John Seymour

@BullBoss5 Them grapes are probably sour too, right?

I think Americans misunderstand why AC is less common in Europe. For a lot of Europeans, comfort is not always about controlling everything artificially. It is also about opening the windows, letting air circulate, using shutters, living with the seasons, and keeping life simple. It is not necessarily backward. It is just a different relationship with comfort, energy, and everyday life.

@Apsalar77 @Austen Yes, post-pardon perjury would be prosecutable.

Good question. I think the spirit of the 5th is not to incriminate yourself and at the same time not be assumed guilty because you don't want to speak. That second part is amazing. But would perjury be prosecutable if Faucci did it now? About crimes he was pardoned for previously? I can't believe he was pardoned for a decade of whatever.

Is that how fifth amendment works? If you are pardoned can you no longer plead the fifth? That seems unlikely to me

@Austen It is in fact how it works.

I get two maintenance meds by mail. Extremely cheap - My insurance may be paying a bunch, but they're also filling the scripts through an affiliate. When they screw up (which they do with depressing regularity). I get a back-up prescription and search on line for the cheapest place to get it filled without insurance. Costs me only a little more than my share of the insurance-covered meds.

My wife and I own Forest Park Pharmacy, and we don't accept insurance. None of it. That decision is exactly why we could fix what happened to a patient today. A family came in wanting to transfer their kid's antibiotic to us. The child had already STARTED the course. Then, mid-treatment, the insurance company decided the last 14 tablets suddenly needed a "prior authorization" before the other pharmacy could hand them over. A sick kid, halfway through an antibiotic, and the answer was "please hold." The drug is linezolid. It's a generic. It's been generic for over a decade. It treats serious gram-positive infections — the kind you do NOT want to stop antibiotics in the middle of, because an interrupted course is how you breed resistant bugs and end up right back where you started. So why the hold-up on a cheap, common generic? Follow the fake math. Insurance and the PBMs behind them price drugs off a number called AWP — "Average Wholesale Price." People in my industry have another name for it: "Ain't What's Paid." It's a benchmark number, not a real-world cost. On paper, the AWP for just those last 14 tablets is about $2,500. My cash price for the same 14 tablets? $18. Read that again. The system that's supposedly "protecting" this family from cost is the same system that inflated an $18 medication into a $2,500 line item, then slapped a prior auth on it to "review the expense" THEY invented. They manufactured the problem, then billed everyone for the privilege of solving it — and made a sick kid wait while they did it. This is the whole game. When a drug is priced honestly, there's nothing to "manage." When it's priced off a fantasy benchmark, you get spread pricing, PA paperwork, pharmacy phone trees, and delayed treatment — all dressed up as cost control. Here's the part nobody tells you: roughly 90% of prescriptions are low-cost generics. For the vast majority of what people pick up every day, running it through insurance does two things — raises the real cost and risks delaying your care. That's it. That's the value-add. That's why we fired the insurance companies. No middleman deciding your kid can't finish their antibiotics on schedule. No fake prices. Just the real number, on the shelf, today. The medication was always cheap. The insurance was the expensive part.

My apologies for the length and I know this isn't affordable, but I would love to have the corporate physician who found my early onset, aggressive prostate cancer in my early 40s. His appointments were two-fers, about a month apart. You would go in and maybe see him, but maybe just see a nurse, get vitals measured, ekg, extensive blood draw, etc. Second visit would start in the exam room, where he would do all the stuff that primary care doctors used to always do - look in ears, throat, eyes, listen to heart and lungs, all while chatting about life, work, changes. Then you would get dressed and move into his office where you would do a deep dive into the results of all the tests and his exam, implications and what you should be thinking about to improve your health. And it would be a discussion; what will I reasonably do, what, given my work and travel schedule wasn't likely, and over time we tracked results. Those chats would last at least a half hour, and sometimes more. Post prostate surgery I had a follow-up that went an hour and a half. Losing access to him was the worst thing about leaving that job. After I left, I learned HR tried to fire him because his patient numbers were so low. The executives said no because they loved him. They ended up having him take care of the executives and the unusual cases. They brought in another doctor to handle other employees. But that's just short of having a Mayo physical every year (he was Mayo-trained), and I recognize that's not economically feasible, but something between that and the usual "here's your script, what's your hurry" would be nice. AND, I should say I recognize this isn't because doctors don't care, but because of the huge pressure put on them by the hospital corporations that employ most of them now.

@_Pax_Virtus_ That’s probably true. What would you like it to be like? Asked honestly. Paint the picture of how you’d like it to be.

I think the issue with doctors today is you show up at the office on time wait 45 minutes to be seen the doctor spends 11 minutes with you writes a script and sends you on your way.

@MillerDakotaJ First, I am so sorry for the loss of your baby. My wife suffered several miscarriages, so I know how devastating that is. Any person who would throw your loss in your face to try to score points is not your friend.

In September my wife began showing symptoms of shock. I rushed her to the ER to find out that our baby had burst through her fallopian tube and she was bleeding internally. Upon finding out about this diagnosis, the hospital would not release her as she was in their care and required immediate treatment to prevent her death. She had a surgery which saved her but killed the baby. The baby was not going to survive the moment it busted through the fallopian tube. This was not some elective abortion, but a cold medical calculation to save one life or lose two lives. If my wife had a choice, she would have died before having the surgery as her maternal instinct was to protect our baby -- despite the knowledge that there was no saving our baby. This was not an abortion and yet abortion advocates will use it to support their stance. We actually had a leftist friend throw this situation in our face and tell us that since we are Christians, we cannot think properly about the facts; while also stating it was illegal to have said surgery.

@DefiantLs He misspelled "mandates."

Josh Shapiro: "I think Democrats are the party of real freedom. Real freedom that... allows parents like me and my wife Lori to make decisions over what vaccines our kids are gonna be able to get."

@itsrosesm They've decided their life is less important than my stuff, who am I to argue with them.

SHOULD YOU BE ALLOWED TO SHOOT ZA PERSON WHO HAS BROKEN INTO YOUR HOUSE...EVEN IF THEY'RE UNARMED?

@ClimbingCoachX DEI

Can a soccer person explain to me how all these rando countries are in the World Cup... but China, India, Italy, etc didn't make the cut?

@NorCalHerper @gonefishin1948 Let us know how that works out for you.

@gonefishin1948 I'd scream "You'll never take me alive , cop!", zoom off and then fall back on my White privilege to keep me alive.

If you are driving at the speed limit and were alone in your car, what would you do if a Law Enforcement Officer put on his lights and signalled for you to pull to the side of the road?

@gonefishin1948 Pull to the side of the road?

@charlescwcooke Good to see you're exposing him to the classics.

My eight-year-old just started asking me about the guillotine in detail. What is it? Who used it? Was it exported out of France? Eventually, I asked him where he’d learned that the guillotine even existed. “Tom and Jerry.”

@iowahawkblog @janecoaston But at least you have all those attractive college co-eds to keep life interesting for you, Dave.

@janecoaston After 40 years of hard work I live in an abandoned trailer park

I genuinely need people to understand what "average" means.

@PeteFiutak Just a guess, but $$$

Stupidly honest question from a stupidly honest guy (at least when it comes to football/soccer) If Messi is really still THAT/this good, why is he playing in the MLS?

@QueenAnticommie I asked my mom that question once. She said she would let me know when she got there.

At what age do you stop doing stuff for your children? Inquiring minds wanna know.

@jdbanker1 @klara_sjo I may be mocked, but anyone waiting for me to show shame will have a long wait.

@JLSeymour3 @klara_sjo We will not be mocked. It will be the ultimate virtue signal. It's you choppaphobes who will be mocked and ashamed.

Everyone has to choose to put their penis in the penis chopper machine or not. If half the male population puts their penis in the penis chopper machine, it doesn’t go off. If less than half do it, everyone with their penis in the penis chopper machine gets their penis chopped off. Do you stick your penis in the penis chopper machine?

@NickMcLarty @klara_sjo Which is why the gene pool would be improved.

@JLSeymour3 @klara_sjo Exactly, but there are still bots disputing it.

@aelfred_D I think that ceiling is designed to look lie a sphincter, so having his speeches coming out like that is indeed appropriate.

So his speeches are aesthetically compelling but their actual content is unimportant. It’s perfect.

@NickMcLarty @klara_sjo One wouldn't think that was all that high a bar.

@klara_sjo No. Because I have enough intelligence to know not to stick my penis in a penis chopper machine.

@jdbanker1 @klara_sjo Sure, shorty, go with that.

@klara_sjo If you're a compassionate person you put it in the chopper, obviously. You either save all the penises or lose your penis and gain a smug sense of moral superiority over all the penis havers. Either way, you're a hero. It's win win.