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by kevmo 3y ago
Related: The death rate for American babies is rising - https://archive.ph/ksrra And America has a higher baby death rate than China, Russia, Japan, and the EU. I wonder what all those countries have in common that we don&#
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by kevmo 3y ago
America needs tuition-free state universities and trade schools. Full-stop. We're encountering endless problems, sending our entire economy (and living standards) out of whack, because we don't.
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by kevmo 3y ago
$19B seems high.
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by kevmo 3y ago
> My daughter sprained her ankle on a playground in the United States, and we had to wait for three hours at the hospital for an X-ray, just to receive a bill for 1300$, and that’s after insurance. In Portugal, the public health system c
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by kevmo 3y ago
The majority of Americans are really struggling. Don't be too jealous.
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by kevmo 3y ago
Would be interesting to read a more technical analysis about the software/code used to analyze all these images.
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by kevmo 3y ago
I manage a few pages. The trolls are all still there.
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by kevmo 3y ago
Every Baby Boomer I know scrolls Facebook all day. The richest demographic are the heaviest users now.
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by kevmo 3y ago
And her daughter won 2 Olympic gold medals! That family must be intense!
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by kevmo 3y ago
Do not think I was doing that, but will (continue to) keep community rules in mind. Thank you for modding!
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by kevmo 3y ago
A few years ago during the 2016 Democratic primaries, Bernie Sanders was roundly mocked by mainstream media for saying NK was a top threat due to their disengagement from the international processes. https://www.youtube.com/
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by kevmo 3y ago
You can try right now.
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by kevmo 3y ago
I always scoff at all of the endless "How will we pay for it???" crap. We'll pay for it by cutting out massive inefficiencies like the insurance system (which is basically a giant RICO scam), which would introduce an incredi
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by kevmo 3y ago
F'ing incredible that the USA doesn't have universal healthcare yet. We lose so much efficiency, productivity, and creativity because of it. One of the primary reasons our average living standards keep going down.
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Surveillance Capitalism(en.wikipedia.org)
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by kevmo 3y ago
As someone who routinely dodges scooter drivers speeding recklessly down sidewalks and bike paths, it doesn't feel short-sighted. I wish my city would ban them.
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by kevmo 3y ago
They mean that the Supreme Court is a fascist institution that will always side with the police. I passed 3 bar exams -- my default rule of thumb for the multiple-choice questions was that the Supreme Court would always side against the lit
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by kevmo 3y ago
Waiting for the rich to lift up the poors? One day never. Source: All of human history. "Power concedes nothing without a demand." - Frederick Douglas https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/1857-
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by kevmo 3y ago
America's abusive, expensive, and inefficient healthcare system has created a total vacuum of trust amongst the populace. Everyone who wasn't born rich has their own healthcare horror stories. The vacuum is thus filled with consp
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by kevmo 3y ago
Be better if he just paid taxes.
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by kevmo 3y ago
America should have elected Bernie Sanders.
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by kevmo 3y ago
America is eventually going to move to a socialized healthcare model like the rest of the developed world. I hope.
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by kevmo 3y ago
That trend is reversing. There is a UPS strike right around the corner. More than 340,000 workers are set to go on strike on August 1 & they have hundreds of millions saved in strike funds. Every actor and writer in Hollywood is also o
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by kevmo 3y ago
Another fine case of regulatory capture! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture
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by kevmo 3y ago
Yikes.
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by kevmo 3y ago
It's Lynn Goldsmith's copyright, and she is still alive.
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The Martians(en.wikipedia.org)
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Emergent autonomous scientific research capabilities of large language models(arxiv.org)
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by kevmo 4y ago
"Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver." - Ambrose Bierce, Devil's Dictionary
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by kevmo 4y ago
I was in Marquette last May. There were lots of folks there! Nice town, rented a cabin for a few days. I wanna go run their ultramarathon sometime! https://www.marquettetrail50.com/

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