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Elephants and Jackasses...

Discussion in 'Permanent Threads' started by Nettdata, Oct 14, 2016.

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    I'm headed up to Alberta for some hiking this summer. I'm thinking I might pretend to be a local if anyone asks.
     
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    We’ll allow it.
     
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    Over the last 3 years I've spent about 16 months hiking there so I'm guessing I can pass. Just wish they'd let me get a passport.
     
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    And we are. Good.
     
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    For context, this was the original commercial 25 years ago.

     
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    I choose to believe this is the original:

     
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    Original YT source:
     
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    War heroes and military firsts are among 26,000 images flagged for removal in Pentagon’s DEI purge

    And from 1984

     
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    And getting paid 6 figures to do it. A teacher in my school district with a masters degree and 35+ years of experience doesn't make $75k.

    But, Aeitus. I'm interested in your take on Gavin Newsome's decision to break podcast bread with Charlie Kirk. I didn't think he would take that track at all. I had higher hopes for him.
     
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    I haven't watched it yet, so I don't know what the vibe was exactly. I know Newsom definitely wants to be President, and in the past he has picked a lane of "be willing to go into the lion's den and defend California against anyone, at any time" like when he debated DeSantis with Hannity moderating, so this may be a continuation of that strategy. On the other hand, he could be triangulating and trying to move toward the center/right on some issues to broaden his base, which I think is stupid and destined to fail.
     
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    (you do realize that the Beaverton is Canada's version of The Onion, right?)

    Not saying I don't agree... just pointing out that the story is satire.
     
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    I still find it hilarious that the White House is full of homophobic morons that can't read. They have no clue what "transgenic" means, and immediately went to "we're creating gay mice, and it must be stopped!"

    For those of you that don't know, this is directly related to cancer research. Back in the day, a scientist named Phil Leder created something called the Onco Mouse. It was a genetically engineered/manipulated mouse that killed off all of the body's immuno responses to foreign bodies, like cancer. That meant that when a lab rat was injected with cancer, their immune system didn't try to fight it. Different rats would have different results, meaning that there was no guarantee that the cancer being bred in each rat was the same. The Oncomouse ensured that all of the cancers were the same in a cohort of research mice. This was HUGE. (I did some work building software for one of his labs, where my cousin did cancer research at Harvard).

    This is an extension of that work to make it even better, so that the cancer in the mice were behaving as if it was cancer in humans. Way cool.

    This is what Transgenic means.

    Way not "gay mice".

    Fucking retards.

    This was what was reported from the official White House site.

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