Just looking at the population difference and GDP this looks like an easy war for Thailand.

far be it from me to tell scientists how to do their jobs but i feel like there might be value in surveying the <365 hot dogs per year demographic

Yes, it is entirely correct to point out that ICE officers do not have any legal authority to break into somebody’s home unless they get a judicial warrant; which they generally cannot do, because judges only issue warrants for probable cause of crimes, not immigration law violations.

Look at those people with their bags

Map of Mexico in 1794 showing Mexico and the Gulf of Mexico.

It was called Gulf of Mexico for a reason.

Mexico En 1794.
#HistoryMatters

Honoring The Life Of Ian Epstein, Flight Attendant Who Died in American Airlines 5342 Crash When deaths occur on a mass scale, there is a tendency to focus on numbers rather than people. But every life has a story and today I want to focus on Ian Epstein, one of the flight attendants who perished in the crash of American Airlines Flight 5342…

Honoring The Life Of Ian Epstein, Flight Attendant Who Died in American Airlines 5342 Crash

Always

If all Republicans stop shopping at COSTCO, maybe I can find a parking space!

Tweet from MapQuest: fyi MapQuest is NOT renaming the Gulf of Mexico - not because of politics but because we haven't updated our maps in like 15 years and don't remember how to do it 3:01 PM • Jan 29, 2025

Heroes

Initial thoughts.

1. 3 crew members means reduced visibility on one side of the aircraft.

2. based on coms they either lost sight of the CRJ or were looking at the wrong aircraft when they said they saw it.

3. Tower behaved normally.

Its at the beginning. Somewhat garbled but there were repeated “pass behind the CRJ pass behind the CRJ”

Notice the missing mentioning of Tim Cook??!!

KC the king of anal!!!

@tedoc2000.bsky.social hello tedoc

The California Fires Blame Game Is A Terrible Preview Of What’s To Come And stop with the fire puns in headlines, Trump didn’t “skewer” Newsom

Whenever disaster strikes, Trump and his heartless maga cult immediately use it to attack their political opponents. They make up wild conspiracy theories, and lie about recovery efforts. They politicize the victims, and try to distract from the fact they'll do nothing to help them.

My Sunday Post:

LA Fire Chief says the Canadian Super Scooper airplane (the kind that picks up water from the ocean to dump on a fire) fighting the wildfires that was hit by a drone yesterday is out of operation until Monday.

"Flying a drone in the fire traffic area is not only dangerous, but it is illegal."

SMH.

This is worth another watch

Here’s the problem.

One of the only (or most) reasonable take on immigration.

Words to live by in 2025 and beyond The 'Secretary of Explaining Stuff' comes up with a winner for challenging times.

As she sums it up, “disagree without being a jerk, calmly explain your reasons for disagreeing, and reassure people they won’t be left out or behind.”

Her Substack article is excellent; we can adopt it, and, contra Steve Bannon, “Flood the zone with reason.” 2/2

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So much blinded hated on BlueSky….. 🤥🤥🤥

Without reading the details, the headline points to the fact that the suspect is not white.

Silo?

The way I didn’t laugh

Luigi Mangione is escorted by several police officers and Mayor Eric Adams in New York.

seems a bit dramatic

If you want to understand why healthcare pricing is horrific, the first thing to know is that our system puts 100% of the credit risk for deductibles, copays and co-insurance on hospitals and doctors. That's insane.

We have turned them into Sub Prime Lenders 🧵

$11,000 for an $8 COVID jab at the height of the pandemic by UHC.

I was 10 years old when I wrote to Nestlé and asked them to stop giving new mothers in Africa milk powder samples, because it causes their breastmilk to stop meaning they pay to feed their babies.

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X post by Alan Nguyen, DO @Dr Alan_N This physician's appeal to United Healthcare to authorize anti-nausea/ vomiting meds on behalf of a pediatric patient on chemo was denied. You don’t hate these insurance companies enough.

1 East Washington, Suite 300, Fhoenix, AZ 85004 800-348-4058 Re: (crossed out) File: (crossed out) Dear buttheads at the insurance company, | can't believe it has come to this. | have to take time away from my patients to inform you that you are idiots. This whole experience makes me want to vomit. But of course | wouldn't dare throw up without the approval of my insurance company. Which brings me to my point: Apparently, you have decided that a child receiving chemotherapy has no reason to be nauseated. | didn't think | w. ecessarily writing prescriptions for anti-emetics* for Obviously you would know better about the side effects of chemotherapy than me, my peers, and the entire scientific community going all the way back to Dr. Sidney Farber. | suppose my alternative to Zofran and Scopolamine is to let ___ kow that the nausea is all in his head. However, I don't imagine you would cover any psychology consultation either. So Il just tell ___ to stop throwing up. Thank you for that simple solution. You have saved your greedy, bloodsucking corporation share holders a great deal of money I'm sure. Of course, that would be the bottom line. Feel free to contact me if you need further _____ how much you guys suck.

"You don't hate these insurance companies enough."

#HealthInsuranceIsAViolentCrime #CEO #UHC

UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson executed on the streets of New York. The assassin has not been found so far.

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