iraira comments

This is from Polifact.

Memos by the Office of the Solicitor General in 1929 and the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel in 2005 also say a president’s hand signature is not required.

There is no constitutional mechanism for overturning pardons, and an 1869 judicial ruling found that once delivered, a pardon is final.

So the president needs to be at the White House in order to execute his powers? Yeah, nice mental gymnastics there….

“Blacklabel

Going to be great to hear from the court about this “auto pen” legality for pardons when Biden wasn’t even at the White House.”

So if any law was signed by an autopen, it is eligible for annulment. This could allow Trump and his ilk to go through reams of passed laws eliminating all sorts of "impediments" to them seizing more powers.

We've come a long way in terms of how humans conduct war. 80 years ago and in previous wars, civilians were seen as targets. This is humanity's history, that civilians suffered being bombed and shot at along with the troops.

Have we evolved out of this?

We'll probably all be finding out the answer to that questions fairly soon.

This and the activists who burned up part of a Tesla dealership in Toulouse.

War was conducted very differently up until the end of the Vietnam war. Civilians were considered targets: Germany bombed London not for it's military capabilities, but to weaken the resolve of the civilians, etc.

The viewing of the past with the values of today is called presentism and assumes that today's values, methods and morals with regards to the conduct of war should have or existed in history.

Can't say that humanity isn't (won't) back-sliding into the civilians as targets mentality, but looking at "then" cannot be done without understanding that "then" was a different time in humanity's social evolution.

If AI has many problems getting peoples hands rendered properly, you can imagine how awful it will be at parsing out subtleties and nuances of the language. So many people have been banned or had their accounts restricted from various online social media sites due to a bot not understanding what was meant and taking terms too literally.

Nice distraction in trotting out a few common folks to serve as emotional anecdotes of "our successes". Meanwhile, the preponderance of Americans are going to be in for some severe sticker shock in the coming weeks and months once the tariff sprees kick in.

The closer Ukraine comes to the $500 billion in minerals requested, the more the US (Trump) will be able to support Ukraine. Nice mob-style shakedown tactic.

That depends on whether Putin sees China as an eventual threat moreso than the US and NATO.

TaiwanIsNotChina

irairaToday 04:16 pm JST

Trump playing nice with Putin and selling out Ukraine & NATO is designed to pull Putin/Russia away from China and further isolate China.

And what are the prospects of that gem of an idea?

Trump playing nice with Putin and selling out Ukraine & NATO is designed to pull Putin/Russia away from China and further isolate China.

In each of the fight that occurred today, there was already bad blood between the two combatants. To make anything more out of it means you don’t know anything about hockey.

Japan Today posts stories about all major sports championship games. The fact that some people choose to ignore that speaks to their prejudices and selfishness ("Japan Today should only post what I want to read"....wah wah wah). Yet, they still felt compelled to leave a denigrating comment, Grow up, it's not all about you.

If China is producing the drug, why are their imports being tariffed only 10% while many things from Canada and Mexico are at 25%? Why not make things more difficult for the producer in numerous other ways than tariffs and which do not involve souring relations with our neighbors?

Retirement due to a crime or a scandal is seldom permanent. Sadly, in time, people’s memories of the crime fade and the comeback begins.

@Wick's pencil

For LDL-cholesterol, there is a plethora of data showing a link to dementia.

"Having high cholesterol in our 40s, 50s and 60s is associated with an increased risk of dementia." (https://www.alzheimersresearchuk.org/dementia-information/dementia-risk/cholesterol-and-dementia-risk/)

"In a population of initially-healthy older adults aged ≥75 years, high HDL-C levels were associated with increased risk of all-cause dementia." (https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanwpc/article/PIIS2666-6065(23)00281-X/fulltext)

"High intake of dietary cholesterol was associated with a decreased risk of all-cause dementia and AD dementia." (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37874096/)

Sad to hear of Lynch’s passing.

The first Lynch film I saw was Blue Velvet when it came out, and it is still as beautifully disturbing now as it was then.

Starting in 25-40 years, it will be interesting to see if cases of senile dementia increase among the non-vaccinated/recovered from Covid population relative to those who were vaccinated given that spike protein accumulation (for up to 4 years post-infection) in the brain is higher among non-vaccinated folks than vaccinated folks.

Rong, et al., "Persistence of spike protein at the skull-meninges-brain axis may contribute to the neurological sequelae of COVID-19" Cell Host Microbe. 2024 Dec 11;32(12):2112-2130.e10. doi: 10.1016/j.chom.2024.11.007. Epub 2024 Nov 29.

Well not excusing the behavior of the care worker, there is an enormous turnover in this industry. Long hours, low pay and dealing with sometimes very abusive dementia patients who are by no fault of their own confused and terrified about the situation they’re in and who’s taking care of them, cause the patient to lash out at workers. Eventually, the worker breaks down.

Those father-son moments are so special

Chernobyl enters the room

Mr Kipling

And before someone starts arguing that nuclear power is dangerous, remember the death troll from radiation at Fukushima was ONE. That was one worker whose cancer death in 2018 was put down to exposure while measuring radiation levels.

@virusrex

side note on a recent neurological study focusing on accumulation of Covid spike protein in the brain lasting up to 4 years post-infection.

seems that the amount of spike protein accumulation is less in mRNA-vaccinated subjects than non-vaccinated subjects.

Cell Host & Microbe Dec. 11, 2024 Vol. 32, Issue 12, pg. 2112-2130

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39615487/

So I guess all this talk about food and utilities being too high was bunk.

Is this more heinous than the Japanese nursery school teacher just sentenced for molesting numerous students?

If Japan believes the US to be unreliable in terms of Japan's defense, Japan will seek to remove Article 9 from limiting the types of weaponry (including nuclear) it can possess. Could trigger a new arms race as Korea and possibly Taiwan would seek the same.

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I’m kind of surprised Trump even knew that Japanese-American citizens had been interned in America during World War II.

Aside from Trump's obvious cognitive issues, his supporters who find this type of talk from a presidential candidate as acceptable is more reflective of who they are as people.

"Psychological issues" is also two words

Daniel Neagari

two words comes to mind "spoiled brat"

Had an ostrich meat burger a long time ago. Meat was juicy and felt less fatty than beef, if that makes any sense. Tasted great.

Seems like musk wants all of the benefits and none of the responsibilities of running a company.