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Jason Sudeikis gets choked up just picturing Tina Fey taking over SNL from Lorne Michaels.
Seth Meyers has said Lorne has probably already decided who's next. Asked if it's Tina, Sudeikis says he'd love it, and that being almost near tears about it is usually a good sign. He thinks the show can survive without Lorne, since it barely got through the five years he was gone, and he thinks Seth could do a really good job with it too.
Tina or Seth? Feels like everybody has an answer to that one.
ft: @TalkEasyPod Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso on youtube
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There are 12,331 nuclear warheads in the world.
🇺🇸 The United States holds 5,277 of them.
🇮🇱 Israel has 90.
🇮🇷 Iran has ZERO.
And they try to convince you Iran is the threat to the world.
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Neil deGrasse Tyson has a message for all the flat-earthers in NFL locker rooms @pepsi
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one of my fav scenes in TV. but I always like to point out that if u read the actual "first" Bible, it doesn't say homosexuality is a sin. pedophilia is. but no one whats to have THAT convo.
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During Bill Nye's 10-year college reunion in 1987, he went to great lengths to meet with Carl Sagan at Cornell. Sagan's assistant told Nye, "Okay, you can talk to him for five minutes."
In their meeting at the space sciences building, Nye explained that he was interested in developing a science television program. "I mentioned how I planned to talk about bridges and bicycles and so on—stuff that, as an engineer, I'd been interested in—and [Sagan] said, 'Focus on pure science. Kids resonate to pure science rather than technology.' And that turned out to be great advice."
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For those who say it’s time for universal care. I am all for it. It would be nice if we could find a way to reduce the cost of care and make it available to everyone, for anything.
But it will take work to get there. Other countries with Universal Care make “Most Things available to All People”. It’s not perfect.
In our country, we make “Everything available to Most People”.
The question for this country, unlike others, is how we can make the best possible care and therapies, regardless of cost, to everyone ?
Read @AbdulElSayed ‘s book on Medicare for All. He wisely had more questions than answers. Medicare for All ? Global Budgets ? Or something else ?
It’s a difficult path from where we are to “E4E” Healthcare. ?Everything for Everyone)
My hope is that we can put together a Simpson Bowles type, Blue Ribbon Commission. One that includes representatives of all stakeholders. From all different type of patients. Including rare disease parents. Rural and Urban Hospitals. The most expensive hospitals that offer unique care. Pharma companies that offer everything from genetics to Cell and Gene Therapies. You get the point
Some people think we can just tell all those working in the healthcare system what to do.
That’s the fastest way for this to fail. We need to be as close as we can to being on the same page. And we need to figure out a non partisan manner of running our American version of Universal Care.
No reason we can’t start now
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A bank won’t approve a $600,000 mortgage for someone making $70k a year.
A lender won’t finance a $60,000 truck for someone earning $30k.
But an 18 year old can take on $180,000 in student debt for a degree that leads to a $38,000 job.
No income proof. No co-signer required. No financial checks.
We let kids who can’t legally buy alcohol sign life-altering debt contracts that follow them past middle age.
Then we wonder why a whole generation can't buy a home.
The bank guards its risk.
The dealer guards its inventory.
The university gets cash upfront.
And the teenager gets the lifelong bill.
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So... US... not to be negative, but other countries don't wait months for a new parliament or congress to come together, it happens immediately after the election, like minutes after. You should fix that nonsense because waiting opens you to a coup d'état and sabotage. Something to consider.
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Adam Robinson's company, Retention, creates software that de-anonymizes internet traffic, essentially the type of software that secretly figures out who you actually are, spies on you, and feeds you relevant ads or perhaps things far more heinous. Make of that what you will.
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Prof. Richard Dawkins explaining evolution at kindergarten level because some adults still struggle with basic biology
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Spike Lee on the way Mark Ruffalo’s been treated for speaking up about Palestine:
“Look, that lobby is very powerful and if you get on their list, they’re not going to make life easy.”
Read the full interview from @MarlowNYC: wp.me/pc8uak-1lI3tK
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🏦💥 Largest Corporate Bankruptcies in History
🇺🇸 Lehman Brothers (2008) — $691B
🇺🇸 Washington Mutual (2008) — $328B
🇺🇸 WorldCom (2002) — $104B
🇺🇸 General Motors (2009) — $91B
🇺🇸 CIT Group (2009) — $80B
🇺🇸 Enron (2001) — $66B
🇺🇸 Conseco (2002) — $61B
🇺🇸 Energy Future Holdings (2014) — $41B
🇺🇸 MF Global (2011) — $40.5B
🇺🇸 Chrysler (2009) — $39B
🇺🇸 Thornburg Mortgage (2009) — $37B
🇺🇸 Texaco (1987) — $35B
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EDDIE MURPHY presented Best Picture at the 1988 Oscars and didn't hold back on criticism of the Academy.
