bernardoverda.bsky.social
Retired guy. Into science, environment, climate, literature, Proportional Representation, Esperanto, science fiction & fantasy...
More interested in "policy" than "politics"
-- but nonetheless prefers "woke" over "zombie".
"Live & learn, or die an idiot."
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We've said it.
They've said it.
We have NO ONE doing what EVERYONE wants.
‘Tax us now’: ultra-rich call on governments to introduce wealth taxes | Davos 2023 | The Guardian share.google/nfHGx35C7UBi...
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The same kind that send people to a tent city concentration camp in the Everglades with mosquitos, alligators, pythons and insects. In the Summer, in Florida.
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2000 comments so I'm sure someone already pointed out that 18 seconds in, the police supervisor spots the person filming this from above and sends another cop to deal with them
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Being in a wheelchair is so threatening I get it. It’s not like beating officers with flagpoles and weapons or spraying them with mace or killing them. Yeah, gotta haul in the handicapped. Scary stuff www.nbcwashington.com/news/politic...
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Is there is a new definition of “imminent threat” in policing?officers seem to think anyone within 50 feet of them is an imminent threat. A 90-year-old in a wheelchair, a two year-old in a diaper that can barely walk, a pregnant woman about to go into labor. And it’s 100 feet if you’re not white. 🤬
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Here's a Popular Science article giving a nutshell summary:
www.popsci.com/health/germ-...
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In this case, that's actually about a century and a half of "science, peer-reviewed research, development, strict testing protocols, and decades of empirical evidence."
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Dear media: stop normalizing ignorance & willful misinformation as “an alternate point of view”.
One side is years of science, peer-reviewed research, development, strict testing protocols, and DECADES of empirical evidence.
The other side is a rich asshole’s stupid opinion.
They are NOT equal.
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RFK Jr. is a germ theory denier.
He's written about it.
He believes in Bechamp's terrain theory/miasma theory of disease.
(And yes, that belief necessarily entrains the century-and-a-half conspiracy that Louis Pasteur and adherents maliciously suppressed & discredited Bechamp's scientific genius.)
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Well, you know...
Videoing their illegal "arrests" is 'assault'.
Demanding they provide proper identification is 'assault'.
Demanding to see valid judicial warrants is 'assault'.
Denying ICE entry to schools, hospitals, stadiums or courtrooms is 'assault'.
Even calling them fascists is 'assault'.
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They offer negative skills. They don't deserve funding. They should be serving time.
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It was doomed to fail 3 hours before it was ever announced. It was never going to work. It's based purely on feels not facts.
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Between all the required re-hirings and re-fundings, plus the costs for rebooting required programs, and then add in the costs of all the pending state, union, and personal lawsuits, fixing DOGE's mess will definitely cost many times more than any pittance it may have saved.
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Doge saved no money. It did end the careers of thousands of federal employees, threw away hundreds of thousands of years of institutional knowledge, and diminished citizens’ services. Tie that to other administrative failures (tariffs, et al), and we see an unsustainable failed government.
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If the stated goal was to increase efficiency and reduce waste, it was a complete failure; if its goal was to destroy targeted parts of the government and cause chaos, it was a success.
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I'm more concerned about what they may have left behind in the systems they've gone through.
What if somebody pushes a button and it locks them all down for ransomware or a military attack or something ?