Robert Howard 🌻
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Robert Howard 🌻
@rlh
Currently not Royal London Hospital nor Rebecca Hare.
Here เข้าร่วม Mart 2008
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@Qunitii @RealCynicalFox I’m not so cynical that I think Biden admin wants to actively prolong. It’s merely they have no political will to confront Russia but are fearful of politics if it’s perceived they didn’t “help” Ukraine. Thus reactionary assistance.
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@RealCynicalFox At this point its quite obvious that Biden Admin. wants to prolong the conflict not resolve it. To me, it looks like that US wants to bleed Russia out, prolonging Ukr. conflict instead of finding solution to end it. (using military and/or diplomatic means)
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While this headline comes from more of the usual, and often denigrated by me, unfounded speculation by anonymous officials - I'm still going to use it to make a point about introducing western systems to the UAF.
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politico.com/news/2023/01/0…
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@NoahCRothman The GOP used to be The Stupid Party. But now they’ve expanded their scope to The Stupid and Lame Party. #bigtent
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By the time McCarthy is done, the speakership will be reduced to gaveling in joint sessions.
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Robert Howard 🌻 รีทวีตแล้ว
For decades German intellectuals lectured the world about "moral duty", "historic responsibility", "Never Again",... and in 2022, when "moral duty", "historic responsibility", "Never Again", were acutely needed they were like: "Nope, we're super cool with russia doing genocide."
Thomas C. Theiner@noclador
The most surprising thing for me in 2022 was that Italian fascists are more ethical, honest, clear eyed, realistic, and empathic than German intellectuals.
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@politicalmath Everyone just stop! Stop testing everyone with a sniffle. Stop reporting sewage virus levels (a lagging indicator at that). Stop egging on the hand wringing.
Over Christmas our family had 2 COVIDs, 1 (verified) flu, and 2 ILIs. Winter has always been this way. It always will.
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@KelleyKga They rounded UP by 25%?! Because they couldn’t afford a decimal point? That’s adding 48 deaths to the study population.
That alone smacks of author and reviewer bias.
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A couple of corrections: This is the *Case* Fatality Rate of Covid for study participants (0.032%), not the IFR because all participants had "confirmed COVID-19." It's also among people 50+ *OR* 18+ at high-risk (not both). And 93% had 3 or more doses of vaccine.
Jeremy Faust MD MS (ER physician)@jeremyfaust
The news is absolutely excellent. Among participants—people over age 50 with medical conditions placing them in the high-risk category and who had confirmed SARS-CoV-2—only 8 deaths occurred among 25,054 patients. That’s an infection fatality rate of 0.032%, or 1 in 3,132 cases.
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Robert Howard 🌻 รีทวีตแล้ว
I’ve mentioned it before, @HBO did an absolutely chilling movie on the Wansee Conference entitled “Conspiracy” & released in 2001, where senior Nazi figures discussed practical implementation of this.
No film better encapsulates the phrase “banality of evil.”
Military History Now@MilHistNow
On this day in 1941, Hitler directs his top officials to draw up plans for the extermination of all Jews in Europe. Joseph Goebbels, who is present for the meeting, records the details in his diary: "The Führer has decided to make a clean sweep."
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Robert Howard 🌻 รีทวีตแล้ว
“Our future is not with great medical care but rather with saving lives”
“Our future is not with great schools and teachers but rather with students.”
It is exhausting, the purposeful false binaries created that misdiagnose and mis-remedy on the daily
Josh Hammer@josh_hammer
“Republicans: Our Future Is Not With Free Markets. It's With the Working Class.” @Chris_Griz’s latest for @NewsweekOpinion. newsweek.com/republicans-ou…
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@politicalmath With possible exception of Montana the dark green states are places I would never live. Perhaps I hold the key to figuring out long Covid.
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@NoahCRothman Progressive to reality translator”
“Complicated” -> “dead wrong”
“Science is settled” -> “complicated”
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"Some researchers have claimed the best thing to do for the environment is to have fewer children. The truth is more complicated." washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…
It's not at all complicated, in fact. The truth is that's dead wrong, no matter the perspective you apply to it.
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@RealCynicalFox @sentdefender Or any of the Admirals in the chain of command. Or Congress. In 10 years we will be the German military.
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@sentdefender That’s embarrassing. How any ships captain could stand the shame of their command looking like this is beyond me.
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Wow and I thought the Navy’s Ship Upkeep was bad this is just embarrassing, I wouldn’t want to be in anyway associated with an Organization or Command that clearly doesn’t care about the Public Appearance of their Ships.
WarshipCam@WarshipCam
USCGC Bertholf (WMSL 750) Legend-class Maritime Security Cutter leaving San Diego - December 1, 2022 #uscgcbertholf #wmsl750 SRC: webcam
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The entire reason SBF said he donated untraceable dark money to Republicans is b/c he knows that saying this will make Republican's want to go easier on him
How do people fall for this? Are we all idiots?
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Austen Allred@Austen
I admit I'm a little bit shocked at how many people are totally fine letting someone "aw shucks, my bad" their way through stealing $8 Billion of their customers' money
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I am begging... BEGGING... people to actually investigate SBF's claims before reporting them with a straight face as unvarnished truth
PoIiMath@politicalmath
@jimgeraghty Is this a thing he actually did? Like... do we have any evidence that this thing happened? Or is merely another claim from the man who said "I tell people lies that they want to believe because they are gullible and will instantly believe and report my lies as truth"
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@politicalmath This kind of chart has been around for a while. You can tell any story you want if you define the 0.0 line.
As near as I can tell that line is always “how the median Democrat votes”.
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The left has moved only slightly to the left, but the left when I was a kid consisted of "we should not fire professors for having bad opinions" and the left now is "we must fire anyone for having any opinion that is not officially approved by our political masters"
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It is true that the GOP has moved very much to the right but, to be fair, the "far right" now includes insane things like "people should be allowed to make their own medical decisions" and "we should not sterilize children and amputate their sexual organs"
Conrad Hackett@conradhackett
US: Pew Research Center analysis finds that Democrats and Republicans in Congress are now farther apart ideologically than at any time in the past 50 years. Republicans have moved further to the right than Democrats have to the left. pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022…
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@politicalmath This is right up there with the “if you claim to be pro-life you should also be willing to force fathers to pay child support during pregnancy”.
And every pro-life person says “amen!”
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@charlescwcooke Congress should tack it onto the debt ceiling vote. If Biden vetoes it the irony is rich, he creates a new emergency trying to preserve the old one.
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@KelleyKga But if we all submit LOTS of results the “cost per test reported” will reasonable!
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I'm sure the answer to this is horrifying... twitter.com/TheNickFoy/sta…
Nick Foy@TheNickFoy
@bhrenton How much did the taxpayers pay for this?
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How many days do we think before someone realizes all the submissions are fake and takes the site down?
Benjy Renton@bhrenton
Today the NIH announced the launch of makemytestcount.org, the first national website for Americans to self-report at-home COVID-19 test results. These data will be shared with local public health systems and researchers.
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@politicalmath With the influx of new people I sure hope Mastadon has readied their own Fail Whale graphic.
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The running down of the upper chamber of Congress is getting gratuitous.
Rick Klein@rickklein
“The Senate’s the B team, compared with being governor,” @GovChrisSununu says. Over to you, @JohnSununu #thisweek
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@politicalmath Is this graph raw numbers or per capita within each age group?
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Anna Edney@annaedney
Covid hospitalizations are rising among babies under 6 months, @CDCDirector told @rileyraygriffin in an exclusive interview. They've "faced the second-highest rate of hospitalization across all age groups, trailing only behind those ages 65 and up." bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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@RealCynicalFox If they capture the dam could they just open all the sluice gates? Not as dramatic but more sustained. It might still make ferry and pontoon crossings impossible.
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Frankly the Ukrainians should consider this options themselves if they need to trap the Russians on the West Bank of the river.
The Kyiv Independent@KyivIndependent
⚡️ Zelensky: If Russia blows up Kakhovka dam, it will be war declaration to whole world.
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