MNByChoice
@MNByChoice@midwest.social
- Comment on USA | CDC ordered to stop working with WHO immediately, upending expectations of an extended withdrawal 2 days ago:
What is odd about it? He has done similar.
www.snopes.com/…/trump-fire-pandemic-team/
It’s thus true that the Trump administration axed the executive branch team responsible for coordinating a response to a pandemic and did not replace it, eliminating Ziemer’s position and reassigning others, although Bolton was the executive at the top of the National Security Council chain of command at the time.
I remember hearing it on the news at the time.
I am not finding it, but the USA hada vaccine mass production facility on standby for years that Trump scuttled.
- Comment on Trump says NATO members should raise defense spending to 5% of GDP 3 weeks ago:
invasion unthinkable
Only works with a thinking adversary.
- Comment on Trump says NATO members should raise defense spending to 5% of GDP 3 weeks ago:
I don’t think a nuclear deterrent will work. Too much brinkmanship. Need an army that can be used.
- Comment on Trump says NATO members should raise defense spending to 5% of GDP 3 weeks ago:
They better do it. Might get invaded.
- Comment on What's the endgame when the rich have all the money? 3 weeks ago:
Take the money from other rich people. Possibly with an army of disposable humans.
- Comment on Meta’s AI Profiles Are Already Polluting Instagram and Facebook With Slop 3 weeks ago:
Maybe we should interact with these heavily. Then Facebook can be abandoned.
- Comment on PS1 Games Now Playable on GameCube 4 weeks ago:
Thank you!
- Comment on PS1 Games Now Playable on GameCube 4 weeks ago:
I cannot find it. Crap. I think “Chrono Cross”.
- Comment on PS1 Games Now Playable on GameCube 4 weeks ago:
Fantastic! I have a PS1 game I have been wanting to play. (Never had a PS1.)
- Comment on I cannot tell you a way my life has genuinely gotten better since the advent of "smart" phones. 4 weeks ago:
Still going but hard to get a decent new flip phone.
- Comment on Mexican Cartels Lure Chemistry Students to Make Fentanyl 1 month ago:
(Archive.org has a paywall?)
I would ask about the medical coverage, but I have doubts about the retirement plan… (Cannot read article due to paywalls.)
- Comment on How do you go about evaluating sources of information for truth/credibility/etc.? 2 months ago:
A small thing, and only for “creator” content and people. If they say multiple things, some you know about and some you don’t, then evaluate the stuff you know. If you detect bullshit in the stuff you know, throw it all out.
Someone that lies on one thing is fully untrustworthy.
Clearly doesn’t work when you are wrong.
- Comment on Rail freight scheme sees 64,000 less lorry journeys in first year 2 months ago:
Is this good or bad?
- Comment on Where can I buy a mosquito laser system? 2 months ago:
The Gates Foundation has something like this 20 years ago. It used the sounds of wing beats to find and identify gender and species.
It is unclear why nothing came of it. I look it up every few years…
- Comment on There should be a term for people who never really returned from the pandemic's social isolation 2 months ago:
Not really isolating is on zoom. Just preferring to be where they cannot smell you. I presume.
- Comment on Gandalf failed to consider incest, half my ancestors are related baby 2 months ago:
Time to learn about a few of the relatives of ancestors that didn’t make it.
Thinking of you great-great aunt. RIP
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Do they mean the USA civil war and that south, or one of many other civil wars?
The USA South is fine. Fully integrated. They just couldn’t be dicks for a while.
- Comment on My parents never did any extravagant trips like to Disney world or Sea world. Knowing what I know now I'm kinda grateful for that. 3 months ago:
Is it the murders? Its the murders.
- Comment on You'll have to use pto time to drown, but make sure it's approved first 3 months ago:
If only our health insurance wasn’t tied to our jobs.
If only wages were high enough to have something extra to cushion.
If only we didn’t have to work so long, wr could think and make better decisions.
- Comment on How did people poop before smartphones were invented? 4 months ago:
Plus catalogs.
- Comment on Ford Chairman & CEO Jim Farley Wakes After Decade-long Nap, Shocked By China's EVs - CleanTechnica 4 months ago:
Thank you for the reference link.
China has one hell of a footnote:
b. See info about additional detainees, and alleged detainees, at Re-education through labor, Laogai, and Xinjiang internment camps.
- Comment on People are using ChatGPT for therapy—but is it a good idea? 5 months ago:
There are programs made by therapists that are built to be help.
- Comment on What is the safest way for a partially disabled person in the USA to use prison for food and shelter as an alternative to dying homeless in a gutter on a cold rainy night? 5 months ago:
If you are set on this, then do crimes that, if successful, would improve your life.
Steal billions of dollars from bad corporations. Steal food to live, trespass to be in shelter.
Personally, I would try to go to the cheapest town and get on benefits. Each state has a really cheap place to exist. There are usually no jobs, but often friendly people.
- Comment on How an Instagram-Perfect Life in the Hamptons Ended in Tragedy 5 months ago:
Fuck suicide for financial reasons.
- Comment on A millennial couple who make $250,000 say they can't find a home in their budget: 'We refuse to become house-poor' 5 months ago:
You raise a great point.
To the Owning Class, those working for money are nothing and replaceable. Rise up with the poor.
- Comment on I've heard it clears up again after the first wave of divorces 5 months ago:
Not ugly at all.
- Comment on I've heard it clears up again after the first wave of divorces 5 months ago:
After 35 is the first wave of divorces?
- Comment on Court blocks the FCC's efforts to restore net neutrality... again 5 months ago:
You know, if the rules for government handouts were more open, another company could gain ground. Just pointing out something congress controls.
- Comment on ‘Star Trek’ Live-Action Comedy From Alex Kurtzman, Justin Simien & Tawny Newsome In Works At Paramount+ 5 months ago:
Frasier In Space.
- Comment on Jesus take the wheel 6 months ago:
Great way to hit a tree, stop suddenly, and die.