clonedhuman

Fuck yes.

It's a very specific group of people who suck like this, and they think they're the heroes of the story.

These fucking Conservatives desperately need to have their fucking heads kicked in. They're fucking apes; they don't understand anything else.

The cells in this study were from induced pluripotent stem cells, where normal somatic cells are basically programmed to become pluripotent cells (which, otherwise, can only really be obtained from fetal tissue).

Induced pluripotent stem cells were also made by Japanese scientists, but I think around the year 2000. That's almost two decades after Republicans in the U.S. cut most federal funding for stem cell research.

Those 'Conservatives' have damaged our society in so many ways.

This was done in Japan.

Imagine how far the United States could have come in stem cell research if the Republicans (particularly Reagan and later George W. Bush) hadn't constantly cut funding and restricted use of embryonic stem cells.

100%

With all the money in politics now, and the fact that the campaigns with the most cash behind them almost always win, our representatives don't have to be answerable to voters any longer. They just have to be answerable to the people spending the most cash.

Even then, the corporations and foreign entities that fund most of the campaigns right now just throw their cash behind the winners if the person they initially supported loses.

In the minds of people like Leon, you can literally buy elections simply by outspending the candidate you don't like--and, looking at the statistics, he's right. Then, even if they lose, they just chuck a bunch of money at the winning candidate. These people have no ethics, no respect for law, and they would rather destroy our institutions than have them work against them. And, unfortunately, they're so wealthy now that they can, in fact, destroy our institutions.

And this will hit the people hardest who voted for them.

Back in the day, Wells Fargo would intentionally run higher charges first in their cycle so that people couldn't skirt the edges of overdraft. Like, if someone made a $35 purchase, and three $1 purchases over the same two day period, they would immediately run the $35 purchase and then charge three overdraft fees for each of the $1 purchases instead of running the three $1 purchases first (even if they came first) and then charging a single overdraft fee when the $35 purchase hit.

I believe they got a fine for it.

A small number of multi-billionaires and a squad of bootlicking lackeys are responsible for this and for similar things across the planet.

None of the standard ways of doing things are going to solve this problem.

The small number of multi-billionaires must be dealt with.

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Also piracy is a great alternative to paying subscription fees, and it's not terribly difficult to do.

This is the truth.

Politicians need to learn to fear repercussions from the people they are supposed to represent.

They don't fear the vote any longer because, consistently, the politicians who spend the most money win. They just need to promise billionaires enough ill-gotten profit and they believe they'll win. They don't need to care about us at all--unless we force them to care.