There's a theory in my family.

You have true farmers, then you have factory farms. Factory Farms are not just for animals. They exclusively produce cash crop, they exclusively optimize profit, they also do hardly any of the work themselves. They'll be in a combine, sure. But combines are quite literally automatic nowadays, so it becomes a second office where they're negotiated deals and labor and contracts and taxes.

The true farmers on the other hand? Way back when, before Monsanto and Tyson, farm communities took care of specific jobs for specific farms because one of those farmers found a really good way to do it, or is just much more efficient.

That left a little more time for each of the farmers to work on something they were skilled with, or do a hobby even.

Guess what was a popular hobby amongst farmers? Electric Scale Trains. These farmers also invented and designed and engineered a lot of these tools and equipment, because they had to repair their machines quicker than a service tech could come out.

So you get robust engineering out of a Farmer. Then the Factory Farmer comes in and says "Hey, I got a friend named John Deer who could mass produce these, and the non-presceint Farmer said cool."

BAM innovations stifled.

Still, that's pretty impressive. Cats are absolutely incredible animals. I'm thankful the "worst behaved cats" still love me for whatever reason because I've been able to see some of the crazy shit they do.

My parents have an entirely blind 18 year old cat. She can navigate the entire house eats fine, plays a bit. Hops up and down furniture, finds the sunbathing spots, uses the litter just fine. You do have to keep an eye out for her if your moving around as she can't smell fast enough if you step in front of her path.

This is the quality content Reddit only had 15 years ago.

Well done. Top-tier shitpost. Too nerdy for most, and a perfect pun that made me cringe a little before laughing

That's much better.

🙄 Almost there, little article.

The United States Marshalls protect US assets. Judges are treated as such. But! John Roberts already has a security force called the Marshalls of the Supreme Court. Guess who has authority to deputize Marshalls of the Court?

Yes, a judge. They have constitutional authority to enforce judgements. The real question is why haven't they exercised it.

Ah. Good. The one thing I was worried about in a nuclear war was my fucking flight plans.

LMFAO

He couldn't hire an attorney for his case and ended up with a public defender. Turns out THERE ARE some things you can't buy.

Mario Savio was speaking on terms of labor, but his "Bodies upon the gears speech" is extremely relevant, particularly the end.

There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part! You can't even passively take part! And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels ... upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop! And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!

We have 5m people connected through protest. Arresting and deporting legal migrants is kiddnapping. Witholding international passports is violence. Skipping due process, kidnapping, and illegally imprisoning a US citizen, then refusing to fix it, is violence.

I physically cannot fight. I pass out simply standing or walking too long. Of course I have a kid to protect too. There are plenty of people who have little to no benefit to an armed resistance in force.

But we all have a part to play. They are not fighting fair, and nor should we. History has shown that guerilla resistance is absurdly effective against government lower. Ukraine. Syria. Iraq. Afghanistan, Vietnam.

Fascists are idiots, and inefficient. They are focused on the in group so much they make themselves vulnerable. We have technology that hasnt existed before. Chemists, 3d printers. Open Source software. It doesn't have to be guns blazing and explosives.

Tens of thousands estimates from organizers are that it's a hell of a lot larger than that.

The ADS is weird. It basically does the same thing as a microwave at long range.

I remember watching some tests of the system in college. It was great for crowd dispersal, because it causes burning sensations quickly.

But, because of its frequency, it can be blocked by aluminum foil. And because it's directed, if you, say, line a jacket, or the back of your protest sign, you can protect yourself and those behind you.

160dB noise thing though? That's a bit different of a story. I don't think the operators would be immune from that.

It won't. Even if it did Walz would would veto it.

Every single elected Nazi will probably vote for it, but they don't have a majority and they are super upset about it.

I posted in the other thread about how this is involving other for profit healthcare stocks, but I see a trend that we need to correct before the wrong people are hurt.

We are talking about for-profit healthcare executives and owners.

The CEO of HCA made $21m in total compensation. A physician makes on average $200k in the org.

Tenet Healthcare CEO made $18m. A physician makes on average $232k.

Vs Non-profits: Mayo Clinic CEO: $3.72m (notably also a Dr?) Physician: $273k

Cleveland Clinic CEO: $4m (this was tough to find) Physician: $235k

Now let's look at revenue and profit (well, the revenue for the non-profits). HCA pulls in $60b in revenue, $4b in profit. Tenet HC: $17b in revenue, $400m in profit. Mayo Clinic: $16.3b revenue, Cleveland Clinic: $8.4b revenue.

The contrast is a bit alarming isn't it? Physician salaries are fairly consistent across the board, but the executives of the for-profit entities make 4x-5x the compensation as the non-profits (not that the non-profit CEOs really need $4m/year in pay).

Tying healthcare to profits is the problem.