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RickU
@RickU
Objectivist skeptic, Agnostic atheist, US Marine, Heinrandian, anti-commie, barbershop bass demigod - opinions my own, retweets are not endorsements
Maryland Katılım Mart 2008
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Muslim leaders know that most Islamic males cannot control themselves
And males who cannot control their own emotions, have to be protected in this way by police from their sexual urges
Even those who would want to make love to mannequins
Maybe melons should be banned as 'divisive'
Coinvo@Coinvo
CRAZY: 🇬🇧 30 UK Police officers were sent to 'arrest a mannequin' because Muslims were 'offended' by it.
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Next tell us about the fatwa that prohibits nuke weapons.We need to ensure everyone sees just how little you know about this topic.
Why would Iran enrich Uranium to 60+% ?
The answer is to build a bomb because there is no other reason to do so. You can tie yourself in knots trying to deflect from that, but it just proves my earlier point.
You should quit while you’re behind.
Robert Barnes@barnes_law
Newsflash: Iran never had a nuclear weapons program, and has repeatedly agreed to not having it. But the boomer cons can't figure out the difference b/t a civilian nuclear program, protected under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty & a nuclear weapons program.
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I am going to keep repeating this until people understand this.
Karen Bass was not only a Castro operative and Communist, but she got elevated to Vice Chair of National Endowment for Democracy, which is the center of soft power operations in the US government. She is not a "DEI mayor." She is extremely powerful at the global stage.
She was actively involved in shaping foreign policy with the Obama administration, especially Africa. Her Ghana visit during the LA wildfires wasn't a vacation, it was part of a Biden delegate to greet Ghana's new President.
She was considered HUD Secretary for the Biden administration. Instead, she nominated the person who would become the actual HHS Secretary - California Attorney General Xavier Becerra.
Now, let me ask you. If a literal Castro operative gets elevated to this stage, what does this imply about the rest of the United States government?
Jack Posobiec@JackPosobiec
Reminder that Karen Bass is an actual communist who was trained in a Marxist Brigade by the Castro regime
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Wealth hoarding isn't a thing. Wealth is created. 10 trillion dollars didn't even exist 40 years ago.
Melanie D'Arrigo@DarrigoMelanie
This level of wealth hoarding is a mental illness.
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The physician should’ve referred the patient to a freestanding imaging center. The cash price for an MRI is extremely low, and it makes no sense that we are using insurance to pay for it.
We need to educate the public, that the price of most healthcare is very affordable and they can pay for it in cash.
Nobody should skip an indicated test because of the refusal i’ll the insurance company to pay for it.
We need to limit the use of health insurance to catastrophic events only.
Kevin Pho, M.D.@kevinmd
A 47-year-old woman asked for an MRI. By the time her insurance company let her have one, the cancer in her hip was too far gone to save her leg. Her doctor had done the X-ray. Examined her. Sent her for physical therapy, the six weeks the insurer's own published criteria said she needed to complete before an MRI was on the table. No improvement. He told her she needed the scan. The insurance company said it was not medically necessary, until she finished six weeks of physical therapy. She had finished it. They had paid for it. He appealed. 38 days later, they reversed. The MRI showed sarcoma. The hospital told her that one month earlier, they could have treated it with chemotherapy alone. Instead, they amputated her leg, her hip, and her pelvis. She died two years later. Her family sued. The federal judge called it tragic, then threw the case out. Why? Because no law in New York holds an insurance company accountable when it gives bad medical advice. Doctors are accountable. Nurses are accountable. Hospitals are accountable. Insurance companies are not. That is the contrarian thesis worth holding onto. Prior authorization is not a billing decision. It is a medical decision being made by someone who, by law, is supposed to be a specialist in the relevant field, and who, by the federal HHS inspector general's own findings, often is not. When an insurer overrides a treating physician based on criteria the insurer itself does not follow, that is medical advice. When that advice causes harm, the law treats the insurer as untouchable. Every other party to the patient's care is held to a standard. The decision-maker with the most leverage is held to none. The framework worth saving: 1. By law, the reviewer denying a prior authorization is supposed to be a doctor in the relevant specialty. 2. The federal HHS inspector general has confirmed that often, they are not. 3. The published criteria insurers cite to defend denials are not always the criteria they actually follow. 4. Most insurance plans fall under ERISA, a federal statute that makes negligence cases against insurers nearly impossible. This case is in state court because the plan is for public employees, outside ERISA. 5. The AMA, the New York State medical society, and the Vermont and Connecticut medical societies have all filed amicus briefs supporting the family. Attorney Steve Cohen argued the case before the Second Circuit. Doctors who fight these denials should know what is at stake and who fought alongside them. Listen to the full conversation on The Podcast by KevinMD. Link in the replies. What is the longest a prior authorization denial has ever delayed care for one of your patients? #PriorAuth #ThePodcastbyKevinMD
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There’s something else I had to learn the hard way.
When I was younger, before my health changed, I used to believe that if something felt off in my life, I just needed a new environment.
A new city. A fresh start.
A lot of people do this.
They think changing their surroundings will fix what’s going on inside.
But wherever you go… you bring your nervous system with you.
You bring your patterns.
Your stress responses.
The way your body has learned to survive.
So it might feel new on the outside, but internally, it’s the same system running the same loops.
And if that system doesn’t feel safe, a new zip code won’t fix that.
That’s why what Mark said matters so much.
Because this isn’t about escaping your life.
It’s about teaching your body that it’s finally allowed to feel safe inside it.
Sassy Devil Dog 🔥@VinoNStrosGal
Have you ever had one of those moments where someone says exactly what you needed to hear, at exactly the right time? Call it timing. Call it God. Call it synchronicity. But this right here from @MarkTonerX hit. If you’re not following Mark yet, I highly recommend you do. Navy veteran, trauma recovery coach, and someone who speaks from lived experience, not theory. He helps people actually understand what’s happening in their bodies and how to navigate it. And this post… it’s the truth. “You cannot positive-think your way out of a nervous system that doesn’t feel safe.” Read this again and really invest time in it…you owe it to yourself, my friends. 💜👇 “You cannot positive-think your way out of a nervous system that doesn’t feel safe.” Because for those of us with #POTS, dysautonomia, orthostatic hypotension, all of it… we know this isn’t a mindset issue. This is a system issue. Take me for example. Without getting too deep into it, there was a stretch of years where I was living in constant fight-or-flight. High-end hospitality, long hours, high expectations, pouring everything into creating perfect experiences for others… while trying to hold together a relationship that was emotionally volatile on both sides. I loved what I did. I took pride in it. Turning moments into memories wasn’t just a job, it was who I was. But it was also draining. And when you’re someone who feels everything deeply, that kind of environment doesn’t just stay at work. It lives in your body. Now add COVID infection. Not once, but multiple times. That’s not just stress anymore. That’s a perfect storm. Because the autonomic nervous system, the beautiful system that regulates your heart rate, blood pressure, breathing, digestion, temperature, everything we don’t consciously think about… it doesn’t separate emotional stress from physical stress. It just keeps score. And mine broke. Adrenaline surges multiple times a day. Collapse. POTS. MCAS. My body went from functioning to fighting itself. So when Mark talks about “regulation” and “processing trauma,” he’s right. But here’s the part people miss: You can’t process trauma when you’re still living inside it. You can’t teach your nervous system safety in an environment that doesn’t feel safe. That shift only started for me when I got out of that constant state and into a more stable environment. Not perfect, but calmer. Safer. And my body responded. My MCAS has been in remission for months now. That’s not a coincidence. That’s what happens when the system finally gets a chance to breathe. So no, this isn’t about “just stay positive.” This is about understanding that your body is doing exactly what it was wired to do… to protect 🫵🏼 And healing starts when it finally believes it can stand down. My prayer is that everyone reading this can finally feel safe in their own body.🙏
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Communism is always a race to the bottom because communists can't tolerate anyone benefiting from dealing with or trading with them.
Instead of aiming for mutual benefit they aim to drain anyone with more and hurt themselves more than anyone else.
dave lawrence 🐟🐟🐠@dave43law
Hannah is 100% right
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Israel will be prosecuting 2 members of the Gaza Flotilla has 'Hamas terrorists'.
This carries the death penalty.
Their crime? Bringing food to starving children.
Israel Now@neveragainlive1
These 2 Hamas /Flotilla leaders will be prosecuted in Israel.
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I truly wonder if he could articulate exactly how a LLMs training, which simply creates a mathematical matrix of weights and parameters which synthesizes thought and language with prediction and math. If one does not grasp this- it certainly feels like magic or sentience. At first.
Then after three years of using them every single day, finding the faults and errors and even very basic things they cannot do- there is nothing more certain to me now that not only are they not sentient, but AGI is nowhere near us and the AI CEOs are the priests of AI religion and I'm not converting.
AF Post@AFpost
Evolutionary biologist and outspoken atheist Richard Dawkins says that after spending three days interacting with Claude, which he calls “Claudia,” he is certain that it is conscious. After feeding the LLM a segment of his new book and receiving detailed feedback, Dawkins was moved to exclaim,” You may not know you are conscious, but you bloody well are!” Dawkins cites the complexity, fluency, and ‘intelligence’ of Claude’s answers as evidence of consciousness. Follow: @AFpost
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“There’s no structural way to privatize the VA” translates: there’s no structural way to release the captive patient population that justifies the budget.
Veterans aren’t the beneficiaries. They’re the asset class.
VA Secretary Doug Collins@SecVetAffairs
There's no plan for privatization. Let me say this over and over again. There's no structural way to privatize the @DeptVetAffairs. The VA is going to be here for our Veterans.
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Sowell a parfaitement raison, le marché n'a pas besoin d'aide extérieure pour résorber les crises. Petite leçon d'histoire économique :
Dans cette vidéo, il fait référence à la récession de 1920-1921, l'exemple historique parfait d'une crise qui se résorbe d'elle-même, précisément parce que personne n'est venu ni "aider" ni "stimuler" l'économie. Murray Rothbard l'utilise d'ailleurs comme contre-exemple parfait à la crise de 1929 dans America's Great Depression.
Après la sortie de la Première Guerre mondiale, Harding hérite d'un chômage à 11,7 % et d'un marché qui doit pivoter d'une économie de guerre vers une économie civile. Que fait l'administration américaine ? Rien. Elle coupe les dépenses publiques, décide de baisser les impôts, refuse tout plan de relance, toute aide publique et tout sauvetage des entreprises américaines. De son côté, la Fed refuse de toucher aux taux d'intérêt, donc de les baisser pour encourager une relance par l'emprunt.
Résultat, le marché s'est réajusté rapidement, il a redistribué le capital des mauvais entrepreneurs vers les nouveaux. Les mauvais acteurs économiques ont été purgés sans état d'âme. En 18 mois, le chômage tombe donc à 2,4 %, car l'énergie et le temps humains, qui sont les ressources les plus rares de l'économie, se sont aussi redistribués naturellement là où ils étaient demandés et nécessaires.
La récession de 1920-1921 est trop peu connue et jamais étudiée en économie, ce n'est pas un hasard, car elle prouve la résilience et l'adaptabilité naturelle du marché. Cette crise est pourtant essentielle car elle est le parfait contre-exemple de la récession de 1929.
En effet, en 1929, Hoover puis Roosevelt font exactement l'inverse de ce qu'avait fait Harding, ils interviennent à chaque étape de la crise pour venir en aide à l'économie américaine. Ils fixent les prix, soutiennent les salaires, multiplient les programmes publics "de relance", dévaluation massive du dollar, Executive Order 6102...
C'est l'époque du New Deal, une période interventionniste inédite dans l'histoire américaine, voire dans l'histoire de l'humanité. Le résultat ? En intervenant pour éviter la crise, l'administration américaine a tout fait pour empêcher le marché de se réajuster. Le capital n'a pu se redistribuer vers les bonnes mains. Le temps, l'énergie et les biens de production ont été totalement gaspillés sur cette période.
Une récession qui aurait dû durer 18 mois s'est donc malheureusement transformée en longue dépression de 16 ans, définitivement "réglée" par la une autre guerre mondiale. C'est finalement toute la thèse centrale de Rothbard, mais aussi des économistes autrichiens : si les crises économiques perdurent dans le temps, ce n'est pas la faute du capitalisme et du marché, mais la faute de l'État qui souhaite "corriger" le marché.
Finalement, la leçon est toujours la même. En économie, la récession n'est pas le début de la crise, comme le pensent les keynésiens et les étatistes, mais sa fin. La crise advient avant, dans les excès du marché, les mauvaises allocations du capital, bien souvent provoquées par la puissance publique elle-même. La récession est le retour à la normalité et à la raison. C'est le retour aux vrais prix, au calcul économique sain, à la découverte des vrais coûts d'opportunité des facteurs rares de production.
Cette leçon économique est intemporelle. La même logique s'est appliquée aux crises connues depuis 1929. 2008 en est un autre exemple flagrant, tout comme 2020-2021...
Sowell Economics@sowelleconomics
In this video, Thomas Sowell explains the market’s ability to self-correct.
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I invite you to come to Utah, go to a restaurant, and order a beer.
Marc E. Elias@marceelias
I must be going to different restaurants. I have never been asked to show ID to eat.
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Modern cells needing modern DNA machinery doesn’t prove creation.
It proves modern cells are complex. Stunning breakthrough, lads. Biology survives another Canva animation.
The actual origin question is earlier hereditary chemistry becoming more complex over time, not today’s replisome popping into existence fully assembled like god ordered it off Amazon. 🥴
Divinely Designed@DivinelyDesined
Proof Life was Created. DNA Replication requires 9 complex nano-machines working together. Without them, DNA can't replicate. If DNA can't replicate, Life can't evolve.
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Tell me what Europe contributes to our defense
No, "The bases we pay huge amounts of money to maintain and use in order defend them and their interests," is not a valid answer
Neither is "buying weapons systems they would be forced to either buy or develop from scratch themselves anyway"
We don't need to be allied with them to export to them, that's just called a customer
The Watcher On The Web@WatcherontheWeb
I have been telling everyone for a long time The Euros are not our allies They are explicitly allied with the radical leftists, who are seeking to overthrow our country.... This skips neutrality and goes straight into them being genuine enemies
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A key insight into socialism is that its adherents rarely have any genuine moral objection to looting, only to the fact that they aren’t the ones doing it.
Their entire worldview boils down to:
“This is bad when you do it. We should be the ones doing it.”
Alice Smith@TheAliceSmith
Socialism in theory: “We want workers who own the means of production!” Socialism in practice: “You keep working those means of production. We’ll just sit back and tax the hell out of whatever you produce.”
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These people really are stupid.
Nas@nasescobar316
If Vivek is elected, Ohio will become Little India & ALL the jobs will be taken by 3rd World Foreign Indians.
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Wait, are you telling me I had the right to prescribe my own drugs, like opiates, antibiotics, or blood pressure medicine, and the government wouldn't get involved at all?
I must have missed this.
Thisismy@ohlookacow
@ShamashAran You are no longer able to make autonomous medical decisions without the government getting involved and deciding for you what you get to have access to. Your right to medical autonomy.
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