Michael Paulauski♨️
@mike10010100.com
I lose brain cells so you don't have to. Devops Galore. DemSoc liking anarchism. Antifascist. BLM/Abolish the Police. Views are mine, not employer’s. He/him
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Michael Paulauski♨️
@mike10010100.com
· Sep 20
go to moderation settings, Bluesky official moderation service, scroll down to “rude,” turn it off
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Oh, so he totally stole the money
November 11, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Oh, so he totally stole the money
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The basic problem of health insurance: if you want sick people to be able to get insurance, then the insurance product ceases to be traditional insurance, bc the insurer cannot price risk. Once you accept that sick people should get insurance, you must accept some variety of a socialized system.
Rick Scott told me his plan would be to take all of the remaining ACA subsidies and redistribute them to HSA accounts and people can then buy whatever insurance a state certifies. Basically a repeal/replace.
He denied when I asked wouldn’t that create two-tiered system where sick pay much more…
He denied when I asked wouldn’t that create two-tiered system where sick pay much more…
November 11, 2025 at 4:22 AM
The basic problem of health insurance: if you want sick people to be able to get insurance, then the insurance product ceases to be traditional insurance, bc the insurer cannot price risk. Once you accept that sick people should get insurance, you must accept some variety of a socialized system.
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“Why is literacy important?”
Socioeconomic Politics Nerd: *rambles on about civic engagement, material enrichment, individual well-being, etc*
Joyce Carol Oates: If you are literate, you can drive a billionaire into a mental breakdown!
Socioeconomic Politics Nerd: *rambles on about civic engagement, material enrichment, individual well-being, etc*
Joyce Carol Oates: If you are literate, you can drive a billionaire into a mental breakdown!
November 11, 2025 at 4:39 AM
“Why is literacy important?”
Socioeconomic Politics Nerd: *rambles on about civic engagement, material enrichment, individual well-being, etc*
Joyce Carol Oates: If you are literate, you can drive a billionaire into a mental breakdown!
Socioeconomic Politics Nerd: *rambles on about civic engagement, material enrichment, individual well-being, etc*
Joyce Carol Oates: If you are literate, you can drive a billionaire into a mental breakdown!
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Call in the troops to solve the commercial real estate crisis in our swanky downtown cores
You can’t make this shit up, folks
You can’t make this shit up, folks
November 11, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Call in the troops to solve the commercial real estate crisis in our swanky downtown cores
You can’t make this shit up, folks
You can’t make this shit up, folks
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"Just the News"
Call in the troops to solve the commercial real estate crisis in our swanky downtown cores
You can’t make this shit up, folks
You can’t make this shit up, folks
November 11, 2025 at 6:35 AM
"Just the News"
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The difference in time between now and I can has cheezburger
Is the same between I can has Cheezburger and the Berlin Wall falling
Is the same between I can has Cheezburger and the Berlin Wall falling
November 10, 2025 at 5:46 PM
The difference in time between now and I can has cheezburger
Is the same between I can has Cheezburger and the Berlin Wall falling
Is the same between I can has Cheezburger and the Berlin Wall falling
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this actually feels right to me; i don’t remember the Berlin Wall falling but i remember it as “the first historical event i was alive for when i look at the calendar” and therefore it felt recent to me as a teenager. “the most recent thing i don‘t remember”
The difference in time between now and I can has cheezburger
Is the same between I can has Cheezburger and the Berlin Wall falling
Is the same between I can has Cheezburger and the Berlin Wall falling
November 11, 2025 at 6:03 AM
this actually feels right to me; i don’t remember the Berlin Wall falling but i remember it as “the first historical event i was alive for when i look at the calendar” and therefore it felt recent to me as a teenager. “the most recent thing i don‘t remember”
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within a year after 9/11 there were a ton of folk musicians who’d taken a crack at making the Edmond Fitzgerald song but for 9/11
You ever think about how there was only 1 to 2 months between the actual wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald and Gordon Lightfoot recording his song.
And how weird and slightly deranged it would be if someone had dropped a banger about a contemporary disaster on its heels.
And how weird and slightly deranged it would be if someone had dropped a banger about a contemporary disaster on its heels.
November 11, 2025 at 5:56 AM
within a year after 9/11 there were a ton of folk musicians who’d taken a crack at making the Edmond Fitzgerald song but for 9/11
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Mr Hooper 🥺
Happy 56th anniversary to “Sesame Street,” which made its broadcast debut #OnThisDay in 1969.
November 11, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Mr Hooper 🥺
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Everyone’s vote is an unknowable enigma. It’s a basic legal right!
November 11, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Everyone’s vote is an unknowable enigma. It’s a basic legal right!
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if I see a car wreck I'm calling 911 to get paramedics and the situation has still been improved if they also send some guys with guns to stand around despite the fact that you can't solve a car wreck by shooting it
November 11, 2025 at 5:12 AM
if I see a car wreck I'm calling 911 to get paramedics and the situation has still been improved if they also send some guys with guns to stand around despite the fact that you can't solve a car wreck by shooting it
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"would a mostly-random guy with a gun improve this"
most of the time, no. on occasion, yes. send in the random guy with a gun. we are so far below chance that almost no matter how you bias it, it will probably be a net improvement
most of the time, no. on occasion, yes. send in the random guy with a gun. we are so far below chance that almost no matter how you bias it, it will probably be a net improvement
November 11, 2025 at 5:07 AM
"would a mostly-random guy with a gun improve this"
most of the time, no. on occasion, yes. send in the random guy with a gun. we are so far below chance that almost no matter how you bias it, it will probably be a net improvement
most of the time, no. on occasion, yes. send in the random guy with a gun. we are so far below chance that almost no matter how you bias it, it will probably be a net improvement
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this is fundamentally accurate but it is actually kind of easy to meet this bar
Also, anytime you are thinking about calling the cops, ask yourself, "will this situation be improved by (more) guns?" If the answer is no, don't call them.
November 11, 2025 at 5:01 AM
this is fundamentally accurate but it is actually kind of easy to meet this bar
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Speaking as someone who worked in a slaughterhouse if most people spent a day in a slaughterhouse they would eat a lot more lentils.
(I eat meat. I do not think most burger-eaters have gutted a large animal.)
(I eat meat. I do not think most burger-eaters have gutted a large animal.)
Factory farms suck, the vegans are right, but yeah, we have to have a viable lab grown substitute first before most folks are ready to admit that.
(Also if we don't adjust non-lab meat consumption downward *first*, killing factory farming would likely be ecologically and politically disastrous)
(Also if we don't adjust non-lab meat consumption downward *first*, killing factory farming would likely be ecologically and politically disastrous)
I think what is going to happen is that lab-grown meat will gradually catch up with real animals and when that happens we will all quietly admit that the vegans were right about factory farming
November 11, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Speaking as someone who worked in a slaughterhouse if most people spent a day in a slaughterhouse they would eat a lot more lentils.
(I eat meat. I do not think most burger-eaters have gutted a large animal.)
(I eat meat. I do not think most burger-eaters have gutted a large animal.)
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again, this actually *is* almost certainly a donor ask thing. i’m not defending it, but Slotkin is probably voting against hemp THC specifically at the request of the NY legal cannabis industry, which is a competitor to the synthetic hemp THC market
November 11, 2025 at 4:17 AM
again, this actually *is* almost certainly a donor ask thing. i’m not defending it, but Slotkin is probably voting against hemp THC specifically at the request of the NY legal cannabis industry, which is a competitor to the synthetic hemp THC market
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the stuff that Congress is trying to ban, just to be clear, is specifically synthetic hemp turned into THC, which was legalized by accident
this isn’t an attempt to go after states that have legalized THC, who already are breaking (and ignoring) federal law
i’m not saying i am for it, but. context
this isn’t an attempt to go after states that have legalized THC, who already are breaking (and ignoring) federal law
i’m not saying i am for it, but. context
again, this actually *is* almost certainly a donor ask thing. i’m not defending it, but Slotkin is probably voting against hemp THC specifically at the request of the NY legal cannabis industry, which is a competitor to the synthetic hemp THC market
November 11, 2025 at 4:22 AM
the stuff that Congress is trying to ban, just to be clear, is specifically synthetic hemp turned into THC, which was legalized by accident
this isn’t an attempt to go after states that have legalized THC, who already are breaking (and ignoring) federal law
i’m not saying i am for it, but. context
this isn’t an attempt to go after states that have legalized THC, who already are breaking (and ignoring) federal law
i’m not saying i am for it, but. context
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This is a big difference! In one case we have tons of reporting saying "Schumer is doing this" followed by Schumer coming out & saying "I am doing this!" in the other Jean Shaheen was asked "is Schumer doing this?" & she answered "I told him about it".
November 11, 2025 at 4:27 AM
This is a big difference! In one case we have tons of reporting saying "Schumer is doing this" followed by Schumer coming out & saying "I am doing this!" in the other Jean Shaheen was asked "is Schumer doing this?" & she answered "I told him about it".
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In one case there was vast amounts of reporting & also his own statements saying he did that, in the other there is none of that.
Please help me understand this vast and deep gulf between "negotiated for a deal trading Democratic votes for Trump's budget in exchange for a doomed vote" and "negotiated for a deal trading Democratic votes for Trump's budget in exchange for a doomed vote with a different composition of votes"
No if you assume he made the deal he acted very differently from the times we know he DID make deals.
November 11, 2025 at 4:24 AM
In one case there was vast amounts of reporting & also his own statements saying he did that, in the other there is none of that.
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[Sipping the rarest, most disgusting scotch] Ahh ... gender
In other news, somebody parked this dodge ram cybertruck on the avenue
November 11, 2025 at 4:24 AM
[Sipping the rarest, most disgusting scotch] Ahh ... gender
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Pretty on brand for a Gen-X looking tech bro type to help out the GOP.
November 11, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Pretty on brand for a Gen-X looking tech bro type to help out the GOP.
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But I also tried cricket! And it was amazing! Basically like eating pistachios! And guilt free!
I'd hit a bag of roasted crickets *hard*.
I'd hit a bag of roasted crickets *hard*.
November 11, 2025 at 4:26 AM
But I also tried cricket! And it was amazing! Basically like eating pistachios! And guilt free!
I'd hit a bag of roasted crickets *hard*.
I'd hit a bag of roasted crickets *hard*.
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I have *reduced* my red meat intake and try to pick options that aren't as ethically dubious.
But if I'm visiting Kobe, Japan, I'm trying their fuckin beef, y'all.
Which I did. And it was amazing.
But if I'm visiting Kobe, Japan, I'm trying their fuckin beef, y'all.
Which I did. And it was amazing.
November 11, 2025 at 4:24 AM
I have *reduced* my red meat intake and try to pick options that aren't as ethically dubious.
But if I'm visiting Kobe, Japan, I'm trying their fuckin beef, y'all.
Which I did. And it was amazing.
But if I'm visiting Kobe, Japan, I'm trying their fuckin beef, y'all.
Which I did. And it was amazing.
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The reason I am not vegan is because I like the way animal products taste and the world is too wide to put artificial bans on my own enjoyment of things.
I could stop drinking because it's bad for me. But I like the way it makes me feel and I like the way beer tastes. It's really that simple.
I could stop drinking because it's bad for me. But I like the way it makes me feel and I like the way beer tastes. It's really that simple.
November 11, 2025 at 4:24 AM
The reason I am not vegan is because I like the way animal products taste and the world is too wide to put artificial bans on my own enjoyment of things.
I could stop drinking because it's bad for me. But I like the way it makes me feel and I like the way beer tastes. It's really that simple.
I could stop drinking because it's bad for me. But I like the way it makes me feel and I like the way beer tastes. It's really that simple.
Factory farms suck, the vegans are right, but yeah, we have to have a viable lab grown substitute first before most folks are ready to admit that.
(Also if we don't adjust non-lab meat consumption downward *first*, killing factory farming would likely be ecologically and politically disastrous)
(Also if we don't adjust non-lab meat consumption downward *first*, killing factory farming would likely be ecologically and politically disastrous)
I think what is going to happen is that lab-grown meat will gradually catch up with real animals and when that happens we will all quietly admit that the vegans were right about factory farming
i'm convinced if we ever tried to touch the rail of meat politics in America (something that's going to eventually need to happen in order to reduce CO2 emissions), it would lead to a huge right-wing shock
November 11, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Factory farms suck, the vegans are right, but yeah, we have to have a viable lab grown substitute first before most folks are ready to admit that.
(Also if we don't adjust non-lab meat consumption downward *first*, killing factory farming would likely be ecologically and politically disastrous)
(Also if we don't adjust non-lab meat consumption downward *first*, killing factory farming would likely be ecologically and politically disastrous)
Reposted by Michael Paulauski♨️
I think what is going to happen is that lab-grown meat will gradually catch up with real animals and when that happens we will all quietly admit that the vegans were right about factory farming
i'm convinced if we ever tried to touch the rail of meat politics in America (something that's going to eventually need to happen in order to reduce CO2 emissions), it would lead to a huge right-wing shock
remembering the time a random catholic priest got mad at me about a hypothetical about the government restricting meat production on the other site
meat politics is going to be insane for the next Dem administration which takes climate change seriously, imo
meat politics is going to be insane for the next Dem administration which takes climate change seriously, imo
November 11, 2025 at 3:14 AM
I think what is going to happen is that lab-grown meat will gradually catch up with real animals and when that happens we will all quietly admit that the vegans were right about factory farming