The ROBBER BARONS are STEALING ALL of OUR MONEY
CHECK OUT HOW MUCH THEY STOLE from YOU 
#uspol #uspolitics #theft #robbery #crime #criminal #crook #Steal #politics
https://www.americanprogress.org/article/doge-cuts-by-city-state-and-congressional-district/
Can AI bots steal your crypto? The rise of digital thieves - What are AI bots? ... - https://cointelegraph.com/explained/can-ai-bots-steal-your-crypto-the-rise-of-digital-thieves #crypto #steal #bots #ai
#steal : to take without right or leave, and with intent to keep wrongfully
- French: voler
- German: stehlen
- Italian: rubare
- Portuguese: roubar
- Spanish: roba
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@randahl u can bet that #trump after being almost in #jail almost #shot, he will go full scale #dictator #thug #mafia #dictator #monarch #king of #usa: and as a reckless and ruthless negotiator, bet 100% that #trump will say "look let's just divide the country, you rob the east, i rob the west or i will aim some nukes at #Moscow" because that's how the #mafia rolls #divide and #steal #threats #extortion
Countering Musk's DOGE Theft:
The importance of repetition
https://www.theframelab.org/elon-musk-doge-theft/
"framing Musk's actions as "stealing from you"...
...unite us as a country against intruders who unjustly take our shared treasure and threaten our prosperity...
the wealthiest man in the country is trying to #steal what belongs to every #American. He doesn't need anything, yet he's still pilfering from those who need it most."
New Android Malware Exploiting Wedding Invitations to Steal Victims WhatsApp Messages
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"Not everybody is comfortable with the #idea that #politics is a #guilty #addiction. But it is. They are #addicts, and they are guilty and they do #lie and #cheat and #steal — like all #junkies. And when they get in a frenzy, they will sacrifice anything and anybody to feed their #cruel and stupid #habit, and there is no cure for it."
~ Hunter S. Thompson
"Did you get the stuff I wanted?"
"Yep, I got everything."
"W.... what is this?"
"This is the steel wolf you wanted."
"I did not want a wolf, much less a steel one."
"See here?"
"Yeah... it says steel wolf. Oh, I know. The autocomplete fucked us over. I wanted steel wool."
"Lucky it did not say steal wolf."
[Both] "Hahahahahhahahaha!"
The old wizard was grumpy and in poor health. But the water had to be given, not taken. So he called out to the villagers.
“Give me water from the fountain of youth. If you don’t, I will #steal the smiles from your children’s faces, the patience from their parents, the wisdom from your elders, and the courage from your warriors.”
Horrified looks surrounded him. A young man filled a water skin from the fountain and gave it to the wizard.
“Drink and wait until morning.”
The wizard nodded curtly and drank deeply. In the morning he woke up, still old and ill. He stepped out to the village square, and was greeted by the same man.
“The water has to be given freely, not coerced. Try again next year.”
"You want to #borrow my ID badge again?" The detective scowled at the shadow-cloaked figure. "What do you plan to #steal this time?"
"No, no. That was a one-off." Light glinted off a scythe. "I'm here for, how do you mortals put it... Ah! My day job."
"Oh." The detective stepped aside.
Shortly after, the rookie arrived, out of breath. "Sir! Are you alright?"
"Me? Yes, of course." He continued examining the corpse. "Can't say the same for this chap, though."
5/5
THE MONTHLY CYCLE
Once a month, she tries to steal
The moon, climbs to the top of
The tallest tree in her forest, as
Naked as she was born, and
Makes a grab for it with her
Bare hands. She reasons that
It can’t stay that far away
Forever, that sooner or later
It will drift into her orbit and
Her reach, and she’ll be able to
Drag it out of the sky to always
Light her cave with. The stars
Can surely live without it.
everywhere they air
mottos of the current times
beg, borrow or steal
The #MastoPrompt for Saturday 11 January 2025 is:
The poem or story can include the prompt word or be about the prompt word.
@ me, if you like, or just include the #MastoPrompt tag (to allow people to follow or filter their feeds), or keep your work to yourself - all the options are good as long as you're writing.
If you're including an image please include alt-text if you're able to.
I wrote this several years ago... [Long Post]
#Insurance is about pooling resources and sharing risk. A simple thought experiment will help illustrate why “health insurance” is a misnomer.
Consider a group of one thousand homeowners who are worried about house fires. They band together and create an insurance pool for protection against such losses. If homes are worth $100,000 and there is one fire per year, annually they would have to chip in $100 each. Fortunately the risky event is rare, so the cost of insurance is low.
Compare this with #HealthInsurance (which is actually insurance against illness). We have the same thousand people, of which half (500) consume an average of $10,000 of healthcare services each year ($5M).
#Illness is NOT a rare event and the annual premium jumps to $5,000 per person! Many of the younger, healthier people ask why they should be paying for somebody else’s infirmity? They withdraw from the pool and premiums skyrocket. Eventually the pool collapses and those who actually need care loose their coverage. In some cases financial ruin ensues. The U.S. is the only major society in the world where Medical Bankruptcy is not only possible, but common!
The key difference is that almost everyone will utilize healthcare services at some point in their lives. The insurance model breaks down under these circumstances. We are no longer sharing #risk but rather #sharing #cost.
This is expected—a feature, not a bug. It stems from the #industrialization of #medicine in a #capitalist environment. #Capitalism seeks profit as its major goal, regardless of other outcomes. "Outcomes" that include life, death, and disability! Once the practice of medicine becomes a business, my Father [a radiologist] once opined, "We can #lie, #cheat, and #steal with the rest of them."
In #physics we're taught the law of #conservation of #energy
A refresher:
When they say there's no #shortcut to hard #work they mean it.
Cheating (Father) #Time will only upset your (Mother) #Nature
And she keeps track of every single #occurrence
