More like a political commissar…

I doubt it’ll last though. Hopefully it lasts at least long enough for a sane administration to get back in office.

Yes, they pump rats full of a fuckton of these chemicals that no normal human being will ingest

“Dosage make the poison” comes to mind. If it’s safe below those levels… Then it’s not harmful. “BUT IT MIGHT BE” is not a coherent argument. I’m not necessarily against banning a substance that has little functional use out of an abundance of caution - but lets not pretend that it’s going to save any lives since it’s very unlikely to do so.

A red dye was recently banned because it was found to be carcinogenic.

That is very oversimplified…

Carcinogenic is not “true/false” it is probabilistic. The EU has a lower standard of evidence required for banning a substance than the US. In the EU if there was any evidence at all of it being carcinogenic in animal studies (whether in realistic quantities over realistic time periods or not) means it will be banned (I’m over-simplifying some here as well). The US standards are different.

You could say that this is a better standard as it is more cautious. I may agree. But you can’t say “it was banned because it was carcinogenic” without a lot of qualifiers.

Everyone around me thinks the crap they allow in our food is bad for us.

Without evidence of course. Just the same lack of critical thinking that RFK has. It “seems bad” and “it’s chemicals”.

Europeans done have the same issues we do with food because they’re much more regulated.

BS.

Partisans. 🙄

Yeah… 80 year old people don’t just die everyday… Something’s definitely suspicious.

I’ll never understand what is so fucking difficult about dealing with people like trump,

Dealing with Trump may be easy. Dealing with the United States of America with Trump controlling it is an entirely different matter. He has a lot of power (thanks Justice Roberts!).

People keep coming down hard on Universities and other entities “bending the knee”, but when you have the full weight and might of the federal government (which has effectively unlimited resources) fighting against you you don’t have many options. It’s a true existential crisis.

Trump is right (vomit) that tariffs tend to impact our trade partners more than than US since the US does import more than it exports. High tariffs are nothing to shrug off. Being locked out of the US market is a pretty big deal if you do business internationally.

My vehicle is my second largest investment I’ve made and it is a depreciating asset.

So is your house. Do little to no up-keep on it and see how it affects the value over time. But you don’t just get a new house when your roof starts to leak or when your furnace breaks do you? You replace it and fix it over time. You don’t do that as much with a car. At some point those maintenance costs outweigh the costs of getting a new vehicle.

But it’s also not just “the house” - it’s “property”. And property values change based on many other factors - lots of which are outside your direct control.

For most people it’s the single largest investment they’ve ever made. So yeah, they’re reluctant to just see the price tank.

Weather.gov is amazing! I keep hoping that it survives the culling…

Wow, she still has to work at… 45?

I don’t see why they should need to address all the concerns specifically if they’ve provided the option people want anyway?

It seems they don’t really force you to use the AI anyway so people could just ignore it if they wanted?

It might. It might help too (something your link explicitly states). It may be circumstantial.

The Sea Slug Defying Biological Orthodoxy

God I hate titles like this. I realize they need to ‘jazz up the science’ a bit but there is no such thing as Biological Orthodoxy. This sort of shit is spouted by conspiracy theorists like RFK jr. and his ilk - we don’t need it in the Atlantic.

Especially one convicted of fraud.

CNN’s KFile uncovered the raw footage during a review of archival video of Trump at events in the 1990s and 2000s.

Trump’s wedding was a media event, lots of cameras were there. They just sifted through their own tapes.

This Department of Justice does not tolerate rogue judges — especially when they threaten the President’s core Article II powers,”

Not even hiding the fascism anymore. All that matters is what Trump wants. The state should just support Trump’s will.

I have been assured by the U.S. Department of Justice that…

Yeah… Good luck with that buddy.

Ah - right. I got the timeline wrong.