State level, yes. Federal is federal.

Fucking egos... Always breaking everything

Cashapp abandoned “sats” in favor of “₿” 🥲

Right? It gives zero explanation. Maybe like Prince when his name became a symbol? “The currency formerly known as sats” 🤣🤣

It would be awesome if the spec simply said that "B" is sats instead of trying to re-define what 1 BTC is.

Delivered to my state senators. I look forward to the responses.

Dear Senator Hagerty and Senator Blackburn,

As your constituent in Tennessee, I am writing to demand immediate congressional action on the widespread fraud within Medicare and other federal programs—and corresponding relief for American taxpayers.

The numbers are indefensible:

- The Government Accountability Office estimates the federal government loses between $233 billion and $521 billion annually to fraud.

- CMS reported $87.1 billion in improper payments across Medicare, Medicaid, and CHIP in FY 2024—including $31.7 billion in Medicare Fee-for-Service and $31.1 billion in Medicaid.

- MedPAC estimates the federal government overpays Medicare Advantage plans by $84 billion annually, $40 billion of which stems from questionable coding practices.

- In Minnesota, federal prosecutors believe half or more of $18 billion spent on 14 Medicaid programs since 2018 may be fraudulent—what the U.S. Attorney's Office called fraud at "staggering industrial scale."

- Since FY 2003, cumulative improper payments have reached $2.7 trillion.

At current rates, taxpayers face $43-81 billion in additional improper payments over the next six months, with total fraud exposure potentially reaching $116-260 billion.

I expect you to:

1. Support and expand congressional investigations into Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security fraud with public hearings and transparent reporting.

2. Hold agency leadership accountable for oversight failures—including criminal prosecution and imprisonment of officials who enabled, ignored, or participated in fraud. No more quiet resignations with pensions intact. Private sector executives go to prison for fraud at this scale. Public officials should face the same.

3. Pass legislation requiring proportional federal income tax reductions as fraud is recovered. Recovered dollars should return to taxpayers, not disappear into new spending.

4. Implement structural reforms: prepayment claim reviews, tighter provider screening, and prosecution of both fraud perpetrators and the officials who let it happen.

Medicaid Fraud Control Units returned $3.46 for every $1 spent in FY 2024. Enforcement works when there is will to enforce.

Tennesseans work hard for their income. We will not accept losing our tax dollars to fraud while being told there is no room for relief. We expect action, and we expect those responsible to face consequences.

I will be watching your response and will remember it at the ballot box.

Respectfully,

i swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.

~ solid 14k yellow gold with matching 55cm chain ~

I don't know who made this, but I'm dead lol

Nostr, how do you feel about having a permanent record of all zaps you have ever received in plaintext and un-deletable? Not good right? What are we doing here.. We can maybe do better and then more zaps would flow.

i dont even go there anymore. its like sticking your head into a wind tunnel. 💨

You should be much more concerned with fat than with sugar.

#Peatstr

There is a pattern here

This is the best quote I have read in many months:

"Our culturally defined postmodern value system conflates pluralism (the capacity to hold many perspectives simultaneously) with relativism (the notion that all perspectives are equal because they are all perspectives)" - Lonny S. Jarrett

"We're going to run the country until we can do a safe, proper, and judicious transition."

"We're going to have our very large United States oil companies, the biggest anywhere in the world, go in and spend billions of dollars, fix the badly broken infrastructure, and start making money for the country. We are ready to stage a second and much larger attack if we need to do so."

- President Trump.

Oh ffs have i been tricked again ?! This is really annoying

As life is always layered, the roots are always much deeper.

The world becomes more complicated than ever - where every intention is observed. It made everyone mean. Yet, somehow it also became simpler.

After one too many honest conversations with ourselves, we find peace. And of course, those conversations are continuous. But that’s not even the hardest part. The harder part is to pursue it - the leap of faith.

I can’t help but realize this year’s journey was about the relationship between love and truth. What comes first? What’s more important? What’s left when one is absent? And what does it feel like when truth and love coexist without much friction?

When death is in sight, which matters more - truth or love? What would you let go of last?

What happens when someone doesn’t realize they’re being abusive? How long do you tolerate before standing up and walking away? How much is enough? How much is too much? I’ve been doing this math my whole life. A delicate dance indeed.

My New Year’s resolution is to know when to slow down, to release the excessive energy that can't be directed towards love and healing. To know when it’s too much - that's to know how to truly live with low time preference. A challenge, as always.

Have been watching Pluribus - apparently one of the most watched shows on Apple TV? LOL - see how much people are starving for peace and love? And how much rejection we’re willing to endure when it comes to unconditional love, all because of fear and trauma. It’s heartbreaking, all the grief that comes with it.

I’m grateful for everything that lined up exactly as it did, so a delicate piece of consciousness like me gets to witness it all.

Would you do nothing when you could have done anything? What would you do? Maybe that should be our New Year’s resolution.

Cheers to peace. Love is the cure.

Happy New Year 🥂✨

You a day early?

I’m a lot less polite in uncomfortable or awkward social situations than I was pre covid

Does anyone have a preference on how they consume the show notes with a podcast episode?

Anyone actually read them? What do you like? Anything you look for in particular?

I've been trialling inputting the questions I ask, rather than explaining what the episode discusses

Not sure if it works that well though?

#asknostr

sweet. Naming committee failed but look fwd to it none the less

commie, not commie - they will turn you into a bar of soap because it's profitable