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[guido]

Trump Administration Moves to Relax Rules Against Killing Birds - The New York Times

[thollandpe]

Trump Administration Moves to Relax Rules Against Killing Birds - The New York Times

I did not know that Newton Ames had been appointed to a cabinet position.

"Oh hello there, I'm Newton Ames talking to you on behalf of the Monolithic Oil Corporation, about today's energy situation. You know, if we all just sacrifice a little, we can pull together to beat the current problems of not enough energy. And Monolithic is doing its part by killing most of the birds that nest around our beautiful oil refineries. Birds eat up a lot of food, and as everyone knows, food takes energy to grow and prepare. So, the fewer birds there are, the less energy will be wasted."

"...the blame for today's energy situation is on your shoulders, and your conscience. And not ours. Monolithic Oil Corporation, we want you to . . . pay."

[mzilliox]

This monster hates everything not made by humans. he hates sharks, snakes, birds, the sun, kids, dogs, real food, women.

and some people will vote for this hate monger, proudly, while beating their chests and exclaiming "trigger a snowflake" not realizing the water they drink is being poisoned by the man they worship and hate at the same time.

only actions explicitly intended to kill birds will be illegal.

who is specifically intending to kill birds? what kind of human does these things?

[monadnocky]

Just read The Indifferent Stars Above- thanks again to whomever recommended it (too lazy to search for the post).

Wow. I've seen the Donner Party episode of American Experience a few times (best television show ever, imo) and I didn't realize that, as amazing as it was, it left out a LOT of detail and facts that this book covered (I guess you kind of have to in order to cram all that information into an hour).

What a read. Thanks again!

[monadnocky]

Trump Administration Moves to Relax Rules Against Killing Birds - The New York Times

Yeah, fuck it, I mean why not. Also let's slacken laws against stealing candy from babies or purse-snatching from elderly women.

[guido]

New Reports Show That Trump’s Economic Promises Were Empty | The New Yorker

[colker]

So many blaming decadence and insignificance on journalism and i will say that cycling journalism was very much one of the big reasons for this passion for cycling. The physical pleasure of riding bike balanced by the narratives, myth making, brand fidelity. Wasn´t for cycling journalism it would be just pedaling a bicycle.

[guido]

How Private Equity Buried Payless - The New York Times

[guido]

Trump’s border wall, vulnerable to flash floods, needs large storm gates left open for months - Washington Post

[mzilliox]

Trump’s border wall, vulnerable to flash floods, needs large storm gates left open for months - Washington Post

the joke is on us, I'd say its on his base, but they just dont seem to care. its everyone else gonna be left cleaning up this mess.

[guido]

Exactly How Dangerous Is Football? | The New Yorker

[htwoopup]

The US is the only country NOT to ban land mines. Obama had made it only for use in defending the Korean Peninsula and all stockpiles to be destroyed.

But that is now changed as a matter of US policy.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...-mines-trump/?

[guido]

Climate Change Is Ruining My Birthday | Outside Online

[guido]

Opinion | How Zombies Ate the G.O.P.’s Soul - The New York Times

[vertical_doug]

https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10....7.293799/full/

I'll give John Arnold credit on this.

1. Law passes that pays Medicare Advantage plans more when covering sicker patients
2. Plans figure out how to make patients look sicker
3. Plans upcode, costing 20 bln/yr
4. Congress authorizes CMS to fix
5. Plans complain
6. Political appointees @ CMS do nothing

Always remember we have a sickcare system not healthcare

[guido]

https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10....7.293799/full/

I'll give John Arnold credit on this.

1. Law passes that pays Medicare Advantage plans more when covering sicker patients
2. Plans figure out how to make patients look sicker
3. Plans upcode, costing 20 bln/yr
4. Congress authorizes CMS to fix
5. Plans complain
6. Political appointees @ CMS do nothing

Always remember we have a sickcare system not healthcare

Yet another reason why Nationalized Single Payer is the only way we will get control of costs. Greed should not be a part of Health Care.

[guido]

The Money Behind Trump’s Money - The New York Times

[guido]

Iowa Might Have Screwed Up The Whole Nomination Process | FiveThirtyEight

[guido]

Can We Have Prosperity Without Growth? | The New Yorker

[caleb]

I want to preface this with some caveats, but I'm not sure about the caveats: Electric or Not, Big SUVs Are Inherently Selfish - VICE

The market research insights are incredible:

Car companies managed this remarkable feat because they ran—and continue to run—quite possibly the most sophisticated marketing operations on the planet. They knew what people really wanted: to project an image of selfish superiority. And then they sold it to them at a markup.

The picture they painted of prospective SUV buyers was perhaps the most unflattering portrait of the American way of life ever devised. It doubled as a profound and lucid critique of the American ethos, one that has only gained sharper focus in the years since. And that portrait is largely the result of one consultant who worked for Chrysler, Ford, and GM during the SUV boom: Clotaire Rapaille.

Rapaille, a French emigree, believed the SUV appealed—at the time to mostly upper-middle class suburbanites—to a fundamental subconscious animalistic state, our “reptilian desire for survival,” as relayed by Bradsher. (“We don’t believe what people say,” the website for Rapaille’s consulting firm declares. Instead, they use “a unique blend of biology, cultural anthropology and psychology to discover the hidden cultural forces that pre-organize the way people behave towards a product, service or concept”). Americans were afraid, Rapaille found through his exhaustive market research, and they were mostly afraid of crime even though crime was actually falling and at near-record lows. As Bradsher wrote, “People buy SUVs, he tells auto executives, because they are trying to look as menacing as possible to allay their fears of crime and other violence.” They, quite literally, bought SUVs to run over “gang members” with, Rapaille found.

I mean, man, what do you even say to that aside from... yeah: The dude who almost ran me over in a LX460 probably hasn't had s*x in a month and is terrified his trophy wife is going to leave him.

P.S. That dude and his frustrated brethren/ilk are responsible for the demise of domestic road cycling in the U.S. Because, not dying is a perk.