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how long before BS starts throttling links offsite?
LEAVING BLUESKY THIS LINK IS TAKING YOU TO THE FOLLOWING WEBSITE:
December 16, 2025 at 1:37 PM
buermann.bsky.social
techbros dream yet of the technate of america
November 23, 2025 at 9:00 PM
buermann.bsky.social
my watch history is disabled but youtube will still try to make me watch some anonymized account's joe rogan repods if I watch anything late night lib adjacent, which is kind of the same thing
YouTube's helpful reminder "Your watch history is off"
November 15, 2025 at 7:17 PM
buermann.bsky.social
I recall watching an episode of Freedom to Choose where Uncle Milt was bragging up the great healthcare system in Hong Kong, where it was apparently capitalist innovation in a free market economy that had produced another state-run system modeled after the NHS.
The late economist Milton Friedman said nothing is as permanent as a “temporary” government program. For 80 years, the health system has been warped by a decision during World War II to exempt employer-sponsored health insurance from wage and price controls. Employers used health benefits in lieu of wages to attract and retain workers. That’s how insurance started to become a standard feature of employment.
November 1, 2025 at 9:14 PM
buermann.bsky.social
To be fair to Platner I too did not know about the Nazis' predilection for fuzzy little hats dating to the 18th century War of Austrian Succession until just now.
October 22, 2025 at 3:33 PM
buermann.bsky.social
at this point index investing is little more than a wild bet that Nvidia and a few advertising monopolies will successfully summon a messiah god-emperor to bail them out
A chart "Magnificient Seven Total Market Cap as a Share of S&P 500" Apple, Nvidia, Microsoft, Amazon, Tesla, Google, and Facebook now make up a third of the total market cap.
October 20, 2025 at 10:31 PM
buermann.bsky.social
donald j trump looking down upon mortal man for him to poop on from below his heavenly burger king coronet
October 20, 2025 at 8:13 PM
buermann.bsky.social
the worst variety of instruction-acquired lice
October 15, 2025 at 11:17 PM
buermann.bsky.social
NYT voter panels' intelligence should be graded on the NYT's curve.
Trump Seeks to Lower Drug Prices Through Medicare and Some... Apr 15, 2025 President Trump directed his administration to help states import drugs from Canada. But a proposal to alter a Medicare program to reduce ... Trump Demands That Drugmakers Lower Some of Their ... Jul 31, 2025 The tariffs would add billions in import charges for the largest drug companies, which make many of their biggest blockbusters in Europe. The ... Trump Signs Executive Order Asking Companies to Lower Drug... May 12, 2025 President Trump on Monday signed an executive order asking drugmakers to voluntarily reduce the prices of key medicines in the United States. On Drug Prices, Harris Pushes for Deeper Cuts While ... Oct 8, 2024 Both have campaigned for lower prescription costs. Kamala Harris has promised to expand President Biden’s policies. Donald Trump is a wild card. Trump Plan Would Tie Some Drug Prices to What Peer Nations Pay May 12, 2025 The president announced an executive order aimed at lowering U.S. drug costs, revisiting an idea that was blocked in court during his first ...
September 25, 2025 at 4:39 PM
buermann.bsky.social
Always a coin flip with these stories whether the Christians became latter day martyrs thanks to the policies of a Bush or of a Clinton.
A Vatican study commission created in 2023 has documented more than 1,500 cases of martyrs since 2000, including the 21 Coptic Orthodox workers beheaded by Islamic militants in Libya in 2015.
September 17, 2025 at 6:07 PM
buermann.bsky.social
seems important that he also mocked the result, "Filter has no clue what it’s looking at"
Lance Twig sends a selfie of himself in a beagle onesie through an anime tiktok filter that turns him into a sparkling manga princess, "filter has no clue what it is looking at" he jeers.
September 14, 2025 at 2:40 AM
buermann.bsky.social
The Left already has title and deed to those prayers, Nancy.
September 12, 2025 at 5:39 PM
buermann.bsky.social
I guess the abundance agenda is only for billionaires.
Patricia Duff, a Democratic donor, had thrown her lot behind Mr. Cuomo. “Mamdani has a great smile and is wonderfully articulate,” she said. “His social media is entertaining, and his promises sound fine until you look at the fine print and they’re not realistic. It’s fantasy land.” Democrat powerhouse Patricia Duff, billionaire Richard Cohen to marry in Hamptons Paula Froelich Updated: Jun 19, 2025
September 9, 2025 at 2:16 AM
buermann.bsky.social
The warranties on windows and solar modules are both around 20 years.

FRED's producer price index for window glass has increased by 75% since 2004 while the price of solar panels has dropped by 93.8%. They both use similar SiO2 feedstocks, maybe they're converging on that cost?
Our World In Data's chart of solar panel prices per watt dropped from 5$/W to 0.31 $/W FRED's producer price index for glass manufacturing since 2004 has risen from 100 to 175.
August 26, 2025 at 10:56 PM
buermann.bsky.social
Does the "for the GOP" in "87th percentile (for the GOP)" ranking of the "Trump is restoring order" message mean he is comparing the general responses to Dem messaging with Republican responses to GOP messaging? Or that 87% of his panel was MAGA? What is going on here.
August 26, 2025 at 3:13 PM
buermann.bsky.social
If I cannot walk, talk, eat, see, or hear with protruding brain tissue under a thin mucous membrane my caregivers and my family deserve your money, but I am a conservative so anyone else should work themselves to death turning tiny screws for Tim Apple if they want to see a doctor.
But David lived. We celebrated his fourth birthday in July. I do not understand the course of his life; I am simply grateful. David does not walk, talk or eat independently. He is visually impaired and has hearing loss. He has an unrepaired cleft palate open to protruding brain tissue, covered by a thin layer of mucous membrane. Developmentally, David is like a 10-month-old baby. He is our joy, and it is our privilege to parent him. I am a Medicaid provider because I am paid to care for my son, as are my son’s physical therapists, occupational therapists, primary care physicians, specialists, case managers and others. I expect my provider rate to be reduced by 8 percent effective Oct. 1 if no further action is taken by the state legislature to fully fund the North Carolina Medicaid program.
August 22, 2025 at 5:44 PM
buermann.bsky.social
jeff bezos in a cowboy hat lazily and hastily cut and pasted onto the coffee sipping dog's head of the THIS IS FINE meme, where everything is on fire
August 22, 2025 at 4:46 PM
buermann.bsky.social
Oh I never heard about that. Were the techbros' lawyers all Federalist Society Catholics or something?
web.archive.org/web/20240712...
To illustrate, consider a woman whose life is endangered by her pregnancy. Is it morally permissible for her to have an abortion in order to save her life? The DDE says that an abortion is not permissible. Since abortion kills an innocent human being and since intentionally killing innocent human beings is always wrong, it is always wrong to have an abortion-even to save the woman's life. Abortion also fails condition 2 (the means-end condition). Killing the innocent in order to bring about a good effect is never justified, not even to save a whole city – or the world. As the Stoics said, “Let justice be done, though the heavens fall.” However, if the woman's uterus happens to be cancerous, then she may have a hysterectomy, even though it will result in the death of the fetus. This is because the act of removing a cancerous uterus is morally good (thus passing condition 1). The act of performing a hysterectomy also passes condition 3, since the death of the fetus is the unintended (though foreseen) effect of the hysterectomy. Condition 2 is passed because the death of the fetus isn't the means of saving the woman's life-the hysterectomy is the act that saves her life. Condition 4 is passed, because saving the woman's life is a great good, at least as good as saving the fetus. In this case, given the DDE, the woman is really lucky to have a cancerous uterus (rather than a pregnancy-related life-threatening condition)
August 16, 2025 at 6:04 AM
buermann.bsky.social
You are such a dishonest hack. Sanders' campaign returned the few donations it received from pharma executives and the Clinton healthcare plan was killed by Senate leader George J. Mitchell (D-ME) to save NAFTA.

archive.is/dFgdl
Mr. Mitchell said he made a preliminary decision to abandon the bill last Tuesday, after Republican leaders told Mr. Clinton at a bipartisan news conference that if he pursued health care, they would block a new international trade pact, a threat they acknowledged last week.
August 10, 2025 at 5:06 PM
buermann.bsky.social
well we tried to make comedy illegal
https://youtu.be/T9q_udkpymM?feature=shared&t=246 Musk: You know. So, like, I mean, the sort of the left wanted to make comedy illegal, you know, you can’t make fun of anything. So this is, like, comedy suuuuuucks. It’s like, nothing’s funny. You can’t make fun of anything. He waves his arms so emphatically that the large gold chain he’s wearing clanks against his mic. Musk: It’s like, LEGALIZE COMEDY! YEEEAH! Legalize Comedy! Schmitt: And we’ve shifted the entire culture in just the last few months, the whole culture of this country has shifted dramatically just because of that election. Musk: Freedom of speech. Having fun again. It seems like we should... We should have a good time. You know?
August 8, 2025 at 6:23 PM
buermann.bsky.social
I was disappointed by my carbon8water.com until climate scientists told me to use ice cold water.

www.pbs.org/newshour/sci...
The key to dissolving carbon dioxide is temperature. Cold water is better at dissolving and absorbing gasses like CO2 compared to warmer water, which is why a large amount of it gets dissolved in the ocean’s chilliest waters, according to the report. When that heavy water sinks to the deep sea, large portions of that CO2 can be stored for a long time. But as the ocean continues to warm like the rest of the planet, its waters are projected to become less efficient at taking in carbon dioxide, and can even release it back into the atmosphere more rapidly.
August 8, 2025 at 3:20 AM
buermann.bsky.social
as with crime American media can only report that undocumented immigration is an ever worsening crisis
A graph, "the number of unauthorized immigrants in the US from 1990 to 2022", a line that has been essentially flat since it peaked in 2008 at 12.2 million (presently: 11M) https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/07/22/what-we-know-about-unauthorized-immigrants-living-in-the-us/
August 5, 2025 at 10:08 PM
buermann.bsky.social
the January 6th arrests MGT expects to see are from the collusion between the FBI and antifa to entrap MAGA, meaning... Nancy Pelosi, Liz Cheney, and Adam Schiff

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MTG xitting on 12/7/2023: Vivek is right. J6 was a Fedsurrection and undercover agents set people up with entrapment. J6ers are being held as political prisoners and more people are being arrested—on average 1 a day—many nonviolent and never even entered the Capital. Those involved must be investigated and held accountable —even jailed! Subpoenas for Nancy Pelosi, Liz Cheney, Adam Schiff, Wray and everyone else involved in the coverup. Quote @VivekGRamaswamy Dec 7, 2023 If you’d have told me nearly 3 years ago when I was just a CEO that Jan. 6 was an inside job, I would’ve said that’s crazy talk. It’s not. There is now clear evidence that there was at the very least entrapment of peaceful protestors, similar to the fake Gretchen Whitmer...
August 5, 2025 at 4:51 PM
buermann.bsky.social
The police explained back in 2007 -- before Acosta's sweetheart plea bargain -- that a mother of a girl abused by Epstein set off the first investigation.

Hard to explain why Trump would rat Epstein out then lavish promotions on the lawyers who protected him.

nymag.com/news/feature...
The dazzling arc of Epstein’s comet came to an end—without his knowing it—in March 2005. That was when a distraught woman called the police in Palm Beach and, after at first refusing to give her name, said that she believed her 14-year-old stepdaughter had been molested by a wealthy man. The stepmother had learned about the matter in a roundabout way. The girl lived during the week at an “involuntary-admitted juvenile educational facility” because of behavior problems. She had shown up at the school with $300 in her purse, and it became the talk of her classmates. One friend called the girl a “whore,” another friend put a fist through the wall in anger, the girl left school. The stepmother got a call from another student’s mother. Soon, a policewoman was talking to the girl with a therapist present. The girl cried and dug her finger into her thigh and told the story, of going to a big house on the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway, and climbing a spiral staircase to the master bedroom, where a blonde woman of 25 who wasn’t very friendly laid out sheets and lotions on a massage table and left, then Jeff came in, naked but for a towel, and sternly ordered the girl to take off her clothes. As she rubbed his chest, he touched himself, then applied a vibrator to her crotch. The lengthy police narrative in the case doesn’t make clear how police connected gray-haired Jeff with Jeffrey Epstein, but when the girl identified his picture in an instant in a photo lineup, police threw themselves into an investigation of the modern and palatial house on El Brillo Way.
July 30, 2025 at 4:28 PM
buermann.bsky.social
Did Jay follow that joke up by trying to unite the country behind another Lewinsky insult?
www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/20...
Lewinsky was targeted over 450 times by Leno in his 22 years as host—making her the seventh most frequent target of political jokes on his iteration of The Tonight Show. Osama Bin Laden, for comparison, trailed the former White House intern at number 20.) Among Leno’s many Lewinsky-targeted insults: “You know who was at the Vanity Fair (Academy Awards) party? Monica Lewinsky. She was sitting right next to me. I was at table 14; she was under table 12.” “Monica Lewinsky has gained back all the weight she lost last year. I believe that’s the cover story in Newsweek. In fact, she told reporters she was even considering having her jaw wired shut, but then, nah—she didn’t want to give up her sex life.” In 2019, John Oliver put Leno on blast after the former Tonight Show host complained about the talk show landscape—telling an interviewer that he’d like to see “a bit of civility come back.” After Oliver admitted that his own hands “are not clean here either”—he copped to a “gross” Lewinsky gag he participated in on The Daily Show—the Last Week Tonight host cued up a montage of Leno’s ruthless insults directed toward Lewinsky. “Those jokes have not dated well in any sense of the word,” says Oliver in the below video. “And they’re pretty rough, especially coming from a guy who just this week complained about late-night TV, saying that he’d like to see ‘a bit of civility come back.’ You know, like that time that he did a bit with a fake book about Lewinsky titled The Slut in the Hat. And if that’s what he means by ‘civility,’ may I offer my new book, Oh, the Places You Can Go Fuck Yourself, Jay Leno!”
July 27, 2025 at 9:30 PM