FriendOfEntropy

Software Engineer, PC Gamer, Filthy Casual TCG Player, Pen and Paper RPG Player, Tabletop Wargamer, Power Metal Fan

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@Tchandler7105 @4nt1p4tt3rn Yes, because I'm sure there's a commandment in my version that says thou shalt record the sermon and duplicate it on cassettes so we can drive it around to shut-ins like it's 1987 again. That is true religion...internet traffic travels on Satan particles, ya know 🤣

[Mitzi @MitziFetch]

Since @VanderbiltU can't fill the position of "Research Assistant" from its own students & graduates, it evidently doesn't educate them very well and its accreditation should be revoked.

Don't you agree, Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges? @usedgov

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@4nt1p4tt3rn Virginia and New England style.

[Josh Brooks @F530Josh]

SF Bro who bet on himself with his own cash right before fast roping onto a foreign president’s roof and stealing him like a snickers bar from a gas station is going to do more time than all of the Somali fraudsters who stole $18bn from Minnesota combined.

Bookmark this.

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@TechOperator Digging out my floppies.

[Gunther Eagleman™ @GuntherEagleman]

We have the House

We have the Senate

We have the Presidency

We have the Supreme Court

How is it, that we cannot pass a bill to secure our elections?

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@GrampsToolshed Those you shared were around when I was young, but I also haunted used book stores back in those days and actually began with cheap ones like these before splurging on Silver Jubilee editions when they came out some years later. https://t.co/QPWlF7zJqE

[C3 @C_3C_3]

The Left is crying about Trump losing equipment saving an American…

Here is a video of the Taliban having a military parade with BILLIONS in US military equipment left behind from Biden’s horrific Afghanistan withdraw.

They didn’t care.

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@Smith_WessonInc M&P 2.0 “Raider PDW” or 10.5” Response with brace when? So many M&P magazines for my various 2.0s already…please don’t make me buy an Extar EP9 6.5, an RXM Flux, or a PSA AXR whenever they come out.

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@Smith_WessonInc Boondock Ballistician to learn something. The Bacon Nation to laugh and shoot ALL the 380.

[Stephen Miller @StephenM]

Birthright citizenship means the children of illegal aliens can vote to tax your children and seize their inheritance.

[Mary Talley Bowden MD @MaryBowdenMD]

It's interesting how DOs cannot call themselves MDs, but someone with a MBBS (foreign medical degree that is typically 3 years shorter than an American degree) can call themselves "MD."

We need to change that.

[Prison Mitch @Prisonmitch]

[Nashville Predators staff meeting: 8:00 AM Thursday, March 28th, 2026]

[Rep. Anna Paulina Luna @RepLuna]

The Senate is sidestepping the SAVE America Act. During the last reconciliation, the parliamentarian stripped out a significant amount. Now the Senate is looking to play the blame game with the parliamentarian.

Under reconciliation, you can’t legislate policy, meaning you CANNOT include the Save America Act.

I will be a NO on reconciliation.

Stop sidestepping America, @LeaderJohnThune.

They’re literally trying everything they can to get out of voting for Voter ID and it is disgusting.

[Chief_Engineer @ChiefEngineerCE]

They Passed Over American Doctors

The biggest misunderstanding in the U.S. healthcare debate is that America does not train enough doctors.

We do.

The real failure is what happens after medical school.

Each year, thousands of U.S. medical school graduates fail to match into a residency. In 2024, roughly 7 percent of U.S. MD seniors and a higher share of DO graduates went unmatched. These are not unqualified students. They completed medical school, passed required exams, and accumulated substantial debt, yet were denied the final step required to practice medicine.

At the same time, thousands of international medical graduates also matched into U.S. residency programs. This has led some to argue that foreign-trained doctors are simply “better.” That claim misses the point entirely.

Whether some foreign-trained physicians are excellent is not in dispute. Many are. But a rational healthcare system does not intentionally cap training slots in a way that locks out qualified domestic graduates, then declare a shortage and import replacements. Other major countries align medical school enrollment with residency or supervised training capacity so graduates can complete training and serve patients. They do not deliberately create artificial scarcity. Yet they have and it was the plan all along. The best way to convince the public that the foreign labor influx is normal is to convince Americans there is a shortage and replace our highest skilled and wage earners first. As if they are here to save the day... we have 340 million people in this country there isn't a single profession we cannot insource.

Instead of finishing the residency of doctors we have already trained, give those slots to foreign born instead while allowing foreigners to practice in almost two dozen states that do not require residency.

Residency pay is standardized within programs, and duty hours are capped nationally. The issue is not compensation. The issue is scarcity and leverage.
You cannot practice medicine in the United States without completing residency. When residency slots are capped, programs fill every position they are allowed to fund. If qualified Americans go unmatched, the system does not pause or correct itself. It simply moves on to the next eligible applicants.

The true choke point is not medical school. It is federally funded residency capacity.

Medicare funding for graduate medical education has been effectively capped since the late 1990s, while medical school enrollment has expanded significantly. Congress allowed the front end of the pipeline to grow without expanding the training capacity required to absorb it.

The result is a structural bottleneck.

Every unmatched American graduate represents years of education, public investment, and personal sacrifice that never translates into patient care. The country produces doctors it refuses to finish training.

The Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2025 would add 14,000 residency slots over seven years. That helps, but it does not come close to correcting decades of underinvestment.

Until residency slots are expanded at scale, the United States will continue graduating qualified doctors who never get to practice medicine. Hospitals will then cite physician shortages, not because doctors do not exist, but because the system failed to train enough of them.

There is NO shortage of talent.
It is a shortage of residency slots.
And that shortage is policy.

There are American institutions actively lobbying against the placement of Americans.

Citations-

• American Medical Association, NRMP Match Data and Analysis, 2024–2025
• Association of American Medical Colleges, Medical School Enrollment vs GME Capacity
• National Resident Matching Program, Match Results by Applicant Type
• Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates, IMG Match Statistics
• Norton Rose Fulbright, Congressional Inquiry into GME Funding and Accreditation

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@contradecline @LundukeJournal I like flat maps as it reminds me of my grognard days with Avalon Hill hexmaps and cardboard troop squares spread out on a table.

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@LundukeJournal Civ 1, and MOO2. I too still play regularly to this day. Many SSI war games as well.

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@LundukeJournal

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@realjonroscoe @HeinleinSociety @Jringo1508 I like them all, and of course this other masterpiece

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@SatsScholar @CptSparky360 Also enjoyed this one back in the day. Called a User Guide, but was thick and practical and also deep like the ref.