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#M4A #CleanEnergy #ESG #GlassBlowing #Feminism #Minnesota #UChicago (proud parent) #Pacisfism #VoteBlue

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janisf, to random
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If you don't follow yet: https://www.fireweatheravalanche.org/fire/

#wildfires

maddad, to random
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Almost there....

janisf,
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@maddad Have you seen this, yet? https://thebulletin.org/#navbar-brand

janisf,
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@maddad

Ego is the matter with us. We are burning it down in the attempt to be the power that can implement solutions.

As far as "our" side goes, more capital isn't a solution, but we think it is. It does solve several problems, just not the big ones.

janisf,
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@maddad RIght? I like it because I know it's studied, and because it's a container for my existential terror. I don't touch news on the subject(s) outside of hitting that. I can be ready for it when I go there, and leave it behind. Sanity simply isn't possible of you carry that around with you all the time.

TBH, I'm not really sure sanity is possible, but I keep chasing it....

luckytran, to random
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The US government is ending the program that provides free COVID vaccines to people who are uninsured and underinsured.

This is a public health failure that will further decrease already low vax rates, and puts marginalized communities at greater risk.

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/4670459-cdc-ending-free-covid-vaccines-uninsured/

janisf,
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@artemesia @luckytran She got her last at the end of Feb. It says $28.39, all Medicare.

That's not to say the sticker price is the same as what CMS approves, but I'm thinkin' we need to be talking medical prices at least as much as we've needed to be talking about paychecks.

janisf,
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@luckytran I'm sure they calculated the numbers and probabilities of spread. It's hard to believe, but most Americans have medical coverage.

"The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has established a fee schedule for the two-dose vaccines, such as the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines, that gives providers $16.94 for the first dose and $28.39 for the second. If any single-dose vaccines are authorized, Medicare will pay providers $28.39 for that shot." https://www.aarp.org/health/conditions-treatments/info-2021/covid-vaccine-costs.html

StillIRise1963, to random
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Don’t say shit about caring about trans people, gay people, Black people, brown people, immigrants or your own damn self if you don’t VOTE for Biden. And, you can kiss my ass too.

janisf,
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@KatM @VirginiaMurr @StillIRise1963 I'm not sure people understand that boycotting voting isn't like boycotting a business. The political machine won't shrink for lack of participation. Quite the opposite.

maddad, to random
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American spyware is just as dangerous for us as Chinese spyware.
Just sayin...

janisf,
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@maddad It could be, but it's between having some rights removed and a potential sale of your data to and actual enemy nation. I mean, yeah, a forced pregnancy et al (which can be equivalent to 18+ years of prison, with disfiguring scarring, and more) might actually be worse than dying instantly in a well-targeted nuclear explosion, but there are probably people that would argue with you on your absolute equivalence.

maddad, to random
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The Supreme Court Rules That Cops Can Steal Your Stuff—as They Always Have
By a 6-3 vote, the conservative justices decided that there is no need for the state to provide a preliminary hearing in civil forfeiture cases.😡

When cops decide to help themselves to your property, they can do it without a warrant, without securing a conviction, without even charging you with a crime. 😡

When the government doesn't obey the law,
Then there is no law.
Billy Jack 1971

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/supreme-court-civil-forfeiture-hearing/

janisf,
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@Jon_Kramer @maddad

Well, not entirely. You can't just own a gun and make the rules. You have to be more organized and have more better guns.

Let it be said, it's better to be on the side of the people with the more better guns and the organization to back it. There are ways. I encourage people to run for City Council.

janisf,
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@Jon_Kramer @B_Whitewind @maddad Do you know what I say to people who say, "That's just the way it is?"

Yeah, don't make me say that.

janisf,
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@Jon_Kramer @maddad Yeah, seek out WHY that peace is happening. Emulate that.

janisf,
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@B_Whitewind @Jon_Kramer @maddad

You make it harder to be a piece of shit, and you make it easier for mothers to raise sons who aren't pieces of shit, and you make it so women don't have to fuck those pieces of shit so more shit doesn't come out the chute.

janisf,
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@Jon_Kramer @maddad We can keep spiraling, or we can improve the systems people put in place to join the fight against violence, en masse. There really isn't a middle ground.

I'm committed to non-violence, and thinking of smarter ways to leave a better, safer world for my kid, and all the other kids.

janisf,
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@B_Whitewind @maddad @Jon_Kramer It didn't do anything to mitigate violence, though. The fight I'm fighting is bigger than just letting men keep shooting men and leaving kids in the crossfire.

janisf, to random
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https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/russian-troops-enter-base-housing-us-military-niger-us-official-says-2024-05-02/

> Russian military personnel have entered an air base in Niger that is hosting U.S. troops, a senior U.S. defense official told Reuters, a move that follows a decision by Niger's junta to expel U.S. forces from the country.

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janisf,
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@RustyBertrand People who are disabled can't participate, sometimes even take a position. Remaining neutral isn't always a choice.

Brandi_Buchman, to random
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis may have just set himself up for a First Amendment fight from hell.

DeSantis says Satanism is ‘not real’ and ‘not qualifying’ for new Florida school chaplain program

https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/desantis-says-satanism-is-not-real-and-not-qualifying-for-new-florida-school-chaplain-program/

janisf,
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@cy Some, yes. The world is gradually weaning off of it, despite a distinct lack of suitable psycho-social replacements.

Atheists and agnostics really do need to dream up replacements. Beyond Religi-Burger weddings & funerals, replete with community. Jobs and corporations aren't cutting the muster.

janisf, to random
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@B_Whitewind @RustyBertrand In the world of men it is. Women, not so much. What we feed our attention gets fed.

Buy local. Support DEI efforts. Vote against war. Spread the good news.

janisf,
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@theotherverion @rimu I'll be sure to tell my 90-year-old mom (who's probably got at least 8 years left), to hurry up and get off her ass.

The knot in the right-wing angle is the belief that the church, the family, or other philanthropy will meet the perpetual need. The harsh reality is that there are and always will be people who don't and won't ever have what it takes to provide "enough value," as defined by people with money, to a free market.

janisf,
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@theotherverion Right, but despite decades of failed and emotionally traumatic attempts at getting him employed, and my mother never having been employed outside the home, now that they're both past retirement age, who's responsible to absorb the cost of their utilities, rent, food, and medical care? Or do we let them rot out in a grassy field somewhere?

I'm not proposing a solution, I'm indicating that employment is frequently not one.

janisf,
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@theotherverion My mom wouldn't have a pension. She was effectively a clergyman's wife full time, who has and is still spending spent quite a bit of time caring for my disabled brother, who hasn't ever been properly "gainfully employed" despite desperate efforts that have now come out in the wash as traumatic, not just to my brother.

The model works for babies, too. The question is: who pays (etc.) the care workers?

rscottjones, to random
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A helluva good line:

“Remember, kids: Venture capital is the fart that precedes enshittification. It’s best not to linger once you’ve caught a whiff of it.”

cc: @pluralistic https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/112203064511327193

janisf,
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@rscottjones @pluralistic No lie. Private Equity is the toilet itself. (Have a kid at UChicago on scholarship. Got an invitation to their annual PE event. Tx were $3500, and the event was sold out in less than 3 hours.)

janisf, to StarTrek
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What happens when a Borg develops dementia?

janisf, to random
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Heard on a Reuters piece yesterday, "I don't think I'll vote for Biden since Roe v. Wade was rolled back under him."

ADDED: Too much of the US population doesn't know how the system works. The conservative court system doesn't go away with an Executive administration change. Alito and Thomas rolled back Roe, and the sycophantic Trump appointees fell in line. (Roberts rightfully goes unmentioned.) Obegerfell could easily be next.

janisf, to random
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Conformity only helps the status quo.

Forcing your children to conform to not-science-backed behavior standards can hurt them.

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