The red sun at dusk really hammers in the end times feel anymore.
Lenin walks around the world
The sun sets like a scar
Between the darkness and the dawn
There rises a red star
We're trapped in the belly of this horrible machine
And the machine is bleeding to deathLibs will keep jumping through hoops to tell you how this is better than communism.
Libs will (usually) acknowledge these things are problems, and many can be brought around to universal public programs as a solution fairly quickly. A lot can be brought around to leftism with a bit more effort.
It's chuds who will generally defend this as Good, Actually, and who will portray any solution that isn't a handout to billionaires as evil communism. This place really loses sight of who's who at times.
I find there are a lot of libs out there who are smug shits who will acknowledge these as problems but then will blow you off if you try to explain to them how these things are a consequence of capitalism and how we need revolutionary changes to fix these things.
Granted I think most people are receptive to socialist ideas but I was just making the point how there are libs out there who won't accept that capitalism is the root cause and assume that communism will lead to the same problems.
Democrats are such fucking ghouls in their ghoulish dem way. Emphasis mine...
Americans’ Medical Debts Are Bigger Than Was Known, Totaling $140 Billion - The New York Times
Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut introduced legislation last year that would require hospitals to publicly report how they collect debt, and cap the interest rates that patients could owe. The law would also require clear communication from hospitals of what debts are owed before they could turn to a collection agency.
"I understand that hospitals have pressures to squeeze every dollar out of their consumers," Mr. Murphy said in a recent interview, "but I think they should refrain from the most aggressive debt collection practices."
Imagine calling people at a hospital "consumers". As opposed to, I don't know, patients? Like they can just choose to put off treatment for their cancer, a broken bone, or a stroke until next week or whenever they feel like it, no big deal. What a fucking goblin.
Nearly all bold faced name dems need to be put into spaceship that's sent right into the center of the sun.
Meanwhile, the headlines in the English version of People's Daily includes:
- World's first 600 km/h high-speed maglev train rolls off assembly line
- Tiaozini: a paradise for migratory birds in E China
- Reaching towards new developmental heights in a modernizing Xinjiang
- China calls on APEC members to work for bright future of prosperity for all in Asia-Pacific
This is exactly why I enjoy reading Chinese news so much these days. It’s always nice to see things from the perspective of a country that is moving forward.
News from China is genuinely some of the only good news I'll see in a day. All of their scientific and engineering advancements are some of the few things that make the future seem not so bleak.
That was my thought too.
I can't quite believe that the NYT has a live page for the US called "Extreme Weather Updates". And for Alzheimer’s drug they didn't create some bizarro euphemistic headline like "Some Question Alzheimer’s Drug Approval" - they unequivocally called it "unproven".
Strange days.
I keep thinking what it would feel like to be a 70 or 80 year old watching the news. Knowing that this is what the world has become. This is the world I have built for the future. This is what I have left for my children and grandchildren. This is what I have let happen.
As probably one of the oldest people on the site I feel nothing but hatred and disgust towards my generational peers.
Comrades, let me die having watched you make as many of these fucks face the wall as possible.
:sankara-salute:
Back in my day.
Fucking snow flakes
On a real note. The majority Old people don't think. They don't even remember the day before. They don't care they are just happy they got to live through the boom time and are getting out before the decline.
Yeah you're right.
I think I'm just projecting my own feelings on to them
Tbh I think the past generation has already done their damage, I don't think getting rid of them now does much good
I agree we have a bunch of sundowning boomers in charge but the problem is they won't be replaced by socialist healthy brained millennials, they'll be replaced by millennial capitalist and I doubt they'll be much better
If they where eliminated you are looking at an insignificant right wing.
I don't think the Q-Anon death cult and trumpkins are mostly boomers at this point
Hey, hey, everyone, look on the bright side. At least doomscrolling doesn't require scrolling anymore!
You know the situation is totally fucked when a guy from a home builders association makes a comment like this...
Drought in Utah Town Halts Growth - The New York Times
"Water will be and should be — as it relates to our arid Southwest — the limiting factor on growth," said Spencer Kamps, the vice president of legislative affairs for the Home Builders Association of Central Arizona. "If you can't secure water supply, obviously development shouldn't happen."
This made me a sigh...
"Why are we building houses if we don't have enough water?" said Wade Woolstenhulme, the mayor, who in addition to raising horses and judging rodeos, has spent the past few weeks defending the building moratorium. "The right thing to do to protect people who are already here is to restrict people coming in." [...] The mayor is dubious of human-caused climate change.
Humans are reactive. We will keep doing the same shit till its far too late
Idk there's a lot of humans that see it coming and wish to do something. Capitalism is reactive, I don't think it's human nature.
History doesn't agree.
Humans will know something is up. But they will continue down that path till it becomes to hard and it collapses.
Humans in mass only react.
You are seeing that everyday. You can't even get people to wear masks to stop the spread of something that will lead to their lives being changed forever be our through economic collapse or their lungs fucked.
There's plenty of countries that are being proactive about coronavirus though, the US is not and shouldn't be your center for what human nature is
Studying history forms my bases for human nature.
Humans react till collapse or their lives are too the point of constant misery. They are not proactive unfortunately
The Alzheimer's drug story is so shocking it's almost funny...
Cons
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It's priced at $56,000 a year.
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It's unproven.
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It can cause brain swelling or brain bleeding.
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Even some former employees at Biogen involved in earlier phases did not agree with the F.D.A.'s approval of the drug.
Pro
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I wonder if bribes were involved. This is shady as fuck...
How an Unproven Alzheimer's Drug Got Approved - The New York Times
The drug [is] an intravenous infusion, marketed as Aduhelm, that the company has since priced at $56,000 a year.
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While some Alzheimer's experts did support the drug's approval given the dearth of treatment choices for patients, many say it was a mistake to approve a medication with such unclear evidence of benefit and that trials showed can cause brain swelling or brain bleeding.
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Even some former employees at Biogen involved in earlier phases of the work on Aduhelm did not agree with the F.D.A.'s approval of the drug.
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[The FDA] said it was greenlighting Aduhelm under a program called "accelerated approval," which allows the authorization of drugs without persuasive proof of benefit if they are for serious diseases with few treatment options and if the drug affects part of the disease's biology (known as a biomarker) in a way that is "reasonably likely to predict clinical benefit."
The reason the agency gave — that the drug reduces a key protein that clumps into plaques in the brains of people with Alzheimer's — is one that the agency official leading the aducanumab review had said in an earlier public meeting would not be used. Many Alzheimer's experts say there is not nearly enough evidence that reducing the protein, amyloid, slows memory and thinking problems.
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While aducanumab was in trials, Dr. Dunn and Samantha Budd Haeberlein, who oversaw the drug's clinical development for Biogen, worked together on several other projects, interactions that some scientists, former F.D.A. officials and former Biogen employees said they thought blurred the expected boundary between a regulator and an official of a company in that regulator's purview.
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Emphasis mine. Jesus fuck...
The Bootleg Fire Is Now Generating Its Own Weather - The New York Times
Mr. Redman said that nearly every day the fire had created tall updrafts of hot air, smoke and moisture called pyrocumulus clouds, some of them reaching up to 30,000 feet. One day, he said, they saw one of these clouds collapse, which can happen in early evening when the updraft stops.
"All that mass has to come back down," he said, which forces air at the surface outward, creating strong, gusty winds in all directions that can spread a fire. "It's not a good thing."
Last Wednesday, though, conditions led to the creation of a larger, taller cloud called a pyrocumulonimbus, which is similar to a thunderhead. It likely reached an altitude of about 45,000 feet, said Neil Lareau, who studies wildfire behavior at the University of Nevada, Reno.
Like a thunderhead, the huge cloud spawned lightning strikes, worrying firefighters because of their potential to start new fires. It may have also brought precipitation.
"Some of these events rain on themselves," said John Bailey, a professor of forestry at Oregon State University.
Rain can be a good thing, by dampening some of the fuels and helping slow the fire. But by cooling the air closer to the surface, rain can also create dangerous downdrafts, Dr. Lareau said.
There have also been reports of fire whirls, small spinning vortexes of air and flames that are common to many wildfires and are often inaccurately described as fire tornadoes. Fire whirls are small, perhaps a few dozen feet in diameter at their largest, and last for a few seconds to a few minutes.
But Dr. Lareau said there were some indications that the Bootleg Fire might have created an actual fire tornado, which can be several thousand feet in diameter, have wind speeds in excess of 65 miles an hour, extend thousands of feet into the air and last much longer. "It looks like it's been producing some pretty significant rotation," he said.
Fire tornadoes occur as a plume of hot air rises within a fire, which draws more air from outside to replace it. Local topography and differences in wind direction, often caused by the fire itself, can impart a spin to this in-rushing air, and stretching of the air column can cause it to rotate faster, like a figure skater pulling her arms in to increase her spin.
8 hours a day, 5 days a week is not working for us
I'd like to know what the author's take is, but I'm not looking up libshit and spending all my time dodging paywalls
I was curious as well and was getting pissed at the idea of them trying to meme the idea that we need to work more.
I found and skimmed it. Fortunately it is actually is talking about how we should reduce working hours, pointing to how Europe is doing so. It also points out that if we work less the work gets spread out among more people which means more jobs.
https://web.archive.org/web/20210720092942/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/20/opinion/covid-return-to-office.html
New york CRIMES more like it.
The record of imperialist logic. Toilet paper. Hamster cage material. Hogwash. Nonsense by nincompoops for dunderheads and idiots.
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