b_chocolatey @b_chocolatey@social.cleverlibre.org

Just watching "Purple Hearts" and the whole plot is based on a story of a girl who discovers she's diabetic and her insurance "doesn't cover #insulin to like, live", so she goes a friend who's a soldier and wants to marry him to get access to his military insurance, and thus to the life-saving drug.

I've said that already, and will say again, sometimes watching life in the US is like watching life on another planet. Or like watching life in socialist countries like #USSR or #Cuba or #Venezuela, which heroically struggle with absurd problems long solved elsewhere in cheap and simple ways.

Socialist countries heroically struggled with supplying food or such luxury goods as toilet paper to shops, US struggle with supplying a drug that is so cheap today, that it's being given away to diabetic people for free in most countries. Not only because that's the right thing to do, but also because it's the best and cheapest way to increase their productivity, if you are into utilitarian arguments.

However, when you stubbornly model your economy after an ideology, it leads to such absurds — and these absurds unfortunately lead to actual human tragedies...

lol, well done #verified prankster.

Now, we should actually make #insulin free.

heard via @rafaelshimunov

#Twitter #EliLilly #capitalism

This is too funny.

Sometimes, life immitates art. Teslaman has turned birdsite into a joke of a platform.

#mews  from #katzenworld #uk : Guest Star Cat: Sadie  #hellokitty #mastocats #mastocatsa #catsofmastodon #cats #cat #mao #猫 #ねこ  #mastocat #neko #caturday #Chatmedi #fedicats https://katzenworld.co.uk/2022/11/05/guest-star-cat-sadie/

They so cuuuuuuuuute 😻
#cat
#ねこ
#猫 instagr.am/p/Ck0hUiSvDh7/

It must be #caturday somewhere so this #cat is here for #CatsOfMastodon

Getting a jump on #Caturday with the profoundly #adorable #Henri. A proud #Mastocat, a #KnockerOvererOfThings, a #MischiefMaker, a #LoveBug. #Photography

We learned with #GamerGate, we learned with @lelandyee aka “Mister Gun Control no actually a gun runner”, the people screaming the loudest are the ones with the most to hide.

“#ComfortWomen?” Korea is a transnational sex trafficking hub for Asia.

academia.edu/3239516/Modern_Day_Comfort_Women_The_U_S_Military_Transnational_Crime_and_the_Trafficking_of_Women

@MissLane It was also because of Gamergate I first saw Mike Cernovich's posts. He wasn't as obvious a conman to me then as he is now, same with Milo whom I thought was a really entertaining guy.

Anyway, aside some of the douches within #Gamergate, the worst behavior and real harassment I saw was coming from the anti-GG side. It was then I got my first real taste of what SJWs are and how they operate.

It’s interesting that the biggest communication challenge facing Mastodon communities is explaining that it’s basically a protocol and a network of independent, interconnected servers, which is what the Web, e-mail, even DNS and most of the fundamental services we use on the internet are, and always were.
It just illustrates just how much ‘Big Tech’ proprietary social media platforms swallowed up and walled off, if it’s now difficult to explain what the internet actually is!

In fact the whole #fediverse seems to be doing well, despite the influx continuing at 100,000 people a day. Servers go brrr.

Great article.

"Musk thinks he bought a tech company, but he’s actually bought a community of users, and that's where its value lies..."

So says Prof Paul Bernal - Professor of Information Technology Law at the University of East Anglia School of Law.

https://eastangliabylines.co.uk/why-elon-musk-the-chief-twit-is-in-trouble/

You have to train your mind to be stronger than your emotions or else you will lose yourself every time.

#quotes

Perfection is overrated.

#newhere #new #introduction #reading #writing #learning #growing #good #quotes #mentalhealth

Fine, Java MIGHT be a good example of what a programming language should be like. But Java applications are good examples of what applications SHOULDN'T be like. #quotes #programming

LegoAnkhMorpork @LegoAnkhMorpork

Which #BookQuote (or #Quotes) in the #Discworld series make you laugh out loud whenever you read or hear it?! Let's start adding some #TerryPratchett style humor to everyone's feeds!

“You can't give her that!' she screamed. 'It's not safe!'
IT'S A SWORD, said the Hogfather. THEY'RE NOT MEANT TO BE SAFE.
'She's a child!' shouted Crumley.
IT'S EDUCATIONAL.
'What if she cuts herself?'
THAT WILL BE AN IMPORTANT LESSON.”

― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

"Seek respect not attention"

#sayings #motivation #quotes #Mastodon

#quotes #ursulaleguin #politics #scifi #fantasy #utopia

"When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other" - Chinese Proverb
#zen #meditation #quotes