Oh no surrealist memes is leaking again.

Best of luck with it fam. Good to know there’s a healthy exit somewhere out there.

Ugh, just wish it was someone more…ideologically agreeable…that was making this kind of statement.

Can confirm. Source: I am that co-worker

I think the real apathy about the release is how unorganized/difficult to browse the files were.

I watched a bunch of videos of people “dissecting” the files. After some nothing burger takes, I decided to pull down a copy of the files.

Yeah, there could be some genuinely incriminating stuff on there, but with how difficult it is to browse through, it could see the wheat getting overlooked in the chaff (think I’m using that metaphor correctly?).

Can’t find a source for it in the quick, but I remember there being a huge set of claims that were expected to be denied by United Healthcare (corporation who’s leader was killed) based on the historical precedence they’d set, but were approved. I want to say that was still going for at least 6 months following the killing, but sounds like they’re ratcheting back to previous practices.

Ew.

So that is to say, as far as you know, the method I describe above more or less still applies for pigs, sheep, etc?

Eh, I feel like the female cow is still getting a raw deal. Less raw than the classic “breed this bull with this cow” arrangement, but still somewhat not good.

Trying to be “facts forward” so make of this what you will. Source: I was in FFA in highschool in a beef intense-ish area.

The method of collecting semen I’m most familiar with is when they take a female cow in heat and tie her up, then bring a male bull they want to collect semen from into the same pen. The male will smell the female is in heat, gets erect, and will attempt to mount her.

As the male is trying to mount the female, people in the pen with the cattle will have a large rubbery “sleeve” on a pole (imagine a cow sized condom on a stick) that they will maneuver around the bull’s penis as it mounts the cow. He does his thing in the condom thinking he’s inside the female (usually less than 30 seconds) dismounts and then the ranchers have their semen for artificial insemination.

I’ve been out of that area for over a decade now so a new method may have emerged since then, but in my Animal Sciences class, that’s how we were taught semen is harvested for most livestock.

Edit: I distinctly recall the “artificial vagina” being on a stick (and laughing about it in class), but best video I can find on the quick: https://youtu.be/-4ma3WeOxbo

From the first article you linked:

Under the Jones Act, any vessel can enter Puerto Rico. In fact, many foreign vessels enter Puerto Rico regularly, importing goods from countries around the world. However, transportation of goods between two U.S. ports must be carried out by a vessel that was built in the U.S. and operated primarily by Americans. This law doesn’t single out Puerto Rico – it applies to all U.S. ports, the only exception being the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Don’t get me wrong, I hate the Jones Act as much as any rational American would, but from what I hear, they get a grab bag of exemptions on taxes when moving goods to/from South America (I suppose via non-US ships and via aircraft).

I don’t have the time for proper research at the moment to try to find what my dudes have talked about when it comes to laxer import/export controls, but may revisit later today if I get some down time.

I don’t spend a lot of time with Puerto Ricans, but the two I keep in semi-regular contact with have said that they don’t want Puerto Rico to become a state (they wave vaguely at the rules for imports/exports to South American countries; apparently the island has relaxed rules on that compared to states?).

What’s actually stopped them from.becoming a state in the past? Seems like ~2013 was the last time a movement for that had any real traction?

I don’t know what you mean lol

Hard agree on this one (´･ω･`)

Yeah, what’s with boomers and the need to add an emoji at the end if each message?

Makes sense, but couple clarifying questions:

By “ending careers for working with Obama”, you mean the people mostly left over from Bill Clinton’s time as president were threatening people within the Democratic party to not work with Obama?

Obama, rightfully pissed off made a stupid decision and allowed the neoliberals to hang onto the DNC.

Wait so, he was so mad at them that he…let them keep power? That doesn’t make sense. Can you shed any light on why he’d do that?

Man, that Victory Fund sounds corrupt as hell. Thanks for explaining things I was too immature/politically ignorant to pay attention to back in the day.

if you didn’t play ball they bankrupted your entire state and let Republicans take it to punish you and set an example to get there states.

I don’t think I follow the logic on this, most probably because I’m not sure which funds / fund pools you’re referring to.

Could you explain what you mean a bit more ELI5 level?

I actually prefer to microdit.

Its my understanding it does, but is generally far less noticeable (gets caught and held in hair, then washed out when bathing) but is usually cared for / treated by using proper hair products.

I’d be curious to read more about this effect (something I don’t think I’ve heard of before). Can you point me resources / examples of this?

Link to actual translation?