OSCrustacean
@oscrustacean.bsky.social
STEMlord in training | C/C++, Java, Python | I prefer at least the amount of freedom I've caught hold of already
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OSCrustacean
@oscrustacean.bsky.social
· Dec 11
What is insurance?
Insurance takes the idea of people pooling money together so that individuals can withdraw from it to help pay if they end up in a costly, unfortunate scenario. It also exists to negotiate prices with those that provide services to its beneficiaries.
Insurance takes the idea of people pooling money together so that individuals can withdraw from it to help pay if they end up in a costly, unfortunate scenario. It also exists to negotiate prices with those that provide services to its beneficiaries.
A first principles argument in favor of single payer healthcare
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No member of Congress should vote for any appropriations if the whole exercise is a non-binding farce.
NEW: White House announces it's going to pause, and potentially cancel, $11 billion in infrastructure funding (via the Army Corps of Engineers), specifically citing cities, like New York, represented or led by Democrats. More to come.
October 18, 2025 at 4:12 AM
No member of Congress should vote for any appropriations if the whole exercise is a non-binding farce.
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Elon, fresh off attempting to incite race riots in England is now trying to incite pogroms against trans people.
September 14, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Elon, fresh off attempting to incite race riots in England is now trying to incite pogroms against trans people.
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There goes his shot at a job on MSNBC.
Spencer Cox: "Charlie said some very inflammatory things, and in some corners of the web that's all that people have heard"
September 14, 2025 at 2:29 PM
There goes his shot at a job on MSNBC.
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"Now an extraordinarily successful scientific research system — one that took decades to build, has saved millions of lives and generated billions of dollars in profits for American companies and investors — is being dismantled before our eyes."
Shutting down the war on cancer.
“New presidential administrations have usually gone out of their way to make transitions at the NIH as seamless as possible so as not to disrupt ongoing research…”
Right. That’s not what is happening now. Must-read article.
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“New presidential administrations have usually gone out of their way to make transitions at the NIH as seamless as possible so as not to disrupt ongoing research…”
Right. That’s not what is happening now. Must-read article.
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Trump Is Shutting Down the War On Cancer
www.nytimes.com
September 14, 2025 at 2:09 PM
"Now an extraordinarily successful scientific research system — one that took decades to build, has saved millions of lives and generated billions of dollars in profits for American companies and investors — is being dismantled before our eyes."
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Grok, I left my dick in my pants and went peepee, but the peepee didn't reach the toilet. What happened to the peepee? And why are my pants wet?
August 12, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Grok, I left my dick in my pants and went peepee, but the peepee didn't reach the toilet. What happened to the peepee? And why are my pants wet?
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I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
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The Free Speech Administration throwing down arguably the biggest sledgehammer against free thought and association in my lifetime.
Linda McMahon: "Universities should continue to be able to do research as long as they're abiding by the laws and in sync, I think, with the administration and what the administration is trying to accomplish."
May 28, 2025 at 4:22 PM
The Free Speech Administration throwing down arguably the biggest sledgehammer against free thought and association in my lifetime.
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The Texas state board of Pharmacy can see the controlled substance prescription records of 37 other states. All that's needed for Ken Paxton to access those records is an administrative subpoena.
May 21, 2025 at 11:41 PM
The Texas state board of Pharmacy can see the controlled substance prescription records of 37 other states. All that's needed for Ken Paxton to access those records is an administrative subpoena.
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All three have been Democrats, meaning a 219–215 GOP majority at the beginning of the year (because Gaetz) is now 220–212.
May 21, 2025 at 1:20 PM
All three have been Democrats, meaning a 219–215 GOP majority at the beginning of the year (because Gaetz) is now 220–212.
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the state of Twitter: you can reply to any image of a woman with a request to Grok to undress her to her underwear and it will comply and post the reply in thread: www.404media.co/elon-musks-g...
Elon Musk's Grok AI Will 'Remove Her Clothes' In Public, On X
Elon Musk’s AI bot is undressing women on X.
www.404media.co
May 6, 2025 at 2:40 PM
the state of Twitter: you can reply to any image of a woman with a request to Grok to undress her to her underwear and it will comply and post the reply in thread: www.404media.co/elon-musks-g...
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Brilliant to eliminate Energy Star, a program that costs $32m but delivered $40b in annual savings. None other than the US chamber of commerce tried to save it as a model of business/government partnership. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/c...
E.P.A. Plans to Shut Down the Energy Star Program
www.nytimes.com
May 6, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Brilliant to eliminate Energy Star, a program that costs $32m but delivered $40b in annual savings. None other than the US chamber of commerce tried to save it as a model of business/government partnership. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/c...
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They’re scared to have their bluff called on the sorts of positions that gratify their base but would be unlikely to stand up in court.
May 2, 2025 at 9:35 PM
They’re scared to have their bluff called on the sorts of positions that gratify their base but would be unlikely to stand up in court.
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A well-oiled machine 🫠
April 29, 2025 at 3:25 PM
A well-oiled machine 🫠
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Some of what is happening is that the massive strategic shift of NDP voters toward Liberals to block Tories... may have helped Conservatives in some places.
This was a seat where the NDP was running for reelection. But the NDP fell to third, and Conservatives easily picked it up:
This was a seat where the NDP was running for reelection. But the NDP fell to third, and Conservatives easily picked it up:
April 29, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Some of what is happening is that the massive strategic shift of NDP voters toward Liberals to block Tories... may have helped Conservatives in some places.
This was a seat where the NDP was running for reelection. But the NDP fell to third, and Conservatives easily picked it up:
This was a seat where the NDP was running for reelection. But the NDP fell to third, and Conservatives easily picked it up:
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Update on this. Apparently the bill just passed the House... 409-2.
So, uh, yeah. A ton of Dems just gave the Trump FTC more power to censor the internet. Great job guys.
So, uh, yeah. A ton of Dems just gave the Trump FTC more power to censor the internet. Great job guys.
Take It Down Act is a total censorial mess. And yet, a ton of "progressive" Dems are supporting it, even as it will enable the highly politicized and weaponized FTC to go after websites and demand content be removed from the internet. www.techdirt.com/2025/04/28/c...
Congress Moving Forward On Unconstitutional Take It Down Act
Here’s a puzzle: How do you write a law that’s so badly designed that (1) the people it’s meant to help oppose it, (2) the people who hate regulation support it, and (3) everyone …
www.techdirt.com
April 28, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Update on this. Apparently the bill just passed the House... 409-2.
So, uh, yeah. A ton of Dems just gave the Trump FTC more power to censor the internet. Great job guys.
So, uh, yeah. A ton of Dems just gave the Trump FTC more power to censor the internet. Great job guys.
April 29, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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If the CBC shows me one more riding with *literally 11 votes counted* and spends 45-seconds discussing the early returns as showing a possible flip, my head is going to explode.
April 29, 2025 at 1:38 AM
If the CBC shows me one more riding with *literally 11 votes counted* and spends 45-seconds discussing the early returns as showing a possible flip, my head is going to explode.
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it couldn't be more obvious they are preparing for eruptions this summer and a subsequent crackdown
NEW EO 🧵
Within 90 days, the AG and the SecDef, in consultation with the Sec of Homeland Sec and the heads of agencies as appropriate, shall increase the provision of excess military and national security assets in local jurisdictions to assist State and local law enforcement
Within 90 days, the AG and the SecDef, in consultation with the Sec of Homeland Sec and the heads of agencies as appropriate, shall increase the provision of excess military and national security assets in local jurisdictions to assist State and local law enforcement
April 29, 2025 at 12:24 AM
it couldn't be more obvious they are preparing for eruptions this summer and a subsequent crackdown
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Pritzker: Time to stop wondering if you can trust the nuclear codes to people who don’t know how to organize a group chat. It’s time to stop ignoring the hypocrisy in wearing a big gold cross while announcing the defunding of children’s cancer research…
April 28, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Pritzker: Time to stop wondering if you can trust the nuclear codes to people who don’t know how to organize a group chat. It’s time to stop ignoring the hypocrisy in wearing a big gold cross while announcing the defunding of children’s cancer research…
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There we go.
April 15, 2025 at 1:07 AM
There we go.
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They’ll pressure a NATO ally to release a sex trafficker and racketeer but they won’t pressure a tiny dictatorship to return a man it’s holding on our behalf, who they admit they sent there by accident
April 14, 2025 at 5:01 PM
They’ll pressure a NATO ally to release a sex trafficker and racketeer but they won’t pressure a tiny dictatorship to return a man it’s holding on our behalf, who they admit they sent there by accident
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Following up on this. They just banned a Canadian trans musician from getting a visa to tour the US.
They're straight up banning trans people from entering the US.
www.stereogum.com/2303977/bell...
They're straight up banning trans people from entering the US.
www.stereogum.com/2303977/bell...
April 11, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Following up on this. They just banned a Canadian trans musician from getting a visa to tour the US.
They're straight up banning trans people from entering the US.
www.stereogum.com/2303977/bell...
They're straight up banning trans people from entering the US.
www.stereogum.com/2303977/bell...