Restaurants are getting really expensive. Even “budget” fast food like McD’s has skyrocketed. If we go out to eat I have to cringe at the bill (and the ridiculous tip that we still can’t get rid of despite rising costs) at the end of the meal.

We’ll just use it to make warp drive missiles and torpedos to kill each other quicker with.

I had the “swine flu” too. I’ve had covid twice, and on the surface* I’d rather have covid any day vs that flu again. 4-5 of serious body and joint pains, many days of fever, severe fatigue, headache, cough…and then it hits your lungs. It took months for my lungs to recover and the cought to finally go away. I can’t remember the last time I felt so bad for so long. And yeah, I did get the flu shot, unfortunately that year they didn’t get the H1N1 in the shot by the time it was released.

*yeah, covid has the potential for far worse problems, and no, I wouldn’t really rather risk that than the H1N1, just that my personal covid symptoms were nothing compared to the flu.

Shot a bunch of people, to start. Probably after getting some sort of military in. Who knows, after that. Martial law? Dictator for life?

There were never any raises. This is just guilt-tripping bullshit.

The apocryphal story by the military man?

Libertarians are people who imagine living in their idea of personal, fictional, utopia. Their utopia is one where they pay for only what they want, nobody else gets any of their money, corporations will do no harm, and somehow, magically, they have all the conveniences of modern life.

They just completely ignore that their miserly financial outlook undoes centuries of understanding that an educated society reduces poverty, crime, and unrest, hence the need for public education. Corporations still cause environmental ruin and poison the land, sea, and air…as if giving them minimal or free rein would improve that. Usually their solution to anyone intruding on their ideal world is to shoot them, no need to pay for cops.

In other words, they’re all about their Liberty to do what ever they want. Their version of liberty for you is “You’re free to sink, swim, or die on your own.” They just assume they’ll always be fine or have enough money to do whatever they need. No need to chip in for anyone els’s health care if a) they can’t pay for their own or b) they have their money to pay for theirs, and you’re not getting any of it.

And he gets to pick which data supports his desired outcome.

Christ, this man is an imbecile.

In case anyone was wondering:

https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/376785/why-does-this-16th-century-illustration-show-a-cat-with-a-jetpack-on-its-back

As an American, please vote. Our country is owned by the corporations, at least yours can bring them to heel sometimes.

So angry about something that nobody is making him have any interaction with.

I hope you Kodak yourself.

Best acting I’ve seen him do.

They read the parts they want. They hear what they’re told to believe by their preachers. In the end it doesn’t matter, they just interpret it how they want and disregard the rest.

No negative affects. It operates like any cellular/wifi connection.

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Unless it’s life threatening, we all wait in line at the ER. It takes me 4 months to get an appointment with my PCP, and any specialists tests take weeks to get (again, unless it’s a need-it-right-now thing like a chest X-ray for pneumonia). You wait your turn at any walk-in clinic.

Dunno why anyone thinks we have it special in the US.

Oh, wait…if you’re wealthy you can get seen immediately. Guess everyone’s wealthy in the US.

PiHole with a VPN on the phone that connects to the LAN with the pihole, so far fewer ads.

Welcome to your deregulated “free market”, Texas. Don’t want to be tied to government regulation? Guess you get to pay more or cook…or freeze. Your choice by season.