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    Posted by $ Suzanne43 14 minutes ago to IN THE MEME TYME 7/14/25 EDITION: See You Later Alligator!
    Yes, lots. Probably more than 99% of us brush our teeth near a toilet. I didn’t realize that this was abuse.

  • 2
    Posted by $ allosaur 1 hour, 36 minutes ago to Whose life is it anyway?
    +1 from a different lizard kinda guy.

  • 3
    Posted by mhubb 2 hours, 17 minutes ago to Whose life is it anyway?
    who's life??
    God's

  • 4
    Posted by $ Snezzy 2 hours, 47 minutes ago to Swamp draining despite Lawfare
    4 x 5 = 24
    True only for large values of 5.

  • 5
    Posted by Ben_C 7 hours, 45 minutes ago to Whose life is it anyway?
    I totally agree with the premise of "Life Ownership." The consequences of bad decision must be "owned" by the doer, not society. Once people realize that there will not be anyone or any agency to rescue the bad decision makers people on the whole will start making better choices. As Benjamin Franklin once said "if you want to end poverty make the poor house uncomfortable". '

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    Posted by $ Thoritsu 8 hours, 9 minutes ago to Swamp draining despite Lawfare
    Yes, to your words!!

    Separately, I thought the first meme was funny, but, good god, that second one is fantastic!!!!!!!!!!! Absolutely a set of axioms!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Absolutely awesome!

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    Posted by $ allosaur 8 hours, 12 minutes ago to Swamp draining despite Lawfare
    Me dino also really likes these memes.
    Commies really do hate those who now come to clean house of their clutter.
    Well, hell, hit the road, Jack.

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    Posted by $ Thoritsu 8 hours, 13 minutes ago to Whose life is it anyway?
    I like this article. A couple of issues:
    1. The nanny government is necessary if the government is also responsible to cover the outcomes. If we are required to pay, we should demand control of the risk. This is the philosophical issue. We are halfway, and it destroys the ability to properly institute the philosophy. It also impedes lay/nominal people's ability to grasp the philosophy itself. Almost like communism requires a society devoid of need to succeed (so asserted by the scum, Marx), our philosophy requires a society devoid of government-instituted altruism (individuals can do as they please).

    2. I am not sure where vaccines like polio stand. Polio is gone. Smallpox and measles are gone. This is not possible without unilateral vaccination. Not sure "Darwinism" will solve this. I think Milton Friedman's Compelled Servitude applies here, and a fine proportional to the imposed risk, could be in order, much like he proposed for pollution. COVID vaccination excluded because it is not an actual vaccination at all.

    There is a role of government. We are not anarchists. In my view the test is: "Government's role is where capitalism will not offer a maxima/minima, due to relevant local optimums in a non-monotanic system". The military is an example of where government is required. I think highways are as well, but opinions vary there.

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    Posted by $ allosaur 8 hours, 17 minutes ago to Whose life is it anyway?
    Me dino will "different lizard" call myself anything I want.
    And I don't care who does not like it.

  • 10
    Posted by $ gharkness 8 hours, 31 minutes ago to Whose life is it anyway?
    The value in this (to me) is a reminder that while it was easy to object to untested vaccines, we so often don't even think twice that the SAME thing happens with seat belt and helmet laws.

    Excellent reminder.

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    Posted by $ rainman0720 8 hours, 33 minutes ago to Swamp draining despite Lawfare
    That would certainly qualify as sedition, would it not? Wouldn't it be fun to see these people called out and added to the list of those told not to let the door hit them in their collective asses on the way out?

  • 12
    Posted by $ rainman0720 8 hours, 36 minutes ago to Whose life is it anyway?
    Great post. Very well stated.

  • 13
    Posted by Dobrien 9 hours, 41 minutes ago to Swamp draining despite Lawfare
    I like how you are thinking!

  • 14
    Posted by mccannon01 12 hours, 6 minutes ago to Swamp draining despite Lawfare
    Yes, I've been hearing the same news. They are about to demonstrate why they should have been fired in the first place and now may place a spotlight on their comrades that need to be fired in the future.

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    Posted by $ Olduglycarl 19 hours, 44 minutes ago to Is it "art" if AI chose what to portray and portrayed it?
    Sorry, I still can't get past, "Choose". More like a "Random" electrical anomaly? Can't get past Digital Awareness . . . All of that could be program dependent . . . for some humans too!

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    Posted by $ Olduglycarl 20 hours ago to Swamp draining despite Lawfare
    Read an article yesterday that EX USAID employees planning to gin up the employees in other agencies to screw things up and continue as they had in the past.
    A "Take Back Over" you might say.

  • 17
    Posted by $ Olduglycarl 20 hours, 10 minutes ago to The Intelligence Trap
    We all wonder about if there is anyone without ties to anyone but the truth . . .

  • 18
    Posted by $ rainman0720 20 hours, 20 minutes ago to The Intelligence Trap
    If I offended anyone with that, I apologize. I was being sarcastic, not serious. Sometimes I forget that I can't put a voice inflection on written words.

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    Posted by $ Olduglycarl 20 hours, 44 minutes ago to The Intelligence Trap
    Hope so . . .

  • 20
    Posted by $ rainman0720 22 hours, 20 minutes ago to The Intelligence Trap
    I like the idea of an independent prosecutor with no ties to anyone. Just one question: Does one of those even exist?

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    Posted by $ kddr22 1 day ago to RFK Jr. Unloads Disturbing Vaccine Secrets on Tucker—And Surprises Everyone on Trump
    In Illinois , for well child checks , we are being pd the same from medicaid since 2004.

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    Posted by $ kddr22 1 day ago to RFK Jr. Unloads Disturbing Vaccine Secrets on Tucker—And Surprises Everyone on Trump
    That kind of bonus is insanely wrong. If I complete immun combos from medicaid I will get a 25 $ / pt bonus that comes 12 to 18 mo later. Most of my medicaid bonus is actually doing well child exams, lead screens, dev screens etc. If those numbers were correct I would not be struggling to stay open

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    Posted by Abaco 1 day, 1 hour ago to Whose life is it anyway?
    Common sense, huh? With a deficit of “common”…

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    Posted by term2 1 day, 1 hour ago to AI Was Honest - But not for long...
    definitely NOT allowed in work world. Hewever, we breed dogs to get certain characterists, so apart from the practical and ethical difficulties of breeding people, I think that selective breeding would work to emphasize various characteristics just as it works with other biological living things.

    Therefore, mental actuity, brain size, speed of neuron connections, etc. could theoretically be different among various humans and human races. And that doesnt mean certain people should be tortured or killed or treated differently because of these differences.
    Note that certain people are picked out to play basketball or track and field for physical characteristic, why shouldnt people be picked out for intellectually based things.

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    Posted by term2 1 day, 2 hours ago to AI Was Honest - But not for long...
    if we dont adopt AI, others will and some of them will be people like north koreaq, Putin, and Xi and they will conduct military operations with AI while we cant. We need AI to combat what they will do. AI will be the next way to prevent war. everyone will the want the best AI will scare off the countries that dont have AI . Nuclear bombs will be rendered essentially useless.