jispal01.bsky.social
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What are we going to do unless they are?
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I remember Don Jr. going on Fox News saying "It must be nice to be able to go around the world, making money off your dad's name, with no accomplishments of your own -- like Hunter Biden!"
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"I don't practice what I preach because I'm not the kind of person I am preaching to."
--Bob
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I follow the lid rule.
If it came with a lid, I use a straw.
If there's no lid, I use no straw.
It has nothing to do with manliness, or honestly even plastic waste. I just like to take bigger gulps than a straw can accommodate.
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If we aren't going to have health exams as part of our election process, then every elected member needs to have a Vice, who votes in their absence.
It would also be a great way for members of the younger generations to build a resume.
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They kind of look like the thing that Khan puts in Chekov's ear in Star Trek II.
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Louisville now has a $5.22 cover charge for people visiting from southern Indiana. (bridge tolls)
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We had some aphids on a fruit tree last year. I posted pics on reddit looking for advice. Someone pointed out that in the pic there were some black bugs with orange spots. They said "Those are ladybug larvae - help is already on the way". It was like Wild Kingdom in our own backyard. Go Ladybugs!
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It blows my mind that the nice British guy on Youtube lives down the road in Kentucky.
Hope you and your cat are soon reunited.
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And now some places are even trying to outlaw wearing masks in public. So the Government paid $1million to give these people a new chance at life, but they won't pay for the meds, and now we can't even take basic precautions to protect ourselves or this giant investment of government money.
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And then even when COVID hit and immuno-compromised people started dying at rates much higher than healthy people, even once Democrats were in power, nobody did anything to help immuno-suppressed/compromised people.
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In my experience with kidney failure, I met a lot of people whose organ failed and they ended up back on dialysis because they couldn't get their meds or because they couldn't get some related care they needed. Its wasteful. And long term dialysis can be even more expensive than a transplant.
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So the government pays for pre-transplant treatments and workups, and then (even when I had mine in 2000) a $1million surgery/hospital stay. And then instead of like $1000 per month to maintain the organ, they're like "see ya! good luck".
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I am a kidney transplant patient of 25 years. Transplant patients qualify for Medicare and SSD for 3 years after their transplant and then they're considered "cured" and are thrown to the wolves in the private insurance market.
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Dark Quiet Death carries the whole first season, IMO. It's like the rest of the seasons is mid, but DQD is so good, it lifts up the whole season. Season 2 is similar. I never got around to watching Season 3. And I feel like DQD as an episode stands on its own.
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Cement crocs
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That's whole conspiracy theory is based on "How could brown people have done *this* before white people? They must have had help from *someone*."
So it tracks that they're Republican.
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A component of #7:
A lot of states don't even called it Medicaid. People don't sign up at a government office. They call it things like "Passport Health by Molina" and you sign up through the ACA website and it looks like a regular for-profit plan.
A lot of people don't know they have Medicaid.
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A lot of states contract out their Medicaid to for-profit companies. They never call it Medicaid. They call it stuff like Passport Health by Molina. You don't sign up at a government office, you get it through the ACA exchanges. Millions of MAGA probably don't even know they're on Medicaid... Yet.
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Elon Musk's company Tesla owns a chain of commercial charging stations.
Charging stations at government buildings are competition to his business.
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This is what everybody predicted would happen when Loper v. Raimondo overturned Chevron. Within days of that decision being handed down, three different big businesses HQed in my town (I'm not even in Delaware) announced they were moving to Texas.
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This is why the EV version of 4WD, where both axles have independent motors, is not as good as the classic 4WD where there's a gearbox synchronizing the front and rear wheels. The only point of EV dual motor 4WD is more power - not all-weather capability. The wheels are turning at different speeds.
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I feel I should point out - in case anybody hasn't followed this aspect of it - Musk HATES the FAA because they require him to give advance notice of his rocket launches so that they can clear the airspace for him and one time they told him no. Like Dennis Reynolds, Elon hates NO.
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So Reparations for Afrikaaners is now inside the Overton Window on the Republican side, but Reparations for descendants of black American slaves is *not* inside the Overton Window on the Democrat side.
Heck, in 2024, raising the minimum wage wasn't even inside the Overton Window for Democrats.
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Rick Scott always looks like Bat Boy.