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OK good! Lol

Continue to believe mediCAID for all better than mediCARE because latter has zero guardrails/structure, basically debit card. Medicaid is plan-based with included services, big emphasis on preventative care, suspect would be much cheaper. Plus supplementary coverage always possible beyond essential

but..how can you walk to get the car washed without the car? that doesn't make sense unless I'm missing something..

cringe when they call it 'NYC'

I don't think AOC is presidential material, Gavin too for that matter. Felt the same way to an extent about KH. Ironically, if it were possible, I think Z would be better

despite the many advantages, one disadvantage of being multilingual is that you speak each of the individual languages a bit less well because they kind of bleed into each other. some concepts just make sense in one and not another.

I always asked why we couldn't just do all of this south of here where it's warm? Obviously impossible, but still..

36 feels amazing the way things have been

ridiculous that there should be a quota, and so low at 20% coming from 60+, BUT, FINALLY something is done. For decades @harvard.edu has been known for it's ridiculous grade inflation. They can do nothing and get an A. Particularly irritating for someone who went to a school with grade DEflation...

'Bioeconomics' What would that be? Is that a thing?

I honestly wonder if that may be fair. Do other countries have personalities like warriors and revolutionaries on their uniforms? TL is obviously special but everyone thinks their person is special. Maybe if this is applied equally to everyone, it's ok?

The Root of Haiti’s Misery: Reparations to Enslavers (Published 2022)

www.nytimes.com/2022/05/20/w...

map from 1937 showing potential massive expansion of PATH service into NJ including a new 51st tunnel

thinking about a major expansion of PATH since 1937! Everything takes 100 years here..

second generation is the glue

Malikah

I support @ranafromqueens.bsky.social for NYS Assembly 36 Long Island City/Astoria Queens (@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social seat). I like her résumé, education (middlebury.edu, @harvard.edu), story. She's articulate, black belt teaching women to defend themselves (malikah.org). Vote Tuesday LIC/Astoria!

this year Latin America, the Caribbean, and Africa are really going to blow up. They're all over the culture, food, music, language even. cardi, bunny, afrobeats. Will be fascinating.

imperialism?

these 'journalists' suck. ask a question, they deflect and then just move on? no pushback, fact checking, just call the bullshit! they seem kinda dumb..

anything, anyone for sale. the american way.

also celebrities and others naming their children 'Brooklyn' for example, irks. you can't just take it. worse, there is no connection!

businesses using place names for brands should pay licensing fee, or have some sort of permission to do so. many just slap on London, Paris, New York, wherever into their trademarks to profit from the reputation, prestige, indeed brand power of those places. that seems like a sort of IP issue to me

sorry, I don't like ronnie chieng. call me a hater..

in other words..

even average uk people are confused about state vs country vs nation. there are really 3.5 (N Ireland) countries in uk. uk is a sovereign state. is it a nation? ireland as a whole is a nation. england is a nation. just leftovers of english colonialism, complicates things

that shouldn't have happened to him but I never liked the guy. he's gonna try and juice this to be more relevant, a martyr, more likes, views, podcasts, interviews, appearances, maybe a netflix/hulu special, run for office, etc etc etc...going to get tired of his face 🙄 like a jussie but for real...

tight joint ventures between airlines are bad for travellers

the inertia of that sort of 'that's how we've always done it and that's what everyone else is doing' incumbency bias in business is fascinating

executives typically have no idea what happens on the front lines

need a new corporate culture

you can tell someone used a bot to seem smart when they mispronounce a bunch of the words in the script, showing they may have never said something like that before