Wait. Questioning fascism is faux pas enough to lose your job now?

National Review isn’t a reliable “news” source. It’s more like a version of the old supermarket crap like the The Enquirer, only with a politics lean instead of People Magazine lean.

There is a cockroach effect for some people when it comes to medical matters, like cancer gets them instead of the other way around.

Nah, the lodestone is Trump. Make it flow one direction or it loses power.

The most effective bit is going to be flooding media with how trump is being led around, manipulated, and not in control. Point to Elon and Vance. Trump will eventually lose his damn mind.

There needs to be more of this. Enough so Trump starts going batshit on them.

Remember, AI absorbed Reddit. Within that context, this is functioning within normal parameters.

DuckDuckGo

Does this mean Musks AI will get sued by Trumps DOJ for using the label “misinformation” per Trumps 1A speech?

It’s the hallmark of this administration. Misogyny. Pedophilia. Women as uteruses with life support systems attached. Sex crimes.

My God, how I miss Warren Ellis.

People almost always change over time. It’s why divorces happen over “where’s the girl/guy I married”? They don’t exist anymore, they’ve grown and adapted to life around them.

If you can swing the training, even at the CNA or EMT level, there is healthcare. Purposeful work. Knowledge that helps your daily, and is never entirely useless. If nothing else it will save you from spurious trips to the urgent care or emergency room, or tell you when to use the urgent care instead of the emergency room, and save you money there. Even before ACA there were shortages. There’s potential here for fallout as with everything else, but if hospitals can retain nonprofit status I don’t see much changing in terms of need.

For now anyway, until nonprofit status/benefits get yanked, hospitals pay part of education upgrades. They typically offer better health insurance too, if you stay in their corporate system and don’t have kids.

I’m sure there’s other purposeful professions that don’t have an impossible buyin.

I usually recommend trades. Building something with your hands, again with a skill set that carries over into your household, has purpose. But with immigration policy, a sizeable piece of the grunt work force may be kicked out, so I’m not sure what will happen there but I suspect house building will slow down.

Third party doesn’t work. You have to do what trump did, 1 man coup from the inside.

Wherein I look for the assassin scaling the side of this thing.

Fair enough.

Depends. Knee replacement is one where you typically decide when, and it can be life changing. Gastric bypass. Shoulder replacement. Maybe that lumbar discectomy to potentially solve back pain. Movement altering lipoma removal.

Talk to your state reps and governor, ask them to codify HIPAA at the state level. This is the federal law that guards medical privacy. It is on the chopping block in Project 2025.

It doesn’t guard data buying and selling though. There’s an add on over in WA that does that, to expand on hipaa, but I don’t think many others have done so.

Facebook messenger. Every keystroke is recorded. Go ahead, as for your data from Facebook. Every keystroke is logged.

Facebook Messenger is the worst way to be communicating right now.

Now is the time to migrate yourself and your people to WIRE or Signal. Your messenger people will likely only move once, if ever.

One way to encourage this is by simply refusing to be available by text on anything but WIRE or Signal. They will eventually give in and use it. You can still FaceTime, and for free, via Signal or WIRE.

This is not encouragement, it’s all meant as a joke, then and now.

I worked with two ladies who were heavy into true crime. Consumption of true crime is, apparently, at hobby level proportions among white women. They’re joking they know now, whether they want to or not, how to dispose of a body after all their true crime consumption. The lead doctor emerges and asks, jokingly, how? In unison, they reply: pigs.

Had a similar conversation recently with a buddy and his new girlfriend. He was astounded at how into true crime she was and wondered aloud if he needed to worry about corpse disposal from her. I’m not into true crime, but knew enough to participate. Poking fun, I looked at her and said: pigs. Without skipping a beat she said: you’d have to pull the teeth first.