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Main Paineframe posted:
the most offensive thing about this is that it makes no god drat sense
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https://twitter.com/vox_union/status/1139550737409748993 https://twitter.com/vox_union/status/1139551791228575744
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bennet looked into whether he could hire ben garrison before deciding that was too far then spent a couple weeks trying to find an anti-trump republican cartoonist to hire then found that none existed so he just axed the entire thing
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Jun 14, 2019 16:59
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Main Paineframe posted:
why is Trump wearing a yarmulke? that really is a weird anti-semitic detail
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Jun 14, 2019 17:56
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comedyblissoption posted:important context here is krugman used to be an advocate for a single payer system but stopped supporting it after obamacare. he is well aware of the overwhelming evidence of how better healthcare is accomplished in other countries in the world didn't he do an about-face in 2016 on lotsa policies he previously advocated *~for some reason~*
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Jun 14, 2019 17:58
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“only 31% consider cost very important when making a healthcare decision” is quite possibly one of the most infuriating lies I’ve ever heard
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Jun 14, 2019 18:09
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Rated PG-34 posted:
Hmm, I wonder why US patients don't trust their doctors: they're probably just being pushy and unreasonable!
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Jun 14, 2019 18:14
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gently caress this chickenshit rear end in a top hat
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Jun 14, 2019 18:26
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i wonder how many new yorkers would run over david brooks with their car if they recognized him crossing the street it's a big city, there has to be at least a few
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Jun 14, 2019 18:28
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:i wonder how many new yorkers would run over david brooks with their car if they recognized him crossing the street More likely that his next wife runs over a pedestrian when he's teaching her how to drive.
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So, Friedman's latest is bad and dumb, no surprise there but I'm gonna go through it as I feel it's a great example of friedman's egoism and laziness, which in turn demonstrates just how few fucks the NYT gives when the writer in question has tenure One more nail for the prosecutor when it comes time to nail this coffin shut, in other words anyway TOM FRIEDMAN, L: Connect the Dots to See Where Trump’s Taking Us Even the title is wrong As friedman himself says in the subtitle, such a thing is obvious So he's using a metaphor that suggests a mystery - which is no mystery to literally anyone except professional opinion havers, which make the clear ambiguous regularly to fill out their space What big dumb tom was evidently going to talk about was recent developments in the auto industry and TUMP trying to change the new CAFE rules of the Obama admin But evident that required more work than tom was up for so he fills some space with how climate change is a thing and I realize that tom deWittless here is basically insulting any remaining god cursed reader who takes friedman seriously because his whole attitude is "the reason why this is a problem is **CLEARLY** you dumb dumbs have not received my divine wisdom on the topic" which is narcissistic and insane, as if Friedman is the only person on earth who understands climate change oh and I guess I should have mentioned this before, but this week Tom is anti-TUMPO you know, the guy who LITERALLY last week was an apologist and said would be great if only Trump could listen to him, Tom Friedman Oh, and then we get back to the dots analogy, which I must point out again is not just a failure, but invoking the opposite of what Friedman means But (and we've seen this before) I think Tom has forgot this, and now is just running with "trump is a reactionary rear end in a top hat on climate change" Like he's Tom Hanks, Harvard Symbologist, pointing out secrets hidden in plain sight This padding is 2/3rds the column Then, we get to something substantive. TL;DR Obama redid CAFE with the Automakers. The result was new, ambitious mileage and emission goals to be met by 2025, and the ending of the now bogus distinction between cars and light trucks, with mileage standards coming from a "footprint" calculation that still favors the profit centers of NA automakers. The auto industry was for these changes, for among other things they promised to unify emission standards across the US. California especially has been making its own emission standards which presidents have been signing some sort of EPA special permission slip for since Reagan. Automakers would much rather adopt the CA standard as the national one --- then get it locked in for as long as old CAFE was around. Stability was the other thing the automakers were getting out of this new CAFE, as theirs is a low margin global business, so knowing the latest goals are going to be the last new ones for a long time lets them sleep better at night. If restful sleep was the goal, TUMP has been loving the dogs every warm night around 2 AM, because of course he's following what the petroleum industry wants, getting rid of mileage/emissions with the koch brothers once again behind it all. Now there's more going on still, but everything I just told you is more than friedman knows, and he block quotes the start of an article where I learned some of it...in the goddamn NYT The automakers themselves have seen how badly this is going to go and most of them signed an open letter to Trump to stop, please god just stop - they'd much rather Obama's scheme remain as it is then the total devolution trump's kochmonster wants So to the auto industry which is EXPLICITLY ON FRIEDMAN'S SIDE IN THIS, Tom says: quote:Personally, I have no sympathy for the automakers. They brought this on themselves. [...] They got the G.O.P. to more or less freeze the 1980s mileage improvement standards that grew out of the 1970s oil crisis, claiming it would be too expensive for them to keep improving. [...] So haha, take that, people who agree with me totally quote:And now these same foolish and selfish Detroit auto executives, in combination with Trump’s coal-lobby-led Environmental Protection Agency, want to rerun the same play. The companies just wanted Trump to not get as crazy in rolling back standards as he did. This is totally wrong, and had big dumb tom actually bothered to read the sad, failing, NYT he would know that friedman serves us a slice of yellow peril then hypes what a billionaire is doing to fight CC and says "this good" then some more bloviating for lost profits from those inscrutable Chinese and another "Tump bad, this bad" and that's the conclusion oh and we lost the connect the dots theme once automakers come into it, but we did get this sentence: quote:Trump is trying to lower auto emission/mileage standards that were making our car companies more competitive against efficient Chinese and Japanese automakers — and making our air cleaner — while Trump is signing multibillion-dollar bailouts for farmers and Air Force bases ravaged by extreme weather that has been amplified by climate change that is amplified by carbon pollution, while Trump is having his bureaucrats hide evidence of climate change and while Trump is forcing Americans to pay billions in tariffs on Chinese imports to protect against, among other things, future competition from Chinese electric vehicles that have zero emissions and zero oil consumption. oh those lucky ducky farmers and USAF bases! How many times have we, the American taxpayer, bailed out a **nonprofitable** USAF base?!
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Wraith of J.O.I. posted:gently caress this chickenshit rear end in a top hat "the good" cool i guess this is what an aneurysm feels like
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Jun 14, 2019 20:01
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Scrub-Niggurath posted:“only 31% consider cost very important when making a healthcare decision” is quite possibly one of the most infuriating lies I’ve ever heard it's useful to know 31% of people are willing to admit they're not rich
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Jun 14, 2019 20:01
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time for a game of "what did the editors leave out of this writer's byline"! aside from his long history of consultant roles at healthcare centers, he also partnered with a hospital executive to co-found a healthcare industry magazine-slash-consulting-company, where he is currently employed as president
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Jun 14, 2019 20:31
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Frog Act posted:cool how that author talks to someone about how social collapse alienated people and makes them lonely and less likely to exercise but then just immediately moves past it ans implies Americans are simply lazy it's the inverted version of Tim Faust's stuff about health justice. The author has enough personal experience to see that even the best medical technology and most caring doctors can only do so much when a person's life sucks outside the doctor's office, but ideology keeps him from imagining solutions beyond giving up entirely
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Jun 14, 2019 20:56
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Civilized Fishbot posted:why is Trump wearing a yarmulke? that really is a weird anti-semitic detail I think it's supposed to be a reference to when he went to Israel. He was wearing a yarmulke when he stuck his hand on the Wailing Wall
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Rated PG-34 posted:American patients similarly don’t like to be told that unexplained symptoms aren’t ominous enough to merit tests. Robert Joseph, a longtime ob‑gyn at three Boston-area hospital systems who last year became a medical director at a firm that runs clinical trials, says some of his patients used to come in demanding laparoscopic surgery to investigate abdominal pain that would almost certainly have gone away on its own. “I told them about the risks of the surgery, but I couldn’t talk them out of it, and if I refused, my liability was huge,” he says. Hospitals might question non-indicated and expensive surgeries, he adds, but saying the patient insisted is sometimes enough to close the case. Joseph, like many American doctors, also worried about getting a bad review from a patient who didn’t want to hear “no.” Such frustrations were a big reason he stopped practicing, he says. this really is a thing, though it's certainly not limited to the US in any way in places like britain you'll hear NHS doctors complaining about old people who will just come in every single week to be seen for the same things, almost as if they're just bored or lonely or refusing to take "you're fine you don't need an x-ray and pills" for an answer
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Jun 14, 2019 22:39
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cool dance moves posted:I think it's supposed to be a reference to when he went to Israel. He was wearing a yarmulke when he stuck his hand on the Wailing Wall Alright then it's not nearly so bad. Still a little silly to imply that Trump's little gimmicks of support for "the jewish community" are driven by netanyahu and not American reactionaries, but maybe I'm just looking for reasons to hate the cartoon now
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Jun 14, 2019 22:45
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Goon Danton posted:https://twitter.com/vox_union/status/1139550737409748993 This contract is loving good. Shows that more media unions should be fighting with management more often.
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Jun 14, 2019 23:09
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:this really is a thing, though it's certainly not limited to the US in any way The doctor trying to claim overtesting is due to liability is full of poo poo, though. McAllen, TX is one of the most overtested healthcare markets in america and doctor liability for malpractice there is basically 0.
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Jun 14, 2019 23:32
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Imagine being the underpaid artist that was told "draw a mean patient yelling at a doctor (he is paying a poo poo town of money to be told to go take some antibiotics and hope it solves the problem after being seen for five minutes)"
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30.5 Days posted:The doctor trying to claim overtesting is due to liability is full of poo poo, though. McAllen, TX is one of the most overtested healthcare markets in america and doctor liability for malpractice there is basically 0. my understanding is that while texan tort reform is p bad for medical liability it's still not like you can just go without malpractice insurance there but my point was that there's certainly more going on than just financial incentive for overtreatment, and that the piece's author is entirely wrong to only see it as a thing that happens in the US (because that would undermine most of their thesis)
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Jun 14, 2019 23:44
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Brown Moses posted:Seeing you all appear to think my opinion on this incident is so important you can go read it in the New York Times: Brown Moses endorsing the obvious lie that Iran attacked a Japanese oil tanker.
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Jun 15, 2019 00:52
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what reasoning are they even using for Iran to do this. just to be dick.
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Jun 15, 2019 01:03
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CharlestheHammer posted:what reasoning are they even using for Iran to do this. According to America they did it to be evil. According to people who think they're smart, it's a retaliation for sanctions and a previous attack on one of their oil derricks. A retaliation on - a Japanese oil tanker.
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Jun 15, 2019 01:06
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CharlestheHammer posted:what reasoning are they even using for Iran to do this. who can understand the ways of the inscrutable Iranian government? they're all wild and crazy and irrational and prone to committing completely senseless and random violence against Western interests for absolutely no reason, just like every other country the US hates
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CharlestheHammer posted:what reasoning are they even using for Iran to do this. *approaches mic* Ahem Mullahs *crowd explodes in applause as defense industry lobbying money rains down from the ceiling*
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:According to America they did it to be evil.
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wow...such responsible, serious journalism
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isnt abe like a bazillion years old and a giant fixture in japanese politics for as long as anyone can remember
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Some Guy TT posted:isnt abe like a bazillion years old and a giant fixture in japanese politics for as long as anyone can remember I wouldn't be surprised if they think the no warfare clause of their constitution meant Japan didn't have any kind of foreign policy.
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Some Guy TT posted:isnt abe like a bazillion years old and a giant fixture in japanese politics for as long as anyone can remember abe's dad was one of the formative members of the ldp after the war (and before the war they were involved in some pretty  related poo poo).
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Jun 15, 2019 03:59
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I think they think the only way to conduct foreign policy is to literally go there
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it’s only been a few hundred years since they acknowledged that foreigners even existed so all things considered I’d say they’re learning pretty quickly
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Is Japan even buying the whole 'Iran bombed a random tanker literally in the middle of negotiations' thing?
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Is Japan even buying the whole 'Iran bombed a random tanker literally in the middle of negotiations' thing? no they are loudly insisting that iran didn't have anything to do with it because they didn't obviously
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iran has a material interest in exporting oil to japan again bombing japanese tankers is literally against their own material interests
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