Statue honoring Sacagawea's son, Charbonneau, is unveiled in Charbonneau, OR. Appropriate, of course, but too bad the Oregonian misspelled Sacagawea's name. But using a "j" instead of a "g", they perpetuate the wrong pronounciation. It should be <Sack-a-gah- weh-a>, with a hard-g. There is no j-sound in the Hidatsa language, where her name translates to "Bird-Woman", and not the Shoshoni word for "boat launcher".
No, the answer is NOT universal healthcare. Insulin is not "free" in Europe. It's just paid for in a different way – with super-high taxes. Duh. The price of insulin is just what the market will bear, because employers pay for costly insurance with this kind of pricing. That sets the price, and is what you pay when you don't have insurance. If people owned their own policies, insurance companies would have to price things differently, because the market would no longer bear higher prices.
Now Rite-Aid is facing potential bankruptcy and must unload some stores to get back into the black. Who thought this economy was doing well. Besides Paul Krugman?
PSA. Don't put plastic in the microwave even though it says "microwave safe". Unless you want to eat microplastics.
Oh now, the media recommends you wait on that COVID booster. Is it because they discovered that it doesn't work? And that the switch to IgG4 really does happen after getting the mRNA product, which confirms an earlier study?
I notice that they still trot out this 2021 paper which they claim justifies that vax immunity is superior to natural immunity. First of all, this was published only in the MMWR, which is a CDC organ, and I don't trust anything from the CDC now. They also quote a paper that contradicts them. Even Bozio herself, author of the MMWR paper, later admitted that natural immunity is sufficiently protective. But there are others, like this 2022 article. Bottom line, in 2023, when the available vax products don't even work against the variants out there, and have toxicity risks, I see no valid reason to get the jab.
Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates. Behind Every Self-Made Millionaire is a Father with Money. Sadly, this is true, much like the UK study I cited recently. Have a rich dad who can fund you and guide you.
Another reason I don't use iCloud Drive. Security is another.
Why is gas more expensive on the West Coast, especially Oregon? Meanwhile, the state is taking away parking spaces to reserve them for chargers for EVs that most people don't want (or can't afford).
Lahaina survivors have to wait two years to rebuild.