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亲爱的德国人，你们为什么不干脆就让东德成为东德，让西德成为西德呢？

honestly a lot of problems in the world can be attributed to the existence of the united states

Victory for Cuba at the UN. The overwhelming majority voted against the blockade. Washington was isolated once again. #CubaIsNotAThreat, the blockade is.

Les américains ils ont tellement peu de culture que leurs blagues ont 70 ans de retard. C'est fou comment il sont pas drôle du tout, ils y arrivent pas.

Les États-Unis si Napoléon n’avait pas vendu la Louisiane

Demain, l’Assemblée générale de l’ONU votera pour la levée du blocus américain de Cuba, un peuple ami du Québec et du Canada qui souffre par pure et gratuite haine de l’actuel gouvernement des États-Unis. Le Canada doit voter en faveur de la résolution. J’étais ce midi avec l’ambassadeur de Cuba devenu un ami, Rodrigo Malmierca Diaz, pour en discuter, assurer le peuple cubain de notre soutien, et voir comment le Canada peut et doit venir en aide à des innocents qui souffrent. Le gouvernement de Mark Carney n’a respecté ni ses engagements envers Cuba, ni le droit international en se laissant intimider par la Maison-Blanche de Donald Trump à qui il prétend tenir tête. Il y a plusieurs façon d’aider. Nous les proposerons. @ZumretErkin, notre candidate dans Laurier-Sainte-Marie et experte en droits de la personne, @Alduceppe qui est porte-parole en relations internationales, et @Gabriel_SMarie, grand ami de Cuba, étaient avec nous. 🇨🇺⚜️ @seblemire @sbergeron @trudel_denis @ChristineNorm

Les Américains quand il faut apporter la paix à un pays (voler leur pétrole et leur président)

Anthropic is saying that AI models could pose catastrophic or existential risks to humanity. At the same time, Anthropic is planning the largest IPO in history, which would accelerate the development of this technology while leaving Americans holding the bag if the AI bubble bursts. I wrote to CEO Dario Amodei asking for real answers about the risks before they try and go public.

It just occurred to me that the average right winger believes Africa doesn't have agriculture or livestock

Les Étasuniens n'ont AUCUN nom pour se désigner en anglais 😹

This is a product of dissociative weed culture: The first drugs that the Cornell 7 incident used was....weed DARE was unironically correct that weed is a gateway drug

You can't just invade and kidnap world leaders, because you say so.

The USSR fell because of America starting the Cold War, forcing them to over fund their military instead of nessessary social programs. Eastern Europe fell because of spying, subterfuge, and sabotage. Every other country was either couped or attacked by America

Today, we introduced legislation to update Canada’s medical assistance in dying laws. The bill allows adults diagnosed with an incurable illness to make an advance request for MAID before losing the ability to decide.

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

I’m so proud of these Detroit students standing up and demanding justice for Nolen Wells. I fully support the calls for a prompt and exhaustive federal investigation. Nolen’s life matters and his family deserves answers.

We eradicated measles in 2000. Decades of vaccine misinformation, spearheaded by people like HHS Secretary RFK JR, led us here. He must resign.

DEI is not about hiring someone unqualified (unlike politics), it’s about ensuring that qualified job candidates, regardless of sex, race, age, disability, sexuality, etc have an equal shot given these groups are historically underrepresented when they *aren’t* considered.

1. Making higher tax-free mileage rates for nurses, care workers, self-employed tradespeople and others who drive for work. 2. Extending parental pay to more than 150,000 more parents per year. 3. Ending the Carer’s Allowance cliff edge so unpaid carers no longer lose their entire allowance simply for earning a penny over the Weekly Earnings Limit. 4. Removing import tariffs on more than 100 products, helping lower import costs on family favourites. 5. Rolling out hundreds more Post Office drop boxes, making it easier to send and return parcels.