Austin

[Handre @Handre]

LASIK eye surgery cost $2,200 per eye in 2000. Today it's around $1,000 per eye despite 24 years of inflation. Meanwhile, an MRI that cost $1,200 in 2000 now costs $3,000+. The difference? LASIK operates in a free market with no insurance interference and minimal regulation.

When patients pay directly, providers must compete on price and quality. LASIK clinics advertise prices, offer financing, and constantly improve technology to attract customers. Compare this to hospital procedures where prices are hidden, patients never see bills, and insurance companies negotiate opaque rates that somehow always increase faster than inflation.

Cosmetic surgery follows the same pattern. Breast augmentation, rhinoplasty, and other elective procedures have become more affordable and safer over decades. Surgeons invest in better techniques and equipment because they must satisfy paying customers, not insurance bureaucrats or hospital administrators focused on maximizing reimbursements.

The lesson is clear: remove third-party payment systems and excessive regulation, and you get Austrian economics in action. Prices fall, quality rises, and innovation accelerates. Healthcare costs aren't rising because of aging populations or new technology—they're rising because we've destroyed the price mechanism that makes markets work.

[Austin @AustinShawstin]

@rotoworld_fb That’s ass-backwards 😂

[NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Lab @NOAA_AOML]

Our researchers are onboard the P-3 to gather important meteorological data. Today’s mission involves a figure 4 flight path and deploying dropsondes, AXBTs, wave drifters and the Black Swift drone.
These observations are used to make forecasts about Milton’s path and intensity.

[Matthew Dominick @dominickmatthew]

Timelapse flying by Hurricane Milton about 2 hours ago.

1/6400 sec exposure, 14mm, ISO 500, 0.5 sec interval, 30fps

[db @tier10k]

*ETH ETF'S TO LAUNCH TUESDAY: BALCHUNAS

Source: DB | Coins: ETH

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

🚀🚀🇺🇸🇺🇸 AMERICA 🇺🇸🇺🇸🚀🚀

[Austin @AustinShawstin]

Very tragic what happened at the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl parade. Thoughts going out to families impacted and to our community as well. ❤️

[Rotoworld Football @rotoworld_fb]

McDaniel: 'Positive feedback' on Achane's status https://t.co/OLWaMMHmz6

[Ari Meirov @MySportsUpdate]

YouTube says they are aware of the issues and working on fixing it.

[Dave Portnoy @stoolpresidente]

This video is legit unbelievable. What an absolute piece of shit.

[Austin @AustinShawstin]

@elonmusk LFG

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

With latest version of app, you can DM reply to any message in the thread (not just most recent) and use any emoji reaction.

Release of encrypted DMs V1.0 should happen tomorrow. This will grow in sophistication rapidly. The acid test is that I could not see your DMs even if there was a gun to my head.

Coming soon will be voice and video chat from your handle to anyone on this platform, so you can talk to people anywhere in the world without giving them your phone number.

[Adam Schefter @AdamSchefter]

Giannis is outstanding: “There’s no failure in sports. There’s good days, bad days, some days you are able to be successful, some days you are not, some days it is your turn, some days it’s not. That’s what sports is about. You don’t always win.”

[Naval @naval]

The timeless struggle between the people building new things and the people trying to stop them…

[Gavin Wood @gavofyork]

CZ on SBF:“No one can protect [from] a bad player, to be very frank, if a guy is very good at lying, and very good at just pretending to be what he’s not.” Not been paying attention? Protection comes thru decentralisation. That’s the point of web3 and trustless tech. @cz_binance

[George @George1Trader]

Money where my mouth is. 23k before 14.5k.

I'll shut up now, cheers.

#bitcoin

[We good? @gifhawk2]

There is some guy in the second row screaming “GUARD SOMEBODY”

[Kansas Football @KU_Football]

Your *Nationally Ranked* Kansas Jayhawks

#17 in the AFCA Coaches Poll

[College GameDay @CollegeGameDay]

👀 👀 👀 GET READY, LAWRENCE!!

We're coming to KU for the first time EVER 😤

A battle of the unbeatens: @TCUFootball vs. @KU_Football

[Austin @AustinShawstin]

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