Notices by Matthew Loxton (mloxton@med-mastodon.com), page 2

@mekkaokereke
Ooh. I was not aware of that side of her.
Thank you for unpacking that for me.

@VATVSLPR
It is certainly very clear that the MAGA crowd are being feasted on by a swarm of grifters. I am not entirely sure why this is though.

Traditionally, it was the conservatives who were more resistant to scams and outrageous claims, but either Post-Modernism has finally caught up with them and has blown up their ability to evaluate claims, or the religious side has metastasized through their body politic

Or maybe something else

But clearly they are easier to fool
@Npars01 @GottaLaff

@Npars01
Yes to all of that.
The question though, is why the US Right has proven to be so much more vulnerable to scams and grifters than the Left

@VATVSLPR @GottaLaff

My Dude, if you think that a wife or girlfriend voting for Harris is the same as adultery, you richly deserve that fate, and may she find freedom from you real soon

@WarnerCrocker
Why does everything this guy do end up creepy and weird and abusive?

Like, ok, if you want to pay people to go knock on doors and promote something, sure, it's kinda gross and unsafe, but normal.
But then flying them in, hauling them around in a U-Haul truck, and threatening them if they don't meet abusive quotas. That takes it from unsafe to abusive, from gross to creepy

"Speaker Johnson criticizes Obamacare, promises 'massive reform' if Trump wins"

Mickey, my Dude, stop.
Just stop

Your team has had twenty two years to come up with a healthcare plan, and 14 years since ObamaCare aka Romney Care V2.0 was passed, and despite all the time, money, and freedom to come up with a better one (which tbh would not be hard), you don't even have a plan to create a plan.

You have nada

That is embarrassing
You should rather just shut up and leave healthcare to the adults

Something I have not seen in the discussions on Trump's Tariff gambit is the effect on the sticker price.
Most TV personalities are saying that the cost of the tariff shows up as a dollar for dollar increase on the sticker price, and this is not quite true in most cases.

Most retailers have a margin target, so will add margin to the tariff.

You, the customer, will pay the tariff PLUS a profit margin on TOP of the product costs

Some of you are going to hate me for this, but here's the thing - all those elimination shows like "The Apprentice", "America's Top Model", "Greatest Loser" etc. are toxic, fake, and virulent, and spill over into popular culture, politics, and the economy in corrosive and evil ways.

They encourage cynicism, bullying, abuse, and narcissistic bullshittery, and are founded on the idea of public humiliation and degradation as entertainment. They make money by damaging the contestant and the viewer

The con is strong in that Elmo

https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/13/24269131/tesla-optimus-robots-human-controlled-cybercab-we-robot-event

Sometime today, Russian personnel losses in the war on Ukraine, will reach 666,666

"In the winter of 2023–2024, about 4.79 million households in the United States used heating oil (distillate fuel oil) as the primary heating fuel"

That's right, burning oil

"study of nearly 400,000 scientists across 38 countries finds that one-third of them quit science within five years of authoring their first paper, and almost half leave within a decade"

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03222-7

"The story of how private equity has been able to so thoroughly debilitate emergency care is one of the more dramatic examples of how corporate interests are corrosive to America’s health care system"

https://www.vox.com/health-care/374820/emergency-rooms-private-equity-hospitals-profits-no-surprises

@apropos
Did I read the post?

I wrote it.
WTF are you talking about?

I think you are confusing who you are speaking to. I didn't post an Wikipedia article. That was someone else.

"have you been asleep since the 2023 "summer counteroffensive""

The one in which Ukraine had already pushed Russians far back, but couldn't break through Russian line and culminated?
Yes, I saw that.

"The Russians are winning."

By what metric?

@feld

@apropos
Your posts are increasingly ...
Too long
Too aggressive
Too stupid

I'm out
I have better things to do with my time than trying to sanewash and pick sense out of them
Ciao

@feld

@apropos

Do you have a point to make, or was this just a drive-by display of cleverness?

@feld

@apropos
I see. You are unhappy with the term "resorting to"

Well, given pre-war Russian policy as per the Gerasimov plans, massed unprotected infantry attacks were not a primary method. Seen in the context that the lack of air superiority, dearth of mobile armor to bolster the troops, and the (many) specific instances of large troop loses for dubious tactical gains,

I am therefore going to stick with "resorted", because Gerasimov's doctrine

Now, your numbered points.

/2
@feld

@feld
Yup
They are resorting to "meat wave" WW-1 tactics in an age of long range artillery, and drones that can hunt down a single person, and do it at scale. They even have stop groups whose job it is to shoot their own troops who are retreating.

Welcome to October. Russia lost a thousand troops and 55 armoured vehicles in 20 minutes of fighting in Kupiansk, NATO has a new Secretary General, and the Earth has two moons

@johnzajac
"Our medical authorities will declare crises of fitness, nutrition, loneliness, phones, pollution - anything to avoid copping to their catastrophic failure. "

No, it continues until we stop being a shitty society and electing shitty politicians.
Please stop trying to turn healthcare professionals into a savior that must rescue everyone from being shits or be damned as being guilty of people's shittiness

Tests, screenings, biomarkers, etc can do nothing against people's shittiness