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I cant believe a wombat ate my face off!!!!
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Somehow - under a libertarian style government, corporations will behave differently because reasons….
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Tesla has unsubscribed from twitter blue….
mashable.com
Twitter is making even less from Twitter Blue than previously known
Even Tesla unsubscribed.
mashable.com
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Pls sign this indemnity in case you catch covid at one of our events, so you cant sue us for believing covid is a hoax, because we told you covid is a hoax over and over and over……
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The United States’s railway system could be the perfect example of how the over corporatisation of society does not lead to better outcomes.
The US in it’s private sector mentality has a downright dangerous, slow, dilapidated and sparse rail system. Government subsided and operated rail systems in China, Japan, Europe are world beaters in comfort, service and efficiency.
I was enjoying the schadenfreude until this oneLifelong republican voters….
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<<<Just when Beth and Kyle Long received the worst news of their life, an Ohio law made their searing pain even worse.
For four years, the Longs tried to have a baby, enduring multiple rounds of grueling fertility treatments. In September 2022, Beth finally became pregnant.
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But an ultrasound four months later showed that most of the baby’s organs were outside the body.
The condition, called limb body wall complex, is rare.
“It’s just not survivable,” a doctor involved in Beth’s care told CNN.
“They will die. There’s no way there will be a life,” said Dr. Alireza Shamshirsaz, a spokesperson for the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine, who was not involved in Beth’s care.
The condition posed dangers for Beth too, and the bigger the baby was, the higher the risk of complications, including dangerous bleeding that might require a hysterectomy. They say their doctor urged them to terminate the pregnancy as soon as possible.
The condition Beth Long's baby had, limb body wall complex, is rare. Most of the child's organs were outside the body.
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But when the Longs tried to schedule the abortion, they found out that their insurance wouldn’t pay for it.
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Beth takes care of breast cancer patients at a state-owned hospital. She’s employed by the state of Ohio, and state law bans her health insurance from paying for abortions except in certain cases.
Endangerment to the life of the mother is one of them, and although she was at an increased risk for potentially deadly complications, Beth’s life was not in imminent danger, and the Longs say their doctor told them the insurance wouldn’t cover the procedure.
Beth and Kyle would have to foot the bill: between $20,000 and $30,000. After spending $45,000 on fertility treatments, they didn’t have the money.
Texas woman almost dies because she couldn't get an abortion
It took them three weeks to make arrangements to go to a hospital that could perform the complicated abortion at a lower price. It was hours away, in another state.
During that three-week wait – a wait they had to endure only because of the Ohio law – the risk to Beth of potentially deadly complications grew. Their ability to try to have another baby was delayed, and their “agony” couldn’t end, Beth said.
“I was in mental anguish,” Beth said.
“It felt very inhumane for both our baby and for my wife,” Kyle added.
The hospital they found was a three-hour drive away, in Pittsburgh. Away from their regular obstetrician, whom Beth had known for years; away from their doula; away from their friends and family. The Longs were alone.>>>
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Yeah its squirmenfreude this one.
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A certain je ne sais quoi to it
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4D chess. Mock those making stupid decisions, so other stupid people think they too should make stupid decisions because the left is mocking them making stupid decisions? Makes sense.
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Fox News’ Brian Kilmeade acknowledged on Thursday that federal regulations may be necessary to protect people and the environment, a rare admission on a network that has pushed for mass deregulation for decades. Kilmeade, who co-hosts Fox & Friends, made the comments while discussing the East Palestine, Ohio, train derailment and its aftermath.
<<<“I knew nothing about these derailment numbers,” Kilmeade said. “I'm stunned by it – that we have thousands of derailments all the time and how costly it is, and how they're not kept up and maybe the regulation needs to be there.”
Fox News has long vilified federal regulations as governmental overreach, and needless red tape that eats into corporate profits. In 2011, the network launchedRegulation Nation, a series that would “expose how excessive laws are drowning American businesses.” The series was the brainchild of then-Fox News President Roger Ailes, who said at the time that bureaucrats “draw up regulations to try to ruin your life.”
That same year, Fox News also waged a full-on war against the Environmental Protection Agency, and continues to argue against environmental regulations, including in its so-called straight news programs.
More recently, Fox News personalities and their guests have railed against federal regulations for the oil industry, argued that federal regulations are a way to divide families, blamed regulations that purport to limit police violence for resulting in the police killing of Tyre Nichols, and pushed for further deregulation of the cryptocurrency market, just to name a few examples. Fox News and other cable networks also largely ignored the Trump administration’s broad deregulatory agenda to benefit massive polluters in the early weeks of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Television coverage of East Palestine was scant and decontextualized, including on Fox News, immediately after the derailment, with only 3% of coveragementioning the decadeslong deregulatory push by the rail industry. The Obama administration attempted to make more effective train brakes mandatory following a series of derailments in 2014, which the industry fought against, effectively hollowing out the proposed rules. In 2018, the Trump administration completely repealed the regulations.>>>
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Indonesian man who helped set strict adultery laws flogged for adultery
The 46-year-old Indonesian was caned 28 times; the woman involved was caned 23 times.
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Gobsmacking.
They eat their young…
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