Jman

Dante is the exact kind of guy who would have thought Bikertaker was awesome.

He’s just trading one corp for another. Get me someone who will guarantee access to vaccines in a pandemic so we all don’t die or have to fly to Canada or Europe to get them. That’s the bare fucking minimum I want.

Two things can be true at once - 1. Big Pharma’s control over healthcare by pushing profits over people has been a disaster and led to a guy being shot and the killer declared a folk hero for it. 2. A vaccine skeptic that puts his own profits over human lives belongs nowhere near the agency that coordinates responses when pandemics hit, and one we may need VERY soon if the bird flu and tuberculosis outbreaks worsen, given both are treatable (this isn’t the 1890s anymore) but not if we have some quack telling us we can’t have those tools because it hurts his worm-eaten brain.

I don’t think wanting to avoid triple on…everything is that dramatic a position. Granted, with the Trump party, anything resembling human empathy is a sign of weakness. As for pariahs, we’re a rather tightly knit community here. Message boards are a reflection of an older internet culture.

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/north-america-braces-new-trump-tariffs-saturday-deadline-nears-2025-01-31/ Once again, confusing signals concerning everything opposing Trump’s strongman image prompts a massive sell-off at the stock market. Hedge funds are apparently betting on a market crash.

Metaphor ReFantazio: A 100+ hour RPG about a political crisis in a racist society where the people’s decreased faith in the central government has led to the popularity of an autocrat who is practicing a form of Darwinian meritocracy. I wonder where they got the idea.

https://www.reuters.com/world/trump-set-impose-tariffs-mexico-canada-starting-march-1-sources-say-2025-01-31/ No tarrifs this month, threatened for next month. Presumably the idea is to get concessions, even ones on paper for reducing migrants and fentanyl, then campaign on how he cleaned up Biden’s mess without having to start an economic trade war that would destroy the economy.

I’m looking forward to this edgelord too cool for school deflection to explain $20 eggs, no vaccines for bird flu, and triple the prices on everything the hell else. Now if only Murdoch can drop dead since apparently his more liberal children managed to secure majority control of NewsCorp as soon as he dies. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/nation/probate-commissioner-rejects-rupert-murdochs-attempt-to-change-family-trust-over-fox-news-media-empire-control

Bernie asked RFK Jr. if healthcare was a human right and he said he couldn’t answer. No one in Big Pharma believes it’s a right because rights get in the way of profits.

I don’t want kids to die. I think that’s a bare minimum for anyone in charge of health. He meanwhile, UNDER OATH, promoted vaccine skepticism while admitting his vaccines his own kids. Fuck this rules for thee and not for me horseshit.

No it’s because he killed kids in Guam with his nonsense and that nonsense could lead to mass casualties given we’re dealing with bird flu and tuberculosis breakouts, breakouts we need vaccines to keep under control. Keep up.

Trump Tarrifs are a go on Saturday and you’re about to pay triple for groceries. Because tarrifs are the only thing that make Trump hard anymore outside of wanton cruelty.

So we’re totally getting an instrumental that sounds like a Bebop track for the opening, right? Edit - I mean, that tends to be DeMarco's preference in shows he's had a more direct hand in. I mean, I think I get why, he wants something that doesn't sound distracting due to a Japanese guy singing, or whatever the hell Adi Shankar was thinking -

Specifically September 5, 2000.

Solo Leveling S2 1-2 I can’t hear “arise” without thinking of this -

Andy really oughta write a book about his time at Cartoon Network. Hell, all the early Adult Swim guys and gals ought to. Even DeMarco, just so he can burn every bridge in Georgia.

You know it’s bad when there’s enough GOP senators set to thwart the confirmation. But knowing Trumpenfurher, he’s going to keep trying.

People forget how badly run fascist governments are. Nepotism and feelings are the enemy of logic and results.

At this point it’s less a failing of the block and more the accelerating decline of cable.

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/bird-flu-widespread-massachusetts-state-officials/story?id=118230729 Meanwhile more bird flu cases.

It’s more respectable on a dinner table, but I see where he’s coming from. Today is the one I’ve REALLY been dreading. RFK JR’s hearing. The children he killed in Guam with his anti-vaccine crusade should be reason enough to disqualify him, but he’s got a lot of sycophants ready to kill us all. This might be another reason some people I know are heading to England for career stuff.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/ai-super-bowl-ads-2025-fox-1236119070/ Expect a lot of Ai ads this year.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/alibaba-releases-ai-model-it-claims-surpasses-deepseek-v3-2025-01-29/ China has started an AI arms race internally it seems.