Former Paramedic&Army Reserve, Chief Engineer: K-One Hydro, Full Time Dad. npub1apklejy9x9088g043jn4wff89grpxjen35hqtn0w5ftdynmd9l4suxggpx ⚡️topwk1@getalby.com
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For all those advocating vouchers to make it easier for wealthy people to send their kids to expensive religious schools who claim they “want to help the poor”:
How about if you can only get vouchers if your family income is less than 125% over the poverty level.
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They needed to interview him but not with an early morning raid by machine gun carrying agents.
Normally it is the sheriff department and one agent who go knock on the door to talk to the guy.
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Sounds like you are in the wrong red state.
Mine has
Life expectancy of 72.5
Literacy rate 78.1%
Largest employers: public schools, Humana, Toyota, University of KY
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While at my union jobs you can find a wall with memorials to workers who have passed.
Many times ones who die after leaving the job.
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When the teacher explains that only white people had slaves, and only the US bought them, and no white person is exempt from the harm caused by slavery, and that white people have modified slavery today, it is a problem.
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Please tell me this is sarcasm
Franklin was never a president.
Ford was never elected.
This President’s Day, I am reminded of another reason why America is the oldest and greatest country on earth - our presidents are just flat out better than every other country’s.
Other presidents govern, but America’s presidents literally invent things. The four American presidents who won the largest landslide victories in electoral history also had four of the greatest inventions in human history:
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To express my feelings about the “National Day of Hate”.
I am totally intolerant of intolerance!
You don’t deserve any attention for your hate! Should be mocked for your stupidity.
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There is a very different thing between working in your 80’s to put food on the table and working because you want to and enjoy it.
Grandpa milked the cows every day till six months before he died at 99. “It keeps me busy”
Uncle Gary worked at the store till he died to have food.
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They added similar in our ambulances and everyone was against them. Till the cams started clearing us from being the cause of collisions. Saved the company lots of money and the jobs of many.
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You would be surprised. Dragging people is what we do, there are a lot of techniques to do that.
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No armed guards. Bank tellers are ordered to comply with robber demands and security only to intervene if violence happens then to lock the doors and call police.
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And management demands it. EMS is expected to treat a child arrest, transport, hand off to the ED, clean and restock in <30 min, and respond to the next call (which will be stupid) before the ED has resolved or called. And not show it to the next person!
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It is called a dehumidifier.
It burns up massive amounts of electricity to produce small amounts of water. @eevblog has several videos exposing this scam.
Everyday Man Creates Low Cost Machine That Produces Pure Drinking Water Out Of Thin Air & Unveils It At CES
How is this possible when billionaires like Bill Gates & Globalists have unlimited money and still pretend they can’t create something like this & profit unimaginable amounts of money selling third world countries their water purification treatments?
“This large behemoth that I saw at CES this year creates water from air. How is this possible?
That's a great question. So so right now, we're making water from air here in the booth, and soon we'll have water pitchers out, and you'll be able to taste pure drinking water. And so what we do is we take the humidity out of the water. We pump air into the machine. It gathers the water that's in in the air.
This has 50 gallons of tanks underneath it. So we fill up the tanks, and then we start filling up everything from that. We do a lot with the government, but this is the very 1st day that it's been open to the consumer market. Oh, really? So you're catching it early on.
This unit's designed to go next to a house and generate all the water you need for a house. You can replace a well. We can replace city water. And if we make bigger units, they can do even more. Well, if you can imagine two 55 gallon drums sitting here, they can refill those every day.
Every day? Every day. If you go to genesissystems. com, uh, you can look at our website, and there's information there. Uh, you know, like this right now is $20,000”
Community note
Per the website the device costs $20,000 and uses 6000 Watts continuously. Approximately the energy use of 4-5x average US households.
genesissystems.com/wc-100-watercu
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Be nicer if we had leaders who were proactive in restoring safety regs removed by the Trump
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You have to love the hypocrisy of the GOP.
Touting the idea that local people know best for their area, then crushing local control with laws that restrict local areas to only having state laws.
Like some wealthy guy in Austin knows better what Chaparral needs
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His argument is 1) it did not exist before 1980. 2) in 1979 the US was number 1 in math and science. 3) since it has existed the US is now 14th and 21st under the DoEd guidance.
Let’s go back to block grants to states for education instead of guidance from the Fed gov
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The credit tracking company Trans-Union reports that over 1/3 of people with student loans on pause took on a new car payment over the last three years.
They could have made payments on their loan instead and have much less to no debt left.
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So just end education and let families figure it out with what ever money they can find.
Sounds like a horrid idea.
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The interesting part was how food prices have increased by almost twice the official inflation rate because of how inflation is counted. The rate also does not count “shrinkflation” smaller amounts in same priced boxes.
Inflation has hit the cost of things working people use hard
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Physics says this does not work because it takes more power to separate oxygen from hydrogen then it makes burning it.
Many people offered him money for the plans but he never sold them and ended up getting charged with fraud when it was leaked
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If half her fans would start raising four chickens, most would get fined by the local government for raising chickens.
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GameStop is a dying company. It’s business model is like trying to keep blockbuster open to rent VHS tapes. So of course it is over working and underpaying. It’s trying to cut costs and the only one they control is workers.
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They have been saying that since November
It only took $300 billion in bribes from the US to do it.
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Gun laws are aimed at keeping guns out of hands of good people like @Ur_a_Smartass_C
As of 2024, the FBI reported over 2,000,000 denials of firearm purchases under the NICS background check system, but the vast majority of these denials were false positives. Research indicates NICS produces false denials for black males by a factor of 3-1 compared to white males.
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To signal to the world they are able to resist being sanctioned by the US financial system
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They are dropping $10 billion on stock buy backs next year.
Dont thing a $2.1 billion a year increase in labor costs is going to bankrupt them
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I sure hope their union will fight for them.
Mine was happy to get 2% a year for six years and two level pay tiers. With the lower tier getting smaller step raises.
Then intimidate members that this was the best you could get and going to arbitration would reduce current pay.
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Because holding the criminals accountable is too hard and expensive. It’s better to go after the deep wallets of a major corporation than the actual thieves that caused all these problems.
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I’m more interested in how the photos were done. They are both you it looks like. I know they seem like past creations you have done.
Or is it a friend and just a standard photo shoot and my old eyes are failing.
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Pre-k has not been shown to make any difference after the fourth grade.
It is just a form of day care funded by tax payers.
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Those first two numbers are very skewed.
Most of the new jobs are part time and most of those are held by people with full time jobs. Unemployment if counted like we did in Reagan’s first year is 24.3%.
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But they embrace US economic coercion?
The US is mad that China is selling the gov debt it holds, not buying more US debt, and increasing its gold stockpile.
They are becoming less hostage to US sanctions.
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And yet he opposed gun rights and in 2020 wanted “to do something about the second amendment”
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It is better than TX and CA
The entire U.S. is between 70.9 and 88.5%
wisevoter.com/state-rankings…
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What you call an assault weapon normal people call a rifle used for hunting, competition, and defense.
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We don’t need student debt forgiven. We need interest stopped!
In the two year pause on interest we were able to pay off three loans and dent the fourth.
At current rate we could pay it off in two to three years. When interest goes back, 12 to 15 years.
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We just had a mass shooting in Louisville, two dead and five wounded. All victims were black
Did not make the news because the shooter was black.
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The only thing I will point out is they checked her and realized she had been dead for hours.
That is why no resuscitation effort was made.
Had EMS been there at that time they would not have done anything either. Obvious death is never getting fixed by any effort.
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In other words they have had four years to get ready. Or could have been making interest free payments on the principle making the loans smaller or like our family go away.
Forget loan forgiveness. Just stop charging interest.
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Coppicing is a traditional way of causing trees to put more effort into building leaf and limb growth. It also helps the tree live longer and reduces root spread in urban areas.
The timing is interesting, some trees do best if you Coppice them in winter others in the heat.
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In the last five years of hard work, six states dropped permit requirements, two Supreme Court cases were lost, and six laws were overturned in state courts.
No new restrictions were passed.
Not fighting very well.
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And that makes her more qualified how?
Nothing bout years of working closely to develop and pass legislation, years of education and experience.
Just focus on her skin and sex preference. Make it sound like she was a quota fill, not the best candidate who happens to be black.
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The plan was you would vote yes by putting your draft information on a card and vote no by putting in a blank one.
It would only be for that issue. Not mixed with other issues.
They feared that no votes would be pressure to vote yes because no would make you seem a coward
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Let’s see, $100B, divided by $55,000 would be 1,818,000 armed officers. Let’s pretend it takes another $55,000 to arm them and train. That would be 909,000. There are 98,577 government schools and 30,493 private schools in the US. That is about six armed officers per school.
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The wealthy are not paying extra.
They could go to government school at the same cost as low income families.
You see the idea of vouchers just for poor kids and know it won’t work. But also know that it would help reduce the cost for wealthy (over $78k) families.
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Need to put CEO’s who allow illegals to work for them in jail.
Jail and fine those who offer employment to those with out work visas.
Cut off the jobs and they will not come in such numbers.
And make legal immigration easier!
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Why are promotions controlled by politicians?
Why not let the military do the promotions?
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Well only if your union has a back bone.
Too often the people representing you are the “get along” friends to everyone because that wins steward seats.
Then they try that at contract time and buy into what management tells them.
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I bought my first home at 47. I had a hard time with the idea that they willingly gave me a 30 year loan when I would be almost 78 when it was paid on their schedule.
But then I’ve see 8 year car loans being offered.
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Politics and sportsball have very little impact on my life. Making ends meet, paying down debt, spending my limited time with my family does. Thanks to @fold_app I’m able to stack sats doing things I was going to do anyways. use.foldapp.com/r/M4KK4YKK
Something about voting for a speaker in someone's house?
Don't care, buying #Bitcoin
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Hard fighting women like this. Who are valiantly defending Ukraine one selfie at a time while hiding in Poland?
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Since most of the cuts are management and temporary workers and the contract protects most union jobs, I bet they feel pretty good.
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Finished the book. Not what I expected based on @HNTurtledove has written that I’ve read. I was thinking more of David Drakes “Birds of Prey”. Based on the Roman with a plasma rifle.
It was great though. Loved it. Just question how little the writer has over the cover art.
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I put $25 per pay check into buying silver. Eagles mostly, so every other check gets me one.
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I have. Paramedic for a mid size city in five years I’ve been shot at once and had guns pointed at me twice. In twenty + years in the army never shot at. Wish I could have shot back rather than run away and hope they did not follow
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Big haul on my mail day! @MonteCookGames made my week, just in time for the four day weekend!
#cypherSystem #OldGodsOfAppalachia
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It will cost tax payers. The money was obtained by selling bonds. Those bonds have to be paid back with interest. If you cancel the loans then taxpayers (not the borrower) have to pay them back.
Maybe if you went to college you could understand that.
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My 14 year old has been selected to compete in the National Soapbox event in DC. She is going to be one of 10 selected.
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John was a great guy. He spoke several languages well and a lot more enough to get by.
The two times I stayed in his place I had to take the floor because he was letting a homeless person sleep on the couch.
We are less because he is gone.
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Every case reported was people self transporting to hospitals with out OB centers.
They had no department to treat them.
Emergency Departments are not all the same.
Had they showed up with a stroke or heart attack they would send them to a hospital they could be treated at.
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The US government has been calling up Reserve units since 01. Has not stopped. At best it slowed down slightly after Afganistán was “turned over”.
Now they are sending them to Africa and Europe on top of the Middle East.
Not new and not about new recruits
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Yes because handguns were mostly owned by the lower class and the Uber wealthy were more than happy to let them be banned. As long as they got to keep their guns.
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Only because Congress authorized the PPP loans to be canceled.
If you want student loans to be canceled Congress has to approve it. But for the two years in power they did nothing.
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The VA offered a forbearance in Covid for 12 months. Then announced that mortgage holders needed to pay in a lump sum the amount that was forbearance.
The option was pay the lump sum or refinance at a higher interest rate or be foreclosed on.
This is what they are pausing.
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Banning or age appropriate restrictions in tax funded libraries?
Because book stores will sell anyone any book.
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So people can not associate as a group? People are “extorting” others by negotiating a contract?
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Teachers in my school district make $67k a year according to the school board. Median income in the district is $38k a year.
Hard to feel they are underpaid so much they need second jobs, and their benefits are far better than average.
And they get their student loans forgiven
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Because he is running against Biden and would have won the primary and not been controlled by the party bosses.
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Massie also voted no on sending bombs to kill kids in Gaza - does that mean he is pro Palestine?
He always voted against sending US taxes to any non-US place.
Massie is not pro Russia he is pro U.S. AND consistent.
McGarvey votes to support genocide but makes a comment against it
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They should be pushing nuclear instead.
It is the only non-carbon generation that is consistent and effective.
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How about just end the failed war on drugs and direct the money to treatment programs that do more to stop drug abuse than locking up low income and minority people.
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Guess it is time to split the district and make one well funded district for the wealthy parts of the county and one underfunddd, over loaded, limited resources district for the low income areas.
Sounds like a great idea
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Only if Medicare would start paying the full cost of service.
We get $240 from Medicare for an $800 service and are not allowed to collect the difference. We have to bill other people higher amounts to make up the loss.
That’s not true savings.
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Yellow wanted “concessions” like having drivers load trucks off the clock, reduced pay, give up benefits like health care and retirement.
Yet manage to pay $1.9 million to the CEO with a $870 million bonus.
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His power only persists because the media keeps feeding him.
Had they gave him the same coverage they gave Carter, he would not be seen.
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When both parties agree it normally is a bad thing
🧵Senators Introduce Bipartisan Bill to Regulate Online Speech
The legislation is presented as consumer protection but grants new government authorities to police speech
@LibertarianInst @scotthortonshow @Antiwarcom
libertarianinstitute.org/new…
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So force doctors teachers and clerks to work with out pay so you can avoid paying for things.
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And yet Russia is sending free grain to needy nations while the Ukraine is selling it to wealthy nations
cnn.com/europe/live-news/rus…
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