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This guy has more money than anyone.

N3xtG3nGam3r posted...

I say is pathetic to say the least, especially since were on the same side here (that side being normal people vs big pharma).

This is shamefully disingenuous. Please do not piss on people's heads and tell them it's raining.

You would have said you were right if the reviews were bad, too.

Master Kazuya posted...

Haven't seen that, I agree with you that this is bad on his part.

If it were just vaccines, that would be one (very bad) thing. But it's reflective of his broader shtick on just about every issue. He's either doing this feigned machismo act or providing a gloss of intellectualism to the things his fans (who he gained by refusing to use trans students' pronouns) already believe.

https://twitter.com/thebadstats/status/1486103450446303234

SydneySweenHero posted...

I honestly still don't fully know what an NFT is. But it sounds like scam >_>

That's because it is

Master Kazuya posted...

I'm waiting to see some legit critique though. Feels like it's just assumed to automatically think he sucks but nobody really says why or points it out.

Well, to give just one example, his attitude towards covid vaccines has become unhinged
https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson/status/1485108412383993858

Is this a man who is interested in a rational examination of evidence, or someone who is committed to playing tough for the audience of clods he has cultivated for himself?

https://twitter.com/ethangach/status/1486828270679203841

So I have played the first chapter now, and I have a question:
What the hell have I gotten myself into?

NightMarishPie posted...

tl;dr it's really not that easy to produce a vaccine at all.

The biggest claim here, that there simply aren't other companies with the capability to produce MRNA vaccines, is debunked by the study I posted about in post 11. It's nothing more than a talking point ginned up by the big companies to justify their continued price gouging at the expense of the people and countries that have always gotten the short end of history's stick.

... Maybe I should get DMC 5

N3xtG3nGam3r posted...

You're not living in reality my dude.

That's a mirror.

Here's some data that doesn't come from Pfizer and which you might find interesting
https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1478438901299638276

Yeah lord 3 was the only other time I had to squeeze out an extra level before fighting ahain

N3xtG3nGam3r posted...

I think you're reading from the wrong script here. The issue isn't the vaccines being dangerous, it's that they work and are being denied to the world's poor.

I recently tried out Tidal, and I'm surprised by how noticeable the difference is when it comes to audio quality.

I will add that I spent most of the back half of the game playing as Rinwell in combat

monkmith posted...

because there aren't dozens of pharma companies chomping at the bits to drop billions of dollars on investing in infrastructure to produce mRNA vaccines?

Well, actually...
https://inthesetimes.com/article/big-pharma-manufacturing-mrna-pfizer-moderna-africa-asia-latin-america

A new report finds that, despite months of claims to the contrary by Big Pharma, at least 120 manufacturers in Africa, Asia and Latin America currently have the capacity to produce mRNA vaccines, but are not doing so because drug companies Pfizer and Moderna are refusing to share technology and information (and governments are not compelling them to). As a result, millions of people across the globe stand to die due to lack of access to vaccines, all because our international system is predicated on pharmaceutical monopolies, not cooperation and knowledge sharing.

The long list of facilities is the finding of a brief by two healthcare researchers: Achal Prabhala, coordinator of the AccessIBSA project, and Alain Alsalhani, from Mdecins Sans Frontires. In a new paper, they identified 120 global manufacturers with the technical requirements and quality standards to make mRNA vaccines production that would almost certainly dramatically increase the global availability of Covid-19 vaccines and thereby save millions of lives.

For context, 73 percent of all vaccines that have been administered have gone to wealthy and middle-income countries, while less than 1 percent went to the poorest ones. The World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Tuesday that the entire continent of Africa may not attain a 70 percent vaccination level until 2024, all while wealthy nations, including the United States, are moving forward with booster shots for vaccinated individuals. The equitable distribution of mRNA vaccines, in particular, has the potential to reverse this trend.

Why mRNA vaccines? According to the researchers, Unlike older (pre-2020) vaccine technologies which are cell-based, mRNA vaccines are made through biochemical rather than biological processes. This makes for a simpler system of production, and one that is more predictable and easier to transfer to other manufacturers than previous vaccine technologies. This means, quite simply, that it takes less time to scale up production. It takes three to seven days to produce a batch of the active pharmaceutical ingredient for the Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine, the researchers explain, as compared to one month for an equivalent batch of the AstraZeneca vaccine.
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A New York Times investigation published in October identified 10 facilities in India, Brazil, Thailand, South Africa, Argentina and Indonesia that are good candidates for manufacturing mRNA vaccines. Now, the Prabhala and Alsalhani paper, which identifies 120 such facilities,suggests that global vaccine manufacturing capacity is likely far, far higher. This news is not groundbreaking: In September, Indian civil society organizations identified 34 manufacturers in 20 countries likely capable of making the Johnson & Johnson vaccine.

Scintillant posted...

I like combat against regular monsters but against bosses and the 100k hp monsters in the final dungeon with super armor it was pretty boring.

I think either they made some adjustments post-launch or I found myself ahead of the power curve somehow. I've seen a lot of people complain about needing to grind late in the game, but the only time I really had an issue was on the first lord, lol.

Winnsock posted...

How goofy does it get after the 5 lords? Im past the third one and still enjoying it. I like it a lot better than Scarlet Nexus, which I have yet to beat. Theyre both alright, though.

Oh it's straight up sci-fi nonsense after that.

AsucaHayashi posted...

as long as we're on topic of vehicles, it seems like the racing industry should be the first to go when it comes to wastefulness yet it doesn't seem to get much attention.

It's a question of scale, is the thing. Racing is wasteful, but it's a few hundred cars we're talking about.

https://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/green-science/nascar-environment1.htm

This all adds up to some serious fuel consumption. In a single typical NASCAR race weekend, with more than 40 cars at high speeds for 500 miles (804 kilometers) -- plus practice laps -- at 5 mpg of gas, you're looking at, conservatively, about 6,000 gallons (22,712 liters) of fuel [source: ]. Each gallon burned emits about 20 pounds (9 kilograms) of carbon dioxide, so that's about 120,000 pounds (54,431 kilograms) of CO2 for a race weekend [source: ]. Multiply that by roughly 35 races per year, and NASCAR's annual carbon footprint is in the area of 4 million pounds (1.8 million kilograms).

Yes, that's a lot. The energy expended in one race could power more than three houses or drive seven cars for a whole year [source: ]. But is it a lot in the grand scheme of things?

It depends on how you look at it. That 6,000 gallons (22,712 liters) of gas over two days starts to look somewhat reasonable when you consider that the United States eats up about 400 million gallons (1.5 billion liters) per day, any old day of the year [source: ]. And 4 million pounds a year doesn't seem like much compared to the world's 6 billion tons (5.4 billion metric tons) of CO2 emissions every year.

Ok

Number090684 posted...

Ew, that's way too high.

You asked what I would rate it, not what you would rate it.

Number090684 posted...

So what would you rate Arise then?

In the mid 8 range.

All signs point to Commanders being the new name

The plot gets to be some real nonsense by the end, and I can't say that I agree with the ideology at work in its underlying message, but nevertheless I thoroughly enjoyed playing it.

The point of comparison I keep using is Scarlet Nexus, which is the closest thing I've played recently. SN's writing was a total bore to me, and I definitely didn't click with it and its world the way I did here.

Nemu posted...

Its a waste when people buy them only as status symbols, but I doubt there is that much difference on overall impact from unnecessary vanity purposes. Thats just comparing two countries with vastly different needs.

The F-150 is consistently the best selling car on the market in the US. It's not a matter of need.

https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/chicago-to-pay-14-million-to-settle-lawsuits-tied-to-disgraced-police-cmdr-jon-burge

The Chicago City Council approved paying out $14 million to settle two wrongful conviction lawsuits tied to the Jon Burge torture era.

The suits were filed by Kevin Bailey and Corey Batchelor, who were both 19-years-old when they say they were tortured by Chicago police officers into giving false confessions to a murder.

"They get him to falsely confess to a crime he didn't commit. So life is kidnapped at age 19 and he is damaged to this day," said Jon Loevy, who represented Batchelor in this wrongful conviction lawsuit.
The crime Batchelor and Bailey were convicted of was the 1989 murder of a retired police sergeants wife. After a combined 43 year in prison, Loevy says DNA evidence showed they didn't kill her.

"That's the problem with every wrongful conviction is the wrong guy does the time and the real killer escapes justice. Tragedy compounding for the victim's family," said Loevy.

Their attorneys say the officers at fault were trained by former commander Jon Burge, whose time of terror at the Chicago Police Department decades ago continues to cost the city.

After the city council unanimously approved the settlement for Bailey and Batchelor, the mayor said the city has paid a heavy toll for Burge's alleged crimes.

"We have to make sure when the claims are valid, we do what we can to address the harm that's been done," said Mayor Lori Lightfoot.

"I think if there's any message to be sent, it's that wrongful convictions not only are tragic for the people affected, but expensive and not a good way to do business. And I think all of us would like to see the city do a better job of cleaning up the problem so that we don't ruin people's lives and we don't have to pay big judgments," said Loevy.

In a statement announcing the settlement, Kevin Bailey wrote, "I'm glad I can put this lawsuit behind me, but these detectives took 28 years of my life. I'll never get that time back and no amount of money could ever compensate me for what I've lost."

Burge, who died in 2018 at the age of 70, was accused of torturing suspects in his South Side police district but never prosecuted for the alleged crimes.

Burge led a "midnight crew" of rogue detectives accused of torturing more than 100 suspects, mostly Black men, from 1972 to 1991, in order to secure confessions. His alleged victims were shocked with cattle prods, smothered with typewriter covers and had guns shoved in their mouths.

Burge was fired in 1993 and sentenced to prison in 2011 for lying in a civil case about his actions. It was too late to charge him criminally on the torture charges.

In 2015, the city of Chicago agreed to pay $5.5 million in reparations to 57 Burge victims.

The allegations against Burge and his men even helped shape Illinois' debate over the death penalty. Then-Gov. George Ryan released four condemned men from death row in 2003 after Ryan said Burge extracted confessions from them using torture. The allegations eventually led to a moratorium on executions in Illinois. The state officially abolished the death penalty in 2011.
Dean Angelo, who was the former head of the Fraternal Order of Police in Chicago, insisted that Burge "put a lot of bad guys in prison."

"I don't know that Jon Burge got a fair shake based on the years and years of service that he gave the city," Angelo previously said.

At Burge's 2010 federal trial, Burge's lawyers called the accusers thugs and liars who were maligning an honorable man who had served in the U.S. military in Korea and Vietnam and returned with a Bronze Star. Burge took the stand and broke his long silence, repeatedly denying he had tortured anyone. A jury disagreed and found Burge guilty of perjury.

At his 2012 sentencing, one alleged victim said Burge was so cruel that he laughed while he tortured him. Burge said he was "deeply sorry" for the disrepute his case had brought on the Chicago Police Department, but he offered no apologies for his actions.

U.S. District Judge Joan Lefkow cited Burge's "unwillingness to acknowledge the truth in the face of all the evidence" and sentenced him to 4 1/2 years in prison.

I do a lot of gaming from work, and don't have a gaming PC, so it'd be cool to have, but I don't have $520 just lying around. And then I'd have to build up my Steam library.

Salt and Pepper

This is good

I don't consider myself a wrestling fan, but tonight's show also featured this and I feel it's worth sharing
https://twitter.com/edsbs/status/1486540061210521604

It's way more confusing than it needs to be. I don't think that stuff is included by default, there is some sort of transfer process that's required, but I don't remember what that process entails.
https://profile.hitman.com/

Hitman rocks, but I would advise newcomers that just playing each mission once and setting it aside is really not the way to get the best experience from it.

Punished_Blinx posted...

It's fascinating to think about. Like you almost need to trick players into believing that they came up with the idea on how to progress.

Metroid Dread, to give one example, does this by limiting the exploration options after you get new abilities as its way of nudging you in the right direction. I liked how that gave the sense of momentum, but I know long-time fans of the series miss that sense of exploration.

https://www.polygon.com/22901556/crusader-kings-3-console-release-date-ps5-xbox-series-x

Ck3 is one of the PC games that makes me wish I had a gaming-level PC. I'm sure there will be compromises for a gamepad control setup, but I'm curious all the same. Especially since I'm assuming it'll be on Game Pass.

When you're right, you're right.

https://shmuplations.com/ocarinaoftime/

Some neat stuff in there

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/01/26/police-training-reform/

Lee Greenwoods God Bless the USA screamed from the casino conference room speakers as hundreds of police officers stood to welcome Tomi Lahren with cheers and whistles.

The 29-year-old political commentator was the most anticipated presenter at the Street Cop Training Conference in Atlantic City in October, pumping up officers at a time when shootings by police, especially of Black civilians, have fueled calls for a rethinking of public safety and most Americans doubt police are adequately trained to avoid using excessive force. Lahren offered a starkly different worldview, one in which Black Lives Matter activists are thugs, felons and criminals and a terrorist organization, and Democrats are instilling violent chaos in an effort to nationalize policing and restrict individual freedoms.

If Im wrong, please point it out, she told a crowd that organizers said numbered more than 1,000, from police departments large and small across New Jersey and beyond. But all these major headline incidents that weve had in this country involving law enforcement in the last at least five years could have all been prevented if people would just comply with police, would follow orders and not resist arrest.

The audience of law enforcement officers clapped and cheered.

Such rhetoric is flourishing in commercial police training settings, a Washington Post investigation shows, as departments try to respond to demands for change but also find themselves on the defensive in many communities.

With local, state and federal money for training plentiful, and with little guidance or oversight for what officers should be taught, some speakers at training conferences tell officers that pushback against conventional policing is a media invention. Others demonize civilian protesters and reformers, describing them as loud voices holding minority opinions. Still others say police should maintain a warrior mentality to weather the rigors of what they describe as the most dangerous job outside of military service. (In reality, law enforcement is the 22nd most dangerous occupation, safer than roofing and collecting garbage, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries.) Trainers include many former law enforcement officers and military personnel, some of whom are linked to extremist groups and anti-government movements.

To understand what officers are being taught, The Post interviewed 18 trainers and experts, watched recorded sessions of the Street Cop Training Conference in October and joined the Cornelius Project, a Christian ministry focusing on mental health in law enforcement, at a November conference in Idaho Falls, Idaho. In some cases, police and sheriffs departments paid for their officers to attend the conferences. In others, officers covered the cost. While police reformers and legislators nationwide have stressed a service-oriented approach to police training that emphasizes de-escalation and the avoidance of physical conflict, many sessions at these conferences presented violent confrontation as a rite of policing and, frequently, the only path.

The curriculum is that you are a good person and reveling in violence and being an expert in violence is not morally wrong, said Michael Sierra-Arvalo, an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin who attended the Street Cop Conference. In fact, its your moral duty because youre a paladin. You are this kind of warrior.

Continued...

Almost all handheld.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/26/world/middleeast/palestinian-american-dies-israel-autopsy.html

A 78-year-old Palestinian American man died this month from a stress-induced heart attack brought on by injuries sustained while he was detained by Israeli soldiers, according to an autopsy report, obtained by The New York Times on Wednesday.

The death has brought renewed scrutiny on Israel from its closest allies in Washington, who have asked for a clarification and thorough investigation into the circumstances surrounding the death of the man, Omar Abdelmajed Assad.

Mr. Assad had pre-existing heart ailments and was detained by dozens of Israeli soldiers for about an hour on Jan. 12 in his village of Jiljilya in the occupied West Bank. He was blindfolded with his hands bound behind his back and lying on the ground, according to witnesses, conditions that his doctor said contributed to his death. One witness and his doctor said he died while in Israeli custody. He was found face down and unresponsive with his blindfold still on.

Mr. Assads life and death mirrored the daily perils faced by Palestinians living under Israeli occupation in the West Bank. The Israeli military routinely conducts night raids on Palestinian villages aimed at thwarting attacks, and residents can be stopped for checks on the road or arrested at home.

The autopsy was conducted by the coroner for the Palestinian Authority, which administers parts of the West Bank. Mr. Assad had bruises on his head as a result of traumatic brain injuries, it found, without saying what may have caused those injuries. And there was internal bleeding in his eyelids from being blindfolded tightly as well as other bruises on his arms and red welts on his wrists from zip ties.

The Palestinian Authority and the Israeli military are still investigating the death. Mr. Assad was a U.S. citizen with children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren living in the U.S., and his family and several members of Congress have demanded an American investigation. But the United States has not said whether it will investigate.

A preliminary conclusion from the Palestinian investigation determined that he had been severely beaten, according to one Palestinian official with knowledge of the investigation.

The investigation indicated that he had been subjected to harsh treatment and violence, according to an excerpt from the preliminary findings of the investigation obtained by The Times. His body had many injuries documented and detailed in the autopsy.

Initially, the Israeli military said Mr. Assad had been alive when he was released. But subsequently, the Israeli authorities declined to answer questions about what happened during his detention, what his condition was when the soldiers left and whether he was given any medical treatment, saying that was part of the investigation.

The Israeli rights group BTselem said Israel rarely prosecutes soldiers responsible for harming Palestinians.

The soldiers stopped Mr. Assad in what the Israeli military described as a routine check at about 3 a.m. as he was driving home after a night playing cards and drinking coffee with cousins. An Israeli military spokesman has said that he was detained after he resisted the check and refused to cooperate with questioning.

The doctor who tried to resuscitate Mr. Assad, Islam Abu Zaher, said his face was blue from lack of oxygen, adding he had most likely been deprived of oxygen for 15 to 20 minutes which the doctor suggested could have caused his heart and lungs to fail.

One witness said that when the soldiers discovered his condition, they abandoned him instead of providing medical attention. Dr. Abu Zaher questioned why Mr. Assad appeared to have been thrown on the ground face down and why he was not given any first aid by the Israeli forces before they left.

Mmdouh Abdulrahman, one of the other four men detained by Israeli forces that night, said a soldier came to check on Mr. Assad. The soldiers whispered among themselves, then one of them cut one of the zip ties that had been on Mr. Assads wrists and they left quickly, Mr. Abdulrahman said.

As soon as the soldiers left the courtyard, Mr. Abdulrahman said he untied Mr. Assads blindfold and found no pulse on his friend.

Mr. Assad had open-heart surgery and several stents implanted about four years ago, according to Dr. Abu Zaher, who said he had been treating Mr. Assad for obstructive pulmonary disease in recent months. The lung disease could have made it difficult for him to breathe lying face down, Dr. Abu Zaher said.

Mr. Assad and his wife, Nazmieh Assad, moved to the U.S. in the 1970s and opened several grocery stories. They returned to Jiljilya more than a decade ago, but Israel had revoked their Palestinian ID cards while they were abroad.

Before he was detained, Mr. Assad was optimistic that he would soon be able to travel freely between his birthplace in the West Bank and his adopted home in the United States. He was eager to return to the U.S. to see his seven children, 17 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren, but feared that Israel would not allow them to return home without Palestinian ID cards. They had spent the past several years trying to have them reinstated.

I've never played it, and figure it'll be most convenient to have it on Switch. It's an old game, but are there still performance issues there?

uwnim posted...

That sounds like too much World Cup, tbh

I mean it's not even a good idea from a soccer perspective

https://twitter.com/ESPNFC/status/1486464971781386242

What

Total_Lost2 posted...

Having judges being political appointments is so ****ing stupid

How would you prefer they be chosen?

Tyranthraxus posted...

https://youtu.be/wLxvJZL-ZyQ

Hell yes

Thinking about how all the battle themes in Dungeon Encounters are just royalty free classical music guitar covers, lol
https://youtu.be/9I4iD_zSr94

Something to note about Sinema and Manchin is that they have voted to approve every judge Biden has nominated so far.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ds4gZ6pwg6U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcpNJcVJ11k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlEGflonuZA

That's right