Ambulocetus @ambulocetus@social.cleverlibre.org

The 50 scribbles I did the other day are up on redbubble
https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/152031854

Want to know why the #NHS rules and why Brits love it and will defend it to the death?

I take:

Sertraline ($76 USD per month)
Atarvostatin ($148 /m)
Propranolol ($42 /m)
Estragel ($158 /m)
Decapeptyl (~$100 /m)

$524 every month.

I pay £110 per year / ~$12 per month.

Also I was out of sertraline so the pharmacist said "come in, I'll give you some".

And while I was at the pharmacy, I got a free flu shot (cos I'm a fat squidge).

No wallet biopsy. No insurance.

TREASURE THE NHS.

This decades-old GOP movement is finally scoring breakthrough wins in the Biden era https://www.vox.com/politics/23689496/school-choice-education-savings-accounts-american-federation-children

The Home Science Labs of English Noblewomen: elite women in eighteenth-century England pursued scientific inquiry by distilling products for medicinal use. https://daily.jstor.org/the-home-science-labs-of-english-noblewomen/

Texas' government just spent $31.7M in the middle of a heat wave and energy shortage.

No, not to provide fresh shelter to the homeless. Neither to install booths with free fresh water. Neither to increase the number of public spaces (outside of shopping malls) where people can gather, instead of burning energy to keep their homes cool 24/7. Neither to boost its investments in renewables and pivot away from the oil that it keeps digging.

No, the government just gave that money away to Bitcoin miners to convince them to turn off their energy-hungry machines, so everybody else can also use energy to keep themselves cool.

Let that sink in. Even a life-threatening heatwave can't get miners to behave cooperatively and turn off their machines, whose only purpose is as pointless as randomly guessing a number whose SHA256 hash satisfies a certain arbitrary numeric constraint - and they skim some profits out of these pointless puzzles just because someone decided that putting up a system with such perverse financial incentives was a good idea. In order to get them to behave as someone who's not a complete selfish sociopath and evolutionary failure, the government had to compensate them for the losses that they would make by turning off their computers.

I guess that today's capitalism is that system where it's actually ok for the government to spend public money - as long as that money goes to those who need it the least.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bitcoin-mining-cryptocurrency-riot-texas-power-grid/

https://ask.metafilter.com/375214/Be-careful

This #MetaFilter Q&A on what a person means when they say "be careful!" reminds me to share a bit of personal discipline I'm working on:

Instead of or in addition to literally saying the vague advice-phrase "be careful" to someone who's about to do something, I must SPECIFY a particular kind of caution or behavior change. Examples: "it's slippery," "cars often break the speed limit here," "that's more fragile than it looks so notice if the tension starts changing."

Apparently the recently talked about poll that had Biden and Trump tied 46/46 has less than ideal funding sources and some people do not think it should have gotten so much attention from the Wall Street Journal and several cable news networks.

I posted about it here, so I wanted to mention that it's been questioned too.

https://news.yahoo.com/big-poll-showing-trump-biden-204914227.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall

It's September which means it's almost Halloween which means it's basically December which means H̶a̶p̶p̶y̶ (jk lol) 2024 :(

@Wikisteff @Haste @gulovsen The most aggravating thing, to me, is that Republicans use the power they have (like the filibuster) to block Democrats from doing even the most minor stuff to make things better. Then they spread lies to politically naive people that Democrats aren't doing anything, in the hope they'll vote 3rd party or stay home . And when Democrats do manage to get something good through, like the infrastructure bill, they try to take credit for it even when they voted no.

What is your main browser (engine)?

Re-running a poll I saw on Mastodon a while ago, before various migrations. Just collecting numbers, not seeking advice or anything. Please boost for reach.

For anyone unaware, Google Chrome is currently rolling out an update that track your interests based on browsing history, then share them with 3rd party websites. The notification page makes it sound like they added a new privacy feature, but in actuality they've automatically enrolled you into their tracking system and you have to go and manually opt out.

#ScathingAtheist 551: “Jammie Jams” Edition

🔊: https://audioboom.com/posts/8363499-jammie-jams-edition

Mickey Mouse has round ears and a short tail. He is a vole, not a mouse.