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- Comment on For the little guys. 5 days ago:
This is why releasing sterilized individuals into wild populations seems so promising, it’s species-specific
- Comment on For the little guys. 5 days ago:
This isn’t really true though, especially since the mosquitoes in question aren’t even native to the Americas, and whole ecosystems evolved without them. I have also read multiple things about how mosquitoes don’t actually make up much of the diet of these animals anyway, because they are tiny and provide almost no nutrients, these animals prefer most other insects before eating a mosquito
- Comment on For the little guys. 5 days ago:
Also not true, the Great Oxidation Event likely knocked out 80% of the species on earth in the paleoproterozoic due to cyanobacteria respiration
- Comment on >:)> 5 days ago:
I’m going to guess as an island species, it had no natural predators, and therefore the evolutionary pressure for it to have a wide field of view did not exist
- Comment on A real American 6 days ago:
- Comment on Kill em all 1 week ago:
M’lodorous
- Comment on Rare insults dropped 2 weeks ago:
Legal Eagle is such a good YouTube channel
- Comment on Trump to sign executive order he says will slash drug prices by up to 80% 2 weeks ago:
Biden had CMS (The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services) negotiate some drug prices with pharmaceutical companies on behalf of Medicare recipients. This is entirely legal, because the federal government is the payer for people with Medicare. Pharmaceutical companies want Medicare to keep covering their drugs, so they’re willing to come to the table. Again, this is for Medicare only.
What’s harebrained, blatantly not legal, and unimplementable is, “I hereby order all drug prices in the US to be the lowest in the world!”
- Comment on Trump to sign executive order he says will slash drug prices by up to 80% 2 weeks ago:
And when did Biden and Obama try to unilaterally and unconstitutionally dictate pharmaceutical prices
- Comment on Trump to sign executive order he says will slash drug prices by up to 80% 2 weeks ago:
“Presidents have done this for a long time?” Name one and what they did
- Comment on Trump to sign executive order he says will slash drug prices by up to 80% 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think we can say this will be a positive for the middle class because there’s absolutely no actual plan for implementation here
- Comment on Trump to sign executive order he says will slash drug prices by up to 80% 2 weeks ago:
“I will be instituting a MOST FAVORED NATION’S POLICY whereby the United States will pay the same price as the Nation that pays the lowest price anywhere in the World,” Trump said. “Our Country will finally be treated fairly, and our citizens Healthcare Costs will be reduced by numbers never even thought of before. Additionally, on top of everything else, the United States will save TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS.”
The president doesn’t have the power to unilaterally dictate pharmaceutical prices. The federal government has some power to set the prices paid by Medicare/Medicaid recipients, but let’s be very clear that reform in this regard has been blocked by Republicans for decades. When the Biden Admin did it for just a handful of medications, the screeching was deafening.
Anyway, my point is that as usual, this is bluster with no actual implementable policy behind it
- Comment on Very gently, I’m sure 2 weeks ago:
The picture is split in half.
- Comment on Genshin Impact Will Soon Require Age Verification in the United States 3 weeks ago:
I might be wrong about this, but isn’t age verification only required by a handful of states? Why are they applying it to the whole country?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Confirmation bias. If they told them what they wanted to hear, they would have believed every word
- Comment on Liquid Trees 3 weeks ago:
I think it’s because they mentioned trees improve air quality right there in their comment, and then you responded like you didn’t read it
- Comment on OMG no please don’t call me. 4 weeks ago:
You can gain confidence by doing it
- Comment on Milwaukee Judge Hannah Dugan 'temporarily relieved of her official duties' by Wisconsin Supreme Court 4 weeks ago:
You might have an argument if you wouldn’t just turn around and defend every MAGA loyalist’s blatant criminal activity. Instead, you’re just disingenuous and obnoxious
- Comment on In the United States; is it illegal to use a single serve wrapped slice of Kraft cheese as a postcard? 4 weeks ago:
Try including the rest of the sentence in your quote
- Comment on In the United States; is it illegal to use a single serve wrapped slice of Kraft cheese as a postcard? 4 weeks ago:
You’re absolutely right about this. It’s super easy to take a block of high-quality cheddar cheese and melt it with some sodium citrate to make the creamiest cheese dip you’ve ever eaten. And you can make your own sodium citrate with just lemon juice and baking soda
- Comment on In the United States; is it illegal to use a single serve wrapped slice of Kraft cheese as a postcard? 4 weeks ago:
It’s certainly perishable, doesn’t have to be food
- Comment on In the United States; is it illegal to use a single serve wrapped slice of Kraft cheese as a postcard? 4 weeks ago:
This would be prohibited by the USPS:
5 Perishable Matter/ 51 Definition/ 511 General Definitions// Perishable matter is anything that can deteriorate in the mail and thereby lose value, create a health hazard, or cause an obnoxious odor, nuisance, or disturbance, under ordinary mailing conditions. Mailable perishable matter may be sent at the mailer’s own risk when it is packaged as required and when it can be delivered within appropriate and reasonable time limits to prevent deterioration.//Examples of perishable matter include mailable types of live animals, food items, and plants.
- Comment on ‘It feels empty’: is Hollywood film and TV production in a death spiral? 4 weeks ago:
Filming in Los Angeles is at a historic low, with some suggesting the city might go the way of Detroit
Hyperbole a bit? Detroit was entirely reliant in the manufacturing sector, where Los Angeles has a much larger and much more diverse economy.
Soon before his return to the White House, Trump described Hollywood as “a great but very troubled place” and declared that Mel Gibson, Sylvester Stallone and Jon Voight would be his “eyes and ears”, helping to bring it back “bigger, better, and stronger than ever before!”
I hope these three give a press conference together, I can’t wait to hear the batshit crazy that comes out of their mouths. They look like death’s knocking
- Comment on ‘It feels empty’: is Hollywood film and TV production in a death spiral? 4 weeks ago:
The article (and the headline) is about entertainment jobs moving away from Los Angeles to other cities, not about the movie industry at large.
- Comment on Has anyone told MAGA they are free to shut themselves off from the rest of the world all on their own. Honestly they do a pretty good job of it already. 5 weeks ago:
Not only Austin, but Houston, San Antonio, El Paso, and even Dallas are solidly blue
- Comment on WTF is the teacher doing 1 month ago:
One could argue thats a severe problem
Yes
- Comment on WTF is the teacher doing 1 month ago:
You just repeated the same two reasons they gave like they were different.
- Comment on purpose 1 month ago:
Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus are invasive in all of North and South America
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Astrophysicist?
- Comment on Artist Depiction 1 month ago:
T-Rex probably had lips
