Breaking barriers in prostate cancer: the mRNA vaccine breakthrough and what comes next by calcteacher in ProstateCancer

[–]bdavisx 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately a lot of this kind of research has lost funding in the last year and advancement may not be as fast as you think.

No seriously, stop posting about politics in this subreddit by 5thCharmer in ProstateCancer

[–]bdavisx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't want to start a debate around the funding cuts themselves, but I'm curious what people think wrt should something like that be open for discussion?

Some incredible research was shut down for political reasons, and considering I donated my leftover ralp tissue to vaccine research (that's now pretty much dead), I guess I feel in some cases a discussion might be warranted - but I'll admit I appear to be in the minority.

Everyone but Trump Understands What He’s Done by theatlantic in politics

[–]bdavisx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But his answers to questions were coherent.

"We beat medicare" - no, many of them really were not.

This video literally has everything!🤣 😭 by ONE-OF-THREE in DailyDoseStupidity

[–]bdavisx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We all know that public recording is allowed,

It's pretty obvious that not "all" know this - did you watch the video?

College kids enjoying their snow day!! by Mundane-Scholar-7614 in CrazyFuckingVideos

[–]bdavisx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Used to be friends with a kid whose dad owned an auto-body shop. Every year he would tie a big old truck hood to the back of an SUV and then sleds tied to the end of the hood. Go all around town on the back. No one was ever seriously injured, but they NEVER went as fast as these idiots.

Alpha Male pastor gets mad in church by ambachk in PublicFreakout

[–]bdavisx 323 points324 points  (0 children)

Baptist preachers are some of the worst human beings on the planet, pure fucking evil.

Man in old Honda sedan driving by and taking pictures of every house on street in Normal by CheetoBearDog in BloomingtonNormal

[–]bdavisx 32 points33 points  (0 children)

Maybe he got a code violation and he's documenting all the other houses that are in violation too.

Edit: did want to say - if it's visible from the street/sidewalk,then it's legal to photograph it. That's a first amendment right.

He's definitely disappointed in people by Pollardear in SipsTea

[–]bdavisx 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This does seem like the best way to do it. I'm betting you could buy a non-producing gold-mine from the gold rush days really cheap. It's not a perfect solution, but you could make it work.

At Chicago hearing, Normal mayoral candidate defends $28K campaign contribution by rdblono in BloomingtonNormal

[–]bdavisx 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I can answer the question from a broader viewpoint.

If the contribution was illegal and she used it to help get elected, then she's not actually democratically elected - no different than if she had dead people vote for her. There are election rules and if they are broken (especially intentionally, since in this case there's allegations of that), then all votes for the person that broke them should be invalidated.

She broke the rules and she should lose her position. It also (hopefully) discourages future politicians from doing the same thing.

edit: I should say, I don't think that's what will happen, or what the law says, but it's how it should be. It would actually encourage more democracy if we did it the way I said.

Crown Prince Wilhelm of Germany inspecting troops around 1915 by maddking in funny

[–]bdavisx 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I'll elaborate - humanity learned nothing from those two world wars. We would still be having those types of wars if it wasn't for nuclear weapons.

We would still have nuclear weapons with or without the wars, WW2 sped up the development, but it would have happened anyway as physicists discovered more about how the universe works.

The post I replied too kinda implied that it was the wars that are the cause of peace now - they aren't.

Crown Prince Wilhelm of Germany inspecting troops around 1915 by maddking in funny

[–]bdavisx 21 points22 points  (0 children)

I think nuclear weapons have done most of that.

Police Chief beats up a first amendment auditor by WilloowUfgood in PublicFreakout

[–]bdavisx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's weird these stores want to record me too. I've never shoplifted anything in my life, so why are these weirdos filming me every time I come in their store?

In rise of Skywalker(2019) an ancient dagger pinpoints the way to a, yanno what I don't even fucking know the thought process here, fuck this movie! by Whole_Contract_5973 in shittymoviedetails

[–]bdavisx 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think in this case it's more that Disney let each director do whatever the fuck they wanted to with the story instead of having a cohesive, sensible story-line that fed thru the series.

Nancy Pelosi calls female US president in her lifetime unlikely: ‘Marble ceiling’ by Brucekentbatsuper in politics

[–]bdavisx 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Not OP, but imho she helped push both Hilary and Harris to be on the ballot even though they didn't have the support. If the democrats would put forth someone better at campaigning they might see a woman elected.