understanding it from the audience perspective at the time was like a history lesson on life in Britain at the time, on top of reading Shakespeare. every teacher after that one was such a let down. 3/3
my first lit teacher explained As You Like It in context so we understood it the way the audience would have. it had plays on words and gender jokes bc male actors played all the roles. I think it also had jokes for the poorer people in the front that the rich didn't get. 2/
I only had 1 teacher explain Shakespeare in context, and to this day, it's the only full Shakespeare I've ever read. it actually was funny. Forcing people to read literature without explaining is counterproductive, yet many schools built an entire curriculum that does just that. 1/
this isn't humor or comedic relief - it's mockery. it's making the regime look silly. they want to look tough and serious. frogs dancing while they talk about war ravaged streets makes them look ridiculous. it's probably the most effective non violent strategy against authoritarians.
it's a genius system - tie the docs up in school debt and malpractice premiums early in their careers, and then they're too jaded and worn down by the time they can financially walk away. I'd like to see them increase the number of residency slots dramatically and put them in public clinics.
and then emergency care is a whole other can of worms, but I think we gotta start somewhere, and preventative and maintenance care seems like the place to start. 4/4
the battles are all self-imposed by our current system tho. it's only a problem bc our govt is paralyzed. maybe states could legislate away some of the contract/legal hurdles? idk - I'd be interested to hear what docs think about a self-pay system outside ins. 3/
it should be illegal for ins to impose network contracts that make you pay more for care, but we would need the govt to regulate that. you could focus on local cash-based nonprofit clinics outside the ins system, and then grow the network from there, but there's massive uphill battles. 2/
we would need a groundswell of providers to walk away from the for-profit insurance providers. if you are a specialist connected to a hospital, it might be impossible. ins networks make providers and pharmacies sign contacts that prevent them from offering individuals cheaper options. 1/
thank you! the premiums didn't go up because care went up. the premiums went up so they could make profit. we could require a public health option to be non-profit. it was a choice to allow premiums and deductibles to drain people's savings when they're most vulnerable in a health crisis.
You can buy it easily, but tbf, it is pretty terrible and getting worse. Lately I've questioned if what I'm eating is bread or just a clever sponge. If I had to pick a rabbit hole to fall down, baking bread sounds like a pretty damn good one.
No arrests...they didn't investigate or stake out these places? Did they even get warrants to enter the premises? How did they find these places? "Interdiction" unit tells me they used some AI algorithm - I'm guessing palantir predictive policing.
Considering Trump didn't even call Walz after the shooting to extend condolence, I doubt he'd have been receptive to any requestnto lower the flag. apnews.com/article/trum...
Thank you - idk why the left has bought into the idea that being honest equals being inflammatory. Watching mainstream and many "independent" media contort reality undermines years of reporting on what turning point has done to young people's view of the world. It's def "a choice".
It's a global issue, too. The British yt Gary's economics talks about how the media forces you to talk out of your ass about topics you know nothing about. He just stopped going on the shows, but people wanting the $ will just keep booking them. And viewers don't know they're listening to bs. 3/3
The media has failed the people by not living up to the principles that led to them getting 1st amendment special protections. I think the US needs to reform who gets press protection, and we should require them to be non profit. It's clear that $ pushes them to stray from good reporting. 2/
This is part of the reason people have lost faith in the institutions. The media (an institution itself) props up randos as experts, letting them spew utter BS as educated opinions, or worse, as facts. 1/
The Harris campaign spent $1B and lost. It is not wrong to compare and contrast and learn how to campaign more genuinely. Clearly the "corporate means-tested polling" campaigns aren't working. Candidates should look for new ideas.
Twitter and meta and other platforms are happy to have an excuse to demand copies of our identification. Just keep building up the data in our profiles.
I have never seen one of these, and hope I never do. Just wanted to point out that unlike other sm, you aren't stuck scrolling at the whim of their algo. You can build your own feed to eliminate whatever is putting that in your current feed.
These laws do not protect minors. Look no further than Roblox, Meta, TikTok, or just talk with kids. Forcing adults to upload their ID will protect no one. It's a data/$ grab by tech masquerading as save-the-children theater. Tech created the prob and is selling the solution to unsuspecting public.
