People bought vans in the 70s just for fucking. Good times.

GT cars certainly do have headlights and road cars haven’t had glass lenses in a decade.

Black car owners like to dark tint their brake light and turn signal lenses because you wanna be STEALTH when you brake or turn.

Still a tank. When you are the world’s biggest asshole, you drive around in a tank. Still listed at 20,000lbs.

A stock Escalade IQ is 9,000 lbs.

They are installing AC at a breakneck pace.

So move to a non shithole country.

The problem with pets is that they have none of the bad aspects of living with people but they just don’t live long enough. You gave her a good happy life, and death is a part of life and living.

Three people now monitor food safety for the entire country. Put the blame where it belongs.

Lemmy has it’s head up its ass when it comes to farming in massive quantities. We don’t even check what small farms do. At all.

Let Farming While Beige explain it.

all research performed under a grant goes through their internal peer review with qualified reviews.

You don’t want internal peer review, that’s a conflict of interest.

If you can publish, get grants, bring money and prestige to your university or department, you are rewarded. Its hard to find wrong doing, easy to turn a blind eye, or difficulty holding people accountable in the system as it exists because of these pressures and how the process actually works.

that’s how it worked before 2025. now the NIH has dried up. And it was never about “prestige”, NIH grants come with institutional overheads that used to fund the university. A $2M NIH grant could have overheads of an additional $2M to the institution, and the salaries of researchers came out of these grants, which is unique to the US system.

The publish or perish world of academics rewards quantity over quality to a degree.

Wrong. Academics are about citations. They care about H-index and i10 index. Many papers no one cares about do not get you anywhere.

You work for free for the prestige.

With so many journals, no one cares about Editorial prestige any more.

that’s how they fund peer review.

peer review is not funded at all. That’s the problem.

.The number of papers indexed in the databases Scopus and Web of Science, for example, has recently been increasing exponentially, at a rate of 5.6 percent per year. By one estimate, researchers around the globe are devoting a collective 15,000 years of work to peer review every year—work that, if paid, would cost $1.5 billion for the share done in the US alone. Increasingly, researchers are finding it hard to donate that kind of time.

Thankfully, Donald Trump defunded all science so this is no longer an issue.

“I struggle like anything to get peer reviewers,” said Haseeb Irfanullah, who is on the editorial board of Wiley’s Learned Publishing

Wiley is worth US$2.8B and pays exactly $0.00 for reviews. I get US$500/hr consulting to Wall street. Listening to publishers whine about unpaid labor is tedious. You want my expert opinion? PAY.

In Asia I watched cats hunt snakes. No idea they did that.

Sand pipers pretend to have a broken wing to get people away from the nest of babies. It’s heroic and cute mothering.

MMR = measles, mumps, rubella.

Td = diptheria and tetanus.

Proven safe for 50 years. So who is going to pay for these new vaccine formulations that will have to be FDA approved, and who is going to pay for 5 MD visits instead of one?

it will increase chances of children getting sick.

Too bad ya’ll fired Fauci and want to burn him at the stake, but how does anyone space the MMR vaccine?

I looked up a dump I lived in in Durham NC 1996-99. I paid $420/month for a two bedroom.

Today they want $2500/mo but they upgraded to grey click flooring.

This happened under Biden with E.coli in onions. Taylor farms because they produce $7.5B in onions just in Colorado.

https://www.fda.gov/food/outbreaks-foodborne-illness/outbreak-investigation-e-coli-o157h7-onions-october-2024

Blame big agriculture? We don’t even check small farms for contamination.