sheldonrampton.bsky.social
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Remind me again how many elections YOU have won?
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With all due respect, you TRIED to become a "Democratic elected" and didn't succeed. Maybe they know some things about messaging that you don't. It's not easy to push back against the right-wing apparatus. You bashing Democrats as "idiotic" doesn't really help. We don't need a circular firing squad.
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I think you're actually being a little unfair to Biden. His "neglect of this aspect of politics" was part and parcel of the behind-the-scenes work he had to do to cajole people like Manchin so he could get legislative wins out of those very narrow majorities you mention.
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You would.
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Yeah, but you look 20 years younger than Young Sheldon.
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Coffee houses were a feature of European and Arab culture dating back to the Ottoman empire, and people also got coffee in diners. Everyone in Edward Hopper's 1942 painting, "Nighthawks," is drinking coffee.
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It's a bit more complicated than that. Biden won office with a relatively low-visibility campaign that helped minimize the effectiveness of Republican attacks. In office, he was similarly low-key, which helped avoid confrontations and enabled him to work deals, but it hurt him politically.
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I'm in favor of H1B, but Musk is making me want to reconsider.
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The opioid epidemic is another example where patients were harmed by *too much* treatment rather than too little. The people who think we'll fix these problems by shooting insurance executives in the back haven't even begun to understand the problems in our healthcare system.
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The doctor who did this was raking in $2 million a year, and insurance companies of course were footing most of that bill. The point is that the profit motive doesn't just incentivize insurance companie to deny claims. It also incentivizes doctors and hospitals to inflate bills.
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Your argument gets stronger if you look at some of the actually *harmful* treatments that people get. ProPublica reported recently about a doctor who was prescribing chemo for patients who didn't even have cancer (some of whom died from the treatment).
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I read "The Death of Expertise." I thought your criticisms of WIkipedia were among the weaker parts of your book. Of course Wikipedia isn't perfect, but it's pretty, pretty, pretty good.
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Kaye Steinsapir, whose post about her daughter is in your screenshot, was in fact upset by the murder of Brian Thompson. You should read what she actually has to say about it:
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The fact that you can't manage a reply to me without cursing and insults demonstrates my point. I'm not part of the health care system, and raging at me won't do anything to improve it. You're not raging at me because you're trying to improve the system. You're just raging because you like the rage.
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I don't think it's particularly "judgey" of me to say that people who celebrate murder are toxic, nor is it judgey to think it is stupid for you to keep assuming things about me that are false.
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You know nothing about me. The things you say are "obvious" about me are just your intellectually lazy excuse for murder. In point of fact, I'm well aware of the problems with the US healthcare system and have spoken out about them. None of that is an excuse for shooting Brian Thompson in the back.
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The people celebrating his murder don't really care about improving access to health care. They're just anger addicts looking for a pretext to justify toxic behavior. Personality-wise, they're not much different from Jan. 6 defendants or the supporters of Kyle Rittenhouse.
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Curse your toxic positivity.
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Something similar happened to Howard Hughes. It did not end well for Hughes.
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You're thinking that you know what I'm thinking, but you don't. I'm thinking of leftists I know personally, one of whom was one of my professors at Princeton. He's not a "hippie granola mom." You should stop pretending you know what other people are thinking.
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A significant number of anti-vaxxers (not the majority, but a significant number) are leftists.
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I don't understand what you're saying. The idea of single payer is that there is a single entity doing all the paying. Are you saying we should have each company be a payer just for its employees? That sounds like it would further fragment things and multiply, not consolidate, the number of payers.
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It's not just "multiple power centers" within the United States. There are multiple power centers globally, and events such as the fall of Assad in Syria or government and private sector players in Europe, Latin America and elsewhere will also have a lot of influence.
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I want to start a crypto and call it PonziCoin.
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That's all true, but she was a human being with an ego and a desire to continue serving. We can see clearly that she made a mistake, but people make those kinds of mistakes pretty naturally. Biden made a similar mistake but has still been a great president in many other ways.
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I think you can pay him on Cameo to say that to your face.
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The good guys don't always win, but we must carry on.
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They say "misinformation" like that's a BAD thing.
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I didn't realize it was your birthday, but I am nevertheless very happy that you were born.
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To be fair, the story also states that "multiple officers representing Ohio and Michigan deployed pepper spray," so they're making it clear where the pepper spray came from. Also, the pepper spray was deployed to break up a fight, so it doesn't sound like an unreasonable use of force.
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A related problem is that people gravitate to negative news: rapes, homicides, wars and catastrophes, which creates a doomist mentality that people like Trump exploit. I try to compensate personally for that by looking for news sources such as this: fixthenews.com
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You've evidently never seen the Jets.
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Speaking of niche Mormon humor, an uncle of mine asked me once, "Why are there black seagulls?" Answer: "They're the ones that refused to eat crickets."
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Congratulations!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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If they had an Oscar for "best running," Cruise would be crushed under the weight of all his trophies.
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It depends on how you measure time. I know that for me anyway the next four years are going to feel like a very long decade.
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Now it's officially a party.
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I think the explanation is pretty straightforward if you know how AI works. It's just a highly sophisticated collection of algorithms for making predictions based on data. Not surprisingly, computers are also better than people at calculating square roots and cosines.