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Potassium Enjoyer

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Katılım Şubat 2024
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Potassium Enjoyer
Potassium Enjoyer@PotassiumEnjoy·
@favelaoverlord I know a family of siblings who are spending their entire (substantial) inheritance to keep their extremely elderly, frail, demented mother technically alive. If they were poor, she’d have gone years ago and everyone’s quality of life would be better.
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Mr. S.T.A.R.@favelaoverlord·
I've talked about this before but one of the fundamental problems with healthcare costs is that the upper bound cost is potentially infinite - you can always do more in terms of treatment and care - in a system with limited supply and extremely high emotional investment in outcomes. There is no sensical and 'empathetic' (in the modern definition in which you must ignore all tradeoffs and costs to concentrate on meeting immediate 'needs' which are poorly defined) way of limiting surplus expenditure or prioritizing; so you have to choose between a system that seems heartless (American insurance) but functions moderately well or a system that seems caring (British/Canadian healthcare) but practically functions horrendously. Healthcare policy reform fails because fundamentally no one wants to say "there is a hard limit where we are going to let your grandmother die instead of continuing to 'care' for her. there is a point of diminishing (often even negative!) returns where she will simply be taken off the machines, given a shot of morphine, and sent to meet her God."
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@favelaoverlord Much of modern healthcare is about the value people place on lives. Families would spend their life savings to keep a loved one alive for just a bit longer. Economists are seen as cold for trying to price human life.

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You Kipper@ukipperlad·
I stand with Robert Kenyon
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Rupert Lowe MP@RupertLowe10

@GoodwinMJ Your Reform Makerfield candidate publicly bragged about how he would love to both smell and lick Carol Vorderman’s arsehole. A healthy mind, that is not.

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Potassium Enjoyer
Potassium Enjoyer@PotassiumEnjoy·
@ScottGoetz_ Always so funny when modern leftists pretend they wouldn’t have cancelled Orwell to within an inch of his life for his relentless mockery of leftism from the inside.
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Stakeholder Consultant@echetus·
There’s a Uber advert doing the rounds at the moment which features a gay couple called “Mark and Jamal” and I laugh out loud every time I hear that pair of names.
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Potassium Enjoyer@PotassiumEnjoy·
@eugyppius1 Thank you, this is one of those things that Germans tend to knee-jerk defend when it is criticised by foreigners (all cultures do this) For me the problem was always having to cram all shopping etc into Saturday, leaving Sunday a yawning void.
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eugyppius@eugyppius1·
Sunday shop closures are the worst thing about Germany and I didn't even realise this until gf moved to Warnemünde where the shops are open on Sunday because of some tourism dispensation and it is easily a 20% across-the-board improvement in quality of life.
Porkchop Express@Porkchop_EXP

Shops being closed in Germany on “one day only” Sunday means shelves are already empty Saturday noon, still not restocked on Monday, leaving you only 4 days a week to actually do your grocery shopping. It absolutely ruins Saturday for everyone and affects at least 3 more days around it (2nd order effects). Anyone defending this system is an idiot.

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Potassium Enjoyer@PotassiumEnjoy·
@ukipperlad Remember that Labour was still pretending they’d HONOUR THE REFERENDUM RESULT at the time
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You Kipper@ukipperlad·
>labour still swept up in an area that voted 70% leave >UKIP barely beat the tories it felt catastrophic, as if Brexit was almost meaningless
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You Kipper@ukipperlad·
thinking about the 2017 Stoke by-election
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Potassium Enjoyer@PotassiumEnjoy·
@echetus Everyone has a couple of ideas for a really cool chapter or sub-chapter. They can’t or won’t: -write it down well -flesh it out into an entire novel
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Stakeholder Consultant@echetus·
The interesting thing about the use of AI in literature is how many people want to be writers without actually wanting to write.
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Potassium Enjoyer@PotassiumEnjoy·
Can’t stop thinking about the obese food journalist woman on Italian daytime TV the other day who claimed that: - Americans are fat because the Reagan administration made food more calorific to boost sales (???) - RFK jr is now lying that meat is good for you to boost sales
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Potassium Enjoyer@PotassiumEnjoy·
@bronzeagemantis The left identified an enormous open goal, scored, and then turned the easy win into a legendary tale of victory. What could the right learn from this?
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Bronze Age Pervert@bronzeagemantis·
The photo was staged but: is Matt Walsh saying there was no colored seat rule for bus…is he admitting there was and that it would be a good thing? What was Rosa Park arrested for? Is Matt Walsh for that law or is he just saying facile things that seem “radical” but aren’t?
Wall Street Apes@WallStreetApes

We have literally been lied to about everything Matt Walsh “The Rosa Parks story you were taught in school was fake too. This was not just some woman on her way home from work. Civil rights leaders thought Parks would make a sympathetic face for their lawsuit and then told her, a longtime NAACP volunteer, to create a situation where she'd be arrested. This gets sold to the public as totally organic when actually it's playacting to create ideal conditions for a court case or scandal. The iconic photo of Parks on the bus was staged months after the incident as part of a press campaign. (The photo is shown in the clip) The white man, sitting behind her in the bus photo was a journalist, which you probably didn't know.” Let’s fact check this. It’s 100% true What Actually Happened on December 1, 1955 Rosa Parks was a longtime NAACP volunteer and secretary of the Montgomery chapter. She had been deeply involved in civil rights activism for years (including work on cases like the Recy Taylor rape and voter registration efforts). She was not just a random tired seamstress on her way home from work who spontaneously refused to move. Local civil rights leaders had been looking for a strong test case to challenge bus segregation. They even had people cast for the role before Rosa Parks. Earlier attempts include 15 year old Claudette Colvin were passed over because leaders felt Rosa Parks, a mature, respected, married woman with a spotless reputation, would be a more sympathetic plaintiff in court and to the public The Iconic Photo was 100% staged The famous photo was taken on December 21, 1956, this is over a year after her arrest and on the first day the buses were integrated after the Supreme Court ruling It was deliberately staged by journalists, Look Magazine and UPI, for a press campaign to dramatize the victory The white man sitting behind her is Nicholas Chriss, a UPI reporter, not a random angry passenger or segregationist

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eugyppius@eugyppius1·
A few morons in comments are whining about data centres. My dudes, data centres are how the internet works. Your dumb ass is posting on the internet, so also you implicitly accept the necessity of data centres. I don't know where this crusade is coming from but it is retarded.
eugyppius@eugyppius1

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shako@shakoistsLog·
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Potassium Enjoyer@PotassiumEnjoy·
@eugyppius1 My three-year-old nephew has discovered that if he looks at his grandmother with his eyes crossed, she totally freaks out and screams at him to stop. So of course he does it at every opportunity. I view the child as the more sensible, rational actor in those exchanges.
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eugyppius@eugyppius1·
Today the AfD in the Saxony state parliament caused massive consternation by unexpectedly voting with the minuscule Green faction to pass some legislation about slaughterhouses. The Greens are all freaked out for this unintentional firewall violation. Lmao. Brandmauer psychosis.
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Potassium Enjoyer@PotassiumEnjoy·
@epkaufm This would make sense if boomers had been right-wing when they were young. Instead they were the most radical left youngsters ever.
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Potassium Enjoyer@PotassiumEnjoy·
@BurnsideWasTosh Lucky leftists may soon have not one but TWO breathtakingly ugly homosexuals to vote for. Ed Davey needs to catch up, I suggest he transition.
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Burnside@BurnsideWasTosh·
Are we really ready for another gay Prime Minister?
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Potassium Enjoyer@PotassiumEnjoy·
@Howlingmutant0 @HotelLiquid Yeah man the best thing is subtly backing into him, frotting against him a little, feeling his warmth, praying he spontaneously wraps his arms around you from behind
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HowlingMutant@Howlingmutant0·
@HotelLiquid I feel so safe when I get on an elevator and there’s a larger man than me I know can take charge if shit goes down
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Jewel disc case 2@HotelLiquid·
I am the tallest person in this elevator. These peoples lives are my responsibility now
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Sapporo 🇬🇧 🐘🌲@landofangle·
>tells his loyalists to resign to force a leadership election >shits himself when the moment comes >loses support of said loyalists >never runs for PM >probably get sacked >will lose his marginal seat in 2029 What did he mean by this?
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camilo@AscendedYield·
There is a damaging narrative that Labour built the welfare state in 1945 while Britain was broke, and that this somehow proves we can simply do it all again. It is historically illiterate and it is politically dangerous. Attlee's settlement was bankrolled by imperial surpluses, Marshall Aid, sterling's privileged role within Bretton Woods, capital controls that turned domestic savers into a captive bond market, and inflation that quietly torched the real debt. It sat on top of a state a fraction of today's size, financed by a young workforce, riding reconstruction productivity growth. None of that applies now. No imperial buffer. No Marshall Aid. No captive market. UK industry is under 2% of global output. The state already eats 45% of GDP. Expect this narrative to gain more traction in the coming days when people tell us we can just ignore the markets.
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