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@angijones Yet you are the one who has to pay for the test

15 year old son had a blood test. Doctor asked me to ring on Friday for the results. Receptionist said “we can’t give you his results because he is over 14 and hasn’t given explicit consent.” This isn’t to empower or protect kids, this is the State incrementally removing parents as the primary guardian of children while children are still naive and suggestible.

@ItIsHoeMath @Hitchslap1 Folks I can only characterize as hitlerjugend calling themselves antifa[scits] is a great example of that

@Hitchslap1 It's anti-true. It's not possible to get less true than that. It's like saying water causes dryness. This is typical of liberals. They need to say the opposite of everything that is true in order to feel intelligent.

This might be the lowest IQ thing I’ve ever read in my life.

@LEHogg I don't think you know what qr code is...

They’re gonna be shocked when they figure out how QR codes work

@owroot Oh, dam, you are right. I almost forgot they actually had people pushing groceries to your car, and I didn't appreciate it. That was not even so long ago

They used to push your groceries out to your car. Then they stopped it and they had the baggers. Then the baggers disappeared and so did the checkout worker. Finally we are left with self check out.

@RoyalistW @ItIsHoeMath Being vagabond sounds so much more glamorous than it actually is. When you don't have energy for life even on easy mode, raising difficulty won't be productive

@ItIsHoeMath lol, not quite what I was getting at If a person wants to throw it all away by committing suicide why not risk it all by radically changing their whole environment/way of life. Sell everything and become a vagabond roaming the world. Not glamorous, probably not even all that fun

Suicide is an act I can not understand If you have given up on life then there is no reason to fear death much less anything else. Quite your job, wander the world, live in the woods, etc, etc. You might as well risk it all if you’re ready to throw it all away anyhow.

@realvalkymia @ItIsHoeMath @sadgirlyboss @aimeeterese Sign should not say "I'm extra weird", but rather "I'm open to working towards mutually beneficial relationships"

@galets @ItIsHoeMath @sadgirlyboss @aimeeterese Women wear signs like that like skin suits.

@sadgirlyboss @aimeeterese Maybe stop punishing them for it that's a start

@dmbkparker They don't break when power goes off

You need to know that in the year of our Lord 2026 these are still used to train pilots to calculate fuel consumption, wind drift, and ground speed.

@krishnanrohit I know a bunch of people who maxed out the credit cards and now paying thousands every month in finance fees. That too is bad economic policy, but what can you do.

I dislike arguments about people are dumb or ignorant etc, because we all know that the world is round for instance and that's also counterintuitive. What's special about economic ideas that bad ones continue to survive, and keep coming back?

What's the underlying reason why so many people so radically prefer bad economic policies like price controls, considering we've known they're bad for decades now?

@DixieNormu95224 Delivery (or distribution) charge somewhat makes sense, but it has to reflect the amount of infrastructure necessary to maintain for delivery to happen

I finally sat down and actually read my Massachusetts electric bill… and now I understand why it feels like we’re paying for half the state every month. My actual electricity cost: $138 All the extra charges: $131 So basically half the bill is power… and the other half is fees. Here’s what I found when I broke it down. Charges that actually go to the electric company These are the ones for running the grid. Customer charge, Distribution charge, Transmission charge, Transition charge This pays for things like power lines, repairs, meter service, billing, storms, keeping the lights on. Not fun, but at least that makes sense. NOW THE Charges the state makes them put on the bill This is where it gets interesting. Energy Efficiency charge (Mass Save) Renewable Energy charge, Net Meter Recovery charge, Distributed Solar charge, Electric Vehicle program charge, Public benefit / clean energy programs These pay for solar incentives EV charging programs efficiency rebates renewable energy mandates credits for people with solar panels state energy programs You pay these even if you don’t have solar don’t drive an EV never used Mass Save never got a rebate never signed up for anything You just pay. So when people ask why electric is so high in Massachusetts… It’s not just the electric company. It’s not just gas prices. It’s also all the extra programs that get added onto the bill every year. Some people think it’s worth it. Some people don’t. But one thing is clear… When your electric bill is almost half fees, it might have something to do with the people running the state. Just saying.

@Osinttechnical We are in it for a LOOOOONG time...

Iran has established four main demands from the U.S. in any negotiations -Reuters - guarantees against future military action - compensation for wartime losses - formal control of the Strait of Hormuz - No limitations to its ballistic missile program

@RepKeithAmmon It's OK, as long as the issue is pending and requirement to have sticker is on hold, we can wait decades if necessary. Take your time.

State inspection update

@wil_da_beast630 If these lies are holding, e.g: people around don't know, and no unclaimed bodies suddenly show up in guy's life and conversations, I'd say it's fine.

You guys know women can simply...lie about their "body counts," right?

@GeriPerna Employees were your capital, now they became liability

When I worked at Macy's back in the 80's, people who worked there raised families on what they made. It was their career. I remember the guy in electronics retired after 30 years, and my boss in the cash office did the same. The guys who worked in the suit department did very well for themselves. Despite that, the store profited greatly every year, and we were given a beautiful Christmas party in appreciation. What changed in this country? When did it become nearly impossible to support oneself at a job that didn't require a degree or technical school?

@indexnforgetit According to my experience, this is absolutely not true.

My hillbilly hot take is paying someone $11,000 to paint your house is possibly the biggest waste of money Unless you're making over $572,000/yr it would make more sense to take a week off work and do it yourself Painting is not hard and takes almost zero skill

@robotlizzy @LisaBritton I think we need a different term for this. There's clearly a difference between partnership for sex and traditional marriage

@galets @LisaBritton So heterosexual relationships where the partners don’t want children are also not married?

The most stable marriages are between 2 men. The least stable marriages are between 2 women. Why do you think that is?

@sahandy89 When someone dies, it no longer matters what he believed in

You can't play "game theory" with people who believe they win if they die.

@aakashgupta If you think that's bad, just wait for them to implement it with AI

The air traffic controller cleared the fire truck onto the runway. Seconds later, the same controller screamed “stop, stop, stop.” The plane was doing 93 to 105 mph. Both pilots are dead. Everyone will frame this as controller error. One controller was simultaneously managing a United flight that aborted takeoff after an anti-ice warning, dispatching a fire truck across an active runway, and sequencing an inbound Air Canada landing at highway speed. At 11:40 PM. On a mandatory overtime shift at a facility that has been understaffed for years. A system that assigns one person that workload will produce exactly this outcome. The only variable is when. The FAA is short approximately 3,000 controllers. The headcount dropped 13% from 2010 to 2024 while flight volume rose 10%. Over 40% of the FAA’s 290 terminal facilities are understaffed. The New York TRACON, which manages the most congested airspace in America across LaGuardia, JFK, and Newark, has been chronically below target. Newark was operating at 59% of its staffing goal. LaGuardia handles 900 flights a day. The hiring pipeline is broken at every stage. Only 2% of applicants complete the full process. Training takes up to 6 years. The FAA Academy in Oklahoma City is a bottleneck, with roughly 35% of trainees washing out. Congress blocked legislation to build a second academy. In one recent hiring cycle, the FAA brought on 1,512 candidates and lost 1,300 in the same window. Net gain: around 160 controllers for an entire country. Three things need to happen and everyone who can make them happen has known for years. Congress needs to fund and authorize a second FAA training academy. One facility in Oklahoma City cannot produce enough controllers for 900 million annual passengers. Members of Congress from Oklahoma have actively blocked this. That needs to end yesterday. The FAA needs to cut certification time. Six years from application to fully certified controller is absurd. The agency’s own data shows tower simulators reduce certification time by 27%. They’ve installed them at 95 facilities. That should be every facility, and the simulated hours should count toward more of the certification requirement. The FAA needs to stop plugging staffing gaps with mandatory overtime. Controllers at understaffed facilities are working six-day weeks rotating between morning, mid, and night shifts. The NTSB has flagged fatigue repeatedly. The controller last night was managing overlapping emergencies during a nighttime operation. Overtime is not a staffing plan. It’s a countdown to the next runway collision. The controller said “I messed up” to a Frontier pilot who watched the whole thing. The pilot responded “No man, you did the best you could.” One of them is right. The answer determines whether this happens again.

@TCrenshaw35 @Breaking911 Sometimes it's not dei...

@Breaking911 I wonder if the pilots were dei or just some women they hurried through to pilots

NY Gov. Kathy Hochul on LaGuardia Airport plane crash: "It was an aviation disaster, the likes of which we have not seen here in over three decades. But it's a deeply human story: where two young pilots left their homes, expecting to return to their families, and they will not."