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If the man who required tampons in 4th grade boy's bathrooms thinks you've lost your mind, it's a pretty good sign you're completely sane.

Milton Friedman (prix nobel d'économie) a dit un truc il y a 50 ans qui est encore plus vrai aujourd'hui. Et quasiment personne ne le comprend. 🧵 On lui pose la question : "Sans régulation sur les médicaments, des gens pourraient mourir en prenant des produits dangereux. Vous ne trouvez pas ça grave ?" Sa réponse est un des retournements logiques les plus brillants de l'histoire de l'économie. Oui, dit Friedman. Un médicament non régulé peut tuer des gens. C'est visible. C'est dans les journaux. C'est un scandale. Tout le monde le voit. Mais ce que personne ne voit, c'est les gens qui meurent parce qu'un médicament qui aurait pu les sauver a été bloqué pendant 10 ans par le processus de régulation. Ce mort là, personne ne le compte. Personne ne fait sa une. Personne ne connaît son nom. Parce qu'il est mort de l'absence de quelque chose qui n'a jamais existé. C'est l'asymétrie fondamentale de la régulation. Le régulateur a deux types d'erreurs possibles. Erreur 1 : approuver un médicament dangereux. Résultat : scandale public, procès, le régulateur perd son poste. Erreur 2 : bloquer un médicament qui aurait sauvé des vies. Résultat : rien. Personne ne sait. Personne ne proteste. Les morts silencieux n'ont pas de porte-parole. Du coup, le régulateur rationnel optimise pour éviter l'erreur 1. Toujours. Il rajoute des études. Des phases. Des comités. Des délais. Chaque couche de "sécurité" supplémentaire le protège, lui, au détriment des patients qui attendent. Friedman estimait que la FDA avait probablement tué plus de gens en retardant des bons médicaments qu'elle n'en avait sauvé en bloquant des mauvais. C'est impossible à prouver précisément. Mais la logique est imparable. Un exemple concret. Le bêta-bloquant Propranolol était disponible en Europe des années avant d'être approuvé aux États-Unis. Pendant ces années, des Américains mouraient de crises cardiaques qui auraient pu être évitées. Combien ? On ne le saura jamais. Parce qu'on ne compte pas les morts de l'inaction. C'est le même principe partout. Pas que dans la médecine. En France, les taxis autonomes sont bloqués par la régulation. Chaque année de retard, ce sont des accidents de la route qui auraient pu être évités. Mais personne ne compte ces morts là. On compte uniquement le premier accident d'un taxi autonome, qui fera la une de tous les journaux. L'IA dans la médecine est ralentie par des processus d'approbation qui prennent des années. Des diagnostics qui pourraient être faits en secondes par un algorithme attendent des validations pendant que des patients attendent des mois pour un rendez-vous. Le nucléaire a été bloqué pendant des décennies par la peur. Combien de gens sont morts de la pollution des centrales à charbon qui ont tourné à la place ? Personne ne les compte. Le pattern est toujours le même. On voit le risque de l'action. On ne voit jamais le risque de l'inaction. Et comme le risque de l'inaction est invisible, le régulateur choisit toujours l'inaction. Parce que l'inaction ne produit pas de scandale. Friedman résumait ça en une phrase : "Les gens qui ont été sauvés par la FDA sont visibles. Les gens qui sont morts à cause des retards de la FDA sont invisibles. Et dans une démocratie, le visible gagne toujours contre l'invisible." La prochaine fois que quelqu'un vous dit "il faut plus de régulation pour protéger les gens", posez une seule question : combien de gens meurent en attendant que la régulation les autorise à vivre ? La réponse est toujours plus grande que ce qu'on imagine. Mais personne ne la calcule. Parce que les morts de l'inaction n'ont pas de visage.

@NYCMayor The Learing Center is a great start!

It takes a village to raise a child. But when your village is home to 8.5 million, there’s no room for red tape between a child and daily care. That's why we're launching a streamlined, fully online portal for child care providers: mycity.nyc.gov/provider — making it easier to open centers, track applications, and work with the city. Universal child care means cutting through bureaucracy—and we’re getting it done.

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@krystalball You have defended Hasan Piker who defended the rapes of Israeli women and advocated for murdering capitalists. Maybe you shouldn't give us any lectures about what a SANE country would do, and don't lecture us on evil. You and your wife Kyle are quite literally, psychotic

Democrats call for a military coup after spending 6 years obsessing over "insurrectionists." Totally on-brand.

EXPOSED…Dominion machines BUSTED in Ware County, GA: Trump votes counted at 87%, Biden gifted 113%. They engineered a 26% phantom lead for the basement vegetable with fractional fraud. This wasn’t an election…it was industrial treason. ARREST THEM ALL

If you’re getting parking tickets on the RV you & your family are forced to live in out front of your home that was damaged in the Eaton Fire from last year, you might be a fire victim experiencing Gavin Newsom’s unprecedented recovery and rebuilding.

@joekent16jan19 Joe, why don't you head on over and take over for the dead regime?

We can address Iranian terror by targeted CT strikes, as Trump did against Sulmani. Iran responded to this by stopping their proxies from attacking us (under Trump) until the beginning of this war. Prior to us attacking Iran they weren’t holding the SOH hostage. By attacking Iran we gave the IRGC what they needed, support from the Iranian ppl. Using more military means will only make this situation worse.

These takeovers will only become bolder, more unmanageable, and more violent.

This is why it’s important for Florida kids to learn this stuff. Go @Gatorland! Out here saving lives!

@newstart_2024 The insistence of accepting unperforming, unprepared "minorities" to ANY science course.

Back in 2023, University of Chicago professor Dorian Abbot warned that the corruption of science by woke activist confirmation bias was already underway. DEI statements were functioning as ideological litmus tests. Faculty openly admitted they would discriminate against conservatives in hiring. Heterodox thinkers were being disinvited from seminars, denied tenure, and frozen out of collaborations. The result? Ideology was beginning to override evidence. He described a seminar on “decolonial feminist science” where the scientific method is only accepted if it agrees with feminist or decolonial theory — otherwise, the method itself is rejected. When politics replaces truth-seeking, science dies. This should alarm anyone who cares about real discovery. What’s one example you’ve seen of ideology interfering with science or academia?

@neeratanden You all repeat the same stories. Fairy tales, yes, but FFS, do none of you have any original thoughts?

Elon Musk's X is lower in quality in every way than Twitter was pre Musk takeover. You could get reliable breaking news on this site, learning about situations all around the world. Now misinformation and information are indistinguishable. It's a Musk failure.

In 1974, only 52 years ago, the Muslim barbarian Turks invaded Cyprus and committed crimes against Greeks that the human mind cannot comprehend and the whole world never heard about them. Mass murders of civilians were carried out systematically by the Turkish army. Not only unarmed soldiers who had surrendered, but also civilians, including children aged from 6 months to 11 years old, women, and elderly people up to 90 years of age, even paralysed individuals, people with intellectual disabilities, and blind people, were killed by Turkish soldiers. Eyewitnesses reported the killing of hundreds of persons by the Turkish forces. The accusations also include the murder of individuals who had attempted to visit areas under Turkish military control in order to collect their belongings from their homes. According to the report, the Turkish committed mass and repeated rapes of Greek Christian women of all ages, from 12 to 71 years old, in some cases to such an extent that the victims suffered from haemorrhages (loss of blood from a damaged blood vessel) or were left as mental wrecks. All the women and girls were gathered in separate rooms of empty houses. There they were repeatedly raped by the Turkish troops. In some cases, members of the same family were repeatedly raped in front of their own children. In other cases, women were raped publicly in a bestial manner. In some instances, the rapes were accompanied by brutal acts, such as violent biting that caused serious wounds to the victims, banging of the head on the floor, and strangling of the neck almost to the point of suffocation. In several cases, attempts at rape were accompanied by stabbing or the killing of the victim. Pregnant women were also among the rape victims. Among many other cases, a mentally retarded girl was raped in her home by twenty soldiers, one after the other. When the victim began to scream, they threw her from the window of the second floor: she suffered a spinal injury and remained paralysed. "They put us in a school classroom in Voni, along with the rest of the family. They would come in whenever they wanted, choose us, and take us to satisfy their sexual desires. I didn't go out to get rations. I always wore my grandmother's clothes to look old, but they could see my face. I only went out when I needed the toilet. I was constantly wrapped in a blanket, and all the little kids sat on top of me so that the Turks wouldn't keep dragging me away and raping me. This lasted for three months, until the Red Cross arrived." Testimonies from women victims of rape during the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974. The crime described took place in the occupied village of Voni in the Nicosia province, which had been used by the Turkish army as a detention camp for women and children. Similar camps had also been set up in the villages of Vitsada, Marathovouno, and Gypsou in the Famagusta province, where, according to testimonies, systematic rapes were committed by the Turkish army. Hundreds were also the abortions that were carried out en masse in the second half of 1974 in Cyprus. According to testimonies from doctors recorded in the book by Chrysanthos Chrysanthou, "The Other War of the Doctors in 1974," hundreds of brutally abused women became pregnant and special legislation had to be passed so that they could terminate their pregnancies. Many abortions were performed in private clinics, several at the Nicosia General Hospital, while due to the overcrowding of that hospital with war wounded, many abortions were undertaken by doctors at the hospitals of the British Bases in Dhekelia and Akrotiri. Previously, many other women had miscarried using abortion pills, which were distributed to them by the Red Cross while they were still in the Turkish army's detention camps; a fact that leads to the conclusion that the brutalities of the Turkish soldiers were known even before the liberation of the captive women. It is noted that, in order to facilitate the process of mass abortions, even the Church of Cyprus had consented through its tolerance to the amendment of the legislation in 1974, so that the abortions of that period became legal. This happened 52 years ago. This happened to our mothers, to our sisters, to our grandmothers. We will never forget, so this will never happen again. We will rest when the terrorist state of Turkey will be destroyed.

There are many things to dislike about progressivism, even just from a purely aesthetic point of view, and so we spend a lot of time on here ridiculing it on that basis, but it’s important always to remember that the main problem with progressivism is that it’s not true. It’s actually just not true that accidentally running over your sister when you’re seven years old is the equivalent of murdering someone or committing some other violent crime. It’s actually just not true that most people in prison are innocent. It’s actually just not true that most of the people in prison committed their crime unintentionally. When you talk to progressives, what you find is that they hold views about the world that are just simply not true. Maybe the aesthetics would still be bad, even if their claims were true, but their claims are not true.

Rescuing American Pilot in Iran (2026, colorized)

Women will say shit like this and then wonder why the entire planet and every major religion has imposed strict social restrictions on their sovereignty since the dawn of time in every place humans have ever lived

@MsMelChen Zoe can't find anyone on earth to talk to.

@w_terrence Yet he couldn't be bothered to at least google his local government for forms?

Please don’t send me back" — illegal immigrant breaks down as he faces deportation after 20 years in the U.S. “I been here for 20 years. I work hard. I pay taxes. I never do nothing wrong. Why they do this to me? I love this country. This is my home. My kids… my family… I don’t wanna go back to Mexico. Please… please don’t send me back.” His wife said: “I don’t feel safe anymore—for me or for my husband. They’re tearing families apart. This is not the America I know. It’s cruel. It’s inhumane. He’s been here 20 years. He built a life here. And now they’re just gonna rip it all away because of politics. He’s not a criminal. He’s a good man. He contributes to society. Trump and his supporters don’t care about people like us. They just want to hurt immigrants"