You make a lot of them. They are flat. They get painted, they get punched out, (this is where the ‘magic’ happens) they get shuffled around to load into machines to put them on the bottles, they go through the machine and they get clamped to the bottles.

There! Instant plastics!

Oh, up front costs are less, long term costs would be much more.

Not really. Putin’s negotiations have consistently been in bad faith and leads to more aggression.

While I would love for actual diplomacy to work, it seems to be viewed as weakness by folks like him.

Man, I wish talking would work.

It was an incredibly large antibiotic pill because I didn’t want to shower (it took away from reading) and I got impetigo.

Nazis?

What’s wrong with trains?!

Its truedeau. (Its a pun)

Ooh. Dunno about the adaptation side of things. I will say that I read the damned thing all in one night. Had to stay home from classes after doing so. Good book, to say the least.

I think they are buying carve outs for the tariffs

Yah. Mine just has full on knife wounds from that.

I…. Isn’t that what I said?

I mean, it is an awesome drug! I use it a lot. Even in covid suffers - when COVID activates an autoimmune disease.

Let’s do ivermectin next! I’ll go first: fantastic for endo and ectoparasites, and even a subset of folks with rosacea. Does jack all for Covid infections.

This is how you end up found dead on the toilet.

The thing is, he is not a moron. He just generalized his expertise in thoracic surgery to everything and found he could leverage an appeal to authority (him) for cash (thanks Oprah).