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@PoliceThePolic1 Just like anyone else with a job, every police officer's experience is unique. There are a lot of reasons why someone would suicide. Maybe one feels unappreciated. Maybe one feels like the world is no place to live. Maybe one has obeyed repulsive orders. Who can say?

Anyone have an answer for this? 🤔

@JohnnyAGI An honest autopsy would answer that question without the need to resort to personal bias. Unfortunately, autopsy results seem to be determined as much by public opinion as by medical findings.

Some say George Floyd died from having the weight of a mans knee on his neck for 9 minutes Some say George Floyd died from an overdose of all the drugs that were in his system impacting his respiratory function It's an issue that is very much influenced by partisan, social justice, and racial biases. If George Floyd was white, and Derek Chauvin was black, a lot of the very same people would have completely flipped opinions. In both directions. I am not wrong.

@CountryFirstRep Mostly because the conspirators did not spend 4 years in prisons and denied visitor privileges for (checks notes) misdemeanor trespass.

Why exactly are we financially compensating the insurrectionists and not the heros who defended our republic with their very lives?

@pureMetatron I suppose you can give them The Eyebrow, but there's probably not much point.

What do you say to someone who calls you a Nazi?

@Ed_of_O @mcuban FWIW, the idea behind most chemotherapy drugs is to poison the cancer to death before the patient has time to die, then end the treatment so the patient can recover. In 100 years or so I sincerely hope we find a less...stressful?...approach.

@BlueCheckSRM @mcuban Effective because we mandate rigorous trials over many years before making them available and then monitoring every year thereafter. That costs a lot of money the poor cannot afford. Arsenic is much cheaper than $50,000 of chemo drugs.

You stay competitively priced for normal people. How do all the “not normal” people pay for their care ? And if they can’t pay for their care, how do all the hospitals and doctors stay in business when everyone that is poor can’t pay for their care ? Old people need the most care. And the don’t have much money. Let em get sick, stay sick, and die, so normal people get cheaper insurance ?

@GaryMarcus In context, Elon is right. If all you want is to seek out new knowledge, then you want a researcher, or better yet, a scientist. If you are trying to solve specific real world problems, you want an engineer, and the ability to do research is a bonus.

People who don’t understand science think Elon is a genius. People who do understand science realize he is not.

@Ed_of_O @mcuban Oh, and don't forget mercury. Awesome antiseptic properties!

@Ed_of_O @mcuban True, but according to the medical knowledge of the time those were effective treatments. I wonder what the verdict on current chemotherapy drugs will be in 100 years or so?

@BlueCheckSRM @mcuban They gave patients cures like arsenic and diluted sulfuric acid.

@mcuban @dorchen2025 Most of the cost of anything in the medical market is regulatory compliance. Not safety. Not effectiveness. Reams and reams of complex documentation describing compliance. Drop the regulations, cost falls precipitously.

@dorchen2025 Then what happens to the people who aren't able to get insurance ? Who can't afford care at all ?

Ok. Take government completely out of healthcare. No rules. No laws. No Medicare. No Medicaid. Hospitals, insurance companies, can do anything they want. What do they do ? If you were running any of the biggest insurance companies or hospitals, what would you do differently once gov was completely out of healthcare ?

The way to do this is to: - Revoke regulations concerning the practice of medicine, and close the FDA. - Pass laws specifying penalties for applying a treatment with a negative outcome. - Include provisions that insurance companies must pay all claims according to their policy terms unless they first show the treatment is certain to result in a negative outcome. - Laws must take into account the shared treatment responsibility between doctor and patient. - All cases covered by these laws MUST be adjudicated by a jury consisting of equal parts medical practitioners and lay people. Penalties can be imposed only by a unanimous verdict that a reasonable doctor and patient would have expected a negative outcome from the treatment. Yeah, I know this is pretty rough, but honestly. Some politician's unemployable brother in law is not who I want making medical decisions for myself and my family. I also don't need a bean counter deciding that my heart valve surgery is too expensive and I should take aspirin instead. A system like this places responsibility for health care decisions firmly on the doctor and the patient where it belongs, and if review is required, ensures that review is conducted by competent reviewers who can understand the situation.

@SomeCharac87131 @RepMikeLevin I don't think you can have it both ways.

@BlueCheckSRM @RepMikeLevin I disagree Steve... Jesus is The Way!

🚨 Every Republican present in the House Appropriations Committee last night voted to make THEMSELVES eligible to collect from Trump's $1.8 billion January 6th slush fund. I am not making this up. I introduced an amendment to stop Members of Congress, the President, and the Vice President from collecting a single dollar from Trump’s slush fund unless a court actually orders it. Every single Republican who cast a vote was AGAINST my amendment, making themselves eligible for settlement funds. Members of Congress, the President, and the Vice President, have no business lining their own pockets by claiming they were victims of government weaponization. Trump set up this fund, now MAGA Republicans in Congress are ensuring they all can collect from it. That is exactly the kind of self-dealing corruption the American people are sick of.

@_TheBlueTorch Nope. I don't see that. Whoever wrote this sign never read the New Testament.

It's hard to argue with this sign:

@Jessethefree Conservatives have been trying to say that for 70 years. Nobody listens.

Being a decent human being isn’t woke.

@PaulD268182 @Strummer2323 Also, we have the best health CARE in the world. Our health INSURANCE and/or health REGULATIONS could use a little work, though.

@BlueCheckSRM @Strummer2323 Sorry maybe I misunderstood,I think we have it lot better in Aus,guns no healthcare,things would spiral out of control quick

@PaulD268182 @Strummer2323 Oddly enough, prior to 1934 when the US decided the 2nd Amendment was more of a guideline than an actual rule, murders (at least involving guns) were extremely rare. Literature from the time indicates that people interacted with each other very politely.

@PaulD268182 @Strummer2323 OK, maybe not necessarily life, but health. As in lack of broken bones and keeping blood and lymph and whatnot inside the skin where it belongs. Or maybe you are in your 20's, 6'3" at 270 lbs and practice MMA for fun so you don't need to worry about that. I'm not.

@BlueCheckSRM @Strummer2323 Protecting from what Steve?can't get guns at target here,never in my life has thought entered my mind oh I really need a gun atm

@Strummer2323 @nickTw7m47amfe Wrong question. The right question is, Recognizing that I will be killed and I will be posthumously slandered as a mentally unstable violent criminal, do I have the will to fight back against a tyrannical government?

@nickTw7m47amfe Do you have guns to protect yourself from a tyrannical government?

@Strummer2323 Distorted perspective! The right to health care demands the ability to appropriate someone else labor. The right to carry weapons is self defense! Using both in the same sentence is demonstration of a shit and infantile mind!

@LevarStoney I'm pretty sure a treason conviction requires just a little more than Adam Schiff's unsupported declarative statement. Unless, of course, one is a Democrat. In that case, law is irrelevant, and the Word of The Holy Schiff is all anyone should need.

So reparations for treasonous felons is okay? Got it. 👍🏿