…Did those profs owe me anything for my choosing 5 yrs worth (I had to hold off taking Biology bc I’d have graduated early) of a crazy span of Science & Humanities?

My old scoutmaster was my counselor…he encouraged me to live MY life. I ended up with a fine, utterly unpredictable career, small biz

I started as a Physics major, took Sociology, Western Civ, German, Journalism, Art Appreciation…then switched to Econ; added Math as a double major

I would’ve gotten a 3rd major (in German) if I’d taken one more course but didn’t want to embarrass Prof Schwartz into handing a diploma to me
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Willingness to kiss Trump’s and RFKJr’s butts AND ability to pass the sniff test are at odds with each other

Was he the responsible party for the iOS 26 interface? Maybe.

(This from 26.2. But also, it was difficult to copy this screencap from a text message bc the popup menu with “share…” on it was off-screen at the bottom)

Give the poor slob a break: he was dumped into a position renamed the “Department of War, NOT Defense, DAMMIT” and told he’d better deliver or he’d be on the next bus to oblivion—with a tarnished reputation plus short tenure

…anti-vax dogma w NO evidence, anti-DEI tirades & revenge on any person or institution that voiced any opposition to Trumpist White Nationalism, anti-Constitutional edicts, etc.

Allows corrupt promotion of THEIR klepto oligarch pals’ snake-oil

“Gold Standard” science is politicized anti-science

If I read this right, they were denied US citizenship ☞because they wanted to LEAVE their country of origin☜

Can you imagine…leaving some dictatorship or theocratic crazies like the Taliban…and being told that was the wrong thing to do?

…the government shouldn’t be giving out the world’s best medical advice at no direct cost to Americans because why shouldn’t the Law of the Jungle rule?

IMO the mentally-ill RFKJr sincerely believes the former

But his MAGA masters exploiting him for selfish, antisocial power reasons is inexcusable

AFAICT, the only “reason” for increasing the risk of MORE cervical cancers in the population is that we don’t like vaccines on some principle

Or, as some of the arch-conservatives and Libertarians who back MAGA/MAHA might believe,
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But if her deeply racist hateful claims WERE true, it’d be the obligation of the CDC to protect Americans from the source rather than use the very suspect and sketchy claims to demagogue against Americans

The King is dead! Long live the new king!

…the public institutions that have shared the returns on intellectual investment with the broader public. Intentionally, it seems: public health is collateral damage to their extorting BigPharma to share profits with the MAGA elite, destroying rather than reinforcing public power from knowledge

From my (ahem) modest knowledge of political history, devolution of power from the autocrat to the broader society always comes by political negotiation. Eg, the Magna Carta *forcing* King John to share

MAHA has it right that Big Pharma exploits its power. But it is 1000% wrong in destroying …

The work done by non-oligarch JW, aimed at the whole public’s well-being, seems to exemplify this higher level of thriving and prosperity.

I am astonished how our societies’ rulers are permitted, seemingly even selected for the purpose of stealing it from us

Time was, power made wealth. Then, rents fed it; with the Industrial Revolution, accumulated capital

Late 18th & 19thC democracy refocused us. Science—esp of health—went from a gentleman’s hobby to being intellectual capital owned by the whole society. Life expectancy measures non-oligarch benefits

This just reeks of reverse causality

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