Midwestern Conservative Retired Small Business Owner. Bible Believing Christian. I block all AI Bots and up to 80% of new followers are likely Bots.
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No matter what your religious status is, this man has a significant and practical warning for everybody on earth. I highly recommend that you invest 11 minutes with him. rumble.com/vpelhb-breaking-e…
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Stories like these make me want a Linux privacy phone.
BREAKING: Claude Code found 14,219 photos of my face on my Android that I never took. Phone was secretly taking them almost every time I picked it up. Even when I was just lying in bed. Even at home.
Not screenshots. Real frames from the front camera. On the train. In the car. At home. When I just grabbed it to check the time.
They were just sitting in a system cache. Timestamps and GPS on them. Nothing in Gallery. Nothing in Recently Deleted.
Plugged the phone into my laptop, made a full backup, told Claude Code to look for any front-camera files that weren’t in my photos. It pulled /data/system/users/0/faceunlock/cache and another folder inside Google Play Services. Over 14 thousand files. Normal ones and infrared from Face Unlock. Every single one had time and location.
Started scrolling. Almost everything from the last 15 months. Then I saw a file created 2 seconds ago. I was still looking at the folder. Phone kept taking photos while I was reading this.
Google and the phone makers say Face Unlock turns everything into a mathematical model and deletes the image right away. On this phone the raw frames were just sitting there. Some of the processes writing to that folder were from system diagnostics. Couple of old apps that still had camera permission could also get in.
Turned off diagnostics, revoked camera access from everything that doesn’t need it, cleared the cache. But how many of these frames already went somewhere else, I don’t know.
If you want to check yours, plug it in, make a full backup or use ADB, and ask Claude to look for front-camera files outside your Gallery. Path above is where mine were.
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Joe Turco retweeted
Ambassador Huckabee, this is unreleased video of an American who was beaten almost to death last week by Israeli settlers. You know his name because he came to you for help, but you blew him off. That’s disgraceful. Do your job.
@GovMikeHuckabee
@SecRubio
@davidamilstein
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Joe Turco retweeted
Elon Musk: "The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy… We've got civilizational su*cidal empathy going on."
"I believe in empathy… but you need to have empathy for civilization as a whole, and not commit to a civilizational su*cide."
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Joe Turco retweeted
FORBIDDEN STUDIOS PRESENTS: BRAVEGOY ⚔️
They may take our lives. But they'll NEVER take our Israel!
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I don't buy canned soup, but I used to.
These posts seem minor but the collective advice is actionable and useful.
I'm 64. I wish to care for my old body and keep it in the best condition possible.
Five days of canned soup consumption increased urinary BPA levels by more than 1,000% compared with freshly prepared soup in a randomized trial
The exposure comes from BPA-containing linings inside cans, which separate the food from the metal
Those linings are also used in some beverage cans, allowing BPA to migrate into drinks
In a separate trial, older adults drinking canned beverages had higher BPA levels and systolic blood pressure about 4.5 mmHg higher than after the same drink from glass bottles
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Armed guards at the door. Opioids offered on repeat. Apple Pay at my bedside. Welcome to the American Emergency Room.
The French think it bankrupts you. Americans think France does it for free. I’ve been to the ER in both. Both are wrong.
Mountain bike crash, dislocated and fractured shoulder. I’m French, I live in San Francisco, and I take slightly too many risks. Let’s compare.
Security
🇺🇸 Kaiser in Marin. Three armed guards and a metal detector. My phone set it off, so with my shoulder out of its socket I walked through again. And again. Then a pat-down.
🇫🇷 A couple of unarmed guys with walkie-talkies. Still not sure what they’re for.
Wait
🇺🇸 Three people in the waiting room. Seen in 15 to 30 minutes.
🇫🇷 Broken hand: packed room, 4 hours before anyone touched me.
Records
🇺🇸 Kaiser is vertically integrated. Insurer, hospital, doctors: one system. They had my file before I sat down.
🇫🇷 Every new doctor is a fresh context window. Zero history, maybe a printout from last time.
Infrastructure
🇺🇸 Small hospital, serious kit. Straight to the trauma bay: real bed, IV, vitals monitoring, ready for surgery if needed. All imaging on the spot.
🇫🇷 Broken hand: a plastic chair and a Doliprane.
Drugs
🇺🇸 Strong opioids were the default offer. I said no. They insisted. The doctor came in personally, confused why someone in that much pain would refuse. I stuck to Tylenol, an anti-inflammatory, to put the shoulder back in.
Yes, it hurt. No, I didn’t tap out. My mom is proud of me.
🇫🇷 Broken hand: Doliprane, opioids never mentioned. I have friends who got their shoulder popped back in with nothing at all.
US default: opioids. French default: Doliprane.
Bill
🇺🇸 Every nurse warned me: “You’re French, this bill is going to traumatize you.”
Before discharge, someone came to my bed to collect payment. Apple Pay, from the hospital bed. $300. For everything. On a ~$500/month Kaiser plan.
🇫🇷 A flat ~€20 ER fee, usually reimbursed by your mutuelle. The real bill shows up later, on your payslip (see below)
followup
🇺🇸 Kaiser called me right after to set up follow-up and physio, all in their system. So far, so good.
🇫🇷 Broken hand: discharged, figure it out yourself. A friend dislocated her finger. They put it back in wrong, sent her home with bad instructions, it locked up, and she needed surgery months later. Still not fixed.
“Free healthcare” in France
It’s not free when your marginal tax rate nears 70% with social charges. And if you want quality care fast, more and more people pay for private clinics anyway.
Verdict
One person, one data point. But the care was 10x better than anything I’ve had in France, for a price that’s completely fine.
France has a lot to learn.
And yes, I refused the narcotics to stay sharp enough to launch a NanoCorp from my hospital bed. Launch your first company run by an AI agent: nanocorp .so
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"Coffee and a Mike" is one of my go-to podcasts that keeps me informed of world events.
Mike Farris is an old-school, very polite interviewer. He invites his guests to speak their minds and only jumps in when it is helpful.
Here he interviews Tucker Carlson, another go-to show host.
So We're Running This War (CLIP)- Tucker Carlson
My conversation with @TuckerCarlson is now up on Patreon, Substack, and YouTube. Please consider becoming a paid subscriber to watch now.
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Joe Turco retweeted
Proud to have voted for Amy Acton in Ohio today because of her unwavering COVID leadership.
She helped shut down schools and businesses and signed a statewide stay-at-home order to keep us safe.
Amy still stands by her decisions despite all the evidence that she got it wrong. True bravery is sticking to your convictions, no matter what the facts say.
*** Remember to stay six feet apart at the polls! 😷 ***
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This is high quality parody!
We all went together to vote for Democrat Josh Turek for U.S. Senate in Iowa!
Josh opposes the recent federal cuts to SNAP and the tighter eligibility requirements.
I'm worried about losing my benefits because of this crackdown. I've been a loyal SNAP recipient for 15 years. Doesn't that count for something? 💙🗳️
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This lady has useful, action-able information. I take her seriously.
Healthier dietary patterns were generally linked to less epigenetic age acceleration, whereas pro-inflammatory and unhealthful plant-based diets were associated with a faster pace of aging.
Specifically, the DASH and Nordic diets were both associated with favorable results across three DNA-based measures of biological aging.
These diets bring together several things I emphasize in a healthy diet - polyphenol-rich plant foods such as berries and apples, plenty of fiber from whole grains and vegetables, and whole-food protein sources like legumes, dairy, and fish.
Polyphenols and compounds produced when gut microbes ferment fiber can influence inflammation and the epigenetic regulation of gene activity, which is a possible link between everyday food choices and healthier aging.
There’s more than one way to build a healthy dietary pattern. The common ground is familiar, practical, nutrient-dense foods.
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Joe Turco retweeted
Wow! What is the source of Russiophobia?
Why did the Bristish come to hate Russia?
Professor Jeffrey Sachs
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This idea of "banks create money" is very hard to understand at first, but it is true.
Your local bank literally creates new fiat currency out of thin air every time a person borrows money. Just one credit card purchase creates new currency.
We have a weird monetary system!
When non-banks issue bonds to fund themselves, there is no money creation involved. Capital markets only shift money from A to B. Only banks create money. See my other paper "How do banks create money and why can other firms not do the same?", open access.
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From Will Smith eating spaghetti to this
AI is fkn awesome
Writer: Ian
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Now the WHO confesses their crimes may lead to MS. Great.
“The World Health Organization” now states on its website:
“COVID-19 vaccination can cause multiple sclerosis due to cross-reactive CD4+ T cells that recognize the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 and myelin peptides.”
In other words, your own immune system destroys the nerve pathways and then attacks your brain and spinal cord.
This data was available during the lockdowns but was labeled as a “conspiracy theory” and censored by social media.
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