But I do agree we still pay too much for health care and the outcomes we receive are sub optimal. Obamacare was insurance reform, but I would like to see the U.S. pursue a universal single-payer system like pretty much every other high-income country in the world. Oh no, wait, "socialism!!!"

Oh God no...please never let the US govt be in charge of my health care.

It's not even the socialism thing.....it's just the massive clusterfuck that government is running things.

Some are a necessary evil....military....etc.

But no....I've been to Social Security offices....ugh.

I've been to other federal offices and it almost agony getting anything done.....and often it takes way more than one trip.

I imagine it would be akin to the DMV with govt medical care.....and I just do now trust MY health to the bloated mechanisms of the govt bureaucracy .....

That's not even getting into the politics that would inevitably get involved.

And the US....we could not afford it for everyone, hell we can't afford the US health care we DO have....Medicare and Medicaid....too bloated, too $$$ and just horrible to have to deal with....

Sure we need to fix the private industry....lots to be done there, but the govt is NOT the answer I want.

Hell.....who'd want to have govt run medical centers right now with a govt shutdown going on....?

No thanks.

we have seen more de-regulation, more tax cuts, more gutting of labor

Ah....isn't it GREAT???

Thank God we've gotten them in office periodically to roll back the government some....

We need more of this IMHO.....

I would say Obamacare is very pro national interest, in that it promotes the health and welfare of the nation and slowed the explosion of health care costs.

Except, it didn't.....it raised medical prices across the board, and they are still rising due to Obamacare.

Why do you think the Dems keep having to try to pile more and more money into it....the program is not sustainable, never was.

Unless we get these cretins under control, they will be the end of us.

Yeah...companies "prioritizing customer convenience and trying to sell cars"....

I mean, WTF were they thinking??!?!

Wut?

I mean, I haven't been "on line" as much as some folks but I did start BBSing in 1981.

I doubt I've seen any reference to Philidelphia until this /. post.

Weird

This just made me think of Terry Pratchet's Diskworld magic (I've only read the Guards and Witches books).

What a–

Oops, Rocky Horror flashback.

JFC....I keep wondering where people leave where food and specifically meat is so $$$$

I live in the New Orleans area....PRIME grade Ribeyes and NYStrips can be had for $10.99 - $13.99/lb.

I llike to buy whole ribeye or strip roasts (usually at Costco) and cut into steaks myself, then vac seal and freeze them.

I know prices are going up...but geez....to me that was $1.99/lb for whole briskets going to over $5/lb (prime) these days.....makes my favorite BBQ meat more expensive.

Pork shoulders (Boston butt) was quite often $0.99/lb just a few months back, but of late the lowest price I find on those is $1.27/lb or so...

A whole top sirloin sub primal is like $8.88/lb this week at our regular grocery store....I'm going to get one of those and cut into pichanas.....sirloin steaks AND...cube up a bunch to marinate for shish-k-bobs.....

If food was really that fucking $$ in SD...I think I'd be moving out of that place pronto.....

Hey great....MORE MEAT FOR ME!!

I just love to eat me some 'dead animals"....

I'm not at all ashamed to be on top of the food chain.

natural/animal based casings are more expensive, "most" sausages you get in supermarkets etc are artificial casings.

Err...where do you live where this is true?

I can't remember the last time I was in a grocery store and saw a sausage that was NOT natural casings....

Hell, I go back to the butcher in the back and buy my natural casings from them for my home made sausages......they use natural and hence I buy from them so I can have a ready supply as needed.

And not this isn't a "butcher shop"....regular grocery stores in the area.

Well, there is SOMETHING going on today with younger boys/men....

I think it has to be in the foods....I'm seeing so many young men today, who are just looking feminine...

So many young men now, seem to have high voices....less and less am I hearing men speak like myself and my peers do...naturally in a lower register....

They look more femininie in the face structure too it seems...

So, whether or not it is phytoestrogens.....SOMETHING is affecting young men these days.

I personally don't eat red meats very much anymore due to the unhealthy factor. But the funny thing is that the vegetarian/vegan versions are probably just as processed (or even more processed) and just as unhealthy as the meat versions, and I wouldn't eat those either...

Processed?

I mean steak....it's meat cut off the animal...pretty simple, not processed much at all really.

Hell, even the sausages I make....I save all the trim off my briskets and pork shoulders I buy for my smoker and make sausage....I grind up meat and fat, and mix in some seasonings...I DO add a bit of powdered milk many times and some pink salt (nitrates) at times if I am needing to ensure I have some preservatives if needed (depends on how I'm cooking or smoking it).

So I guess that is somewhat processed, but aside from just chopping, grinding and mixing with seasonings, and stuffing in a casing, I don't consider that to be very processed at all as a sausage.

The thing being is..."I" can do this at home.

Now...to get a vegetarian version of some of these things....like vegetairn "meat"....you pretty much need a lab and chemicals and processes I cannot realistically get for home use....

I tend to eat keto leaning carnivore.....I cook mostly from scratch...and I do love veggies too, BUT...I eat my veggies in a state that starts with the real thing and doesn't take a lot of processing other than chopping or maybe pureeing in a blender....

But that's far from the prepared "veggie" foods you buy on shelves, especially the ones that try to be. Veggie "meat" or "Milk" or "cheeses".....

I don't find read meat (or chicken or pork or seafoods) to be unhealthy...in fact when I concentrate on eating largely carnivor or keto...my health seems to improve substantially.

Eating that way, I feel better, sleep better and my bloodwork numbers look good.....

I think it's the heavy commercial processed foods that need a lab are the things that are killing folks.....not a simple sausage.

A simple common sausage is just using up the scraps of meat from steaks and roasts....so as not to waste food.

Governments around the world would not wish for lawfully private data to fall into some AI database somewhere that is contracted to the same gov't, purely for writing assitance.

because GDP numbers being almost entirely dependent on growth in data centers demonstrates that the economy outside of that one sector isn't in very good shape, which is important to know

Hey, the US is doing it's part to help India on this grid problem.

Hoping the $100K per H1B policy kicking in, helps return jobs to the US and relieve that job strain on people and resources (like the grid) over there.