• Re: What Thinkest Thou Of LO Donate Banner?

    From Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?=@ldo@nz.invalid to comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc on Fri Dec 19 01:22:32 2025
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    On Thu, 4 Dec 2025 18:05:17 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

    I'm no Marxist chum

    Do you benefit from a Socialist-style state-funded health service?

    That would be considered “Marxist” in certain quarters ...
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  • From CrudeSausage@crude@sausa.ge to comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc on Thu Dec 18 20:45:10 2025
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    On 2025-12-18 8:22 p.m., Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
    On Thu, 4 Dec 2025 18:05:17 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

    I'm no Marxist chum

    Do you benefit from a Socialist-style state-funded health service?

    That would be considered “Marxist” in certain quarters ...

    We have a Socialist-style state-funded health service here in Canada and
    it is so successful that the government happily offers medical
    assistance in dying because most people would rather die.

    Glenn Beck just paid to have a Canadian woman fly to the US to get
    surgery for her rare thyroid issue. The Canadian system failed her so miserably that she had chosen to die. <https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/saskatchewan-jolene-van-alstine-maid>

    That's the only thing socialism does: fail miserably wherever and
    however it is applied.
    --
    CrudeSausage
    John 14:6
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  • From The Natural Philosopher@tnp@invalid.invalid to comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc on Fri Dec 19 10:54:08 2025
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    On 19/12/2025 01:45, CrudeSausage wrote:
    On 2025-12-18 8:22 p.m., Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
    On Thu, 4 Dec 2025 18:05:17 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

    I'm no Marxist chum

    Do you benefit from a Socialist-style state-funded health service?

    That would be considered “Marxist” in certain quarters ...

    We have a Socialist-style state-funded health service here in Canada and
    it is so successful that the government happily offers medical
    assistance in dying because most people would rather die.

    Glenn Beck just paid to have a Canadian woman fly to the US to get
    surgery for her rare thyroid issue. The Canadian system failed her so miserably that she had chosen to die. <https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/saskatchewan-jolene-van-alstine-maid>

    That's the only thing socialism does: fail miserably wherever and
    however it is applied.

    Well no it doesn't.

    If a funded-through-general-tax health service is defined as socialism.

    Sure you can always pay for special treatment and a new unique way to
    die of medical intervention, but you only need to look at the data of
    say the USA versus European health care to see which is better value for
    money and more likely to prolong life.
    --
    It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled. Mark Twain



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  • From CrudeSausage@crude@sausa.ge to comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc on Fri Dec 19 09:11:56 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.misc

    On 2025-12-19 5:54 a.m., The Natural Philosopher wrote:
    On 19/12/2025 01:45, CrudeSausage wrote:
    On 2025-12-18 8:22 p.m., Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
    On Thu, 4 Dec 2025 18:05:17 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

    I'm no Marxist chum

    Do you benefit from a Socialist-style state-funded health service?

    That would be considered “Marxist” in certain quarters ...

    We have a Socialist-style state-funded health service here in Canada
    and it is so successful that the government happily offers medical
    assistance in dying because most people would rather die.

    Glenn Beck just paid to have a Canadian woman fly to the US to get
    surgery for her rare thyroid issue. The Canadian system failed her so
    miserably that she had chosen to die. <https://nationalpost.com/news/
    canada/saskatchewan-jolene-van-alstine-maid>

    That's the only thing socialism does: fail miserably wherever and
    however it is applied.

    Well no it doesn't.

    If a funded-through-general-tax health service is defined as socialism.

    Sure you can always pay for special treatment and a new unique way to
    die of medical intervention, but you only need to look at the data of
    say the USA versus European health care to see which is better value for money and more likely to prolong life.

    If I can spare some money, I know that I can be saved in the United
    States. In Canada, even if I have the money, they would rather just let
    me die. We don't have a two-tier system here at all. It's public or
    nothing, and public is awful. Besides, socialism is not only why people
    are dying before even getting to a hospital, it's responsible for
    allowing illegal migrants to enter without any sort of prohibition. It
    is why women are getting raped without a hope for rescue. It's why those
    same victims of rape get 17 years in prison for defending themselves
    from their rapists with a knife.

    Socialism is an ideology created by Satan to enrich his followers at the expense of everyone else. Anyone who supports it is a complete and utter moron.
    --
    CrudeSausage
    John 14:6
    Windows is fine.
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  • From The Natural Philosopher@tnp@invalid.invalid to comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc on Fri Dec 19 15:02:28 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.misc

    On 19/12/2025 14:11, CrudeSausage wrote:
    Socialism is an ideology created by Satan to enrich his followers at the expense of everyone else. Anyone who supports it is a complete and utter moron.
    Ah, Another 'Honk for Jesus' fruitcake...
    --
    Canada is all right really, though not for the whole weekend.

    "Saki"

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  • From CrudeSausage@crude@sausa.ge to comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc on Fri Dec 19 10:38:03 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.misc

    On 2025-12-19 10:02 a.m., The Natural Philosopher wrote:
    On 19/12/2025 14:11, CrudeSausage wrote:
    Socialism is an ideology created by Satan to enrich his followers at
    the expense of everyone else. Anyone who supports it is a complete and
    utter moron.
    Ah, Another 'Honk for Jesus' fruitcake...

    Remember you said this when you get to your destination.
    --
    CrudeSausage
    John 14:6
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  • From Joel W. Crump@joelcrump@gmail.com to comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc on Fri Dec 19 11:03:02 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.misc

    On 12/19/25 10:38 AM, CrudeSausage wrote:
    On 2025-12-19 10:02 a.m., The Natural Philosopher wrote:
    On 19/12/2025 14:11, CrudeSausage wrote:

    Socialism is an ideology created by Satan to enrich his followers at
    the expense of everyone else. Anyone who supports it is a complete
    and utter moron.

    Ah, Another 'Honk for Jesus' fruitcake...

    Remember you said this when you get to your destination.


    You are the one following Satan, white-nationalist phobe. You have
    confused that with "Christianity", as is common. "Christian" can be
    outright demonic.
    --
    Joel W. Crump
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  • From John Ames@commodorejohn@gmail.com to comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc on Fri Dec 19 08:09:07 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.misc

    On Fri, 19 Dec 2025 15:02:28 +0000
    The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:

    Socialism is an ideology created by Satan to enrich his followers
    at the expense of everyone else. Anyone who supports it is a
    complete and utter moron.

    Ah, Another 'Honk for Jesus' fruitcake...

    It's also, uh, theologically questionable :/

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  • From The Natural Philosopher@tnp@invalid.invalid to comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc on Fri Dec 19 18:14:19 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.misc

    On 19/12/2025 15:38, CrudeSausage wrote:
    On 2025-12-19 10:02 a.m., The Natural Philosopher wrote:
    On 19/12/2025 14:11, CrudeSausage wrote:
    Socialism is an ideology created by Satan to enrich his followers at
    the expense of everyone else. Anyone who supports it is a complete
    and utter moron.
    Ah, Another 'Honk for Jesus' fruitcake...

    Remember you said this when you get to your destination.

    I am already there.
    --
    "Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and
    higher education positively fortifies it."

    - Stephen Vizinczey


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  • From Carlos E.R.@robin_listas@es.invalid to comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc on Fri Dec 19 21:56:41 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.misc

    On 2025-12-19 02:45, CrudeSausage wrote:
    On 2025-12-18 8:22 p.m., Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
    On Thu, 4 Dec 2025 18:05:17 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

    I'm no Marxist chum

    Do you benefit from a Socialist-style state-funded health service?

    That would be considered “Marxist” in certain quarters ...

    We have a Socialist-style state-funded health service here in Canada and
    it is so successful that the government happily offers medical
    assistance in dying because most people would rather die.

    Glenn Beck just paid to have a Canadian woman fly to the US to get
    surgery for her rare thyroid issue. The Canadian system failed her so miserably that she had chosen to die. <https://nationalpost.com/news/ canada/saskatchewan-jolene-van-alstine-maid>

    That's the only thing socialism does: fail miserably wherever and
    however it is applied.

    Like having Ozempic for free?
    --
    Cheers, Carlos.
    ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺;
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  • From rbowman@bowman@montana.com to comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc on Sat Dec 20 05:56:23 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.misc

    On Fri, 19 Dec 2025 21:56:41 +0100, Carlos E.R. wrote:

    Like having Ozempic for free?

    TANSTAAFL

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  • From The Natural Philosopher@tnp@invalid.invalid to comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc on Sat Dec 20 10:52:18 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.misc

    On 20/12/2025 05:56, rbowman wrote:
    On Fri, 19 Dec 2025 21:56:41 +0100, Carlos E.R. wrote:

    Like having Ozempic for free?

    TANSTAAFL


    Yes. Obesity exists because of the way food is produced and marketed.
    And lifestyles in a post industrial age are sedentary

    Throwing Ozemopic on top of that is a bit of an unkown.
    --
    "Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They
    always run out of other people's money. It's quite a characteristic of them"

    Margaret Thatcher

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  • From Carlos E.R.@robin_listas@es.invalid to comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc on Sat Dec 20 15:01:20 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.misc

    On 2025-12-20 06:56, rbowman wrote:
    On Fri, 19 Dec 2025 21:56:41 +0100, Carlos E.R. wrote:

    Like having Ozempic for free?

    TANSTAAFL


    But of course, there are taxes, which are put to good purposes. Some
    people can afford to pay, some can't, yet they have access to expensive medicines and treatments that they can not pay.
    --
    Cheers, Carlos.
    ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺;
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  • From Carlos E.R.@robin_listas@es.invalid to comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc on Sat Dec 20 15:03:39 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.misc

    On 2025-12-20 11:52, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
    On 20/12/2025 05:56, rbowman wrote:
    On Fri, 19 Dec 2025 21:56:41 +0100, Carlos E.R. wrote:

    Like having Ozempic for free?

    TANSTAAFL


    Yes. Obesity exists because of the way food is produced and marketed.
    And lifestyles in a post industrial age are sedentary

    Throwing Ozemopic on top of that is a bit of an unkown.



    Ozempic is prescribed for diabetes. But it was just an example of an
    expensive treatment, there are others.

    And obesity exist for many reasons.
    --
    Cheers, Carlos.
    ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺;
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  • From The Natural Philosopher@tnp@invalid.invalid to comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc on Sat Dec 20 14:47:21 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.misc

    On 20/12/2025 14:01, Carlos E.R. wrote:
    On 2025-12-20 06:56, rbowman wrote:
    On Fri, 19 Dec 2025 21:56:41 +0100, Carlos E.R. wrote:

    Like having Ozempic for free?

    TANSTAAFL


    But of course, there are taxes, which are put to good purposes. Some
    people can afford to pay, some can't, yet they have access to expensive medicines and treatments that they can not pay.

    Ultimately national health services are a not for profit insurance
    company and health delivery service funded out of general taxation.
    Since it is universal and not for profit, far less very highly paid
    people work in it and it doesn't need admin for billing and loss adjusters.

    That alone makes it way better than privately insured and delivered.
    health services.
    Then having a single buying entity for drugs gives it massive bargaining
    power to reduce prices.

    It does nearly all of what you need for less than half of what you pay
    in the USA.

    Sure if you want more, you can pay for it.
    --
    Of what good are dead warriors? … Warriors are those who desire battle
    more than peace. Those who seek battle despite peace. Those who thump
    their spears on the ground and talk of honor. Those who leap high the
    battle dance and dream of glory … The good of dead warriors, Mother, is
    that they are dead.
    Sheri S Tepper: The Awakeners.

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  • From The Natural Philosopher@tnp@invalid.invalid to comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc on Sat Dec 20 14:50:19 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.misc

    On 20/12/2025 14:03, Carlos E.R. wrote:
    On 2025-12-20 11:52, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
    On 20/12/2025 05:56, rbowman wrote:
    On Fri, 19 Dec 2025 21:56:41 +0100, Carlos E.R. wrote:

    Like having Ozempic for free?

    TANSTAAFL


    Yes. Obesity exists because of the way food is produced and marketed.
    And lifestyles in a post industrial age are sedentary

    Throwing Ozemopic on top of that is a bit of an unkown.



    Ozempic is prescribed for diabetes. But it was just an example of an expensive treatment, there are others.

    And obesity exist for many reasons.


    Not really. You don't find obesity at all in certain cultures.
    Ultimately it represents a huge excess of calories in over calories out.
    And that is consistent with a very high starch intake, as is type II
    diabetes
    --
    For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the
    very definition of slavery.

    Jonathan Swift


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  • From Lars Poulsen@lars@beagle-ears.com to comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc,alt.unix.geeks on Sat Dec 20 15:04:48 2025
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    ["Followup-To:" header set to alt.unix.geeks]

    On Fri, 19 Dec 2025 21:56:41 +0100, Carlos E.R. wrote:
    Like having Ozempic for free?

    On 20/12/2025 05:56, rbowman wrote:
    TANSTAAFL

    On 2025-12-20 11:52, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
    Yes. Obesity exists because of the way food is produced and marketed.
    And lifestyles in a post industrial age are sedentary

    Throwing Ozemopic on top of that is a bit of an unkown.

    On 2025-12-20, Carlos E.R. <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:
    Ozempic is prescribed for diabetes. But it was just an example of an expensive treatment, there are others.

    And obesity exist for many reasons.

    When I was young, I was a scrawny kid. As a young geek, sleeping
    irregular hours, working 11 to 20:30 and eating at random times, I was
    still scrawny. After I got married, I started to slowly gain weight;
    but I was still pretty active, so it was slow. After my divorce,
    I was depressed, and much less active, and eventually reached 270
    pounds. With a medically supervised calorie reduction program, I made it
    back to 195 pounds, but it was not a sustainable diet, and after I
    remarried, it crept back up to 230 lbs. With what I considered strict discipline, I made it down to 205, but was stuck oscilating between 205
    and 215.

    Zepbound has been a revelation for me. I pay USD 500/month direct from
    EliLilly with monthly monitoring appointments with my doctor.

    The price illustrates our ridiculous US healthcare system.
    1) If I was a lot more obese (290 lbs?) or my type 2 diabetes was less
    well managed, I would pay USD 30/month as my copay, and Medicare
    would pay the rest.
    2) If I went to one of the shadier compound pharmacies with internet
    sales (that import the compounds directly from China), with imaginary
    medical supervision from their "virtual doctor".
    3) If I took the risk of importing the compounds from China myself,
    I learned from an NYT article that I could get a 10 month supply for
    USD 150.
    So the difference between $15/month and $500/month is the quality
    control performed by the pharma company and the heavy TV advertising.

    With Zepbound I am experienccing for the first time in my life that
    I can go to lunch with a group of men and feel full when half the meal
    is still on the plate, and have them box up the rest for me.

    So this is what it's like for those people who are effortlessly slim
    without contorting themselves to be hungry all the time!

    No wonder they think I am just undisciplined.
    --
    Lars Poulsen - an old geek in Santa Barbara, California
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  • From Charlie Gibbs@cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid to comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc on Sat Dec 20 20:45:44 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.misc

    On 2025-12-20, The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:

    On 20/12/2025 05:56, rbowman wrote:

    On Fri, 19 Dec 2025 21:56:41 +0100, Carlos E.R. wrote:

    Like having Ozempic for free?

    TANSTAAFL

    Yes. Obesity exists because of the way food is produced and marketed.
    And lifestyles in a post industrial age are sedentary

    Throwing Ozemopic on top of that is a bit of an unkown.

    "One pill makes you larger and one pill makes you small..."

    It's a good growth industry for Big Pharma, anyway.
    --
    /~\ Charlie Gibbs | Growth for the sake of
    \ / <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> | growth is the ideology
    X I'm really at ac.dekanfrus | of the cancer cell.
    / \ if you read it the right way. | -- Edward Abbey
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  • From Sump@sumpusent@outlook.com to comp.os.linux.misc on Sat Dec 20 22:02:22 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.misc

    On Sat, 20 Dec 2025 20:45:44 GMT, Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote:

    On 2025-12-20, The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:

    On 20/12/2025 05:56, rbowman wrote:

    On Fri, 19 Dec 2025 21:56:41 +0100, Carlos E.R. wrote:

    Like having Ozempic for free?

    TANSTAAFL

    Yes. Obesity exists because of the way food is produced and marketed.
    And lifestyles in a post industrial age are sedentary

    Throwing Ozemopic on top of that is a bit of an unkown.

    "One pill makes you larger and one pill makes you small..."

    It's a good growth industry for Big Pharma, anyway.

    So, the two pills manage to move a large thing to a smaller thing...which makes it a large thing... For how long?
    --
    Sump
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  • From chrisv@chrisv@nospam.invalid to comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc,alt.unix.geeks on Sat Dec 20 17:21:04 2025
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    Lars Poulsen wrote:

    When I was young, I was a scrawny kid. As a young geek, sleeping
    irregular hours, working 11 to 20:30 and eating at random times, I was
    still scrawny. After I got married, I started to slowly gain weight;
    but I was still pretty active, so it was slow. After my divorce,
    I was depressed, and much less active, and eventually reached 270
    pounds. With a medically supervised calorie reduction program, I made it
    back to 195 pounds, but it was not a sustainable diet, and after I
    remarried, it crept back up to 230 lbs. With what I considered strict >discipline, I made it down to 205, but was stuck oscilating between 205
    and 215.

    It's best to not put on the weight in the first place. Your body
    raises its "set point" of where it wants to be, and anything below
    that feels like you're starving.

    Zepbound has been a revelation for me. I pay USD 500/month direct from >EliLilly with monthly monitoring appointments with my doctor.

    Hidiosly expensive drugs, that we all now have to pay for. And they
    must be taken for life! As if medical insurance wasn't costly enough
    already!

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  • From CrudeSausage@crude@sausa.ge to comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc on Sat Dec 20 08:33:32 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.misc

    On 2025-12-19 3:56 p.m., Carlos E.R. wrote:
    On 2025-12-19 02:45, CrudeSausage wrote:
    On 2025-12-18 8:22 p.m., Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
    On Thu, 4 Dec 2025 18:05:17 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

    I'm no Marxist chum

    Do you benefit from a Socialist-style state-funded health service?

    That would be considered “Marxist” in certain quarters ...

    We have a Socialist-style state-funded health service here in Canada
    and it is so successful that the government happily offers medical
    assistance in dying because most people would rather die.

    Glenn Beck just paid to have a Canadian woman fly to the US to get
    surgery for her rare thyroid issue. The Canadian system failed her so
    miserably that she had chosen to die. <https://nationalpost.com/news/
    canada/saskatchewan-jolene-van-alstine-maid>

    That's the only thing socialism does: fail miserably wherever and
    however it is applied.

    Like having Ozempic for free?

    To allow obese people to take shortcuts to proper fitness? Or to counter
    the effects of having had a terrible nutrition your entire life? If
    that's how you want your tax money spent, that's fine.

    I am aware that diabetes is also genetic, but those people aren't the
    ones the people behind Ozempic are selling to anymore.
    --
    CrudeSausage
    John 14:6
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  • From The Natural Philosopher@tnp@invalid.invalid to comp.os.linux.misc on Sun Dec 21 01:56:40 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.misc

    On 20/12/2025 22:02, Sump wrote:
    On Sat, 20 Dec 2025 20:45:44 GMT, Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote:

    On 2025-12-20, The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:

    On 20/12/2025 05:56, rbowman wrote:

    On Fri, 19 Dec 2025 21:56:41 +0100, Carlos E.R. wrote:

    Like having Ozempic for free?

    TANSTAAFL

    Yes. Obesity exists because of the way food is produced and marketed.
    And lifestyles in a post industrial age are sedentary

    Throwing Ozemopic on top of that is a bit of an unkown.

    "One pill makes you larger and one pill makes you small..."

    It's a good growth industry for Big Pharma, anyway.

    So, the two pills manage to move a large thing to a smaller thing...which makes it a large thing... For how long?

    In the case of the original story about 6 hours.
    --
    “Progress is precisely that which rules and regulations did not foresee,”

    – Ludwig von Mises

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  • From Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?=@ldo@nz.invalid to comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc on Sun Dec 21 02:09:17 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.misc

    On Sat, 20 Dec 2025 20:45:44 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

    It's a good growth industry for Big Pharma, anyway.

    As I see it, Big Pharma sells 3 kinds of products:

    1) Cures for diseases
    2) Disease preventives (vaccines etc)
    3) Treatments for conditions that are not cures, but require ongoing
    application for a lifetime

    Which do you think is the most profitable for them? Clearly it’s 3), particularly if the condition involved is one that primarily afflicts
    affluent first-world patients. Those good old erectile dysfunction
    pills, as well as these weight-loss ones, clearly fit into that
    category.

    Which is the *least* profitable? Obviously it’s 2). Something to think
    about the next time somebody tries to convince you of some kind of
    “vaccine conspiracy” ...
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  • From Sump@sumpusent@outlook.com to comp.os.linux.misc on Sun Dec 21 02:10:05 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.misc

    On Sun, 21 Dec 2025 01:56:40 +0000, The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:

    On 20/12/2025 22:02, Sump wrote:

    So, the two pills manage to move a large thing to a smaller thing...which makes it a large thing... For how long?

    In the case of the original story about 6 hours.

    So a pillar of the community?
    --
    Sump
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  • From Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?=@ldo@nz.invalid to comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc on Sun Dec 21 02:11:38 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.misc

    On Sat, 20 Dec 2025 14:47:21 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

    That alone makes it way better than privately insured and delivered.
    health services.

    But ... but ... how can *anything* Government-run *possibly* be better
    than a private for-profit service?!!?? Doesn’t that go against
    everything that America Stands For??!??
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  • From The Natural Philosopher@tnp@invalid.invalid to comp.os.linux.misc on Sun Dec 21 02:13:13 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.misc

    On 21/12/2025 02:10, Sump wrote:
    On Sun, 21 Dec 2025 01:56:40 +0000, The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:

    On 20/12/2025 22:02, Sump wrote:

    So, the two pills manage to move a large thing to a smaller thing...which makes it a large thing... For how long?

    In the case of the original story about 6 hours.

    So a pillar of the community?

    I haven't a fucking clue what you are in fact on about
    --
    Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have
    guns, why should we let them have ideas?

    Josef Stalin

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  • From Sump@sumpusent@outlook.com to comp.os.linux.misc on Sun Dec 21 02:38:58 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.misc

    On Sun, 21 Dec 2025 02:09:17 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence DOliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

    On Sat, 20 Dec 2025 20:45:44 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

    It's a good growth industry for Big Pharma, anyway.

    As I see it, Big Pharma sells 3 kinds of products:

    1) Cures for diseases
    2) Disease preventives (vaccines etc)
    3) Treatments for conditions that are not cures, but require ongoing
    application for a lifetime

    Which do you think is the most profitable for them? Clearly its 3), >particularly if the condition involved is one that primarily afflicts >affluent first-world patients. Those good old erectile dysfunction
    pills, as well as these weight-loss ones, clearly fit into that
    category.

    Which is the *least* profitable? Obviously its 2). Something to think
    about the next time somebody tries to convince you of some kind of
    vaccine conspiracy ...

    We've got a pill for that... PaS - Pill as a service.

    Why on Earth would you wish to solve anything?

    25% discount for 12 months subs.
    --
    Sump
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  • From rbowman@bowman@montana.com to comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc on Sun Dec 21 04:34:43 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.misc

    On Sun, 21 Dec 2025 02:11:38 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:

    On Sat, 20 Dec 2025 14:47:21 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

    That alone makes it way better than privately insured and delivered.
    health services.

    But ... but ... how can *anything* Government-run *possibly* be better
    than a private for-profit service?!!?? Doesn’t that go against
    everything that America Stands For??!??

    America seems to be getting a bit tired of standing for all the bullshit
    our politicians feed us.

    For the record the groundwork for the Affordable Care Act was done by the Democratic Senator from Montana, Max Baucus. He removed a single payer solution from consideration on day one. The miserable son of a bitch was bought and paid for by the healthcare industry and tailored the plan to
    ensure their profits.

    One happy outcome was Obama made him ambassador to China and we got rid of
    the corrupt bastard.
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  • From rbowman@bowman@montana.com to comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc on Sun Dec 21 04:40:29 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.misc

    On Sat, 20 Dec 2025 08:33:32 -0500, CrudeSausage wrote:

    I am aware that diabetes is also genetic, but those people aren't the
    ones the people behind Ozempic are selling to anymore.

    Technically using Ozempic strictly for weight loss is off label. It is a medication for Type 2 diabetes.

    Wegovy is the same shit in a higher dosage and is used to treat obesity.
    The catch is the former is covered by most insurance plans, the latter
    isn't. Can you see the potential for abuse?
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  • From rbowman@bowman@montana.com to comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc on Sun Dec 21 04:43:17 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.misc

    On Sat, 20 Dec 2025 10:52:18 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

    On 20/12/2025 05:56, rbowman wrote:
    On Fri, 19 Dec 2025 21:56:41 +0100, Carlos E.R. wrote:

    Like having Ozempic for free?

    TANSTAAFL


    Yes. Obesity exists because of the way food is produced and marketed.
    And lifestyles in a post industrial age are sedentary

    Throwing Ozemopic on top of that is a bit of an unkown.

    Besides potential side effects studies are confirming that it's something
    the patient will be on forever, a wonderful cash cow for the pharma
    industry. That's not to say you can't stop taking it but most people in
    the studies returned to the whale pod in short order.

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  • From rbowman@bowman@montana.com to comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc on Sun Dec 21 04:47:12 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.misc

    On Sat, 20 Dec 2025 20:45:44 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

    On 2025-12-20, The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:

    On 20/12/2025 05:56, rbowman wrote:

    On Fri, 19 Dec 2025 21:56:41 +0100, Carlos E.R. wrote:

    Like having Ozempic for free?

    TANSTAAFL

    Yes. Obesity exists because of the way food is produced and marketed.
    And lifestyles in a post industrial age are sedentary

    Throwing Ozemopic on top of that is a bit of an unkown.

    "One pill makes you larger and one pill makes you small..."

    It's a good growth industry for Big Pharma, anyway.

    Ozempic doesn't sound like any fun. Now 20 mg of the finest pharmaceutical amphetamine for weight loss, that I can understand.
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  • From rbowman@bowman@montana.com to comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc on Sun Dec 21 05:00:10 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.misc

    On Sun, 21 Dec 2025 02:09:17 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:

    Which is the *least* profitable? Obviously it’s 2). Something to think about the next time somebody tries to convince you of some kind of
    “vaccine conspiracy” ...

    The vaccine business certainly didn't hurt Pfizer's bottom line. The
    patents on their three cash cows, Viagra, Zoloft, and Lipitor had expired,
    the last, Viagra, in 2020. Their Alzheimer's drug was a dry hole and they folded the research department.

    As for Lipitor, the fascination with statins lines more pockets than
    Pfizer's. My doctor is a bit of a cynic and says the checklist she has to
    use for Medicare somehow always comes out 'you need statins'.
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  • From The Natural Philosopher@tnp@invalid.invalid to comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc on Sun Dec 21 10:57:57 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.misc

    On 21/12/2025 05:00, rbowman wrote:
    On Sun, 21 Dec 2025 02:09:17 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:

    Which is the *least* profitable? Obviously it’s 2). Something to think
    about the next time somebody tries to convince you of some kind of
    “vaccine conspiracy” ...

    The vaccine business certainly didn't hurt Pfizer's bottom line. The
    patents on their three cash cows, Viagra, Zoloft, and Lipitor had expired, the last, Viagra, in 2020. Their Alzheimer's drug was a dry hole and they folded the research department.

    As for Lipitor, the fascination with statins lines more pockets than Pfizer's. My doctor is a bit of a cynic and says the checklist she has to
    use for Medicare somehow always comes out 'you need statins'.

    Yes. I couldn't tolerate them and I do actually need them. I am on
    something VeryExpensivet™ now that actually works with no side effects, except I haven't had another blocked heart artery since I started on them...

    Again its all about genetics, lifestyle and diet.
    We have all loved longer than our grandparents because of modern drugs
    and despite modern diets
    --
    Truth welcomes investigation because truth knows investigation will lead
    to converts. It is deception that uses all the other techniques.

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  • From CrudeSausage@crude@sausa.ge to comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc on Sun Dec 21 19:59:14 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.misc

    On 2025-12-20 11:40 p.m., rbowman wrote:
    On Sat, 20 Dec 2025 08:33:32 -0500, CrudeSausage wrote:

    I am aware that diabetes is also genetic, but those people aren't the
    ones the people behind Ozempic are selling to anymore.

    Technically using Ozempic strictly for weight loss is off label. It is a medication for Type 2 diabetes.

    Wegovy is the same shit in a higher dosage and is used to treat obesity.
    The catch is the former is covered by most insurance plans, the latter
    isn't. Can you see the potential for abuse?

    I do. I imagine that there are tons of pigs in Canada abusing our health
    care system to cheat on their weight loss.
    --
    CrudeSausage
    John 14:6
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  • From Bob Tennent@rdtennent@tennent.ca to comp.os.linux.misc on Mon Dec 22 02:17:00 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.misc

    On Sun, 21 Dec 2025 02:11:38 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
    On Sat, 20 Dec 2025 14:47:21 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

    That alone makes it way better than privately insured and delivered.
    health services.

    But ... but ... how can *anything* Government-run *possibly* be better
    than a private for-profit service?!!?? Doesn’t that go against
    everything that America Stands For??!??

    Health care in Canada isn't "government-run". It's run
    by doctors and hospitals. Government *pays* doctors and
    hospitals but doesn't "run" them.
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  • From Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?=@ldo@nz.invalid to comp.os.linux.misc on Mon Dec 22 04:43:11 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.misc

    On Mon, 22 Dec 2025 02:17:00 -0000 (UTC), Bob Tennent wrote:

    On Sun, 21 Dec 2025 02:11:38 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:

    On Sat, 20 Dec 2025 14:47:21 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

    That alone makes it way better than privately insured and
    delivered. health services.

    But ... but ... how can *anything* Government-run *possibly* be
    better than a private for-profit service?!!?? Doesn’t that go
    against everything that America Stands For??!??

    Health care in Canada isn't "government-run". It's run by doctors
    and hospitals. Government *pays* doctors and hospitals but doesn't
    "run" them.

    What do Americans do differently, then?
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  • From c186282@c186282@nnada.net to comp.os.linux.misc on Mon Dec 22 01:54:45 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.misc

    On 12/21/25 21:17, Bob Tennent wrote:
    On Sun, 21 Dec 2025 02:11:38 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
    > On Sat, 20 Dec 2025 14:47:21 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
    >
    >> That alone makes it way better than privately insured and delivered.
    >> health services.
    >
    > But ... but ... how can *anything* Government-run *possibly* be better
    > than a private for-profit service?!!?? Doesn’t that go against
    > everything that America Stands For??!??

    Health care in Canada isn't "government-run". It's run
    by doctors and hospitals. Government *pays* doctors and
    hospitals but doesn't "run" them.

    Still doesn't do much good though ... subsidizing
    incompetence doesn't IMPROVE things.

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  • From Bob Tennent@rdtennent@tennent.ca to comp.os.linux.misc on Mon Dec 22 15:53:53 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.misc

    On Mon, 22 Dec 2025 04:43:11 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
    On Mon, 22 Dec 2025 02:17:00 -0000 (UTC), Bob Tennent wrote:

    On Sun, 21 Dec 2025 02:11:38 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:

    On Sat, 20 Dec 2025 14:47:21 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

    That alone makes it way better than privately insured and
    delivered. health services.

    But ... but ... how can *anything* Government-run *possibly* be
    better than a private for-profit service?!!?? Doesn’t that go
    against everything that America Stands For??!??

    Health care in Canada isn't "government-run". It's run by doctors
    and hospitals. Government *pays* doctors and hospitals but doesn't
    "run" them.

    What do Americans do differently, then?

    American patients pay for their health care. Canadians pay
    taxes but patients pay nothing.
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  • From Bob Tennent@rdtennent@tennent.ca to comp.os.linux.misc on Mon Dec 22 15:57:17 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.misc

    On Mon, 22 Dec 2025 01:54:45 -0500, c186282 wrote:
    On 12/21/25 21:17, Bob Tennent wrote:
    On Sun, 21 Dec 2025 02:11:38 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
    > On Sat, 20 Dec 2025 14:47:21 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
    >
    >> That alone makes it way better than privately insured and delivered.
    >> health services.
    >
    > But ... but ... how can *anything* Government-run *possibly* be better
    > than a private for-profit service?!!?? Doesn’t that go against
    > everything that America Stands For??!??

    Health care in Canada isn't "government-run". It's run
    by doctors and hospitals. Government *pays* doctors and
    hospitals but doesn't "run" them.

    Still doesn't do much good though ... subsidizing
    incompetence doesn't IMPROVE things.

    American health costs are higher than anywhere in the world
    because of insurance administration. Yet outcomes are worse.
    Doesn't sound like incompetence to me.
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  • From Bobbie Sellers@bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com to comp.os.linux.misc on Mon Dec 22 08:49:24 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.misc



    On 12/22/25 07:57, Bob Tennent wrote:
    On Mon, 22 Dec 2025 01:54:45 -0500, c186282 wrote:
    > On 12/21/25 21:17, Bob Tennent wrote:
    >> On Sun, 21 Dec 2025 02:11:38 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
    >> > On Sat, 20 Dec 2025 14:47:21 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
    >> >
    >> >> That alone makes it way better than privately insured and delivered.
    >> >> health services.
    >> >
    >> > But ... but ... how can *anything* Government-run *possibly* be better
    >> > than a private for-profit service?!!?? Doesn’t that go against
    >> > everything that America Stands For??!??
    >>
    >> Health care in Canada isn't "government-run". It's run
    >> by doctors and hospitals. Government *pays* doctors and
    >> hospitals but doesn't "run" them.
    >
    > Still doesn't do much good though ... subsidizing
    > incompetence doesn't IMPROVE things.

    American health costs are higher than anywhere in the world
    because of insurance administration. Yet outcomes are worse.
    Doesn't sound like incompetence to me.

    Sounds like in the USA we need to socialize, not medicine and patient care, but insurance and take the profit to the insurers out of it.

    But then in the US Military Services health care is free to service members
    and their families. It is paid for out of the budget of the Defense Department.
    If that is not the situation we want to enjoy then we should keep things
    as they
    are. If it sounds desirable maybe everyone should enlist or just vote
    to pay
    some more taxes if we are working to pay for healthcare for everyone.

    Oh and we have a movement called Medicare for All that you might
    want to learn more about. I have Medicare and at 88 have to report
    that in 2025 it has repaired my ankle and kept me in rehab facility for
    about 2.5 months. I got out of the hospital on April 11tg. Then I noted
    a bump on my nose that would not heal and it was basal cell carcinoma
    and I had to go to a Dermatological Surgeon and she worked very hard
    to make sure that all the cancer was gone. Right now I have a bunch
    of stitches in my face and on my nose where a skin graft from my face
    was done. Not one bit of fun in a long long day of cut, check the slice
    for cancer and then slice again, then stitch up the whole mess, with
    tons of local anesthetic injections. All on Medicare which is socialized insurance for old folks like myself.

    bliss

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  • From The Natural Philosopher@tnp@invalid.invalid to comp.os.linux.misc on Mon Dec 22 19:16:07 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.misc

    On 22/12/2025 16:49, Bobbie Sellers wrote:


    On 12/22/25 07:57, Bob Tennent wrote:
    On Mon, 22 Dec 2025 01:54:45 -0500, c186282 wrote:
      > On 12/21/25 21:17, Bob Tennent wrote:
      >> On Sun, 21 Dec 2025 02:11:38 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote: >>   >>   > On Sat, 20 Dec 2025 14:47:21 +0000, The Natural Philosopher
    wrote:
      >>   >
      >>   >> That alone makes it way better than privately insured and
    delivered.
      >>   >> health services.
      >>   >
      >>   > But ... but ... how can *anything* Government-run *possibly*
    be better
      >>   > than a private for-profit service?!!?? Doesn’t that go against >>   >>   > everything that America Stands For??!??
      >>
      >> Health care in Canada isn't "government-run". It's run
      >> by doctors and hospitals. Government *pays* doctors and
      >> hospitals but doesn't "run" them.
      >
      >    Still doesn't do much good though ... subsidizing
      >    incompetence doesn't IMPROVE things.

    American health costs are higher than anywhere in the world
    because of insurance administration. Yet outcomes are worse.
    Doesn't sound like incompetence to me.

        Sounds like in the USA we need to socialize, not medicine and patient
    care, but insurance and take the profit to the insurers out of it.

    That is a model many countries use. It's not perfect either.


        But then in the US Military Services health care is free to service members
    and their families.  It is paid for out of the budget of the Defense Department.
    If that is not the situation we want to enjoy then we should keep things
    as they
    are.  If it sounds desirable maybe everyone should enlist or just vote
    to pay
    some more taxes if we are working to pay for healthcare for everyone.

        Oh and we have a movement called Medicare for All that you might want to learn more about.  I have Medicare and at 88 have to report
    that in 2025 it has repaired my ankle and kept me in rehab facility for
    about 2.5 months.  I got out of the hospital on April 11tg.  Then I noted
    a bump on my nose that would not heal and it was basal cell carcinoma
    and I had to go to a Dermatological Surgeon and she worked very hard
    to make sure that all the cancer was gone.  Right now I have a bunch
    of stitches in my face and on my nose where a skin graft from my face
    was done.  Not one bit of fun in a long long day of cut, check the slice
    for cancer and then slice again, then stitch up the whole mess, with
    tons of local anesthetic injections.  All on Medicare which is socialized insurance for old folks like myself.

        bliss

    --
    Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have
    guns, why should we let them have ideas?

    Josef Stalin

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  • From rbowman@bowman@montana.com to comp.os.linux.misc on Mon Dec 22 19:47:12 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.misc

    On Mon, 22 Dec 2025 08:49:24 -0800, Bobbie Sellers wrote:

    All on Medicare which is socialized insurance for old folks like myself.

    Sort of. Medicare A is, more or less. I'm still paying for B, D, and so
    forth.
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  • From Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?=@ldo@nz.invalid to comp.os.linux.misc on Mon Dec 22 21:24:32 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.misc

    On Mon, 22 Dec 2025 19:16:07 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

    On 22/12/2025 16:49, Bobbie Sellers wrote:

     Sounds like in the USA we need to socialize, not medicine and
    patient care, but insurance and take the profit to the insurers out
    of it.

    That is a model many countries use. It's not perfect either.

    Let’s just say, it’s somewhat closer to “perfect” than anything the
    USA has been able to come up with ...
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  • From Nuno Silva@nunojsilva@invalid.invalid to comp.os.linux.misc on Tue Dec 23 11:02:45 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.misc

    On 2025-12-22, Bobbie Sellers wrote:

    On 12/22/25 07:57, Bob Tennent wrote:
    On Mon, 22 Dec 2025 01:54:45 -0500, c186282 wrote:
    > On 12/21/25 21:17, Bob Tennent wrote:
    >> On Sun, 21 Dec 2025 02:11:38 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote: >> >> > On Sat, 20 Dec 2025 14:47:21 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote: >> >> >
    >> >> That alone makes it way better than privately insured and delivered.
    >> >> health services.
    >> >
    >> > But ... but ... how can *anything* Government-run *possibly* be better
    >> > than a private for-profit service?!!?? Doesn’t that go against
    >> > everything that America Stands For??!??
    >>
    >> Health care in Canada isn't "government-run". It's run
    >> by doctors and hospitals. Government *pays* doctors and
    >> hospitals but doesn't "run" them.
    >
    > Still doesn't do much good though ... subsidizing
    > incompetence doesn't IMPROVE things.

    American health costs are higher than anywhere in the world
    because of insurance administration. Yet outcomes are worse.
    Doesn't sound like incompetence to me.

    Sounds like in the USA we need to socialize, not medicine and patient care, but insurance and take the profit to the insurers out of it.

    More likely the USA need to get rid of health insurance. Sadly, that
    thing is getting adopted in some other countries. And we need only look
    at the USA to see what the future might have in store...

    You can have private health care, but when the whole industry is
    designed around the business of health insurance, and "fixes" for it
    need to account for the insurance business, that seems to be when things
    go really wrong.

    But then in the US Military Services health care is free to
    service members
    and their families. It is paid for out of the budget of the Defense Department.
    If that is not the situation we want to enjoy then we should keep
    things as they
    are. If it sounds desirable maybe everyone should enlist or just vote
    to pay
    some more taxes if we are working to pay for healthcare for everyone.

    Some people have a hard time grasping the concept of a non-anarchy state
    with taxes.

    Which may be particularly funny when/if that comes from the country that
    keeps several "taxation without representation" territories, so where
    taxation is even more prevalent than representative democracy. :-P

    https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Us_reg_dc_2872.JPG

    Oh and we have a movement called Medicare for All that you might
    want to learn more about. I have Medicare and at 88 have to report
    that in 2025 it has repaired my ankle and kept me in rehab facility for
    about 2.5 months. I got out of the hospital on April 11tg. Then I noted
    a bump on my nose that would not heal and it was basal cell carcinoma
    and I had to go to a Dermatological Surgeon and she worked very hard
    to make sure that all the cancer was gone. Right now I have a bunch
    of stitches in my face and on my nose where a skin graft from my face
    was done. Not one bit of fun in a long long day of cut, check the slice
    for cancer and then slice again, then stitch up the whole mess, with
    tons of local anesthetic injections. All on Medicare which is socialized insurance for old folks like myself.

    I hope you're doing better nowadays and that all is well!
    --
    Nuno Silva
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  • From Bobbie Sellers@bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com to comp.os.linux.misc on Tue Dec 23 11:38:32 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.misc



    On 12/23/25 03:02, Nuno Silva wrote:
    On 2025-12-22, Bobbie Sellers wrote:

    Big snip

    I hope you're doing better nowadays and that all is well!

    I wish I could say that i am doing better but it seems that the
    whole day of surgery and repair has exhaberated my Chronic Exhaustion
    and I am so, so worn out by the activities of daily living that it is a
    relief to sit down and type for a bit.
    Usually when I have over-exerted myself I get sick with influenza
    like symptoms but I am just so tired that it is hard to believe.

    If you every have a 'flu like illness and find that your get tired on resuming your normal activities for the sake of your health get more
    rest and be very careful of exertion. This may or may not prevent the
    post virual fatigue syndrome but I had never heard of such a problem
    in my years of nursing. So I went out and started to exercise again and
    soon I was reduced to very little activity. That was when I was 46 yoa
    and I am now 88 yoa and can barely take care of myself.

    bliss
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  • From The Natural Philosopher@tnp@invalid.invalid to comp.os.linux.misc on Tue Dec 23 20:23:43 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.misc

    On 23/12/2025 19:38, Bobbie Sellers wrote:


    On 12/23/25 03:02, Nuno Silva wrote:
    On 2025-12-22, Bobbie Sellers wrote:

    Big snip

    I hope you're doing better nowadays and that all is well!

        I wish I could say that i am doing better but it seems that the whole day of surgery and repair has exhaberated my Chronic Exhaustion
    and I am so, so worn out by the activities of daily living that it is a relief to sit down and type for a bit.
        Usually when I have over-exerted myself I get sick with influenza like symptoms but I am just so tired that it is hard to believe.

    BTDTGTTS...

    My last operation fucked me up for over a year with similar symptoms.



        If you every have a 'flu like illness and find that your get tired on
    resuming your normal activities for the sake of your health get more
    rest and be very careful of exertion.  This may or may not prevent the
    post virual fatigue syndrome but I had never heard of such a problem
    in my years of nursing.  So I went out and started to exercise again and soon I was reduced to very little activity. That was when I was 46 yoa
    and I am now 88 yoa and can barely take care of myself.

        bliss

    You may have some undiagnosed viral illness or even a depressed immune
    system due to some cancer or other.
    --
    “But what a weak barrier is truth when it stands in the way of an hypothesis!”

    Mary Wollstonecraft

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  • From Richard Kettlewell@invalid@invalid.invalid to comp.os.linux.misc on Tue Dec 23 22:41:29 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.misc

    The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> writes:
    On 23/12/2025 19:38, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
        I wish I could say that i am doing better but it seems that the
    whole day of surgery and repair has exhaberated my Chronic Exhaustion
    and I am so, so worn out by the activities of daily living that it is a
    relief to sit down and type for a bit.
        Usually when I have over-exerted myself I get sick with influenza >> like symptoms but I am just so tired that it is hard to believe.

    BTDTGTTS...

    My last operation fucked me up for over a year with similar symptoms.

        If you every have a 'flu like illness and find that your get tired on
    resuming your normal activities for the sake of your health get more
    rest and be very careful of exertion.  This may or may not prevent the
    post virual fatigue syndrome but I had never heard of such a problem
    in my years of nursing.  So I went out and started to exercise again and
    soon I was reduced to very little activity. That was when I was 46 yoa
    and I am now 88 yoa and can barely take care of myself.
        bliss

    You may have some undiagnosed viral illness or even a depressed immune
    system due to some cancer or other.

    I think the long-term impacts of viral infections are becoming clearer
    and clearer. Post-polio syndrome has been reported since at least the
    1980s. Long COVID is well known. Epstein-Barr virus has been
    statistically connected to MS (although I don’t think anyone’s figured
    out what the mechanism is yet) and more recently Lupus.

    Personally I’ve got lucky so far. But I know four people with MS and
    one of my coworkers spent years struggling with long COVID, with
    Bobbie’s description above matching their experience. (Another coworker
    went long-term sick around the same time but I don’t have the inside
    track on what’s up with them.)
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  • From rbowman@bowman@montana.com to comp.os.linux.misc on Tue Dec 23 23:42:04 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.misc

    On Tue, 23 Dec 2025 11:02:45 +0000, Nuno Silva wrote:

    More likely the USA need to get rid of health insurance. Sadly, that
    thing is getting adopted in some other countries. And we need only look
    at the USA to see what the future might have in store...

    That would be the real answer but it isn't going to happen. When I was a
    kid we didn't have health insurance. The closest we came was when my
    father had a hernia repair in a VA hospital since he was a veteran. Otoh,
    a visit to the doctor was something you could afford to pay out of
    pocket.

    The insurance companies operate like Las Vegas. A percentage of the money passing through their hands sticks to their fingers. Vegas casinos don't
    care about individual winners and losers, just the churn. For health
    insurance there is no, if not negative, incentive to control costs.
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  • From The Natural Philosopher@tnp@invalid.invalid to comp.os.linux.misc on Wed Dec 24 12:23:59 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.misc

    On 23/12/2025 22:41, Richard Kettlewell wrote:
    The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> writes:
    On 23/12/2025 19:38, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
        I wish I could say that i am doing better but it seems that the >>> whole day of surgery and repair has exhaberated my Chronic Exhaustion
    and I am so, so worn out by the activities of daily living that it is a
    relief to sit down and type for a bit.
        Usually when I have over-exerted myself I get sick with influenza >>> like symptoms but I am just so tired that it is hard to believe.

    BTDTGTTS...

    My last operation fucked me up for over a year with similar symptoms.

        If you every have a 'flu like illness and find that your get tired on
    resuming your normal activities for the sake of your health get more
    rest and be very careful of exertion.  This may or may not prevent the
    post virual fatigue syndrome but I had never heard of such a problem
    in my years of nursing.  So I went out and started to exercise again and >>> soon I was reduced to very little activity. That was when I was 46 yoa
    and I am now 88 yoa and can barely take care of myself.
        bliss

    You may have some undiagnosed viral illness or even a depressed immune
    system due to some cancer or other.

    I think the long-term impacts of viral infections are becoming clearer
    and clearer. Post-polio syndrome has been reported since at least the
    1980s. Long COVID is well known. Epstein-Barr virus has been
    statistically connected to MS (although I don’t think anyone’s figured out what the mechanism is yet) and more recently Lupus.

    Personally I’ve got lucky so far. But I know four people with MS and
    one of my coworkers spent years struggling with long COVID, with
    Bobbie’s description above matching their experience. (Another coworker went long-term sick around the same time but I don’t have the inside
    track on what’s up with them.)

    I had a friend who had all those symptoms for years.

    Eventually he died of undiagnosed cancer. There were literally no signs
    apart from fatigue, at all, until his back exploded in pain and they
    found bowel cancer cells everywhere inside his body - except his bowels.
    Don't ask me how that one works.

    The problem seems to be that fatigue is the body's way of saying its not
    well, and that is it. It might be a rotten tooth, it might be a virus,
    it might be cancer, or (just a) compromised immune system, Or you might
    just be tired of life...
    --
    "It was a lot more fun being 20 in the 70's that it is being 70 in the 20's" Joew Walsh

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