Do you think the pope will grant the divorce this time around?

Be sure to drink your Ovaltene. -- Charles, King of England

Blocking comments on Facebook and youtube is the straw that collapses the house of cards? -- brings military intervention?

Interesting.

My thought is they open comments and employ two strategies to overcome the negative feedback.

1. Hire bot networks and AI to give approval thus drowning out critical comments in a sea of approving and defending ones.

2. youtube and other sites will intervene with shadow bans and limit the visibility of negative / critical comments. Also they will find reasons to kick critical commenters off the platform due to claiming violation generically of community guidelines and other stuff like that.

Then Biden and his staff will claim no involvement and continue doing in effect what they are currently doing to day.

Oh so the rural communities are going to get glorified and overpriced urgent cares operating under the emergency room moniker. That's nice. Less is more. Sounds pretty similar to how I've heard Canada health care facilities described in the geographic context. Only difference is we will get the Canadian type of treatment and have to pay exorbitant overpriced costs for the privilege of sub standard care.

What a time to be alive.

Personally, it looks to me like a publicity stunt by the theatre to increase public awareness and interest for the show.

That sounds reasonable to me. I'd even believe someone saying it was 12 felonies per day on average with all the new laws and regulations that get added to the federal register.

Literally nobody on the planet actually knows every law on the books. The Federal Register as of 2023 had 90402 pages of laws and regulations published over that year and best I could find on the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) is 200,000+ pages there. There is so much law and regulation on everything in America that I'm probably somehow guilty of a felony for just breathing air right now.

Anyway, if that Bill gets passed, we could end up charged with a felony if we visit site A (not a criminal offense to go here) and it had a redirect to site B (criminal offense) which your super helpful and efficient browser ( following the standards of internet https protocol) will automatically direct you to site B without you agreeing or even being aware it happened. But now you are communicating with a site that runs afoul of this new law and you get a felony, jail time and a fine.

So I've heard it said over the years that the average American commits 3 felonies a day (unknowingly and rarely enforced).

It's looking like if they pass S 686, we might have to change that statistic to the average American commits 1 felony per every 3 seconds.

Y'all be careful attaching anything to our writing on food products / product packaging in a store.

Writing on product packaging, attaching additional written material to a product package or label, or doing other things that would alter the manufacturers packaging may violate 18 U.S. Code § 1365. Also many states have similar state level laws and statutes.

Isn't it interesting how the FDA allows many food manufacturers to include harmful or poisonous chemicals as filler in many food products, but you, Joe Citizen, will have the book thrown at you if you dare try to warn your community about some of the dastardly, underhanded, evil things at the point of sale for said products (ie where you would be most effective at notifying people shopping about the problem).

All of this for muh food safety while the product had harmful crap in it for any one whom consumes it.

In this scene, the hero yet again must rise above the evil conspired against him by the combined efforts of multiple villains. The evil deeds of the villains and their complete lack of fair play or adherence to rule of law once again threaten to harm the hero, but before long the tables will turn for justice to finally prevail. Even now the snares set for the hero are preparing to entrap the villains.

-- the news really is feeling like a movie lately.
Generally, I have trouble with suspension of disbelief when I watch movies. Here too I think the movie is playing it's hand far too desperately. I suppose making it all go beyond belief is what wakes people up though.

Imagine going through life taking as fact the word of anyone and everyone who simply says they are the authority on xyz matter. You have to take their word because you aren't allowed to research or confirm they are even actually an authority.

In such a world, I should be able to simply declare myself the highest authority in the land and commence my dictatorship unopposed because nobody should be allowed to research or investigate and therefore they all must only take my unsupported claims as true.

Are we certain that the British government organization that presumably controls the food product labeling requirements have instituted requirements similar enough to the US FDA that we can thus be certain that the extra stuff on the American box label is not also present (unlisted) in the British product?

Edit: natural flavorings on British box is often a catch all in America and doesn't necessarily have anything to do with what would be considered natural from the average consumer perspective.

True, although they didn't start with a constitutional right to abortion leading into required abortion.

I wonder if constitutional right to abortion will morph into state required abortion unless a permit exists for the baby in the pregnancy.

Storing information we gather in our world encoded into DNA, sounds awesome for the storage density available.

In reality, we are basically turning what amounts to the firmware for living organisms into an alternate use storage medium. In computers and electronics, firmware runs first in all cases and has unrestricted access to execution as it is always running at the lowest level (highest privilege). From another perspective, encoding information in DNA for mass storage would be similar to taking the English alphabet, arbitrarily mapping each letter to a random Traditional Chinese character (non alphabet based language) and using that arbitrary map to encode all information in English into that arbitrary character translation. Next we can take the result back to ancient times which actively used traditional Chinese for writing and provide it to them to read. Obviously everything will be wrong or even gibberish to someone whom actually reads and writes traditional Chinese. Following instructions to the letter for whatever pattern of characters was encoded by the English remapping event would inevitably lead to failure for whatever was being attempted.

This is how I see storing human level information into the DNA structure that doubles as life's biological firmware. If that alternate language that was mapped onto the typical DNA structure ever gets read and interpreted by a living organism, it will produce bad results (protiens and cascading issues with the legitimate DNA of that organism) because the functional language of DNA will not be the same mapping as whatever method we choose to use to encode our alphabet into said DNA format.

The article keeps talking about managing the risk which doesn't really mean it's safe and causes no harm, but instead means is statistically calculated to be unlikely to harm or to harm only a limited (acceptable) subset of the whole population to the extent that it is considered safe to proceed according to the modeled safety study.

To some extent I'm not against some levels of bioengineering, such as the genetically engineered bacteria that produce insulin (which have been around for decades now) -- they often tweak the bacteria so the "formula" is changed and therefore there is no generic and prices stay high but that's another topic entirely. Anyway, playing with God's firmware (especially the human and plant and mammal genomes) is a terrible idea, but history shows sinful man to always be ready to try a terrible idea just to find out the hard way it leads to destruction.

Funny how the narrative has no limit to abject stupidity.

Sure they only just got here yesterday, but they built our 400 years in the making country and society.

Just another gaslighting POS doing what he does best.

You may be onto something. Having RFK Jr in the race would make it a 3-way race. The Democrats would have their base split between RFK Jr and Biden. Trump would be unopposed as a Republican.

This candidate dynamic would be almost a poetic reprisal of the 1912 election where the Republican, Taft, found his base split when the bankers (ultimately the Rothschilds) funded Teddy Roosevelt to run his Bull Moose party campaign. The result was Woodrow Wilson, a Democrat, won the election.

By January 1st of 1914, we already had the Federal Reserve Act create the current federal reserve of today and we had the IRS powers greatly expanded by the federal income tax legislation.

So working from that angle, would Trump and RFK be poetic enough to reprise the 1912 election ( our nations first irrefutable presidential selection by bankers event) so trump wins and them goes on to undo today all the garbage that came from the fallout of that 1912 selection?

I do believe the answer could be yes.

Agreed. Even though it's my own tax dollars that would return to me for funding the education of my children, the government will always identify that as a string they can pull anytime they decide to meddle in the education I decide to provide.

If the cures were found and suppressed long ago, and everyone got accustomed to the money rolling in, faking research is the obvious next step.

Benefits for faking research:

1. no chance previously identified and suppressed cures get rediscovered by the next generation of researchers. It's a messy business with some risk when they have to wet work one of their impassioned and ethical young researchers whom actually wants cancer cured.

2. less costly to fake a study and results than to actually pay money to do the real thing.

3. fake results can go any which way, so generating fake results can become its own money stream on top of the donations or grants funding the research that you are already not doing anyway. Money upon Money upon Money.

4. fake results likely allow your organization to appear to be more prominent as you should be able to operate multiple fake studies or investigations all at once for what the price would be for actually doing the real work.

5. more prominent publishing and activity will provide more positive marketing and could make your institution or organization receive even more public or donated money thus it can multiply your income streams.

As we can all clearly see the obvious best plan is to fake results about cancer research.

Typical turtle move if I ever saw one.

Endorse Trump. (Prevents getting smacked on the head immediately. -- akin to a turtle hiding in its shell.)

Try to look like you support him as you attempt to buddy up and subvert from the inside. (Like a snapping turtle waiting in its shell for something to come along and snap, it has taken a finger or two off someone's hand.)

He may be retiring from being Senate Majority Leader and endorsing Trump, but he will not be working to actually help Trump in any legitimate way.

I do understand where you are coming from on getting to the true source of these remarks. We are aware Biden doesn't write his own speeches. Most candidates and presidents have their own personal writers do most of the heavy lifting on putting together a speech or creating a statement for press release.

That said, this is the narrative being pushed. This is the attack the media will run with to try to damage or hinder Trump. It is useful to be aware that the enemy camp is setting up their narrative of attack. Of course it is filled with lies about Trump, but that's always the case. Knowing how they plan the attack will make it easier to counter and to be prepared.

So reading the remarks as published, I observe the language and choice of statements would lend itself naturally to calling for a revolt and rejection of results if Biden loses the general election. Wouldn't it be interesting if Biden triggered something like that for real when he loses? It would definitely give Trump the pretext ( if it were even really needed at that point), to arrest and remove and send to Gitmo the insurrectionists.

Really Trump has enough legitimate reason to do that today, but the public would not recognize this as an appropriate or legitimate response right now, so it cannot be accomplished with the full support of 90+% of the country and doing it today would cause substantial collateral damage to our nation and people.

So I take this statement for face value. It maybe be an early foreshadowing of how the election 2024 movie will play out.

How do you know it was officially a call from your bank?

Do you or have you ever had a run in with collections (legit obligation or not)?
Have you ever had a bankruptcy in your past wherein a legitimate debt was discharged?

If the call was legitimate and really from your bank / loan holder, then something is weird there.

If you are not sure the call was from your bank, then it may be an fraudulent entity trying to create a fraudulent evidence trail to support some kind of debt claim against you.

Unfortunately you are correct. Astroturfing for new laws. Hegelian dialectic.

I do look forward to when Letitia gets her skeletons brought out for the world to see. She's obviously a hack and completely biased and political with her NY DA position, but she's being allowed to continue so the populace can witness first hand what will happen everywhere if these communists are allowed to be in power. Even so, there will be a point where she will have served her purpose and that's when the skeletons will be revealed and she will nose dive just like Fani is experiencing down in Georgia right now.

Assets are safe.... But for whom?

I hardly ever goto Wendy's, but Surge pricing for a burger?

Sounds dumb since they can't argue scarcity with freezers -- sorry fridges for Wendy's -- full of "we promise it wasn't ever frozen" burger patties. The ride share gig gets away with Surge pricing because they have to come to your indeterminate location and there are limited resources (drivers) available to meet the demand. Wendy's doesn't have to come to you, you go to it. Wendy's doesn't have limited resources in their kitchen, they simply have the machines and staff that they designed their kitchen to hold at that location. Wendy's in my experience generally made your meal upon order ( except the frys) so it's expected to take some time before you get your food. Not seeing definable wins other than arbitrarily raising prices.

Seems like it would be a hard sell since the whole idea lacks a reasonable explanation for existence or a definable problem surge pricing would solve for Wendy's. Let's say you get in line for ordering. You see prices increasing as you get closer to ordering. Option 1 is suck it up and pay more. Option 2 is leave and go elsewhere. Option 3 is jump to back of line or order a drink and go sit down for a minute so prices can reset. As an aside, the Option 1 group whom might feel wronged by the higher price might decide to go to a competitor in the future.

Personally, I think there might be a lot of option 2 and option 3. So Wendy's ends up getting slightly more money on fewer customers and customers slow down their ordering by getting water and later coming back to get food at the desired price.