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UnderpantsWeevil @ UnderpantsWeevil @lemmy.world

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3h ago

BBC ‘100% fake news’, says Donald Trump’s press secretary
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UnderpantsWeevil @lemmy.world 3h ago
Incredibly bleak, given how much they've historically invested in demographic, scientific, and economic data analysis.

3h ago

BBC ‘100% fake news’, says Donald Trump’s press secretary

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UnderpantsWeevil @lemmy.world 3h ago

This just begs the question of who "Newsguard" is and why anyone should trust them.

There's dozens of conservative sites that do these ratings for right wing crap and give them high scores, too.

3h ago

Eternal Damnation

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UnderpantsWeevil @lemmy.world 3h ago

"What's hell like?"

"Mostly it's a bunch of sunburned fauns trying to get you to have the best sex of your life."

3h ago

Eternal Damnation

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UnderpantsWeevil @lemmy.world 3h ago

She can sack my Roman Forum any day, if you know what I mean

6h ago

The U.S. Has Now Killed Over 65 People In Strikes Against Alleged Drug Boats

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UnderpantsWeevil @lemmy.world 6h ago

Israeli tier foreign policy

1d ago

The U.S. Has Now Killed Over 65 People In Strikes Against Alleged Drug Boats

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UnderpantsWeevil @lemmy.world 1d ago

the number of deaths that will be directly attributed to the cutting of USAid internationally and the loss of healthcare, jobs and environmental regulations in the US

Hey now, we didn't cut USAID. We just sent $40B to our good friends in Argentina. And now Milei's party has won the midterms, which means he can continue his War On Leftism inside the state and along the borders.

We're also helping to arm and secure Guyana, in a Kuwait-like project to drill into neighboring Venezuelan oil fields. That's not happening for free. Lots of Latin Americans and US government contractors are absolutely getting their palms greased. It's been a bonanza for NATO aligned mercenaries since the Bush Era, thanks to all the money we're spending on freelance military.

We're saving lives, man. All that money is putting food on the tables of any number of cocaine snorting, removed house frequenting, tacti-cool sunglass wearing Afghanistan washouts and their Guasano peers.

Are you just going to ignore that?

1d ago

The U.S. Has Now Killed Over 65 People In Strikes Against Alleged Drug Boats

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UnderpantsWeevil @lemmy.world 1d ago

If they claim they know that these boats have drugs on them, they could just apprehend them when they made port

That would require due process, instead of a spectacle of Shock and Awe.

Also, let's say, hypothetically that these aren't drug boats. Let's say they are boats moving medical supplies or fuel or building materials between Venezuela and Cuba. Let's say they're actually military units working on behalf of the Venezuelan Coast Guard or just fisherman who got caught in an international crossfire.

It's just easier to say "Drug Gang. Killed them." knowing no major American media source is going to publish a rebuttal. Nobody in the US has access to the details of the attack. Nobody is going to interview the families or investigate the wreckage. Nobody is going to contradict this regime when it comes to butchering citizens of the Global South.

So why not call them a drug gang? Call them human traffickers. Call them roving nautical pedophiles. Call them Islamic Jihad.

American audiences won't hear anything different.

1d ago

Congressional Budget Office hacked in ‘security incident’

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UnderpantsWeevil @lemmy.world 1d ago

Pierce Brosnan has been infiltrating American media for over 30 years.

2d ago

Google plans secret AI military outpost on tiny island overrun by crabs (Ars Technica)

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UnderpantsWeevil @lemmy.world 2d ago

Overrun? They were there first.

You're data centers are the ones overrunning it

2d ago

Congressional Budget Office hacked in ‘security incident’

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UnderpantsWeevil @lemmy.world 2d ago

I would guess the unpatched system is some DOGE bullshit. And the hacker is a DOGE employee. And the data is sitting with some Trump goons who think they can use it as leverage against Congressmen negotiating the shutdown agreement.

2d ago

Congressional Budget Office hacked in ‘security incident’

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UnderpantsWeevil @lemmy.world 2d ago

The statement follows a report from The Washington Post that officials suspected a foreign actor was behind the attack, risking insight into lawmakers’ communications with nonpartisan staff.

Threatening to leak sensitive government documents and then blame Chi-ran is a pro gamer move, gotta admit

2d ago

Doesn't meet my priorities

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UnderpantsWeevil @lemmy.world 2d ago

Buying back your stock with your payment package in an ouroburos of financial fuckery

2d ago

Confirmed: ICE Is Arresting American Citizens—and Lying About It

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UnderpantsWeevil @lemmy.world 2d ago

Beginning to question the legitimacy of the entire process. Feels like we're just snatching up poor people and criminalizing them for being the wrong skin tone.

2d ago

My husband is dead!

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UnderpantsWeevil @lemmy.world 2d ago

It's funny how blonde hair and skin-tight pants can cause every Chud in a five mile radius to pop off.

But holy hell, why do conservatives feel this aching desire to engage in endless plastic surgery? You're 36 years old, girl. You were Miss Arizona when you had a normal looking face. Now you've gone through more noses than a clown at an MMA tournament.

You don't have to keep doing this to yourself. You've got tons of money. You're under a six foot thick glass ceiling. There's no upside to continuing this charade. You can just retreat to the country club, marry a Log Cabin Republican, fuck the pool boy, and enjoy your retirement.

2d ago

Yup. Not fun.

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UnderpantsWeevil @lemmy.world 2d ago

What becomes epidemic can often be assumed as normal.

A Cautionary Tale: Sudden Infant Death Syndrome And The “enlarged” Thymus Gland

In the first half of the 19th century, physicians were becoming alarmed by sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). Healthy infants would be put to bed and found dead in the morning. In 1830, pathologists noted that SIDS-affected infants had enlarged thymus glands compared with “normal” autopsy specimens. It seemed logical to conclude that these “enlarged” glands were in some way responsible for the deaths.

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If an enlarged thymus was leading to sudden infant death, removal of the thymus might be of preventive value. Radiology had advanced to the point at which physicians began making the diagnosis of thymic enlargement from x-ray films. After radiographic diagnosis, thymectomy was initially recommended, but the mortality rate was unacceptably high. Thymus irradiation became the treatment of choice.

The first “successful” use of irradiation to shrink the thymus was reported by Friedländer in 1907. Thousands of children eventually received radiation to prevent status thymicolymphaticus. Some physicians advocated prophylactic irradiation for all neonates.

There was only one slight problem. It turned out to be deadly

The cadavers used by anatomists to determine the “normal” thymus size were from the poor, most having died of highly stressful chronic illnesses such as tuberculosis, infectious diarrhea, and malnutrition. What was not appreciated at the time was that chronic stress shrinks the thymus gland. The “normal” thymus glands of the poor were abnormally small. Here is where the fatal mistake occurred: because the autopsied thymus glands of the poor were regarded as normal in size, the SIDS-affected infants were erroneously believed to have thymic enlargement

In a household or community where large numbers of people express the same symptoms, it is very possible for people to assume this condition to be the normal one and good health to be the abnormality. They may even conclude healthy people are in need of treatment to bring them back to "normal" patterns of behavior.

You can see this error repeated historically, from abusive parents assuming "being beaten by my parents toughed me up so I should do the same" to anti-vaxxers who think measles and whooping cough build character.