The standard pandemic-preparedness playbook “has failed catastrophically,” NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya and NIH Principal Deputy Director Matthew J. Memoli wrote in City Journal

I’ll offer this in response, which the author failed to note:

Public health and national security experts shake their heads when President Donald Trump says the coronavirus “came out of nowhere” and “blindsided the world.” They’ve been warning about the next pandemic for years and criticized the Trump administration’s decision in 2018 to dismantle a National Security Council directorate at the White House charged with preparing for when, not if, another pandemic would hit the nation.

Baking isn’t as restrictive as most people think it is, you can do quite a bit. However, it’s a lot shorter path to failure and creating an inedible gummy mess vs maybe oversalting a steak a little.

That group of men who were probably gay yet had turbulent relations with women.

Roy Cohn had several girlfriends and apparently thought about proposing to Barbara Walters. Everything points to him being gay. He was a bullying, brilliant sociopath. Helped out significantly with McCarthyism.

Trump. Just seems to use women, talks trashy about them, but can’t seem to have a decent relationship with a single one. Narcissistic sociopath, definitely not brilliant. Anti-socialist at least.

Possibly John Wayne. Beat the crap out of women, with several relationships and wives. Loved hanging out with men (John Ford and his buddies) Rabid anti-communist, also supporting McCarthy’s Red Scare.

Wonder how many other men were internally and externally destructive thanks to being forced into society’s mold in conflict with who they really were.

Ba dum-tss

“I’m gonna take you all down with me!”

Then I’ll ask for a sweet socialist bailout while the rest of you enjoy rugged capitalism.

Why is our government so dedicated to protecting elite their criminals and their treatment.

The question is the answer.

10 print “Hello, world!”

20 goto 10

Those are the exception. It still is essentially uncontrollable. This is pretty much killing the patient to cure the problem. I don’t know what mental or physical state the survivors are in.

They can‘t make sure it doesn’t kill you or control it. Rabies is essentially fatal. However it would certainly take your memories in death.

Depends on the task and time. Having to get up super early to get somewhere? No problem. Slept in? My brain might take a while to spin up.

Some have no holes. Seems pretty inconvenient to use as a loom that way. Some were too small for knitting.

I’m partial to “Vagina Eggs” myself.

Two things happen when we centralize. Doesn’t matter if it’s big business or infrastructure.

1. Profits go up for the controlling few

2. consumers get fucked.

We get fucked when things go wrong, the system fails, our data gets hacked, our power goes out, our rents go up, insurance rates go up… etc etc. MegaCorps all say sorry, give us 50¢ off our next purchase and a free credit check, and carry on while we eat the losses and increasing costs.

Corporate metrics applied to ruining lives.

What’s next? Hauling in convicts for mock sea battles in the new trump ballroom with tasers and swords?

Healthshit. Gotta be a better term, an updated version of snake oil.

I couldn’t care less about LLM access, but apparently a lot of people need the crutch. OTOH I couldn’t access Lemmy. That was a crime.

1984, and a bunch of fascist dystopian writing.

7. Still have a few plates.

Rolling troll.