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In other words, removing (or even just reducing) the profit margin does indeed make healthcare cost less in the aggregate.
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But throw in their massive administrative and marketing bureaucracies, plus obscenely huge executive salaries, and it’s clear why every country with a less profit-driven system spends less for better care.
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Perhaps you missed the near-daily David Sirota posts about why they’re wrong on this very website. Every post can’t do everything.
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Hi from Australia where ranked-choice voting means ranking 6-10 House candidates and 6+ Senate candidates, and voting is mandatory for all adult citizens, and somehow everyone manages to figure it out. So ridiculous to think it’s too “wonky” and “confusing” for New Yorkers.
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I quit Twitter when I was served a video of a racist murder with the caption “Whites are fighting back!” I wouldn’t open a firehose of corrosive swill into my house; why let it into my brain?
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Imagine spending your limited time on Earth insisting to strangers that Chuck Schumer is doing a great job
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Do “shifts in the culture” just mysteriously happen and political actors are helpless to do anything but “ride” or “adapt”? Or has 60 years of relentless, uncompromising far-right organizing trounced limp, compromised, donor-dictated Democratic centrism despite D’s having the more popular policies?
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Since 2009, the Dems have held the presidency for 12 years, the Senate for 12, the House for 8. Inequality keeps skyrocketing, Roe is gone, LGBTQ and immigrants are being brutalized. The helpless act is getting old. Either they’re terrible at politics or they’re OK with all that.
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For a while I would type on a computer, print it out, edit on paper, re-type the whole thing into the computer. Maybe I should go back to that..
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Cars kill 40,000 Americans every year, but sure, public transit is dangerous 🙄
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Men’s deodorants have always loudly proclaimed themselves as FOR MEN. The presentation has just gotten more obnoxious.
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(This is what I'm talking about, in case you missed it)
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Thanks! My grandma’s Newsweek subscription was my nightmare fuel through the ‘80s: terrorism, dioxin, child abductions, Satanic panic, neo-Nazis, nuclear war… specific photos, layouts, and headlines are burned into my brain.
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The wildlife in St. Louis seems much richer than when I was a kid. I never saw a single fox, coyote, hawk, eagle, or egret in the ‘80s and ‘90s. (If there’s a horrible reason for this, maybe I don’t want to know…)
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I bet they’re inside-joke caricatures of the store’s actual buyers. Everybody at the store had a good laugh about it.
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Pimsleur is my favorite too. Gets you talking right away, and hearing spoken language - the stuff you can’t learn on paper/screen.
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Especially the ones with Earth-1 versions - so the most popular ones! Second-stringers like Dr. Fate and Power Girl got to stick around.
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Yup… means-testing is and will always be fundamentally cruel. The people who need help the most, those who have trouble navigating the system, will not get it.
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Blub
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“Sprawling messy kaleidoscopic multi-disc epic” vs. “tight perfectly chiseled cohesive dozen or so” is a best-album schism that can never be bridged
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Yes! Please do this!
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As recently as late January the conservatives were several points ahead in the polls. Then came Trump’s trade war and general insanity. There were other factors too but Trump was a big one.
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“Don’t Look Up” was right
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@sarahkendzior.bsky.social got it more right than anyone else
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I was pleasantly surprised to see a big electronic billboard for it yesterday at one of the busiest intersections in Melbourne, Australia.
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To be fair we’ve also treated our own biosphere like a toilet
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They’re getting close to it in Australia, where that sulphur-crested cockatoo photo was probably taken, and where cyclists have to wear anti-swooping helmets, and where a flock of corellas in the street can stop traffic. If the corvids and cockatoos ever join forces with the cassowaries, it’s over.
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My most recent rewatch of Double Indemnity was on the big screen for the first time. Absolutely worth the price of admission.
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Investors don’t trust the US government to pay them back. The “yield” is what the government will pay to borrow your money. The fewer people want to do that, the higher the yield the government has to offer. Yield going up = confidence in US government going down.
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Redundant
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I recognize that shelving unit! Worked there from 1996-2000. Still one of my favorite places on Earth.
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Or “no, Roman cities were not all gleaming white marble.”
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There’s almost no such thing as a digital “purchase”, Kindle etc. books can be revoked at any time. Most paper used in book publishing is from farmed trees and forest clearing byproducts. Libraries are amazing and so is book sharing/donating but the books have to exist first.
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That’s not fair to egg salad
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How does Trump’s relentless obnoxiousness play to Middle America? Like he’s someone who doesn’t care about the niceties of a system that people see (rightly) as rigged against them, and who’s willing to fight. This Middle America you’re imagining, where decorum matters, no longer exists.
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They’re still “playing it safe” censuring the only D in Congress who disrupted that Nurrmberg Rally the other day. When will they finally decide it’s time to stop “playing it safe”? My guess: never, because their corporate masters don’t want them to.
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Huh? Germany was divided into two countries for 45 years after World War II. The West basically wasn’t allowed to have its own military and is still full of US military bases. The East was a dictatorship run by Russia.
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And they’re pissed at people who DID vote for Kamala (like me and you) but aren’t sufficiently deferential to the party. It’s crazy.
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I’m sorry but I think it seemed like I’ve been replying to you when I was talking to that other person who has now blocked us both. I think you and I are on similar pages: vote defensively, of course, but don’t give up your right to hold those officials accountable.