Stallcall, Chud Samurai

Industrial Controls Engineer. Former gold miner. Married to a woman. I did not receive a covid vaccine, come and kill me about it.

[Stallcall, Chud Samurai @RealStallcall]

Autism. How ‘bout that? Autism.

[Stallcall, Chud Samurai @RealStallcall]

@axaxaxasfml Yeah I think we’re in agreement on education studies as a discipline. I think we disagree when it comes to Arday’s identity being relevant to “getting away with it.” It’s plainly evident that Arday has received less scrutiny because of his identity.

[Stallcall, Chud Samurai @RealStallcall]

I will become aware of new institutional failures and shortcomings, but I will never ever ever ever ever update my priors or adjust my thinking.

[the world's best emoter @axaxaxasfml]

i am sorry aside from everything else it is crazy to me that jason arday's thesis has a random incorrect possessive apostrophe in the title, seemingly because the thesis he ripped off has a correct possessive apostrophe in the title. how the hell did he get away with this shit???

[Stallcall, Chud Samurai @RealStallcall]

I mean, dude.

[AF Post @AFpost]

Marc Rosenblum, the director of statistics for DHS, has been fired amid a lawsuit against DHS for withholding deportation numbers.

Critics suggest that Rosenblum, a liberal, easily could’ve been underreporting deportations or illegal populations, ruining data.

Follow: @AFpost

[RE-OPEN THE SIZZLERS @SaladBarFan]

I just poured a can of Coke Zero into a travel thermos so I can take it with me to the pet store

[Stallcall, Chud Samurai @RealStallcall]

As the Euro population shrinks and becomes poorer, you’re going to have a harder time getting away with shit like this, which is basically a form of tariff wherein foreign firms pay the fines for access to Euro markets.

[European Commission @EU_Commission]

⚠️ We have fined Google €890 million for breaching the Digital Markets Act, by promoting their own services and restricting customer access to alternatives on Google Search and Google Play.

https://t.co/zFChIQxKua

[Johan Jelqington @j3lqingt0n]

Medicaid is a lottery for poor people where if they "win" they get to receive medical care worth more than total sum economic productivity of their entire lives just to treat various medical conditions that they largely inflicted on themselves due to shitty lifestyles and diet.

[Stallcall, Chud Samurai @RealStallcall]

@SlumRNA_Dog Gonna have an RBG situation on our hands where she doesn’t resign under an admin that would nominate an on-side replacement. Granted, Trump I nominated her so there’s no telling who Trump II would nominate next, but still.

[Stallcall, Chud Samurai @RealStallcall]

I have never met a psychedelic drug user who seemed to have been made more worldly or thoughtful by their habit. They just seemed more obnoxious.

[Truth and Reconciliator @fleshsimulator]

in my experience, black people don't hate the word nigga, black people hate white people and pretend to hate the word when white people say it

[Stallcall, Chud Samurai @RealStallcall]

Chapter 4 in “How to Die a Male Virgin.”

[Madeline Pendleton @JeanGreige]

Since we’re on the subject, thought this might be helpful to share.

[Stallcall, Chud Samurai @RealStallcall]

@shortmagsmle Running the iPhone 8 with a chunky Windows 10 laptop at work.

[Stallcall, Chud Samurai @RealStallcall]

The modern world rapes us all with its lack of dignity and decorum.

[ian @SOULPRlCE]

normalize putting ur favorite ships in your thesis acknowledgment

[Stallcall, Chud Samurai @RealStallcall]

@PYeerk Race. Gender. Realistic panic attacks. These are the foundations upon which great film is made.

[Stallcall, Chud Samurai @RealStallcall]

@Alexdoodless @libertifer Bro, you’re 31 years old and this is how you think this shit works? Good lord.

[Stallcall, Chud Samurai @RealStallcall]

@emi268 INTRUDER

[Stallcall, Chud Samurai @RealStallcall]

@woke8yearold If the Abundos are citing Zohran as an example of abundance then that shit is dead on the launch pad.

[Stallcall, Chud Samurai @RealStallcall]

People are going to hate on this because it’s soy or whatever, but my only suggestion to people is that if you’re going to do tedious tabletops like this then you’re probably better off going digital and letting the computer manage the tedium. Right?

[Luke Hanson @LukeFHan]

This is how Mormons have fun with no alcohol. I highly recommend!

[Slumdog_Chillionaire @SlumRNA_Dog]

“Uncle Ben what happened??”

“Those god damn Jews in the Supreme Court betrayed America, Peter. It’s over.”

“But Uncle Ben, Roberts and Barrett aren’t Jewish, they’re Catholic, like us…”

“Oh fuck, Peter… oh fuckkkk….” *dies*

[Devon Eriksen @Devon_Eriksen_]

What happened to my bank account? Absolutely nothing.

You believed a lie.

You believed a lie that was told to you by your political class, and your news media, to keep you from asking uncomfortable questions about how much you are paying in tax, where that money is going, and what quality of care you actually receive for the portion of it they didn't steal.

Don't believe me? Look at the pictures.

Look.

At.

Them.

That's my wife, @acrobatichobbit. Before and after.

That's a five centimeter mass. Stage 4 metastatic melanoma. The worst kind of cancer, the most vicious form of assassin your own body can betray you with. That bright area? Blood.

Ten years ago, anywhere in the world, the scan on the left is a death sentence... an endless gauntlet of painful surgeries, followed by chemotherapy, hair loss, uncontrolled vomiting, wasting away to nothing, death.

In America, today, it's not.

We have things here. Genetic therapies. Tailored viruses that attack tumor cells. Drugs that highlight cancers for your immune system, drag them kicking and screaming into the spotlight to be killed.

I won't tell you about her exact course of treatment, because that's none of your goddamned business, but I will tell you that it cost American drug companies and medical researchers a fortune to discover.

A fortune that your nation cannot afford because you chose socialism instead of progress. And socialism, however fine-sounding in theory, simply does not work.

Were she and I British, living in Britain, relying on the National Health Service, I would be a widower now.

Did saving her cost a ruinous amount of money?

Yes. This technology was expensive to create, and the people who did so deserve to pay their mortgages and feed their kids. So do the oncologists and surgeons.

Many of the men who cared for her were old men, experienced men, long past retirement age, still working because when your profession is clawing souls back from the void, sitting on a beach with a pina colada instead just doesn't hit the same.

They deserve every cent.

Did saving her cost a ruinous amount of money?

Yes.

Did I pay it?

No.

Because believe it or not, when things are ruinously expensive, but vitally necessary, we here in America come up with ways to deal with that.

Ways that don't involve creating a big pot of money and entrusting it to corrupt slimeballs.

We have insurance. And sometimes insurance isn't cheap, but the bite it takes is a hell of a lot less of what we have than the tax man takes from you.

And insurance companies sometimes have to make hard decisions about which spending choices will save the most people. I know about this in detail, because that is my wife's profession. She creates the mathematical models that pay for all this stuff.

The insurance that saved her is the exact same plan that she provides to others.

And at the end of an awful year and a half of treatment, awful because cancer medicines make you far sicker than the cancer itself...

We were left whole.

Battered and wounded in spirit, but financially whole, at least.

The only loss we took was the blow to my career as a novelist, because it turns out you can't write stories while your wife is dying, and you don't automatically recover that ability afterwards. Not right away.

I wondered every day if she was going to live or die. I wondered every day what the hell I was going to with myself without her.

But I never wondered, not for a moment, how the hell we were going to pay for all this.

Your government doesn't solve the problem. It is the problem.

They lie to you.