Here's a few I've seen

From what I've seen the early contender is this

I like this meme lol

Workers of the world unite

Lotta Jews from Spain went to Spanish territories. For my part, I totally accept her as a member of the tribe.

Wikipedia just told me PR has the largest Jewish population in Caribbean. I like the media coverage that she "claims" to have Jewish roots.

"A few gasps and an audible, “oh really?” greeted her initial statement that she has Sephardic roots. A crying baby and a wandering toddler [toddler definitely Jewish] later interrupted her speech.... She didn’t explain why she has apparently never mentioned the issue before."

https://forward.com/fast-forward/415...-jewish-roots/

Alexandiaspora Ocasio-Cortez

lol this guy is so unbelievably rustled and terrified of the idea that she may actually will have a legislative impact

AOC is awesome. The danger is expecting far too much when she is very much a foothold on the mountain at the moment. More need to follow and it's so much easier to follow.

The "concentrate" meme is amusing.

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One thing I will say--I wish she didn't feel the need to defend herself against idiots. Just ignore them and move on.

People who aren't ****ing ******ed know she didn't do anything remotely close to what Warren did.

All she had to say was: "I found out some of my ancestors are Sephardic Jews who emigrated to Puerto Rico hundreds of years ago. I think that's pretty cool and emblematic of the diversity of culture and ancestry in Puerto Rico."

She's drawing a lot of attention to it for no real reason other than to feed trolls.

troll-slayer tho

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The only problem with them is the high initial cost. Waste storage is not an issue at all, problem is people who don't understand nuclear radiation equate all waste as being the same. Low level waste and spent rods are different, there's actually very little high level waste.

The other issue that has plagued the industry has been the winning bids for a reactor are always given to some plan that is brand new that can be run slightly more efficiently. Unfortunately, since it is brand new no one has any experience implementing it and thus it runs way over budget. Korea has done a good job of stealing Canadian designs and not paying for it, but then implementing the same design over and over again and having very low costs as a result.

When you factor in mining costs of the rare metals for solar, nuclear is much better for the environment.

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This is mostly wrong. Waste in theory and even in Germany is not a huge problem. In the real world USA waste is stored in rotting containers too fragile to move sitting right on the beach in front of reactors in San Onofre and Diablo canyon and even if the waste could be moved no one wants it and no one wants it traveling through their areas.

The "rare metals" thing for solar is pure propaganda on the level of crying Solyndra. Some rare materials that are a problem are used in amorphous solar cells, not crystaline cells, and amorphous cells are a small and shrinking part of the market.

This middle paragraph is probably good and just another part of why nuclear won't work in the US and is obsolete in the US. You can say "it shouldn't be that way", but it is. No more nuclear plants should even be contemplated in the US and probably one more generation should be built in developing countries. China in particular has growing power needs that require the all-of-the-above approach that we don't need. China is also installing far more solar than anyone else.

AOC, just please don't get a DNA test.

I said the price to produce those drugs goes down, not the price to purchase them. Clearly regulation is needed in this area. My post was responding to Sklansky who was implying that letting the masses have access to the 100k drugs to cure hepatitis or whatever is not financially sustainable. A drug that costs 20k now to produce won’t cost that if it’s suddenly mass-produced.

That definitely doesn’t happen in biglaw firms, summer interns make bank.

WTF, I was told it was HIGHLY INAPPROPRIATE to question a 4-star general.

AOC slaying Generals now, all heads of trolls and AOC-haters are currently exploding.

Sorry to bring up an old post, but this is something I actually know about. The hep c drugs are super expensive right now, yes. But even with how expensive they are, it pales in comparison to the cost of treatment over the lifetime of someone with hep c. Annual costs for hep c and no cirrhosis is about 17k, end stage disease costs 60k/year.

If its not breaking any laws I would like to see this and the post it is replying to transferred to SMP. It is written as though it is not debatable. But before I fully accept it (which is important regarding whether I should buy LTBR) I would like to have input from people who know what the double slit experiment is.

I'm pretty solidly OK with expensive curative drugs. I'm pretty not ok with super expensive drugs that keep sick people alive and sick for 6 more months, just enough time to transfer their assets to the drug maker.