https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/18/politics/joe-biden-prostate-cancer
It continued, “While this represents a more aggressive form of the disease, the cancer appears to be hormone-sensitive which allows for effective management.”
Manageable with hormone treatment. They’re putting Biden on T-blockers.
THEY’RE GOING TO TRANS BIDEN!!
Give Germany to the Gazans and stuff the Germans into Gaza.
Implausible, no. But I’m also inherently skeptical of any unverified event that someone has the ability and strong financial incentive to invent from whole cloth. I don’t care how perfect you think his politics are. Never trust anyone who tells you everything you want to hear.
How would they know he’s not just calling them and lying to them? He could have easily called or messaged people and said he was being lead away.
Celebrities of his stature have performed stunts before. The incentive would be the very ratings explosion that he’s getting now. A ratings explosions means a revenue explosion. More ad revenue. More interview opportunities. More sponsors and donations. He’s making money off of this. And I would not try to argue that he’s already so well-off he’s above wanting more money. When has that ever actually worked?
I’m getting more Ebenezer Scrooge vibes. Are there no prisons? Are there no work-houses?
I wish I was a high-level witch that could curse him with poverty.
Wait. Hold on. Do we know this actually happened? Were there other witnesses? He is, first and foremost, a celebrity and entertainer. He is a man in show business. And a left wing commentator being detained? That’s an obvious ratings booster. How do we know this isn’t just the stunt of an entertainer?
Just doing due diligence. How do we know this actually happened?
I’m hesitant to say if a program is better than another, as that’s subjective, depending on what your pathway is. But according to most traditional measures, OSU has the more well-regarded civil engineering program. It’s far larger, better funded, has more research opportunities and research facilities, etc. If you’re planning to practice engineering in the PNW, a degree from OSU will go further than a degree from UO.
It’s the classic legacy of the country’s public university history. Traditionally, most moderately sized states would found two big public universities. They founded a “University of <State Name>” in the state capital. That school tended to focus on fields like medicine and law. Then somewhere else, often in an agrarian community, they would found a “<State Name> State University.” Those who were interested in engineering or farming went to the State U. Or sometimes these were dubbed “agricultural and mechanical colleges.” That’s what the A&M in Texas A&M and other A&Ms stand for. Today, that distinction is less important. You can get a civil engineering degree at University of Oregon. But the “state” universities tend to have better civil engineering programs.
He’s basically claimed unlimited authority to issue whatever tariffs he wants at will, including tariffs against individual companies. If the courts uphold his claim of expansive tariff powers, he can do this with tariffs alone.
The drug companies are all big multinationals. For those located outside the US, regular import tariffs work. Just threaten to tariff the hell out of any foreign drug manufacturer that doesn’t agree to the administration’s price controls. Add a million percent tariff if need be.
For domestic companies, it’s a little more difficult. But still, these are domestic companies with international operations. And exit tariffs are a thing. Congress can tax exports if it wants. And Trump could claim the same power. Any US-based drug company that didn’t play ball with prices would face a million percent export tariff.
And this is just tariffs. Patent law could also be wielded to force companies to abide by price caps. And the generic licensing market could be used similarly. And there are so many national security laws that can be adopted. If certain emergencies are declared, the president can flat-out order companies to produce certain goods.
Oh, Ozempic is too expensive? Trump just declared obesity a threat to national defense, and he’s ordered a hundred companies to produce Ozempic and similar drugs, at quantities 10x what would be needed to dose the entire population. The country is soon swimming in weight loss drugs and the price crashes through the floor. Your insurance company starts paying YOU to take them.
oh i know it’s all BS.
It may not actually be. Sure, the corporations helped put Trump in power. They made the same gamble countless nations’ corporate sectors did when supporting fascist leaders - “yes he’s extreme, but we can control him.” How well did that work out for the Nazi German corporate sector? How well did that work for Russia’s oligarchs under Putin? Sure, some lucky ones got really rich by maintaining favor with the regime. But the moment your businesses interests go against the interests of the leader? You get trampled under the same boot as everyone else.
The pharma companies helped put Trump in power, but they’re also incredibly unpopular. If there’s some way Trump can crush them, then that would greatly increase his own popularity. It may well be worth it for MAGA to stomp the pharma companies, even if it means losing their donations. It would hardly be the first time a fascist leader purged many of the people who put him in power.
I mean…people do tend to regress as Alzheimer’s sets in, no? Not regress as in regressive/progressive, but regress in terms of their own life experience and beliefs. You lose the newest memories first. And Trump was a Democrat for many years. He’s always been racist and pro-tariff, but it’s not impossible he had more progressive beliefs on many issues earlier in life. Whether he was only a Democrat because he lived in NYC, I can’t say. But him becoming more liberal as his brain turns to mush really wouldn’t be completely impossible. It really just depends on what his beliefs were earlier in life.
One thing to keep in mind is that often when you see vacant storefronts, what is actually happening is that the owner of the building is redeveloping it. Businesses have multi-year leases. If you want to redevelop a commercial building, you have to either pay a fortune to buy everyone out of their leases or slowly wait a few years for the building to empty out.
You might ask why they don’t offer month-to-month leases in the meantime, but there’s little demand for that. If a bank is lending you money to start a restaurant, they want to see a long-term lease agreement. They’re not going to lend you hundreds of thousands of dollars to purchase and install a restaurant’s worth of equipment in a place with a month-to-month lease. There are very few businesses that would be interested in such short-term leases. And the few that are willing aren’t worth the effort for the pennies that you could get out of them. The only real rental customers for buildings that are slowly being emptied are seasonal retailers like Halloween stores.
Why University of Oregon instead of Oregon State?
We are not robots. We are beings of emotion and passion. People are not persuaded by simple logic.
You’re just bitching about human nature. Have you never talked to a human being at all? People don’t speak in formal proofs. People aren’t engaged by formal proofs. You’re not “profaning society” by using the most human forms of communication. Emotion is a key part of communication.
Stop being anti-human.
You’re confusing mathematical proof for rhetoric. They are not the same thing.
A man will not have himself killed for a half pence a day and a petty distinction; you must speak to the soul in order to electricify him.
Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
There was actually an IRL situation like Lord of the Flies, and the kids handled it pretty chill.
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Honestly. Let’s make this a federal program. We’ll send billionaires on one-way trips to colonize Mars. And we’ll just keep doing it. We’ll just keep throwing billionaires at Mars until we actually get a functioning Mars colony, or we run out of billionaires. I would be fine with either outcome.
https://archive.is/TLH08