fvolkert.bsky.social
Clinical microbiologist > med school professor & administrator. Once a scientist always a scientist. Also always a music lover. I follow people who inspire me, and watch the sky. I’ll post photos now and then, often concert sets. All opinions my own.
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Laura Gillen NY-4 may not be into crypto. She just votes with Republicans a lot to maintain her bipartisan cred, like that’s what we need right now.
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He couldn’t face down an angry Yorkshire Terrier.
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Necessary, sadly.
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Did Dante have a circle in hell for “serious people” who write for legacy media? Someplace he and David Brooks could hang out? I forget.
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This is what access “journalism” looks like.
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It was a clear plurality, but not a majority. Words matter.
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Great portrait!
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Thank you, Karen.
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That’s way too brave for a Democratic congressperson. Mine is too busy sending congratulations to Republican colleagues who got appointments in the new administration. She *says* she’s a Democrat but I have my doubts.
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The Dow tomorrow will be a nightmare.
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Just saw it in another thread.
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This?
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Certainly not on the scale you were imagining but this. www.ctfolk.org/yearly-folk-...
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Until they let you accept and reject followers, BS will never replace FB as a place to converse with friends. It’s just another x or IG or Threads. It’s that simple.
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One more: both public and private insurors in the US incentivize high costs elsewhere in the system via their reimbursement rates for particular services.
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This is not about social priorities. It’s about individuals feeling victimized, and the moral outrage is understandable. 4/4
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This hits home to affected people as dire harm in some cases, and as a theft of a service they feel they have paid for in all cases. 3/
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They correctly realize that this gatekeeping is not motivated by a need to reduce healthcare spending nationally, but rather by corporate greed, embodied symbolically by the CEO class. 2/
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Ordinary Americans are not concerned about the aggregate, overall cost of healthcare, even though they should be. So policy wonk analyses like this miss the point. They are concerned about direct impacts on their own lives, one of which is capricious gatekeeping by the insurance industry. 1/
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Not to mention…
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Happy Anniversary!
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If there were not so much light pollution in the Northeast and people could actually see a starry sky, they’d be shocked out of their wits.
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When I read about people who cannot visualize (a condition called aphantasia), I was surprised. I have always assumed everyone has a movie going on in their head. Not so.
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Better planet, I should add.
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There’s something in it beyond economics. The freedom to just flip someone the bird and walk away when we have a disagreement rather than working it out seems like a rather American trait too. I have a good friend who is skilled at mediation, and it often seems like she’s from a different planet.
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I made the same connection. There are no poor Americans, just temporarily embarrassed millionaires, to quote someone or other.
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I’m familiar with the concept of fu money but honestly wonder if striving for it is a universal concept or American in the sense Karen means. I don’t know enough about other cultures’ money attitudes to answer.
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Looks fierce alright!
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Presumably they will return in the spring when it’s allowed. I doubt the restaurateurs will sacrifice the added revenue they provide.
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I see little point in debating this. One is much worse, but conjectural, the other is very bad but as predictable as clockwork. It’s not a menu; we don’t get to choose.
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“Tech” in the current idiom, is just using new modes of information processing to provide services that can be sold. Science is the search for how the physical universe works. They don’t really have much to do with each other.
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This, from CNN, if it’s authentic. (?) www.cnn.com/2024/11/21/w...
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Of course, but the video of those warheads coming down like Thor’s thunderbolts was the stuff of nightmares.
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I hope you do , LOL. She’s pretty good. 😉
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For serious, your doomscrolling reminders back in 2020 while people were cowering in their houses and watching riots on tv made a real difference. And Max.
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People really need to learn not to engage.