Some more on gun knowledge. The casing holds the gun power, the "head" I always called the thing that gets shot was made of lead but probably is not any more. As a professor for more than 30 years, I found this kind of knowledge to stick in lectures is what some students appreciate your knowing.

And they still made with lead? If so they still need to be removed. The last ones I looked at were, but that was about 50 years ago.

There are two things going on. First some are uninsured, second the health insurance companies deny care but don’t release data on it. If we had socialized medical care for our middle aged the problem would go away.

I had an encephalitis infection of my brain in 2006. When I came to I had a vocabulary of 196 words and couldn't put sentences together. I have gone through recovery spells and I am happy to be able to do what I put on Bluesky. I enjoy being able to read a lot of the posts here.

I am afraid the problem is Trump want's to move the elderly to Republican version of middle age health care.

Thanks for the comment.

Probably me. I am still recovering from a brain infection, sometimes words just don't come out right. Sorry.

What a good example of the introductory sociology topic: Role expectations defined.

I am a retired demographer and I have explained this in some of my posts here. Main reason is capitalist healthcare followed by religions that use prayer to cure.

Our CIA ranks Canada 7th in all countries life expectancy and the united States 49th, Canadian life expectancy is 3.3 years longer than people in the United States and they pay about half as much for health care.

Health care is likely to improve as well. Just a demographer commenting.

An idea I got reading this. If we labeled supernatural ideas as "safe and fun" on the good end and "so dangerous it can be fatal" on the bad end instead of "all bad", the bad ones might kill fewer people.

Thought about this for several decades. I have decided that it is scientifically explainable but the number and complexity of interactions make it too complex for the human brain to use in everyday decision making. A few main variables with some handy descriptions is as good as we can use.

Sometimes the available data doesn't make un-lumping possible.

I consider life expectancy a measure of quality of life. Then I look at how well fascist countries keep their people alive by lookin at their life expectancy.

I think they are closest to the most fascist country. Certainly the most powerful one. I use the CIA's country life expectancy as the primary measure of how well a county is doing. Russia ranks 164th, the United States 49th and Canada 5th. Also we spend the most for health care.

I guess I find Trump's relationship with Russia so unexplainable that I keep looking for possible explanations. He obviously goes to constant behavior to keep something about his relationship with Russia hidden.

That fits what I see going on but I think there is a real possibility that the Heritage Foundation is really a Russian front. I know I have no way to test what I think is possibly going on.

I wonder how many people simply know that looking for something to support, instead of test, and idea is propaganda building not science.