Claudia L

novice gardener

[Claudia L @NYerinChicago]

@12Noon27 Agree

[Claudia L @NYerinChicago]

@BritHugoboom 🎯

[Claudia L @NYerinChicago]

@lana_asanin Seems like El Niño related weather events could affect many people.

[Claudia L @NYerinChicago]

@AJKayWriter @Budget If anyone from @BudgetServicesWeb, this is a scam. I have reported than to the FTC.

[Claudia L @NYerinChicago]

@BudgetTeamWeb Dmed you

[Claudia L @NYerinChicago]

@AJKayWriter @Budget I rented from Budget by LaGuardia airport. The dash flashed a warning. Something about a coolant issue running low. The temperature reached 300 degrees plus due to this issue. I will not be a returning customer because it is not safe.

[Claudia L @NYerinChicago]

@Livermore_BTC @edgaralandough Is this why Korea has the lowest birth rates?

[Toby Rogers @uTobian]

Corporations have a fiduciary duty to shareholders to maximize profits.

Corporate executives who fail to maximize profits are removed by investors.

Pharma has liability protection for vaccines.

Vaccines that cause harm generate far more profits than vaccines that prevent disease.

Therefore Pharma has a fiduciary duty to manufacture ineffective and toxic vaccines.

This is exactly what is happening.

If we are going to survive, we have to break this cycle.

[Claudia L @NYerinChicago]

@DjokovicFan_ Hero

[Suneel Dhand MD @DrSuneelDhand]

Imagine certain vaccines being so effective, that everyone needs other people to take them for it to work on you

And imagine certain vaccines being so safe, that companies need legal immunity from liability

What a bloody charade. Don’t some doctors realize how stupid they look.

[Claudia L @NYerinChicago]

@uTobian The incentive structure needs to be fixed.

[The Realistic Nurse @TheRealisticRN]

Sources — don't trust me, check me:

- AAP tax filing (990): https://t.co/T3GClu5DPb
- Undark investigation: https://t.co/LZ9w4a1Plp
- Gates grant: https://t.co/HpYprLJR59
- JAMA Internal Medicine 2018: https://t.co/YZVLmvdoys

[The Realistic Nurse @TheRealisticRN]

Why it matters: in 1986, Congress shielded vaccine makers from most lawsuits.

Since then a federal program has paid ~$5.5 BILLION for vaccine injuries (HRSA).

The makers are protected. The group promoting the schedule takes their money.

[The Realistic Nurse @TheRealisticRN]

In 2011 the Gates Foundation paid the AAP $1,419,200 — in the Foundation's own words — "to organize and facilitate immunization education and advocacy
efforts among pediatricians."

Paid to advocate.

[The Realistic Nurse @TheRealisticRN]

The AAP doesn't just take the money — it lobbies.

It keeps a full-time, four-person federal lobbying team and reported ~$789,000 in lobbying in a single quarter of 2026.

Ask why a "neutral" group of children's doctors needs its own lobby shop.

[Claudia L @NYerinChicago]

@DrSuneelDhand Sadly, it is a cult. They all drank the Kool-Aid. When I hear the things the doctors say to my family members, I cannot believe these people are permitted to be where they are.

[foley (follard) @follard]

I went to Dartmouth. It costs roughly $60,000 a year all in. I now build homes for a living. They cost roughly $350,000 to build.

Both of these numbers are completely insane. And they are insane for the exact same reason.

The moment the government guarantees a loan, the seller stops caring what the buyer can actually afford. College tuition exploded after the federal government started backing student loans with no underwriting and no discharge in bankruptcy. Home prices exploded after Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac started buying mortgages and removing risk from lenders.

When a bank knows it will get paid no matter what, it will lend to anyone. When the bank will lend to anyone, the seller raises the price. When the seller raises the price, the buyer just borrows more. Nobody feels the pain until the bill comes due 10 or 30 years later.

Colleges added $200 million rec centers and hired thousands of administrators because students were writing checks with money that didn't feel real. Home sellers listed at $500k because they knew the bank would approve it regardless of whether the buyer could sustain the payment.

I benefited from both systems. My Dartmouth degree opened doors. The homes I build get financed by these same banks. I am not pretending to be above it.

But I look at both industries from the inside and tell you they run on the same engine. A guaranteed loan that disconnects the buyer from the real cost of what they are purchasing. The university and the mortgage lender have the same business model. They are financing tools that happen to have a campus or a front door.

If the government removed the guarantee from the student loans tomorrow, tuition would drop 40% within five years. If Fannie and Freddie disappeared, home prices would correct in the same direction. The prices are essentially fake. They are a reflection of how much debt a bank is willing to issue, not how much the product is intrinsically worth.

I say this as someone who went to an expensive school and builds homes. Both systems are broken in the exact same way and nobody talks about it because too many people profit from the status quo.

[HealthRanger @HealthRanger]

Statistical fact: The person in your life who is most likely to kill you is your doctor.

[Scott Chen @alreadydawn]

Spent the past 6 weeks in America. Saw signs and trends that made me even more bearish on the country:

1. The prices have gone nuts ❌

I felt like a cattle taken to the slaughterhouse, squeezed for $$$ everywhere I went.

- A motel in Port Angeles (a city by Olympic National Park) during *weekdays* and NOT during July 4th week cost $250 per night. I can book the freaking Ritz-Carlton in China for essentially the same price.

- Every meal when eating out easily shot above $20, more like $30 including tips (way worse in NYC). These were prices at boring, mid places, btw. And I don’t order drinks, appetizers, or desserts.

- Uber from Seatac airport to Seattle cost $90, used to be ~40 pre-covid (for comparison, the same ride in Shenzhen would cost $5-10).

- Generally, sub 10 minute Uber rides cost $15-20.

- 13 minute Citibike in ride in NYC cost $11; 10 minute Lime Scooter ride in SF cost $7.5. Ubike in Taipei costs nothing for rides under 30 minutes.

- Southwest Airline’s free check-in baggage policy was terminated this spring.

- Every software tries to hit you with a sweet sweet subscription payment plan (rentseeking behavior goes brrrr)

(Continued. Also, @tolstoybb ’s post is evergreen as usual.)

[Rob Schneider 🇺🇸 @RobSchneider]

This archaic ineffective invasive medical procedure has been deified for 200 years but it may be the greatest medical malpractice ever perpetrated.