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Proposed reform for the insurance racket: 1) Providers have freedom to charge customers/patients as they see fit, up to a standard charge. 2) Insurance + copay total no less than 95% of the standard charge. Today, insurance reimbursement rates are *SECRET* by contract. Corporate privilege...

The U.S. president pushing a dictator for U.N. leadership shows that the fascists who seek world domination see today's social and political situation as an opportunity to advance their neofeudal takeover. We have known the U.S. is at the precipice, and now we see it's the whole world.

How much food / shelter / fuel does an hour of work buy? Authoritarian, anti-democratic "governments" have a perfect record of high cost of living and low quality of life. Look to Russia to see where this is headed unless we change course. It won't be easy but the alternative is very dark.

Agreed. Elon Musk is pathologically evil, and quite "intelligent". He knows exactly what he is doing. He is not misinformed, and is willfully participating in the ongoing fascist takeover.

Russia stops: The war ends Ukraine stops: The people of Ukraine are enslaved. This travesty must end with Ukrainian independence from kremlin enslavement. The fake president of the U.S. is complicit in the murder of the people of Ukraine.

I just noticed that I have received ZERO spam calls since Oct 11. Correlation is not causation, but it's a good place to start. Loss of Russian data centers and my relief from spam calls correlate beautifully! Elon is pissed off. He knows why, and now we know too. Tough shit big guy.

Geeky engineer has always really liked airshows and displays. Just now, a VERY large helicopter flew overhead (we live 3 miles north of Ohio Stadium), and instead of celebrating and enjoying the view I lament the rise of fascism it represents. These bastards take the joy out of everything.

Help voter turnout! Help voter turnout by posting a link to your Secretary of State's office on Nextdoor.com. When I copy and paste relevant information like voter ID requirements, days and times of early in person voting and how to register, I often get over 1K views. Make it too big to rig!

.... I have had enough of the rest of us paying the price for magat games.

This is week I learned of "Bab-el mandeb", the Other Strait that is being blocked on the request of Iran. Our ongoing disaster of a "president" found a way to force rationing of motor oil! ...and blames the country under continuous attack by glide bombs, cruise missiles, and ballistic missiles!

You all understand that Trump is just the "front man" right? An entire political party is backing him up. The entire country has capitulated. It is about so much more than just ONE MAN! My god. Humans have gotten so damned stupid. #cdnpoli #uspoli

Yes.

Every technology that allows one worker to produce what once required ten should be fantastic news. We could all work less. Instead the owner discovers he can sack nine people and keep the extra wealth. Technology isn't stealing our future. Ownership is.

Trump is how he always has been, I never expected loyalty. It’s the Republicans who have enabled him and gotten in line with him, who I expected differently, that I’m the maddest about them being traitors. To make things worse for their own constituents is just disgusting, there’s NO excuse!

trump said in reference to former president Biden's cancer diagnosis, "If you feel sorry for him, don't feel so sorry, because he's vicious." Every accusation is a confession. trump is an expert in viciousness, one of the best ever, maybe the all time best qualified to exemplify viciousness.

When you replace experts with *coconspirators* you end up with situations like these. At best inflation trying to compete with the 1970's, and we don't really want to look deeper into the abyss.

Life is all about perspective…

Socialism gets a bad rap as part of the propaganda plan in the corporate takeover blueprint in the 1971 Powell Memo. Most people do not even understand what socialism means. The Powell Memo brought us: The Heritage Foundation and Fox "news".... youtu.be/-mjk_F1CaLs?...

1) I agree 2) Joe Schmoe using an inappropriate epithet does not disenfranchise millions of people. People in power do, and have public responsibility not to. The latter lies somewhere between "abuse of power" and "slander". Both offenses should be legally actionable.

youtu.be/207TJmydX8E?... Look to Lewis Powell, "conservatives" and the executive class. They FUNDED China's technical rise by sending our knowhow and our jobs there! Our oligarchs started fights over woke and owning the libs. They shitcanned huge advantages. We pay the price.

... a good reply to a post in which the author proposes elimination of automotive control touchscreens.

That would be me, U.S. "citizen"... Not just foreign regimes: Our own fossil fuel overlords are holding us captive to their near monopoly on access to energy and resources. Too many Americans fail to recognize that National Security SHOULD be about the people, not the wealth of a few billionaires.

"Seeing the huge anti-racism crowds in Glasgow and Belfast was genuinely heart-warming. Thousands of people came together to stand up for their neighbours, their communities, and basic human decency. No cars burned. No homes attacked. No businesses smashed up ..." via HandsomeCrocodile8127

In opposition to RFKjr! Got a covid booster vax early this afternoon. Early this evening forgetting the vax, I walked about 11500 steps. (Body ok) This evening, I updated security settings for my wife's web server. (IQ ok) 69 years old, no problems with the vax since its introduction.

What you see in the Sun, is the Chicago skyline from the Indiana Dunes beach, across Lake Michigan. You can see it from 50 miles of distance due to a form of superior mirage, because the skyline is seen above where it's actually located. [📷 wesskywalker]

Just wanted to let you know that the IRS has audited every president annually for decades now to ensure there was no corruption and the reason you didn't know that was because only one president found that to be a problem

World, take note. We cannot predict which child, which student, which postdoc, which asst prof will produce the next advance. We must hear all voices.

House of El has never disappointed me (I started following her February 2026) credibly reporting/analyzing topics of geopolitical interest. She claims to have a Ph.D. in CompSci and data scientist. She has begun reporting on artificial intelligence. Watch this video. youtu.be/2WcpagVEnIw?...

We got here because we failed to punish the Confederacy. Let's not do that again, okay?

Congratulations to Brits for moving toward energy independence. We in the U.S. are being strangled, poisoned and impoverished by those who want to control us by trying to preserve our dependence on their control over our energy supply.

I don't know anyone who's mad at Europe but the kool-aid drinking boot-lickers. No one else believes Europe has done anything to the U.S. Quite the opposite. Most Americans realize that the American people and Europe share a common enemy (the Trump regime) and are sort of in Europe's corner.

Approximately 100 years, when counting from initial support for Saudi Arabian kings and princes. Solar and wind have the feature (for us) that they are hard to centralize. Fossil fuel infrastructure is easy to centralize, so the oligarchs LOVE it, and the rest of us can swim in a lake of fire.

The real story… under any other president this would be jail time…

I wonder: A significant but unstated goal of instability re:Iran is to induce a recession and increase inflation. Hits middle and working classes hard with no consequences for the oligarchs. Pay back debt (having spent like drunken sailors for decades) with less valuable "dollars".

The American people are not Free. They are a crop. Harvested to fuel economic activity. Healthcare is tied to employment so that those who are not productive are bankrupted and die. To distract from the freedoms they lack they’re told freedom is gun ownership. (Police shoot them for owning guns)