David Mokotoff

Published in The Haven

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Maybe You Heard That the Supply Chain is Broken

From your favorite peanut butter to no furniture, it’s the supply chain stupid In 2020, there was a standard reply to my inability to reach a phone customer support person. I would hear at almost every voicemail, “wait times are longer than usual due to Covid-19.” After a while, I…

Satire

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Maybe You Heard That the Supply Chain is Broken

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The Supply Chain Crisis Now Comes With a Surcharge

The broken supply chain now leads to an exciting twist as consumers fork over more money for delayed products I thought the above photo was a joke, or perhaps the latest story from the Babylon Bee. But no. I copied it from a friend’s Facebook page. So, let me get…

Satire

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The Supply Chain Crisis Now Comes With a Surcharge

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The Federal Government and Big Pharma are also to Blame for Vaccine-Reluctance

The “ do as I say and not as I do” policy no longer fools the public As the fourth Covid-19 (Delta variant) wave grips the country, the Federal government daily urges everyone to get vaccinated. How then do you explain that there is no policy mandating employees of the…

Pandemic

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The Federal Government and Big Pharma are also to Blame for Vaccine-Reluctance

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The Pandemic News is Bad Enough Without Lying About the Numbers

Two recent “accicental” cases of miscounting highlight why people don’t trust the media or government The Texas Tribune erroneously reported 5800 children were hospitalized in the state the first week of August. It turns out this number was since the start of the pandemic. That’s not a small error. Yesterday…

Pandemic

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Published in ILLUMINATION-Curated

·1 day ago

If the US Can Spend $3.5 B Sucking CO2 Out of the Atmosphere, It Can Afford to Protect Our Children

Politicians of both parties are wrong, and the latest school massacre unmasks absurd government priorities. The country has not even processed the carnage of the latest school shooting, and as predicted, politicians are already seizing upon proposed solutions that won’t work. Democrats want more gun laws, and Republicans want more…

Gun Violence

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If the US Can Spend $3.5 B Sucking CO2 Out of the Atmosphere, It Can Afford to Protect Our Children

Published in In Fitness And In Health

·3 days ago

Do Hair and Nails Grow After Death and Other Mysterious Medical Questions

As a doctor, I thought I knew the answers until I started to do some research. — There are a lot of medical myths, some of which are based upon facts and are true, while others are false. Following are eight questions to ponder and the answers. After a person dies, their hair and nails continue to grow. It turns out that hair and nails do not…

Medicin

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Do Hair and Nails Grow After Death and Other Mysterious Medical Questions

4 days ago

The Master Shortfall List of Failed Climate Predictions

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David Siegel

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Thank you, thank you, thank you. Your are like a breath of fresh air on Medium. By the way, did I say thank you?

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Thank you, thank you, thank you. Your are like a breath of fresh air on Medium. By the way, did I say thank you?

6 days ago

Reduce notifications

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Robert Roy Britt

I have eliminated all of them.

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I have eliminated all of them.

6 days ago

Make your phone less accessible

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Robert Roy Britt

Great idea.

Great idea. Hhowever since vitrually no one has a landline anymore, not entirely practicle if someone is trying to reach you in an emergency.

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Great idea. Hhowever since vitrually no one has a landline anymore, not entirely practicle if someone is trying to reach you in an emergency.

Published in Crow’s Feet

·6 days ago

Here’s a Graph of My Cognitive Functions vs. Advances in Technology, and the Results Are Bleak

It’s no secret that our cognitive skills decline as we age, but technology has accentuated the problem. It is no secret that mental or cognitive function falls as we age — however, rapid technological advances have made us seniors feel like we are slipping more quickly than our parents. I…

Aging

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Here’s a Graph of My Cognitive Functions vs. Advances in Technology, and the Results Are Bleak