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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik and Imran hold a long overdue conversation about United's awful league form with 1 win in 7. They discuss a disappointing draw at Bournemouth, a not so disappointing draw against Liverpool and a crushing defeat at Chelsea - Is time nearly over for Erik Ten Hag?
Then in a special second half of the pod, Nik welcomes Natalie ( https://twitter.com/natalie_17) to discuss the fortunes of Manchester United Women as they booked a place in the FA Cup Final after a historic first ever win vs. Chelsea.
You wanna go to congress but you don't know what a pronoun is? 
he fact she can spell pronoun puts her in he upper 20% of GOP leaning people.You wanna go to congress but you don't know what a pronoun is?
What is that even supposed to mean?
Either an ironic double misspelling, or a clever double misspelling.
A combination of rum and a shitty keyboard
Yes. Yes he absolutely does.
Well here a bbc article, with an expert saying it was gain-of-function, and another saying that "There is not always consensus [on gain-of-function research] even amongst experts, and institutions interpret and apply policy differently."
If that's the case, it seems a bit disingenuous to act like it's outrageous to consider such research as gain of function.
https://www.bbc.com/news/57932699
The Paul/Fauci discussion has 2 parts:
1. Is the EcoHealth Alliance work in Wuhan, funded by NIH/NAID, gain of function work?
2. Did the COVID-19 pandemic result from that work?
Let's start with 2 as this is the conclusion Paul wants to make and what prompted the "the only person lying here is you" jab by Fauci. Paul tried on numerous occasions to tie the work done at Wuhan to the pandemic. If you watch the complete exchange it is how he framed his questions. Based on all the information available (ie the grant abstract and resultant publications) this is impossible. This was simply not the type of work being funded. As I stated above, someone could have been working outside the scope of the grant, but that is always possible regardless of the grant or organization.
On the GOF. Based on the way I (and other waaaaaayyyy smarter people) read the US governments definition of GOF work in the 2014 U.S. Government Gain-of-Function Deliberative Process and Research Funding Pause on Selected Gain-of-Function Research Involving Influenza, MERS, and SARS Viruses - October 17, 2014 (phe.gov) I do not think the research was GOF. By a VERY literal definition of GOF (which is what I think Dr. Ebright is using) it would be, but that would mean every experiment ever done in science would be creating, or using, gain of function organisms.
- want to study the human insulin gene for diabetic research? You make a GOF mouse that expresses it
- want to study safely study Yersinia pestis (the bacteria that causes the "plague")? You insert a gene from one of the virulence associated plasmids into the benign background strain Yersinia pseudotuberculosis
- want to study the SARS-COV spike protein in a safe background (which is what EcoHealth wanted)? You make a chimera using the S protein and a well defined, attenuated, mouse viral backbone and infect human cells.
This is how research is done, and no scientists I have ever worked with would seriously consider any of the above examples as actual GOF research. The issue is in the wording, not in the reality. The twitter thread by Alina Chan (linked it he BBC article) does a good job of discussing this.
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A long Edit:
I should clarify my last statement. I am approaching this as a microbiologist, not as a scientist in general. I was trained to always be conscious of considering GOF when designing experiments. For instance, a classical method of creating bacterial gene deletions is to replace the gene with an antibiotic resistance gene and then grow the bacteria on/in a media containing the antibiotic. The reason for this is 2 fold: 1) the only way for the gene to be expressed is for the antibiotic resistance gene to replace the gene you want to knock out so.... 2) The bacteria still surviving will have your gene knocked out and all other cells will be killed.
The bacteria I worked on, Streptococcus pneumonia, has been around long enough that most strains in the wild are unfortunately resistant to ampicillin (a penicillin derivative) but still susceptible to cephalosporin class drugs. For this reason we would use ampicillin as our marker but never use a cephalosporin class drug. Either method will provide that strain with a GOF it did not have, but only in the latter drug will the GOF confer an advantage should it escape the lab. Any time we made knock ins/outs we always had to map out with our PI the possible outcomes for just this reason.
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Democrat Breaks It Down: "The Supreme Court That Dark Money BUILT"
Surprised this guy is still alive. He's not a saint himself, but he as certainly exposed the corruption and dark money running in politics. Unfortunately, MSM will not touch this subject.
Surprised this guy is still alive. He's not a saint himself, but he as certainly exposed the corruption and dark money running in politics. Unfortunately, MSM will not touch this subject.
Why is it that any RWNJ I know goes on some rant about vaccines or economics or military or yadda yadda, and often only when the President is a Democrat, it ultimately comes to the point when "we're becoming Venezuela!" enters the conversation?
This (by Democrats) is a more drastic version of what Republicans did to the governor's powers after a Democrat won the office (but before he formally took charge) in NC. In this case, a socialist won the primary.
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Ar this trajectory the americans would tore themselves apart in 10 years. Every 4 years is a stretch on extreme direction.
Before long they'll move on to using jailtime as weapon. If trump is successfully indicted and sent to prison all bets are off. Doesnt matter if it's justified or not there will be retaliation.
Them senators have dirts on everyone and anyone.
But sadly they'll probably find a shithole country to bomb and find a common baba yaga for everyone too hate.
Before long they'll move on to using jailtime as weapon. If trump is successfully indicted and sent to prison all bets are off. Doesnt matter if it's justified or not there will be retaliation.
Them senators have dirts on everyone and anyone.
But sadly they'll probably find a shithole country to bomb and find a common baba yaga for everyone too hate.
always skeptical of "nobody is covering this" but it seems consistently true wrt labour issues
i scrolled way down on the NYT page and found nothing, even in the much smaller national and city headlines:
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i scrolled way down on the NYT page and found nothing, even in the much smaller national and city headlines:
Of course. Both sides and the media count on big business money, so why would they give 2 shits about labor?always skeptical of "nobody is covering this" but it seems consistently true wrt labour issues
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i scrolled way down on the NYT page and found nothing, even in the much smaller national and city headlines:
They don't want to give people ideas. This country needs organized labor protests like I need oxygen.always skeptical of "nobody is covering this" but it seems consistently true wrt labour issues
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i scrolled way down on the NYT page and found nothing, even in the much smaller national and city headlines:
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she is pure evil
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They hate the other parties more than anything. It's already on ABDems level. Policy has nothing to do. And to be fair to them D or R wont get them better anyways, same shit different year.
Some highly intellect GOP might feel the need to secure their ideologies from D invasion. I dont agree but i can see how they value the old system, call it the better good in their eyes. Some are just pure racist, some are stupid and believe shits like Qanon.
Imho conspiracy theorist and qanon are just mask. Nobody is that stupid. They just need a clown mask to hide their motives (usurpation, insurgence, etc). With this at least they can pretend it's the deep state, it's hillary.
It is what it is. Every sane joe and jane knows the why, the million dollar question is how to fix it?
Senators Go After Unemployment Fraud — But Not Tax Cheats — To Pay For Infrastructure
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/en...-cheats_n_6102e399e4b0d3b5897b8bda?ri18n=true
Once again, Democrats bends over for Republicans. Corporate Dems are paid to lose.
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/en...-cheats_n_6102e399e4b0d3b5897b8bda?ri18n=true
Once again, Democrats bends over for Republicans. Corporate Dems are paid to lose.
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I 100% know where (at least the contents) are and I have no problem with it other than that I am super jealous. I take issue with the author not knowing it is whisky, not whiskey in Japan.
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ya, was going to post this. a real work of art in that you can't ever tell what the next sentence is going to be about.
I agree, they're there to look like they just can't manage to hold back corporate interests. While they represent corporate interests. Lots of reform ideas until they get in power.
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Fantastic news. I am guessing this means final FDA clearance is not too far behind.
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That's the Q-purge, by another name.
two birds and all that
His recent pressers to defend himself reek of narcissistic defense. Just gives me that vibe he'd crush your life with the power he possessed.
Hopefully he will take his brother with him. Can't stand him on CNN.
MY Governor! shudder to think what might have happened in 2020 had Walker not been (very narrowly) defeated!
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