Sometimes people say to me "You should start a blog!"
Let me tell you how running a blog works: You write something, and then a bunch of russian bots come in trying to sell shit on your website. It's boring. I'd much rather interact with people here on the fediverse, occasionally popping out a big effortpost.
Let me tell you how running a blog works: You write something, and then a bunch of russian bots come in trying to sell shit on your website. It's boring. I'd much rather interact with people here on the fediverse, occasionally popping out a big effortpost.
The reason we don't have elephant sized beetles running around and causing apocalypse on earth is the laws of physics limit the size bugs can be. A creature can try to be larger than that, but it starts to run up against things that mean it becomes less survivable. A giant cow sized insect would be mostly exoskeleton and so there's so little room for internal organs and the like that it wouldn't be able to survive, let alone move under its own power.
I've always thought that global megacorps are the same -- they can only exist because we've created artificial conditions, such as a false oxygen concentration via central banking, and false low gravity through separating shareholders from liability for the actions of companies, or giving them additional powers they ought not to have through corporate personhood. We've helped these giant insects survive as well through an artificial circulatory system by having the largest military in human history keeping most trade routes safe so companies don't need to (at taxpayer expense, of course). Remove just a few artificial supports, and like a cow shaped beetle, the global megacorp becomes too cumbersome to move, with too much armor to contain anything of substance.
I've always thought that global megacorps are the same -- they can only exist because we've created artificial conditions, such as a false oxygen concentration via central banking, and false low gravity through separating shareholders from liability for the actions of companies, or giving them additional powers they ought not to have through corporate personhood. We've helped these giant insects survive as well through an artificial circulatory system by having the largest military in human history keeping most trade routes safe so companies don't need to (at taxpayer expense, of course). Remove just a few artificial supports, and like a cow shaped beetle, the global megacorp becomes too cumbersome to move, with too much armor to contain anything of substance.
The worst part is, they had to fabricate Trump's platform to even have anything there. "I'm going to leave it to the states and I don't support a national abortion ban and won't sign one" isn't something you can rile up people over, so they have to keep saying he's going to do stuff he said he's not going to do because they have to run against the imaginary person they wish they were running against.
I feel like that was the entire campaign, the Democrats trying to tell Trump what his platform was, and Trump running on a completely different platform.
I feel like that was the entire campaign, the Democrats trying to tell Trump what his platform was, and Trump running on a completely different platform.
It should probably be Hillary clinton, she seems to be a really good that sort of thing.
There was that show sister wives where the guy had like five wives. Anyone who has one wife knows you can barely managed to give one time and attention at times, sure enough 10 years later four the women divorced him he's with the hottest youngest one.
You could be 18 and Megan Fox hot (and actually a woman like Megan Fox but unlike her poor kids) and that's still not appropriate for a wedding.
These far right conspiracy theorists should immediately have their social media taken away and in some cases maybe locked up.
lol how dare this far right programmer engage in election denial!
(Biden can't investigate the election, he's having his afternoon nap)
(Biden can't investigate the election, he's having his afternoon nap)
"was" -- I'm pretty sure his American woman's California retardation ensured that ship sailed.
He *must* have a strong prenup... I mean, he was a goddamned Royal, he can't not have a strong prenup?
To an extent it's a Pascal's wager. Even if you look dumb for hoping for and acting towards what you think might be better, in the aggregate it's better than letting the worse happen opposed.
Teaching them not to have coping skills.
You know, the right still had to show up at their blue collar jobs the day after Trump lost (those who still had jobs thanks to COVID lockdowns, anyway)
You know, the right still had to show up at their blue collar jobs the day after Trump lost (those who still had jobs thanks to COVID lockdowns, anyway)
I don't know what we'll do without the anti-hate party in charge.
I suspect we'll all get along a lot better.
I suspect we'll all get along a lot better.
the most interesting thing about publishing a book is just how hard it is to make money off of it, especially if you hired anyone to help with anything along the way.
A labor of love unless you've got a huge machine behind you.
(I've got my copy)
A labor of love unless you've got a huge machine behind you.
(I've got my copy)
My argument would be that if the US is going to pay enough for universal healthcare they should provide it, and if they're not going to, they should cut spending to be commensurate with the level of services being provided.
The US model is to charge for single payer and not provide it, and so the taxpayers pay twice, once for the public healthcare they don't get, and second for the private healthcare that must replace it. That's why per capita healthcare spending in the US is so much higher than any other country on earth.
Problem with free healthcare such as in Canada is obviously that you remove all limits on demand but you heavily limit supply, so of course you'll have shortages, that's econ 101.
Canada's free healthcare also leads to some perverse incentives with bad outcomes. Drug addicts will clog up emergency rooms so they can pretend to have a toothache to score prescription drugs. In the far north, my mother told me stories of parents making their kids drink drano so the hospital could be a babysitter while they go out drinking.
No dispute that both private and public systems have their problems, but the US specific hybrid is the worst of all possible worlds.
The US model is to charge for single payer and not provide it, and so the taxpayers pay twice, once for the public healthcare they don't get, and second for the private healthcare that must replace it. That's why per capita healthcare spending in the US is so much higher than any other country on earth.
Problem with free healthcare such as in Canada is obviously that you remove all limits on demand but you heavily limit supply, so of course you'll have shortages, that's econ 101.
Canada's free healthcare also leads to some perverse incentives with bad outcomes. Drug addicts will clog up emergency rooms so they can pretend to have a toothache to score prescription drugs. In the far north, my mother told me stories of parents making their kids drink drano so the hospital could be a babysitter while they go out drinking.
No dispute that both private and public systems have their problems, but the US specific hybrid is the worst of all possible worlds.
One thing about the United States is the state of the healthcare system should be a bipartisan scandal.
The thing is, it's not as if the government isn't spending enough money. Per capita public spending on health Care in the United States is comparable to countries with single-payer healthcare such as Canada or the United Kingdom. In other words, American taxpayers are already paying enough for universal health care, and yet they're getting nothing.
The fact that the healthcare industry can have it both ways shows that it doesn't matter who's in charge at the moment, the healthcare system is a corporate health Care system not a people healthcare system. And it really doesn't matter if you're on the left or the right, that should be such a damning indictment of both sides of the political spectrum for letting this continue that it should almost be disqualifying for everyone involved.
The thing is, it's not as if the government isn't spending enough money. Per capita public spending on health Care in the United States is comparable to countries with single-payer healthcare such as Canada or the United Kingdom. In other words, American taxpayers are already paying enough for universal health care, and yet they're getting nothing.
The fact that the healthcare industry can have it both ways shows that it doesn't matter who's in charge at the moment, the healthcare system is a corporate health Care system not a people healthcare system. And it really doesn't matter if you're on the left or the right, that should be such a damning indictment of both sides of the political spectrum for letting this continue that it should almost be disqualifying for everyone involved.
It was pretty good, but we're still defunding the CBC next year (and the rest of the Canadian fake news media as well)