Well, that's one way to crash the economy. But I'm sure if that happened it would somehow be the Democrats fault.
treefrog
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I told you I thought you were being disingenuous and now you're resorting to personal attacks calling me an idiot, and bringing my kid into it.
I think that says a lot about your ego. And any political positions you derive from it.
Nice conversation, take care.
Then why did you post this thread?
Because like it or not the current political system in the US is a trolley problem. It's a very binary do we go this way or do we go that way?
If you have no interest in the problem, then don't pay attention to US politics and don't make posts about it.
Not to mention a pardon for those pesky election interference charges
It's a trolley problem. Do you vote harris and kill X people? Or vote trump and kill X+X people?
The trolley will kill people either way. Do you let it lean left and kill some people? Or lean right and kill many more?
Better analogy?
I hear you on feeling like the lesser of two wrongs isn't a choice.
But, if you had a choice between the two. Would you prefer to poke out an eye or burn a finger?
Both options being bad doesn't mean they're equally bad. And sometimes we really do have to choose between the better of two bad options.
That's just life.
Trump has made it clear the gaza war will worsen with him in office.
So, I think you're being disingenuous. Especially considering the direct quote was in the parent comment we're all replying too.
My VPN.
Then I everything else for free.
On Oct. 9, the day before the launch, Warner Bros. Discovery contacted Alcon to request the ability to use specific images and clips from “Blade Runner 2049” for Tesla’s presentation. Alcon Co-CEO Andrew Kosove and Broderick Johnson “refused WBD’s request, objecting to their film being affiliated in any way with Tesla, Musk or any Musk-owned company,” according to the company. The lawsuit alleges that neither Warner Bros. Pictures nor any other WBD entity “has or ever had sufficient rights to allow Tesla to exploit ‘BR2049’ or any of its elements, marks or goodwill in connection with the globally livestreamed cybercab reveal event.”
They made the presentation and the day before asked for permission to use it. In another place in the article, Alcon stated that the price they charge to use their IP tends to run in the eight figure range.
I can understand Musk and Tesla doing this. But I'm really surprised a Warner Bros studio thought they could pull it off without getting sued.
This was also good.
Alcon’s suit said that in addition to “more ordinary commercial issues, there is the problematic Musk himself. Any prudent brand considering any Tesla partnership has to take Musk’s massively amplified, highly politicized, capricious and arbitrary behavior, which sometimes veers into hate speech, into account. If, as here, a company or its principals do not actually agree with Musk’s extreme political and social views, then a potential brand affiliation with Tesla is even more issue fraught.”
The reason I mentioned it is because the efficacy isn't there especially with stuff like CPTSD and PTSD. So, you give a patient an antidepressant and you diagnose them with depression so the insurance will pay for it, when the underlying cause is actually childhood trauma and then they get a false hope that the depression medication is going to fix them. And they get misdiagnosed in the process.
All of this is problematic for a number of reasons. And of course if the medication doesn't work the doctor will just say well let's try a different SSRI because often we need to go through three or four of them before we find something that works.
What works best for CPTSD is trauma-informed therapy. Thankfully the medical community seems to be getting wiser. And listening to patients better, at least around here.
I use the Tibetan Book of the Dead as a guide. For faces at the slip gates (i.e. the dweller on the threshold), recognize that they're nothing other than your own mind. Bless them with love and compassion, and then let them go to continue on your quest.