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  • Yes, I get that. So what I was saying, in a continuation of your comment on insulin needles being used that way, was that the top picture here, showing what needles looked like after multiple times of use, was most often displayed near pharmacies, where insulin and needles were dispensed to diabetics. I saw them there more than I ever saw them in anti-drug areas/campaigns. I was further adding in the perspective that there was a good reason for doing that, as diabetics (and probably other users of injected drugs) were most definitely reusing needles, as evidenced by the stories from my uncle and my own experience.


  • Aye, and besides drug users on the streets, that’s who the top picture was actually for. I can’t recall how many of those signs I’ve seen when I was picking up needles with my insulin. I also know my uncle reused his up to 10 times or so. Worst I’ve ever gone was like 5-6. It’s actually quite difficult to get needles when you’re not at home and forget some (and they’re annoyingly easy to forget).


  • In a sane world, this would lead to abolition of gerrymandering, or at least very egalitarian compromises. In reality, the courts are going to side with the republicans (eventually, even if it has to go all the way to the top [and it will, on emergency mode because of course the taco supreme court will want it]) and we’re even more fucked.

    While looking at taco and couchie as the ringleaders, true progressives ready to not go to concentration camps would do well to remember things are built from the bottom up, and a group of 5-10 members for the local republican party is much easier to target and deal with. There’s a lot of knowledge of the local process tied up in those few people. Lose that and the ability to enter races effectively is hurt. Protest those 5-10 local people with enough people and you might be able to start knocking things out from under them. Fewer local republicans, fewer people able to file the paperwork to enter local elections, and it moves on and up.





  • For business calls, a lot of them do end that way. Especially if I’m talking to someone down the aisle from me. 90% of my work conversations go something like this:

    call coworker “Hey, it’s so and so, I’m going to be delayed on site for 20 minutes.”

    “Alright, we’ve got a new thing in thirty minutes, so you’re good.”

    “I’ll call you if anything changes, but based on what’s going on, I’ll make the thirty minutes.”

    “Great, thanks.”

    one of you hangs up





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    Healthcare, but not health insurance.

    Anyway, if I had my druthers, I’d get together with a cabal of like-minded doctors, vote ourselves onto the state board, and revoke the license of any doctor working for health insurers. If the courts/cops had any balls, they’d then say any person or persons (and if it’s a computer, then the entire c-suite) rejecting claims are practicing medicine without a license and put them all in jail.