit door. Subsequently adding wood to fuel the fire further.

And if this doesn’t go far enough to demonstrate the trauma he and his fellow racists wrought, the hotel staff’s reaction might lend some insight on that:

The judge Jeremy Richardson KC heard how 22 staff in the hotel barricaded themselves into a panic room using freezers and “thought they were going to burn to death”.

I agree - excellently stated! Have a great day.

There are no words for this, really.

Felon oligarch too, feels like karma. Though not for the others on that boat.

Go, Linux!

Maybe they shouldn’t have funded it.

In a study presented at the 25th international Aids conference in Munich on Tuesday, experts calculated that the minimum price for mass production of a generic version, based on the costs of lenacapavir’s ingredients and manufacturing, and allowing for 30% profit, was $40 a year , assuming 10 million people used it annually. In the long-term, 60 million people would probably need to take the drug preventatively to lower HIV levels significantly, they said.

Accounting for 30% profit seems reasonable to me.

Yet they’re selling it for 1000x the price.

I understand they need to recoup research costs, but…

I have no other words.

In addition to other successes observed in media outlets, I wonder if this helps to further demonstrate the power of unions (despite there not having been such a thing in this case) in a subtle manner:

When people act together, they are likely to get positive results.

A different observation:

Not only are they helping themselves and improving Dell’s culture, but they are also helping the environment and inspiring others. (And preserving needless burning of person hours.)

Way to go!

it instead became notorious for an abortive social-media tirade against the New York Times and going after a Netflix cartoon film for its anti-development themes.

Not that you really needed to see further evidence of not-the-onion conservative idiocy, but anyway.

Have a great Friday and weekend, folks.

This part is notable:

Briefed on the Pentagon’s secret anti-vax campaign by Reuters, some American public health experts also condemned the program, saying it put civilians in jeopardy for potential geopolitical gain. An operation meant to win hearts and minds endangered lives, they said.

“I don’t think it’s defensible,” said Daniel Lucey, an infectious disease specialist at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine. “I’m extremely dismayed, disappointed and disillusioned to hear that the U.S. government would do that,” said Lucey, a former military physician who assisted in the response to the 2001 anthrax attacks.

The effort to stoke fear about Chinese inoculations risked undermining overall public trust in government health initiatives, including U.S.-made vaccines that became available later, Lucey and others said. Although the Chinese vaccines were found to be less effective than the American-led shots by Pfizer and Moderna, all were approved by the World Health Organization. Sinovac did not respond to a Reuters request for comment.

It’s truly indefensible to see this kind of behavior that can kill people for geopolitical gain. And now, when we complain about foreign meddling, we can rightfully be reminded of what our side did to others…

The cruelty aside, I am also amazed by the shortsightedness of such tactics. This was an obviously failed strategy from the start. (And imaging the ignorance of assuming it would not be leaked…)