Covered in Bees!

@TheJoeySwoll It always amazes me how men will INSTANTLY lean to misogyny ("bitch"?) Huge red flag of a man.

NO ONE GIVES A F**K ABOUT YOUR VIDEO! YOU DON’T OWN THE GYM! 🤡🤡🤡

I should just let you sit with these inaccuracies I guess??

Me: actually brigandine is pretty comfortable and non restrictive! As is plate mail! Person: why are you picking on meeeeee??!! Me:....?

An actual interaction i have had on the internet today. Person: what kind of armor would be available? Me: in that era, probably brigandine. Person: oh so a big heavy uncomfortable jacket with sharp metal.

@heavensbvnny @Dana_TFSJ Open office.

You know what really bugs me these days? We can't own anything. Everything is a subscription service, like literally everything. You can't buy Microsoft Office, you have to purchase a subscription for a year. You literally have to pay for everything FOREVER. Isn't anyone else bothered by this?

Private equity firms bought 500 hospitals. Death rates in their emergency rooms went up 13%. They fired 12% of the staff. Then they paid themselves billions in dividends. A Harvard study just confirmed what doctors already knew: people are dying so investors can hit quarterly targets. Exactly what happens. A PE firm buys a hospital using debt. The debt gets placed on the hospital's balance sheet, not the firm's. Now the hospital owes hundreds of millions it never borrowed. To service that debt, the hospital cuts costs. Costs mean nurses. The numbers from the Harvard/University of Chicago study are horrifying. After PE acquisition, emergency department salary spending dropped 18.2%. ICU salary spending dropped 15.9%. Hospital-wide employees were cut 11.6%. Emergency department deaths rose 13%, seven additional deaths per 10,000 visits. A separate study found patients undergoing surgery at PE-acquired hospitals had 17% higher odds of dying within 90 days. Steward Health Care, owned by Cerberus Capital, filed bankruptcy with $9 billion in debt after closing hospitals across Massachusetts. The CEO lived on a $40 million yacht while emergency rooms went dark. Eight hospitals serving 2 million people nearly disappeared because a PE fund extracted more cash than the system could survive. The private equity industry has poured over $1 trillion into healthcare. They operate a quarter of ERs nationwide. This isn't going away. The investing angle nobody talks about. Non-PE hospital operators like HCA Healthcare (HCA) and Tenet (THC) are the direct beneficiaries. Every time a PE hospital closes or deteriorates, patients flow to the nearest competitor. HCA has returned 1,200% since 2011. Patient volume from PE closures is a structural tailwind nobody's pricing in. Medical staffing firms (AMN Healthcare, Cross Country) charge premium rates specifically because PE hospitals cut staff. The staffing shortage IS the business model for these companies. The disruption play: outpatient surgical centers (SCA Health, now part of UnitedHealth) are pulling profitable procedures out of hospitals entirely. PE-owned hospitals lose their highest-margin surgeries to outpatient, and the death spiral accelerates. Pull up tradevision and monitor healthcare M&A alerts, hospital closure filings, and patient volume migration data. When a PE-owned hospital announces "restructuring," the patient volume shift to competitors like HCA starts within 30 days. That 30-day window is when the competitor's earnings revisions haven't updated yet. Free to try. (a private equity firm bought your local hospital. borrowed $500 million in the hospital's name. fired 12% of the nurses. emergency room deaths rose 13%. then they paid themselves dividends. nobody went to prison. they're currently buying another hospital.)

My biggest blackpill is knowing that third-worldism is winning because most humans are simply retarded. Foreign propaganda slop spreads easily because repetition turns obvious bullshit into “common sense” and retarded brains love feeling like they’re on the winning team. The final stage of that realization is losing all hope and accepting that collapse may actually be what we deserve. Harsh but freeing.

@BlueEightySix When a student attempts to fact check me we call it learning time. I show them my evidence. They show theirs. The class decides. I'm undefeated except the time I was off one year at the publication of a book.

I was a voracious reader. I also had a bad habit of fact checking my teachers (public and private). Good teachers just accepted that I probably knew what I was talking about. I embarrassed the ones who dug in. Like drawing a world map with 90%+ of the countries from memory. The most hilarious time was a high school history teacher who assured the class that Jaws was rated R, and my autist ass just insisted, "No, it's PG" to the point that he got so upset he made a [non-cash] bet with me and lost the next day after he looked it up. He paid out in front of the class. I was generally more trouble in elementary school though.

@FICMBondTrader Bro I had a bachelor's degree from an Ivy when I enlisted. I was tired of serving myself. I wanted to serve a greater cause.

No one in the military ACTUALLY wants to serve It’s 99% poor kids that had no job prospects and wanted the free benefits / paycheck None of them want to go fight

Why is she so obsessed with him? She's not even American

Freedom of religion doesn't work when the "religion" has a standing kill order on people who leave or refuse to join.

@upstatefederlst I had to bring a recent utility bill but like...they give you a checklist before you arrive so you bring the right stuff. Takes 10 minutes

You literally just need a US Passport unless the name is different on the passport.

Appalling. I understand the need to keep our best and brightest safe, but to have to kowtow to an evil ideology feels like a loss

The fact that an old man needs to come out of retirement to pay for medical bills, while illegal immigrants and generational mooches survive off the taxpayer, is so infuriating I can't even out it into words.

My best tip for anyone trying to get back into reading is to remember that you can read books to avoid other responsibilities in your life, and it can become a vice if you play your cards right.

I don't. It bothers people how much I remember.

@waltermasterson You literally are a human shield for a murderous ideology.

Hey everyone, I can admit when I was wrong. Being reckless when a bomb is thrown over your head is not a good look and that weighs heavily on me and my family.

🧵regarding Lord of the Rings - related traumatic injuries, and whether access to modern Level 1 trauma centers could have decreased morbidity and mortality within the Fellowship. Here we will take a more evidence-based approach to some of the injuries in Middle Earth (1/ )

Ah. Here's the reason I go mic off when I play Space Marine 2. This attitude right here.

@TheJoeySwoll .....what's wrong with 39 minutes? Also maybe she got a call that someone needed her and had to cut her workout short. People need to mind their business

39 minutes is better than NO minutes at all.