America First is a different concept, and would be more like developing a vaccine and making sure Americans are vaccinated before anyone in other countries. But in this case we may not be the first to develop it so we want to buy it for ourselves.
Imagine the reaction from Trump's base if he could tell them that "he" secured a vaccine that will only be available to Americans.
To be clear, I'd much rather see America (or any country) develop a vaccine and share it to the world free of royalties, but at least in America, that's not the political climate we live in.
On April 12, 1955, the day the Salk vaccine was declared “safe, effective and potent,” legendary CBS newsman Edward R. Morrow interviewed its creator and asked who owned the patent. “Well, the people, I would say,” said Salk in light of the millions of charitable donations raised by the March of Dimes that funded the vaccine’s research and field testing. “There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?” Lawyers for the foundation had investigated the possibility of patenting the vaccine but did not pursue it, in part because of Salk’s reluct
If the revelations that Trump has fantasized about incest with his own daughter, cheated on all of his wives, had sex with pornstars and paid them off, bribed government officials, has gone bankrupt multiple times, has been sued by fraud multiple times, is enriching himself using public funds, is accepting money from foreign governments and making political decisions based on that, has attempted to coerce a foreign government into acting against a US citizen, has interfered with criminal investigations, has covered up and destroyed evidence of criminal actions, and is possibly suffering early on-set dementia isn't enough bad press...
What do you think are going to be the actual repercussions, in the US, of learning that the US president is trying to secure exclusive US control of a vaccine for COVID19 for priority distribution in the US?
They aren't going to be any. Indeed, to his base, stuff like this is exactly why they voted for him. (If Trump had succeeded in securing that vaccine solely for the US, he would win in November in a landslide.) And that's pretty much the extent of the calculations that went on in his head when he attempted this stunt.
It's a good thing he failed. But let's be responsible about disclosure and time it so that he can't derive any political benefit from it.
"In a normal presidency, any one of these scandals would have sunk it but with Trump, we get a new one every week and nothing."
(I forget but probably someone on Lawyers,Guns,Money.)
No one really cares about such a minor distinction. Perhaps you have some experience with these agencies but for the vast majority of people they're basically the same thing - especially for non-Americans (the Grauniad is English).
Deciding that the rest of the story is "highly doubtful" over that is your call but ffs there are pictures. No musician breaks their own utterly unique instrument to craft a fake story. Be real.
That it's apparently so difficult to precisely assign accountability for this damage is it's own issue, not a cause for suspicion of the story. Lol.
As I stated in my original post I understand the musician not knowing the difference; however, a professional reporter not knowing the difference or being able to do enough journalistic research to discover the difference is unacceptable.
I didn't say that the musician faked the damage to his instrument. That is something you read into my comments.
It is the reporters job to do actual journalism and discover the complete story as best they can. If a reporter can't even figure out which agencies are involved how can I trust that they have done anything to accurately reflect the whole story.
> As I stated in my original post I understand the musician not knowing the difference; however, a professional reporter not knowing the difference or being able to do enough journalistic research to discover the difference is unacceptable.
This is in fact the norm. Journalists write about things they know nothing about under deadline all the time. They have next to no incentive to be accurate since most readers don't know anything about the area they're writing about. People who show through their reporting that they really know what they're talking about in areas where people actually make money tend to get offered jobs that pay better than reporting too.
That reporting is generally awful isn't new and it isn't an accident; it's a feature of the way news is made and paid for.
Where does the article say that the TSA are border agents, or that customs and the TSA are the same thing? The pedantry and slating of the journalist here is unwarranted.
The point is, a priceless and unique instrument has been destroyed and there is no accountability. How you got from there to wherever you are is beyond my comprehension.
There sure has been a shift though. You'd be just the guy to shed some light on these changes.
For example, when did flagged comments become unreadable, rather than simply folded up by default? I'd like to see the logic on that one, if any was given at all.
Was there an algorithm change that lets popular stories under active discussion on touchy subjects get disappeared with a few flags, or was that here from the start too?
Are there any logs you can point me to that would reveal the scale of removed stories over time?
It's hard to know what specifically you're referring to, but to the extent that I understand your questions, the answer is that things have worked that way for many years, certainly before I started moderating in 2012.
There was no need to post all those sibling comments; I didn't reply sooner because I simply hadn't seen this yet. That's one reason why the site guidelines ask you to email hn@ycombinator.com instead of posting like this in the threads.
It seems that there's been an effort to make school as bad as possible.
The research has shown for decades that homework is an utter and complete waste of time, but, much like any hazing ritual, some people foam at the mouth at the suggestion of ending it.
Schools in Scandinavia have proven success with anti-bullying programs, that have not been taken up elsewhere.
School lunch programs (again, pretty much everywhere outside Scandinavia) are dire.
Physical education, proven to enhance learning outcomes and well-being, probably amounts to about 40 minutes per week in most Western countries.
And don't get me started on the American higher education system... My god. It's racist, classist, and still under attack from rabid morons who would rather an Erdogan style system of educating.
America developing a vaccine first and sharing it with the world for free would be more "America First."
That such an idea sounds laughable shows the effects of 20 years of neoliberal wankery mushing the brains of Americans.