Political cultural effects are like 90% of the reason I support punishingly high taxes on the very wealthy.
10.08.2025 19:41 โ ๐ 21 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0@revrend.bsky.social
Dentist in a small Oregon town. Former social scientist for defense clients. Some of you may remember me from such places as Uzbekistan, Leavenworth, or MacDill. Go Ducks!
Political cultural effects are like 90% of the reason I support punishingly high taxes on the very wealthy.
10.08.2025 19:41 โ ๐ 21 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0God damned right.
10.08.2025 19:29 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I administered them first in an exhibit hall at our fairgrounds and then at a drive through clinic at our local race track. Best health care experience of my career. People were so happy.
10.08.2025 19:23 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I hate all of this, but especially the little "cute human interest story" grin.
07.08.2025 16:35 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Master and Commander 4k steel book
The oceans are now battlefields in 4k and Atmos.
06.08.2025 03:07 โ ๐ 6 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Huckleberry crumb bars Had to pick some blueberries from the garden to have enough for the recipe.
A big chief smoker in which trout are hanging and bathing in alder and apple smoke
Rainbow trout in a container awaiting dry brine
Huckleberry treats and trout in the smoker. I'm PNW-maxxing.
03.08.2025 20:59 โ ๐ 16 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0A bunch of fresh red and blue huckleberries. A salmon berry or two as well.
The forest is just giving this shit away for free.
02.08.2025 22:07 โ ๐ 41 ๐ 4 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Most rises off an mountain lake in the morning. Sun is illuminating the most and trees in the background.
Hemlock Lake, smooth as glass, reflecting the trees and blue aky
Douglas fir trees surrounding a rich patch do huckleberries growing around a spring.
Oregon is a nightmare. Stay away.
02.08.2025 21:10 โ ๐ 17 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 0For a lot of people in rural areas, they effectively can't get care now. In my part of Oregon, OHP members already struggle to get care. I've had patients who need to see specialists who can't or won't travel out of the area to see them. Only getting worse, especially now.
31.07.2025 17:14 โ ๐ 7 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I like that it's moving around to whatever store just closed last like some kind of commercial hermit crab.
31.07.2025 06:02 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Absolutely correct. Trump's toadies know tariffs are bad policy and that importers pay them. But he's dumb, has power, and they deny reality to stay in his good graces.
30.07.2025 22:55 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0The next Democratic president should push so hard on all fronts that children feel obligated to denounce their parents at public rallies for having watched Fox News.
30.07.2025 19:48 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Intensely annoying my wife. (Watching The Phoenician Scheme.)
27.07.2025 21:35 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Because the real answer is to not kick people off and make them recertify all the time, you schmuck.
27.07.2025 20:55 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0My favorite part is when she smashes the keyboard like a toddler pretending to work.
26.07.2025 20:08 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I'm 10 weeks in, still on 2.5, and down 30 pounds. My doctor bumped me to 5, but considered leaving me on 2.5. He likes to have patients plateau before increasing dosage.
25.07.2025 21:16 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Sadly, the part of the market that doesn't want plastic overlaps heavily with the part that doesn't want fluoride.
25.07.2025 15:48 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0A huge number of them aren't.
25.07.2025 15:39 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Salt or milk. When people say "Europe doesn't fluoridate their water" they're missing this. Fluoridated salt or milk is often available and is fairly popular.
25.07.2025 15:38 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Took my kids with me to see Superman. The movie hasn't started and they're all talking shit about Superman. Thinking about making them walk home.
25.07.2025 03:35 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0This is 100% the Rosetta Stone for American political history.
21.07.2025 18:19 โ ๐ 7 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I have been getting podcast ads to practice in British Columbia for months. Now I'm getting them for Saskatchewan.
20.07.2025 23:55 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 0I love when there's a clamshell of berries in the fridge when there happens to be a ripe crop of the same berry in our garden.
20.07.2025 23:19 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Yep. OR - Uzbekistan - PA - WA - KS - FL - WA - OR.
I hope my kids stay fairly close when they're older, but I really hope they live other things places along the way.
When I was in the Peace Corps, my mom bought ever Steinbeck book she could at a used book store and sent them to me. One of the best packages I received.
20.07.2025 03:21 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0"But he got rid of the other genders and now there are just two" -- way too many Trump voters who are pissed off about everything else and finding ways to still stay in the club
18.07.2025 17:25 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0many people are saying โdonald trump has pardoned more pedophiles than any president in historyโ and todayโs WSJ bombshell helps explain why
18.07.2025 02:43 โ ๐ 656 ๐ 160 ๐ฌ 6 ๐ 3West Coast states have some huge problems. But they don't prevent this side from being Best Coast.
18.07.2025 05:50 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0