Hockeydad, farmer, U of S agro(97), enjoys ag issues, right wing politics and beer
Tramping Lake, SK
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Brian Kohlman🇷🇺🇮🇱🇳🇮🇺🇸 retweeted
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
Brian Kohlman🇷🇺🇮🇱🇳🇮🇺🇸 retweeted
The largest famine in human history was a timetable of a government improving on nature, and every line of it was announced as progress.
1958, January: Mao issues eight rules for farming. Two of them come from the Soviet biologist Lysenko, who taught that plants of one species do not compete, so seedlings can be sown ten times closer. Nobody in the room has farmed.
1958, spring: The Four Pests campaign. Every sparrow in China is drummed out of the sky, close to two billion birds, and the insects that fed their chicks are left alone with the wheat.
1958, spring: Deep ploughing is ordered. A metre down, in places three. A thousand years of topsoil is buried under subsoil that will not grow a weed.
1958, summer: Close planting. Seedlings packed so tight the lower leaves rot in the dark, and the fields are ventilated with electric fans and lit at night with lamps.
1958, August: Half a billion peasants are moved into communes. The private plot, the family pig and the family goat are taken into common ownership, and the pigs start dying first.
1958, autumn: Backyard furnaces. Ninety million peasants are pulled off the fields at harvest to melt their pots and tools into worthless iron, and the forests come down to fire them.
1958, winter: With the real harvest rotting unpicked in the fields, the provinces report the biggest crop in history to Beijing, 375 million tonnes, nearly double the truth.
1959: The grain quota is set on the fiction. The state takes its share of a harvest that does not exist, and ships 4 million tonnes abroad to pay for machinery.
1959, summer: The locusts arrive, then the borers, on fields with no sparrows. The counties that lost the most birds lose the most grain.
1959, July: Marshal Peng Dehuai tells Mao the countryside is starving. He is purged, and every official in China learns what honesty costs.
1960: The pig herd has halved. The oxen are eaten. In Anhui and Sichuan whole villages have nobody left strong enough to bury the dead.
1960: Beijing quietly buys a quarter of a million sparrows from Moscow, in crates, in hard currency.
1962, January: Liu Shaoqi stands up in front of seven thousand officials and calls the disaster three parts nature and seven parts man.
1962: The private plots are handed back. The family pig returns. The famine ends within the year.
Three years of ploughing, planting, slaughtering and drumming against nature, and the dead run from fifteen million at the lowest count to forty-five million at the highest, in a country at peace, with a generation behind them never born.
Every animal on that timeline was removed as a cost. The sparrow, the pig, the goat, the ox. The grain was the plan, and the grain was never enough.
The famine ended on the day a family was allowed to keep a pig again.
Brian Kohlman🇷🇺🇮🇱🇳🇮🇺🇸 retweeted
Warum investiert Audi Milliarden in Georgia, USA, während es in Ingolstadt und Neckarsulm über 7000 Stellen abbauen will?
Grund sind die fünf apokalyptischen Reiter der deutschen Geschäftswelt: Energiekosten, Lohnnebenkosten, Steuern, Bürokratie und Regulierungen.
Obendrauf kommt eine vollkommen unberechenbare Politik, die jeden Tag einfach nur so zum Spaß komplette Technologien verbieten oder fordern kann.
In Deutschland sind durch die Regierung schon viele Technologiezweige fast vollständig ausgerottet worden, in denen wir oft Weltspitze waren, bis die Politik diese absichtlich zerstört hat. Kernenergie, Fracking, Magnetschwebetechnik, Gentechnik, chemische Industrie, Pharma, Biotech usw.
Die Autoindustrie ist nur die nächste einer langen Reihe.
Was in der Diskussion gerne vergessen wird: Die Autoindustrie, das ist nicht das Audiwerk in Ingolstadt. Das sind auch die unzähligen deutschen Zuliefererbetriebe, von denen viele bereits pleite sind! Und jeder von denen ist oft Herz- und Wohlstandbringer einer Kleinstadt, die ohne diesen langsam verarmt.
Das ist nicht „der Globalismus“ oder die Chinesen oder sonst eine unkontrollierbare Kraft, gegen die wir kaum etwas tun können.
All diese Technologielinien wurden mit voller Absicht und mit aller Kraft von unserer eigenen Regierung zerstört und aus dem Land gejagt mit 100%iger Unterstützung der MSM-Presse, die das Ganze vorantreibt.
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Son: Dad, how come I've never heard this one before?
Dad: Son, that's what kills me. There are songs from my generation that never got the recognition they deserved. Just listen to this voice.
Brian Kohlman🇷🇺🇮🇱🇳🇮🇺🇸 retweeted
.@Dave_Eby was an unmitigated disaster for BC & for Canada. He embraced every destructive progressive policy fad—drug decrim, genderwang, unmarked-graves social panic—and it is a special treat to see his arrogant election gambit end with his humiliation
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Brian Kohlman🇷🇺🇮🇱🇳🇮🇺🇸 retweeted
Communists are fundamentally stupid people.
That's why you have a herd mentality, for self-preservation.
Brian Kohlman🇷🇺🇮🇱🇳🇮🇺🇸 retweeted
Hey Saskatchewan @PremierScottMoe let’s do this, please!
Hey Albertans
With the election of a conservative government in BC Alberta has an opportunity to work with BC and SK to demand change on some major constitutional issues.
ie representation, equalization, immigration, pensions.
Hey @ABDanielleSmith, this is your chance to redeem yourself. Don’t blow it. The west wants a fair deal.
Brian Kohlman🇷🇺🇮🇱🇳🇮🇺🇸 retweeted
-They don’t commit crime
-They come here legally
-They Don’t demand we honor THEIR customs
-They Speak English.
That’s all we ask.
Brian Kohlman🇷🇺🇮🇱🇳🇮🇺🇸 retweeted
Canada's total merchandise trade with Turkey amounts to less than 0.3%. We export $1.1 Billion and import 3.2 Billion.
So what the fuck is Carney doing there you ask?
Answer: The sale of Candu Energy Inc. Nuclear reactors.
Who owns Candu Energy?...AtkinsRéalis of Mississauga.
Who is AtkinsRéalis?
Well they were formerly named SNC Lavalin. Ring a bell?
Who can supply the nuclear fuel?....
You guessed it! ......Brookfield!
Does something smell really bad right now?
Ag Bag Drag is tonight. 75 years still going. Can we still throw beer? @saskaggrads
Brian Kohlman🇷🇺🇮🇱🇳🇮🇺🇸 retweeted
Seizing wealth from productive workers by taxation and giving it to the lazy and those who have made bad life choices is evil.
Brian Kohlman🇷🇺🇮🇱🇳🇮🇺🇸 retweeted
Today I drove from Seattle (a colony of Indians, Hispanics and communists) to eastern Idaho.
11.5 hrs of gorgeous American landscape.
I was only able to do that because 175 years ago, Native American (White Anglo-Saxon) men risked their lives to venture into an untamed wilderness.
They fought cold, starvation and savages who would try to kill them in their sleep, establishing wagon routes on foot and horseback in order to forge a nation out of that wilderness.
Hindus didn’t do that. Venezuelans, Africans and Afghanis didn’t do that. Our great great great grandfathers did that.
They built great cities, and the roads to connect them. Today I can cross in a day what took those men months, and not all of them would make it.
And for what? We’ve surrendered it all to people who not only don’t appreciate the work of those men, they actually despise it. This place is nothing to them except a resource to extract and to leave as a burning husk in their wake.
We’ve squandered our inheritance on globalism, comfort and a false morality.
If those men could see us today, ashamed wouldn’t begin to cover it.
We have to turn this around before it’s too late.
Brian Kohlman🇷🇺🇮🇱🇳🇮🇺🇸 retweeted
If you've felt like the Western world has gone insane over the last decade, you're not wrong.
The madness has a name: Political Ponerology.
A guy rents some land beside us. Harrowed his pea stubble. Strong wind Saturday. Me out today cleaning off dirt road and trying to level powder 100ft into our field. Free topsoil I suppose. 🤷🏾♂️
