@noradrenalain This is an extremely weird basis on which to render a judgment of “bitchass useless”.
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Microelastics
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Microelastics
@Microelastics
Registered nurse, etc.
Brooklyn, NY Katılım Temmuz 2022
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be careful, they love their bitchass useless husbands they settled for
lexi@elextra__
not to be the friend that’s too woke but this isn’t funny to me
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Being put off by this particular form of male behavior is at best a skill issue, at worst a sign of a lack of resilience.
lexi@elextra__
not to be the friend that’s too woke but this isn’t funny to me
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@automachination @EYakoby You better suck it up, pussy. Do you know where we are?
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@elizabethbelsky I never bring my dog into any restaurants, but I would say being a kind, warm presence includes a tactful tolerance of the weird dog stuff people do unless it’s truly out of pocket. Which is a higher threshold than you or OP are arguing for!
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Or don't do all that, even, if you don't like kids! But the point is, we are all literally just humans in a world that is trending in an evermore callous direction and it's so easy to just be a kind, warm presence no matter what's going on in your life.
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Fun fact: children are young humans who are in the process of learning how to be adult humans and exist in the human world! Dogs, on the other hand, will never be humans and therefore do not need to experience "going inside a coffee shop" at any point in their canine lives.
Kylie Jean-Bryn@chokeyourself__
also btw I don’t think you have to bring your snotty, screaming crotch gremlin to the coffee shop and let it cough and scream while it shits up it's back and fills the diaper with piss around where people are eating and drinking. I think you can just like. have coffee at home
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@Kip_JD @captgouda24 This is relatively routine, but because he doesn’t actually understand medicine he doesn’t understand that a doctor requesting an overnight stay for monitoring likely has a good-faith reason for doing so that it would be ghoulish and trust-undermining to deny
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@captgouda24 *Tumor removed from chest and port placed*
"Routine surgery" lol.
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It isn’t! In patient care after routine surgery is generally not medically necessary, and *any* medical system which does its job and looks out for everyone would deny it.
Ashley@93xashley
My insurance company denied coverage for my son’s overnight hospital stay after he had a tumor removed from his chest and a port placed. His surgeon had to file an appeal because apparently that wasn’t considered medically necessary. But ya insurance companies rock
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Being an economist apparently qualifies you to make broad medical judgments.
Why am I supposed to respect these people and this field again?
Nicholas Decker@captgouda24
It isn’t! In patient care after routine surgery is generally not medically necessary, and *any* medical system which does its job and looks out for everyone would deny it.
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Microelastics retweetledi
One of my best friends @Microelastics once told me: if you want to get rich and famous, just become a conservative, or a Zionist.
Because their level of STUPIDITY is off the charts!!!
The idiot below re-tweeted this obvious fake 10X because he thought it served his narrative:
jackbwater@jackbwater
@automachination @London_W4 I see you are a Pro Pali making a fake.
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@GingerInGA00 The Jungle is good, but Grapes of Wrath is a far superior work of art.
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Grapes of Wrath is the book they assign teenagers so they don't learn about The Jungle.
Every good modern story is written by a journalist.
Joyce Carol Oates@JoyceCarolOates
more than one hundred years ago a young man named Upton Sinclair, living in a small cabin about two miles from this house, on Rosedale Rd., Princeton, wrote a novel exposing the unspeakably filthy conditions of meat-packing in Chicago, titled "The Jungle." President Teddy Roosevelt read the novel, his stomach (which was considerable) was turned, he called Sinclair to the White House, & soon thereafter laws were passed to regulate (to some degree) the meat-packing industry. Today we don't have a US president who can read, let alone read an entire novel; we have a US president who has deregulated industries that provide food & medicine for us, to our detriment.
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@johnbyronkuhner @tobiaschneider Didion was way off on Woody. Shit guy, but a great artist for sure.
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@tobiaschneider She calls it "meaningless." But the humor isn't in the "reference"! The humor and sadness is that Hitler was better at romance - more lovable, more capable of love - than he is. It's horrible and biting. Not a reference.
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One of my favorite Joane Didion essays of all time is her 1979 review of Woody Allen movies Manhattan, Annie Hall, and Interiors. A beautiful takedown of the culture of complete self-regard nybooks.com/articles/1979/…
Joey Hiles@joeyhiles1
There's a delightful Christopher Lasch quote about this in the Culture of Narcissism that inspired a piece I once wrote : "Americans have retreated to purely personal preoccupations. Having no hope of improving their lives in any of the ways that matter, people have convinced themselves that what matters is psychic self-improvement: getting in touch with their feelings, eating health food, taking lessons in ballet or belly-dancing, immersing themselves in the wisdom of the East, jogging, learning how to “relate,” overcoming the “fear of pleasure.” Harmless in themselves, these pursuits, elevated to a program and wrapped in the rhetoric of authenticity and awareness, signify a retreat from politics and a repudiation of the recent past." My article in case anyone is interested : koinosproject.org/p/reflections-…
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@captgouda24 @Kyru117 @frogs4girls Yeah but the abstract specifically says that the authors recommend a public insurance system as a way to counteract this, which is what everyone knows needs to happen if healthcare isn’t going to experience a full-on collapse in the next 1-2 decades.
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@Kyru117 @frogs4girls We did indeed invert the incentives with MLR rules in Obamacare. This is the only paper I know estimating the distortions in a genuinely structural manner, and it implies baaaaad things.
xiaoxizhao.github.io/files/JMP_Xiao…
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haha yea that’s why all those other countries with public healthcare have such high prices!! right? luckily we have our insurance companies to bring our prices down haha surely we must have the cheapest healthcare in the world!!
Nicholas Decker@captgouda24
@lepiofthevalley So you know how unions hold up wages by collectively bargaining? Health insurance companies do that too. They're a union for you, the customer. They hold down your prices by collectively bargaining.
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@OS_infinite @DeathValleyBush @gkamstra @MikeIsaac Those types are not the types who snap pics of random people making out and dox them, your sense of this stuff is extremely skewed.
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@DeathValleyBush @gkamstra @MikeIsaac Yes they are. Its brown they/them "woke 2.0" palestine discord zoomers who call anyone who has a single beer an alcoholic. I know exactly what type of person this is.
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i think policing consenting adults sex lives as the end state of cheap cameras, ubiquitous bandwidth and instant broadcasting distribution is bad for the world
New York Post@nypost
Rumored lawyers caught making out in Central Park goes viral and divides the internet trib.al/FWTTAUH
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Microelastics retweetledi
“To enjoy bodily warmth, some small part of you must be cold … The height of this sort of deliciousness is to have nothing but the blanket between you and your snugness and the cold of the outer air. Then there you lie like the one warm spark in the heart of an arctic crystal.” — Moby-Dick
ØSØ@OsoBlanc0
One of the coziest images I’ve ever seen
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im not saying gentrification is as simple a phenomenon as white people and their dogs but when i was driving the length of atlantic ave from jamaica to the east river, i saw the first new build apartment buildings and white people with their dogs on brooklyn ave
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@aryehazan “Hater” has meant that for quite a long time, especially online. Regardless, the latter part of that post stands - people with your perspective on immigration are my political opponents. Cheers.
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"I am more ok with letting in people more like me and less ok with letting in people less like me"
why is this an illegitimate stance?
explain it to me like I'm 5
it's the basis of Israel's Law of Return and I'll fight tooth and nail to keep it that way
Aryeh Kontorovich@aryehazan
@kiddkosher1 @xwanyex well ofc they don't it's an idiotic point entirely on its own terms I am allowed to have opinions on who I want mass-imported into my country and these opinions don't have to be based on "history" -- they can be ignorant or bigoted or whatever other whim I choose
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@aryehazan I used hater in the rap sense there, not difficult to distinguish.
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@Microelastics I can see that you are an idiot but I don’t hate you for it. Still, I don’t want 15K of you coming to my country.
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@Rflohv2 @Microelastics @JeffreyASachs and the person you’re responding to is excusing nazism because when you really think about it, the jews deserve it. he, too, is a nazi, merely a more clever one.
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It wasn’t too long ago that I was solemnly told not criticize Abulhawa because she has been through so much and her antisemitism, while regrettable, was also understandable and should be ruefully indulged.
susan abulhawa | سوزان ابو الهوى@susanabulhawa
The way zios keep boasting about the extraordinary power they wield reminds me of how they also boasted and took credit for Germany’s defeat in the First World War that culminated in the Treaty of Versailles and led to the rise of extreme anti-Jewish sentiment. History will rhyme.
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@eleanoir He said we should kill MAGA people and posted his real address, he was bold for 12 seconds
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@Microelastics Did he say that? We should do that
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Oh shut the fuck up you moronic loser
Nicholas Decker@captgouda24
It is difficult to do research about healthcare without coming away thinking that insurance companies are heroes.
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Women’s rights are not just freedom from restrictions traditionally imposed by religious authorities.
Women’s rights are secured by creating a society so safe and prosperous such that the rights of the weak are not taken by the strong.
Every civil right in this country was granted by high minded White men to us. Otherwise they could have just ignored our pleas. Look at Afghanistan.
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Americans are used to taking the current state of society as granted, it’s exceedingly rare to find one sober and educated enough to understand basic realities like the one she described.
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@Average_NY_Guy You are not an average NY guy in any respect.
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The West is on fire. It’s on the verge of becoming Islamized, socialist, and Marxist, yet some people still think they can afford to obsess over Israel.
If your own house were on fire, but instead of calling the fire department or getting your family out you were standing in the street screaming about your neighbor’s leaking roof, people would think you’d lost your mind.
Yet these people become podcasters, talk show hosts, and “influencers.”
Dark times ahead.
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