Jimmie P Rodgers

With the seeming death of 3rd party apps on this site, it looks like that's it for me. So long and thanks for all the tweets. I'll be over at: @jprodgers@mastodon.social

I love that the US is dominated entirely by a wholly pointless and parasitic “health insurance” industry that has absolutely no objective reason to exist, cures no one, solves nothing, only rent seeks and creates needless Byzantine hurdles to basic care. This is my favorite part

Let's be clear. Eli Lilly should apologize for increasing the price of insulin by over 1,200% since 1996 to $275 while it costs less than $10 to manufacture. The inventors of insulin sold their patents in 1923 for $1 to save lives, not to make Eli Lilly's CEO obscenely rich.

as a Canadian, this is how it feels watching American elections these days

Looks like it's time to dust off my mastodon account: @jprodgers@mastodon.social I'm not going to completely move over there just yet. Still watching this site burn down.

@calebkraft My wife and I prefer the blue, but the white is good too.

HAPPY FOUR SEASONS TOTAL LANDSCAPING DAY TO ALL WHO OBSERVE

Whatever people think of masks for covid, the evidence is super duper clear that when we all wore masks there was no flu. Epidemics dont have to “run their course”—we can cut this flu season short anytime we want with masking, hand-washing, and flu vaccines.

@tankgrrl I've loved using @NewsBlur , it's paid, but actively being worked on.

⛏ Strike the earth on December 6th! ⛏

Got trained out on the new waterjet at work. Our previous one only had a 12x12 inch work area, new one is 2.5x5 feet. I can use it for personal projects during off hours, so now I need to come up with a project.

we're 3D printing totally normal things over here at work

Having one of those days where I managed to convert from metric to metric incorrectly. Cable ended up being 10x as long as it was supposed to be. At least it wasn't short.

NASA Panics After Asteroid Fires Back bit.ly/3Cb6oxH

Got my booster at a small local pharmacy. Wife called them and they basically had walk-ins available, so we went an hour later. I also got my flu shot, and despite sore arms I'm no worse for wear a day later.

This past week my covid booster got cancelled because they ran out of vaccines, and now there are no appointments to schedule. I'm not sure if it's a good sign that demand is up, or bad that supply is down.

There's no better argument for a union than the way Starbucks has responded to the union. Not only has Starbucks gone all out to destroy @SBWorkersUnited, it has also poured billions into improving pay, benefits, and conditions for other workers. Unions make CEOs pay up.

Wired: Why haven't some people caught COVID? Me: I wear a mask and avoid indoor gatherings. Wired: Is it luck? Me: I wear a mask and avoid indoor gatherings. Wired: Do they have no friends? Me: I wear a mask and avoid indoor gatherings. Wired: MAGIC GENES! Me: ...

Forget quiet quitting—we need to talk about quiet fleecing. Workers are more productive than ever, but their pay hasn’t kept pace while top 1% wages have skyrocketed.