“The attack was defeated and ineffective.”
Team Monsanto’s Lead Junior Red Dawn war re-enactor/co-ordinator for Anniston, Alabama
“The attack was defeated and ineffective.”
Half the country wanted to glass the middle east after 9/11, and 3/4th of the country was cool with destroying two nations full of people who had nothing to do with it as a response, and a lot of “left” liberals convinced themselves it was good for womens rights to do so.
When it comes to foreign policy our news is basically just reporting a state department memo.
I suppose it’s easier to believe obvious lies than it is to reckon with the fact that our country is truly evil.
“stumbling towards war” again
Iota-carageenan based sprays operate on the same principle. Basically coats your nasal passage with a gel that traps virus, bacteria, and allergens.
The one I use helps with allergies so it’s doing something, and I convinced someone I know who works in small office and got pressured out of masking at work (plus they couldn’t find a mask that works with their glasses), and they run an air filter + nasal sprays like covixyl and betadine, along with yearly vaccines, and they haven’t gotten sick in over a year.
But I’ve also read enough anecdotal reports from people who use them and still got sick with covid. Who knows if they were properly applied, but I doubt these sprays alone will do much if your exposure levels are high.
Still iI think t’s probably worth trying to protect your olfactory bulb with these sprays, since that’s at least one of the ways they think covid can enter the brain.
‘Megalopolis’ is a piece of s—t
You’ve been warned various times already. You were warned when the Guardian reported this spring that crew members on “Megalopolis” described its making, paid for entirely by Coppola thanks to his fortune in winemaking, as a “train wreck.” You were warned when that same article leveled allegations that the old man would sexually harass female crew members (barf) and burn hours of shooting time just hanging out and smoking weed instead of working (OK I respect it). Coppola has denied the allegations, and has sued Variety for its own investigation into his reported wrongdoing. In its introduction, the written complaint in that suit includes the sentence, “Some people are jealous and resentful of genius.” Go ahead and take that sentence as a warning, too.
LMAO
Fucking “auteurs”.
People like Clinton believe this because they’ve been directly responsible for funding protesters overseas to destabalize governments.
Ah yes, the American dream of being able to murder a threatening stranger.
Life is cheap in the Burger Reich.
I’ve gotten moderna each time, and it’s always knocked me on my ass for two or three days. It’s a higher dose than pfizer, and tends to provoke a stronger reaction.
Supposedly the stronger reaction means you will have better protection but there are no guarantees.
freedom is great, but not when it threatens the strategic aims of our genocidal empire
I haven’t run across any trial results. I’ve read different things, like the new formula is not as effective, but nothing definitive. Safety seems good for all of them, especially when compared to just getting infected.
If you had a bad experience with the mrna ones you will want to seek out Novavax, which is harder to find but has less side effects and seems to offer slightly longer protection. Even though it targets a slightly older strain is offers just as much or more protection.
I cant find the sorces where I read all this at the moment, but i found this:
What’s new about this year’s updated COVID vaccines?
As in previous years, there are mRNA vaccines—one from Moderna, one from Pfizer—and a protein-based vaccine, from Novavax. One nuance this year is that the mRNA and protein-based vaccines target different—though closely related—variants.
The updated mRNA COVID vaccines from Moderna and Pfizer are based on the KP.2 strain, one of the FLiRT variants that have been spreading since early spring. These variants and their sub-variants have caused the majority of infections during this summer’s COVID wave. The protein-based Novavax vaccine is based on the JN.1 variant, which accounted for the majority of COVID infections in the first few months of 2024 and is the parent strain from which KP.2 and other currently circulating variants branch from.
At the end of the day, laboratory experiments show that all of the updated vaccines available this season can recognize circulating COVID variants and therefore should be similarly effective in reducing your chance of becoming severely ill from COVID infection or needing to be hospitalized.
https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2024/what-to-know-about-updated-covid-vaccines-for-2024-25
tl;dr - Yes, it’s a good idea to get the vaccine. The new vaccine will provide protection from the newest common strain of the virus.
Since we aren’t taking steps to control the spread of the virus, and the vaccines aren’t sterilizing vaccines, and because it’s so god damn infectious, the virus mutates about 3-4x as quickly as the flu, and frequent vaccinations are needed.
Vaccines cause your body to make antibodies to fight the virus for approximately 2-6 months, depending on the person. After the protection from antibodies wear off we are reliant on T and B immune cells to fight the virus, which is more risky.
In theory the T and B cell protection should be “good enough” for most normal healthy people, and a regular infection won’t do much damage, and your body will create another round of antibodies for another several months until you are either infected again or can get a new vaccine. Unfortunately, for T and B immune cells to work the virus will have entered the bloodstream by that point and it’s a roll of the dice as to how far the infection gets and how much damage it does before those cells can get to work to clear the virus and new antibodies are produced.
The sheer amount of people being infected means that the people for whom this protection isn’t nearly “good enough” are staggeringly high, resulting in high death rates among the medically vulnerable most of the year, and shocklingly high long covid rates for everyone else. Along with people who just feel “off” for months after covid, or have damage to parts of the body were we don’t “feel” damage.
IMO we really should be vaccinating twice a year, with vaccines updated to match the current strains, to provide more protection from antibodies. And because the virus is mutating so quickly, the antibodies you do have might not be enough to prevent infection. It all depends on what vaccines you got, what you’ve been exposed to, and how your body reacts to all of it.
The virus is basically common in high rates, everywhere, for most of the year. But since they don’t want to ask healthy people to get two vaccines a year, and the benefits of it aren’t totally certain at this point with theoretical downsides, in the US they settled on softly recommending one vaccine before the fall. And only about 20% of people are even bothering with the new vaccines at this point. Rolling the dice with constant infections is how most of the world is handling it, and if you skip the vaccine for a year this is what you will be doing.
We’ll see how it plays out over the next several years. Better vaccines are in the works (like mucosal vaccines, which will hopefully prevent the virus from entering the bloodstream where it does the most damage) but it will be at least a year or more before they are approved, if the technology even pans out.
To me it seems pretty obvious that the more infections you can avoid, whether they end up making you seriously ill or not, the better off you will be in the long term. That means getting all the vaccinations you can get.
The impact is similar to people who suffer concussions, so doctors have been testing people with concussion screening questions. But it’s hard to quantify memory problems, increased anxiety, and depression.
Gold Apollo says it was a European company who bought the right to use their branding.
"The product was not ours. It was only that it had our brand on it,’ he said.
Hsu did not name the company which he said manufactured the pagers, adding Gold Apollo was also a victim of the incident.
“We are a responsible company. This is very embarrassing,” he said.
Is that just the US claiming plausable deniability for an obvious war crime?
It might have been a special batch with explosives if it was done at the level of the factory, like a special batch was made and swapped in place of the normal models somewhere along the line before delivery.
If it was done at the factory it would be hard to spot normal battery’s being replaces with explosives.
Made by Motorola in Taiwan.
Custom made?
Custom “counter-terrorism” edition firmware and battery formula that can make your phone go boom?
So Israel probably got access to a whole recent shipment. If it was a direct custom order from Taiwan, Israel might have had access during the manufacturing process. Otherwise they intercepted the shipment along the way, or have someone on the ground where the shipment was received.
Meanwhile, Israel and Taiwan have been engaging in discreet defense cooperation. Sharing common security concerns, both nations have swapped intelligence and explored avenues for military cooperation, primarily in the areas of defense technology and counter-terrorism.
Joe Biden would claim he personally witnessed the man get run over by a tank.