Stay away from echo chambering news sources. New Republic, HuffPost, Commondreams and the like. They’ll either go full outrage or tell you exactly what you’ve been waiting to hear.

Indy journalism can be solid, you just have to be careful.

I enjoy Heather Cox Richardson. She definitely leans left but everything is so steeped in the context of American History (she’s an American historian) it’s not doom and gloom so much as educational. Historical context adds depth and width to the present issues. Accessible. She’d be a good professor to attend classes with not a boring one.

Depends. People are messy. What you say is true. Sometimes education or a lack thereof is at fault. Sometimes doctors are too educated to explain the issue in a way that a person who doesn’t enjoy textbooks, but has common sense, can understand.

But nothing that involves people is 100%. There is a slice who don’t want to be uncomfortable and therefore will not engage with the recommended healthcare.

You mean I have to stay in a hospital where they interrupt my sleep every 4hrs to monitor my condition which is bad enough to require a hospital stay? No.

You mean I have to wait 3 months to see the specialist my PCP recommended for my problem to be eased or fixed? No, I’m going to the Emergency Room. They have doctors, therefore they can fix it. Not quite. Emergency Room declared me stable and offered me Tylenol, assholes, no one will help me. Crumples up discharge paperwork and throws it away. Spoiler: paperwork contains referral to needed specialist to fix problem, possibly even with a sooner appointment.

We are people. As such we really do exercise impatience and refusal to engage uncomfortable things on occasion. There’s no this is 100% not happening. There’s also no this is happening 70% of the time.

Doctors who don’t want to work as doctors often aren’t much better.

People need to understand that there is nothing universal about doctors. Many are great people who genuinely want to help people. Like anywhere else in life that involves people, there is a slice of doctors who are assholes. Within that slice, you find the the doctors who don’t like what they do and find something else lucrative like CEO or Senator. Marshall is one of those guys. These doctors and former doctors won’t hesitate to use their former title to try to look better though.

Yes, what he says, can be true. Patients will often and wantonly ignore advice to diet and exercise to lose weight. Diabetics will ignore the rules of being diabetic and end up in a coma in ICU. And hold my beer injuries absolutely do happen. But again, it’s a slice, not 70%. Many people do what their doctor advises. Many people will put in the work. Some of them, failing at diet, will get a gastric sleeve or gastric bypass, that works too. And many diabetics manage their disease, including type 2 diabetics who work hard to lose weight to send their toe 2 diabetes into remission. And so on.

Marshal sounds like a real jerk.

Never mind how baseline dry California is. It’s so dry, your lips start to chap just being there. Embers in hurricane winds landing on exquisitely dry grass, brush, trees.

People who live in deserts get it. A semi can have a chain dangle too low, hit the highway, and start a brush fire.

Pod Save America has some solid, direct info on it.

This was a years long failed promise that died completely a couple years ago.

Democracy dies. Forget the darkness part. They’re not even playing now.

Well stated. But it still doesn’t explain why blowing up a bunch of strangers as you suicide out is the pick of the day.

What is going on with men that there’s this reverse saved by the prince(ss) narrative happening so much now? Waiting to be saved by a Knight in Shining Armor (from a crappy or mediocre life) was an expectation we had to spend years on breaking in women. And now we’re seeing it in men.

“If I could just find someone…” everything in existence will then be ok. (Or it’ll be mostly the same and you’ll be unreasonably expecting too much of a partner who will then leave you because you failed to work on your personal crap.)

How little is there in your life that you have nothing else to do but to get outwardly violent? How few coping skills are being taught as we grow up that there’s no self rescuing here?

Granted, there’s destruction aimed inward (suicide) and then there’s destruction that wants to take some of life with you when you go. The latter could be seen as an extension of the former, sure. But it’s not an either or thing, many people keep on keeping on without ever going to either.

The real news.

A kid. Better odds people will take it seriously but I’m not hopeful.

Daily beast. New republic. Common dreams.

Echo chambering, which helps us not at all. If you could block all mention of Musk or Keanu from Old Reddit, blocking the echo chamber headlining should be doable here as well.

How do I block the tell-me-what-I-want-to-hear news domains from my feed?

Even if an ice asteroid crashed and vaporized some semblance of an atmosphere onto the planet the solar wind would strip it off because there’s no magnetic field.

It’s a dead rock. Better to look to Jupiter’s moons than Mars.

It’s a way to strip working class protections and rights in the name of efficiency.

Things like protection from your credit card company. Credit cards can function great if you don’t treat them like money. This would not be the case if President Musk makes his cuts.

They hint at McKinley and McKinley was horrible for working class.

I better statement would be Eye roll harder.

Yes, but it was mapped out pre election. Project 2025. I get it, no one wants to even skim a 996 page document, but it was all right there.

This is what Trump ran on. This is what President Musk promised on Xitter pre-election.

Why would you think otherwise?

This is one of the news sites that supplies echo chamber content. Like with the 2024 election.

Because any information at all is woke.

This is the idiocracy way.