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  • Trying something new

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    @wtg that's really wonderful!!! It sounds like a great program too, with the session about ESL as well. That's great!
  • One Trump-appointed judge shows some sense

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  • Meanwhile, in Turkey

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  • Islam is foul, to be sure…

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  • I feel safer now

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    It's horrifying. And getting worse and it's happening everywhere. So when it's in my neighborhood it seems even more real.
  • Can vaccines for seniors ward off dementia?

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  • Universal Cancer Vaccine

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    @jon-nyc said in Universal Cancer Vaccine: We solve cardiovascular disease and cancer that means everyone who doesn’t get hit by a bus dies of dementia. Until we solve that ... Unless the GOP keeps us stupid.
  • Home projects

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    MikM
    Waiting for a quote on putting basement back together, house was painted early this month, huge window will be replaced 9/18 and we made big progress in the garage yesterday. We will get both cars in this winter!
  • Word association thread

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    Headlights
  • Sydney Cherry Blossom Festival

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    Lovely!
  • The first Neuralink implant patient

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    This is wild! I had no idea the technology had progressed this far. Huge potential here.
  • Anybody else notice this latest Trump policy flip flop?

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    @Amanda Well, it's a joint Federal/ States program. The states actually run it by subcontracting it to private insurance companies (classic neoliberalism). It has been my understanding that Medicare and Medicaid, are under the same bureaucratic Federal umbrella (there's a name for that agency). Any negotiation on price is truly piecemeal and kind of a joke compared to what real negotiation across the board would be. Florida's Medicaid program pays 100% retail for drugs, but only offers generic, and denies authorization for some (many?) drugs. The elephant (sic) in the room is that drug companies were exempted from Federal anti-trust law in the '40's and nothing has been done about it. There are huge disadvantages to Medicaid in Florida. PCPs have a heavy disincentive to make specialist recommendations. You'd practically have to fall down in front of a PCP and break an arm or a leg to get one. Florida pays for Medicaid prescriptions on the assumption that almost all Medicaid receipts have literally no money. Of course, we'll have to see, if we live long enough, what effects Trump cutting almost $1 trillion from Medicare, Medicaid, and the ACA will have in the immediate and long term. I think it's a two party set up (I'm cynical that way) but I confess Trump II has been a wrecking ball the likes of which I did not predict.
  • Wow. You should listen to this.

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    Yeah, that’s pretty sad. I mean, that’s not a genre of music I normally listen to but it does nail the angsty self-involved thing.
  • Relentless heat

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    Every day for the next week below 90 as low as 83 as high as 88 a single day. Lots of rain. It definitely feels like the climate has changed somewhat. I'd have to say after this month long heat wave with no rain and no wind, the fact it was a dry heat only made it worse.
  • Welcome to the new America

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  • Happy birthday, rontuner!

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    RontunerR
    Thanks all - I had a nice day with family on a beautiful sunny Chicago day!
  • Ukraine, the next steps

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    I read there are a million dead in Ukraine. I'm definitely sure they are conscripting men by kidnapping them off the street. It's clearly a war meaning I guess it could go on like this indefinitely or there could be a peace deal. Ukraine's military is full of Nazis. I don't mean fascists. I mean Nazis. Why not bring this to an end instead of letting Ukraine suffer these terrible consequences and why keep throwing money into yet another foreign war while the US people continue to sustain vicious degradation in their ability to afford the necessities of life?
  • Gem of the day; jewelry as well

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    I want this platinum bracelet. https://7879.co/products/forte-chain-bracelet?variant=45074201182385&metal=platinum Notice the links are oval and the top and bottom of each link is flat. This is my favorite style of chain. Notice it has a lobster claw clasp and Is 4 mm. The 7.5" platinum bracelet is around $1,700 with the discount code. I don't know why I have experience taste. The 18 kt gold one is $3,000 before the discount. People seem to want gold badly these days give the economic system is thought to be under threat by many people for multiple reasons. I don't know how close to market price per weight these pieces might be. I haven't looked at it. I think it's something of a gimmick.
  • Lake O 6x too toxic for humans

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  • New Printer, Again (2025)

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    Copy Copy? We have nothing like that if it's what I think. You have to have your own office, know someone you trust, or go to the library. We had Kinkos back in the day in Tampa. Why did those businesses go away? I don't know.