And they say we Americans don’t know Geography.

Didn’t Theil explain this was the goal in an often repeated vid, I forget from where, he’s speaking at a podium though.

Didn’t Netflix cover this in a food special 5 years ago? That and Tiger King.

Medically, 51 isn’t old.

Not me. That’s is above my pay grade.

The main point is someone has to decide.

Organ transplant.

There’s a board who decides which patients qualify for the list. If you are someone who sat in a chair gaming, from teens to 30s, pickling your liver with alcohol for the duration, thus killing it, you won’t make that waiting list. Two reasons. You can’t be trusted to care for the new liver. You’re not a useful member of society.

Organ transplants happen when someone young and healthy dies, is in a position that those organs can be preserved, and the family, in the midst of their horror, shock, and grief, both allows the conversation and then agrees to the donation.

As such, if that sit in a chair gaming and pickling themself individual has a billionaire dad, maybe they go black market? Otherwise it’s hospice care.

China calling in our debt.

True. I think even if he gets off, they’ll kill him. Remember all the whistleblower deaths in 2024? Like that.

It’s a good thing we dissolved our federal cybersecurity.

You can’t negotiate with a narcissistic personality disorder, not when they’ll deny the shit is from their dog even when captured on camera. Either way, they’ll factor in a way for the occurrence of the shit to be your fault and therefore your problem to clean up.

Coinsurance. You want a plan that includes none of this.

Trumps 6min 1A speech in Nov24 that no one paid attention to expressly states he’s going to attack and rout out anything involving accusations of misinformation.

His statement about going after anyone trying to enforce the Hatch Act is also in there.

Corporate gets what they want. People are left confused or in the dark disarmed of relevant information to fight back.

Round up lawyer: What do you mean Round Up causes cancer? Judge, I have a paper here that says exposure correlates to not just lower cancer rates but lower autism rates as well. (Or some similar bs.)

It’s one more piece of the class war, to make sure corporate wins, and working class has no ammo to fight back.

They’re using Signal so nothing is recorded.

Basically there’s a government transparency mandate by We The People. It’s why info gets released to the press and eventually things like the JFK assassination are released years later. It’s why everything the president writes or says is recorded. Because, in theory, they work for We The People and have to answer to us. They can’t do that if no one knows what they’re up to.

Trump admin says, fuck that, fuck We The People, we will now use an end to end encrypted service that cannot be effectively subpoenaed. What we do is our secret, so no one knows what we are up to.

As a messaging service Signsl is as secure and private as the people using it. You want privacy you use WIRE or Signal. Your stuff isn’t recorded on a database like Facebook Messenger, for later subpoenas, it’s just poof, gone, as you delete it. You can even time delete it for everyone in chat after a few minutes, an hour, a week, etc.

As for the phones themselves, I don’t know. In general terms, out of the box, Apple is more secure than android but neither is private, unless the feds get a telemetry removal package or some such which would make sense. GrapheneOS on an Android device (strips all telemetry including that map app) is how we laymen do it.

Heavy metals in artists’ oil paints.

You can always dig into true crime, see what methods are used to kill husbands.

Check out ChubbyEmu on YouTube. He’s a pharmacist who presents strange and interesting medical stories (with dramatic re-enactments) involving unusual chemical exposures that damage and sometimes kill people. Examples: soda, coconut water from a bad coconut, a fermented soup, ivermectin ordered online, lab chemicals stolen by a student and given to a disliked roommate, and so on. Maybe something there will inspire you. ChubbyEmu does a good job of breaking down complex medical into an easily digestible format.

Fascinating in that it became the de facto hippy car. Either way, those bugs and buses are still around and easy to work on.

This is always a personal choice.

Bear in mind you do yourself a disservice by believing rag headlines (common dreams, daily beast, new republic, etc) in an echo chamber. Talking to people who don’t agree with you will tell you more about present politics, in terms of what the “other guy” is thinking. It’s also an opportunity to pick things apart in chill discussions and find the point where you digress instead of assuming.

Flippant remarks are typically engaged in areas people haven’t spent time or mental resources on. They’re more likely to be verbal passcodes for a social group. You could find out. Where the jokes stop is usually the more viscerally believed area.

Or maybe that’s just me who has an interest in that sort of thing. That said, you can encounter people you start to sway with reasonable discussion based in listening to everything they want to say who then get angry, yell that they can’t talk to you any more, who then simply go away.

To be fair I have all the energy in the world for strangers because they’re often 1-4 encounters and done. In my personal life, I have the energy and wherewithal to maintain 1, and that is probably only because they’re my closest genetic link.

Of note, this is NIH research.

I was more worried the man would be assassinated. I just read the Guardian article. Trump even brought out his bearded monkey for than one.

Who elected Putin as POTUS? That’s clearly the influencer of that meeting.

Anyone else have a bad feeling about Zelensky coming here?