Republicans want to use the U.S. Military for domestic law enforcement and to crush protesters' right to free speech. Fascism 101.
And think about it. Why would anybody in their right mind want to prohibit the FBI from combating misinformation and disinformation, especially when it comes from foreign governments hostile to the U.S.?
Republicans are actually trying to encourage more election interference. They know America's enemies, China and Russia, are trying to spread lies to get Trump elected. And Republicans want their help with promoting lies in future elections.
Our enemies have seen that Trump, and the Republican Party, are people they can manipulate. If our enemies can see that, why can't you?
In this election, not voting, is a dangerous choice.
so there's this stupid little melody that has been stuck in my head for over a goddamn DECADE. I am 100% not exaggerating. the facts: I KNOW that it's classical music, a full orchestral piece, and the bit that's stuck is played by the brass section. the problem is that it's SO simple - it's literally just a broken triad - that no one I've talked to can place it, and it's not specific enough to search for online (and I have TRIED)
until now.
there's this site I just got shown called musipedia.org. it's apparently particularly good at identifying classical music - you can input it in a variety of ways (half are flash and don't work, sadly). with one of the ways, you can program in a melodic contour (literally just saying if notes go up or down) and...it works? really well??
I had another random little bit of something stuck in my head, so I put in the contour, and it immediately identified it:
lookit that! it's SO SPECIFIC DANG!
and so I put in that stupid little melody that has fucking plagued me and...
oh my god. that's it. it's fucking Tchaikovsky. I played it at least twice in high school, and somehow it just lodged in my brain but was like, so basic I could never place it. I am literally near tears, I have SOLVED this fucking mystery oh my god it's been so many years aaaaaaaaa
anyways here's the demon piece:
The Radio Philharmonic Orchestra led by Antony Hermus perform Pjotr Iljitsj Tchaikovsky's 'Capriccio Italien, Op. 45' during The Sunday Morn
btw its actually crazy that plantation tours are a thing that exist in the u.s. and that theyre not all set up like memorials similar to concentration camp museums like how is this marketed as a chill tourist activity or wedding destination and not extremely disturbing and depressing to see. worthless country
They're price-gouging so hard it surprised even Wells Fargo.
Wells Fargo analyst Mohit Bansal said the new pricing range for the vaccine could add around $2.5 billion to $3 billion in annual revenue for Pfizer.
"This is much higher than our assumption of $50 per shot, and even assuming $80 per shot net price in high-income countries, we see $2 per share upside to our estimates" from the new prices, Bansal wrote in a research note.
Price hikes like this are only possible because mRNA vaccine manufacturers refuse to release the patents and allow cheaper copies of the technology to be made, even though that would unquestionably speed access to more of the world. But releasing the patents would destroy the grip that Pfizer-BionTech and Moderna have on the mRNA vaccine market, preventing them from fixing prices like this. Both Moderna's and Pfizer's share prices have shot upwards after announcing this.
