petri-smura
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petri-smura
@petri-smura.bsky.social
2 offspring’s, army UN-vet, engineer
It`s Friday.....
May 23, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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May 22, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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An air traffic controller who works the airspace around Newark, N.J. speaks out about what it was like to lose radar and communication systems during a shift, and how the situation got to be so bad.
A Newark air traffic controller on how it felt when systems went dark
An air traffic controller who works the airspace around Newark, N.J. speaks out about what it was like to lose radar and communication systems during a shift, and how the situation got to be so bad.
www.npr.org
May 22, 2025 at 6:36 PM
I have to say to you all. It’s so f*cking fun to troll bots and morons on twitter. So fun I almost forgot this wonderful site.
May 22, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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May 22, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Right now, Republicans in Congress are trying to push through a bill that would put millions of Americans at risk of losing their health care.

They want to cut federal funding for Medicaid, take away tax credits that help more people afford coverage, and raise costs for working class families.
May 22, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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So. Are. We.
May 21, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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We are ready to help pave a path for lower medication and healthcare costs for taxpayers

journals.lww.com/fpmrs/fullte...
The Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company Effect on... : Urogynecology
imated $1.29 billion reduction in 2020 costs if they replaced the Medicare prices. Objectives We sought to investigate the savings for all drugs commonly used in urogynecology. Study Design We r...
journals.lww.com
January 29, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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Bad jokes are a Mozart form. #CorgiCrew #VioletHasJokes
January 29, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Saw this over at the bad place, and it made me laugh.😂
January 29, 2025 at 5:23 AM
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January 29, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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As chilling a meme as I have seen. But I agree.
January 28, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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January 28, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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December 17, 2024 at 5:11 PM
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"Elon Musk and his rocket company, SpaceX, have repeatedly failed to comply with federal reporting protocols aimed at protecting state secrets, including by not providing some details of his meetings with foreign leaders"
Elon Musk and SpaceX Face Federal Reviews After Violations of Security Reporting Rules (Gift Article)
Federal agencies have opened at least three reviews into whether the company and its leader complied with disclosure protocols intended to protect state secrets, people with knowledge of the matter sa...
www.nytimes.com
December 17, 2024 at 9:08 PM
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What the hell are we even doing? Normalizing & green-lighting another psychotic
madman. That’s what we’re doing. It’s f’ing insane.
December 12, 2024 at 12:39 PM
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Yaaaayyy!! Bluesky just hit 25 MILLION users!! 🎉 🥳 🎊
bsky-users.theo.io
December 13, 2024 at 2:53 AM
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For people who saw the clip of me advocating for a new opposition movement and are asking for more info, here is the piece I wrote laying it out.

I hope you read, share and act.
www.democracydocket.com/opinion/buil...
Building the Opposition
From Marc | The success of our democracy rests on an effective opposition movement.
www.democracydocket.com
December 11, 2024 at 3:28 AM
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December 10, 2024 at 2:02 PM
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There are roughly 330M people in this country, and I realized this morning that for less than the cost of a cheap cup of coffee a day, a S. African billionaire was able to buy the Presidency, and in effect — the country. It’s both embarrassing and sad that, not only was it easy, but it was so cheap…
December 11, 2024 at 2:06 PM
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we're cooked
December 10, 2024 at 2:37 PM
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If you want to understand why healthcare pricing is horrific, the first thing to know is that our system puts 100% of the credit risk for deductibles, copays and co-insurance on hospitals and doctors. That's insane.

We have turned them into Sub Prime Lenders 🧵
December 10, 2024 at 6:46 PM
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December 11, 2024 at 3:20 AM