That matches the hue, but the added dimension is the saturation. Counties in brighter colors are more impacted by retaliatory tariffs, while duller colors are less impacted. The point is to illustrate that a higher proportion of impacted counties voted for Trump than if the impact were spread evenly, though the effect is not that pronounced. Statistically, people working in different industries tend to vote one direction or the other compared to average, but there are still both Harris and Trump voters in every industry.
ignirtoq
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You're right on all counts. The last 4 years they've finally perfected the propaganda bubble they started after the impeachment of Nixon, so they don't have to hide anything anymore. They don't have use loopholes, or hidden time bombs, or anything. They can straight up say the quiet part out loud, and put on paper exactly what they want, and their media will just bald-face lie about it to the public, and there are no consequences.
Hell, they released their whole plan (Project 2025) with nothing redacted or disguised in euphemism or anything, a full year before the election, so everyone had plenty of time to see the full, real picture, and they still won quite handily. I don't know how we recover from this.
Offit said the typical death rate from measles is about 1 in 1,000. It could be a fluke, but such a high death rate at this point in the outbreak could mean that it is much bigger than is being recognized.
This is what's really scary to me. Quite early in the pandemic Trump said we should stop testing for it to make the cases go down. We should absolutely believe in his second term he will do everything he can to implement that idea, especially with RFK Jr. at the helm of HHS. It'll start with us hearing about the resurgence of many diseases we had eliminated from the US through vaccines. And then we'll stop hearing about it, at least from government officials.
The next step after that is anyone's guess, but if they follow the route Florida took during the COVID pandemic, they'll start persecuting scientists who try to independently do the job the government is abdicating.
Why would I pronounce something with rules of English that's not an English word? When I say the word jalapeno, I pronounce the tilde on the n even though in English it's neither written with the tilde nor written with a letter combination that would produce that sound through standard English spelling.
In relation to English, it's the "ng" sound in the common "-ing" ending or suffix.
Wikipedia has an entire article on it (of course): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiced_velar_nasal
I don't want to go through another pandemic either. COVID has ravaged my body, so I don't know if I could handle H5N1 anywhere near as well as I could 5 years ago. But does bitching at me about how I may be not exactly correct help that in any way? There's tons of people all over social media spouting full on wrong or outright deceitful information over and over again, and I'm trying to push the narrative towards experts' messages as well as I can. People don't remember information because it's correct, they remember what they hear the most. We can't just sit back and hope the experts are loud enough on their own to combat misinformation.
I apologize for sounding more definitive than the reality. This is probability and statistics, so it's not a sure thing until it actually happens. What I was trying to point out was that as long as we're complacent and allow an "acceptable level" of cases, the probabilities will keep getting worse. I have to simplify something, and I guess I went too far this time. Do you have a better way to phrase it that doesn't get so mired in the details people's eyes will glaze over?
A lot of stuff going on in the world for me to keep up with, so no, I hadn't dived that deep into the virology of bird flu. Are we gatekeeping trusting experts now? Am I not allowed to repeat what they say at a high level about mutations and statistics until I pass some threshold of detailed understanding of mechanism?
The woman was exposed to poultry in a backyard flock that tested positive for H5N1, the CDC report said, adding that she remained hospitalized at the time of the report.
A man in Mercer county, Ohio, was infected while depopulating, or killing, H5N1-positive poultry at a commercial facility, according to a statement from the Ohio department of health.
So both very likely caught it from poultry, as opposed to other people. As we see more cases, though, it's only a matter of time before it mutates and becomes capable of human-to-human transmission.
Also:
“I am very worried about H5N1 in patients that are being treated in hospitals where there are also many seasonal flu patients because this creates opportunities for reassortment, which could potentially produce a pandemic-capable H5N1,” Rasmussen said.
I hadn't even considered reassortment with the seasonal flu. Yet another thing to keep me up at night.
It's not disingenuous. There's multiple definitions of "offline" being used here, and just because some people aren't using yours doesn't mean they're ignorant or arguing in bad faith.
Your definition of "offline" is encompassing just the executable code. So under that definition, sure, it's offline. But I wouldn't call an application "offline" if it requires an internet connection for any core feature of the application. And I call saving my document a core feature of a word processor. Since I wouldn't call it "offline" I'm not sure what I would call it, but something closer to "local" or "native" to distinguish it from a cloud based application with a browser or other frontend.
This president, more than any of his modern predecessors, has more national opponents than supporters, and given the recent trajectories, his support isn’t likely to recover any time soon.
But what kind of power do his opponents wield, are they willing to use it, and are they willing to work with each other? Many authoritarian regimes have lasted for many years, some decades, with minority support. As long as Trump keeps the billionaires on his side, I don't see this changing for a very long time.
I think you've already answered your own question. Trump's first presidency was very different from his second. And the key difference is his advisors. No one knew how to deal with Trump in his first presidency, and the overarching pattern above the chaos was his close advisors constantly working against him to protect the system.
In the break between his terms, he found people who would follow any of his directives, no matter how stupid or damaging. Or I should say, they found him. Trump is now being manipulated himself by a group of "loyalists" who stand to gain from the exact chaos Trump was thwarted from doing the first time around. These people know enough about how the systems work to be actually dangerous. And now that his advisors are philosophically aligned with him, he's actually doing what he says he's going to do. I would argue the 4 years of a Trump reprieve may have been the worst of all possibilities, because it gave Trump and his new in-group time to find each other and prepare.
But most people weren't paying attention. Many saw Trump in 2024 just like they saw him in 2016; the counterweight, spoiler, outsider set to upset Washington and get real changes happening. They thought Democrats weren't helping them enough, and so wanted to upset the apple cart and get someone different in the high seat. They weren't paying close enough attention to see that this time was actually radically different to all elections before, and I saw many, many people dismissing the warnings as "oh everyone claims their opponents are fascists, or are going to destroy the country."
So it's a combination of people not paying attention, as usual, and Trump actually changing how he's doing things this time in the worst way possible.
Given she's freaking out about a driver's license, I'm guessing he was driving without a license and got arrested for it.