▪️I think this Alabama SC decision was awful, but this meme follows the law of The Left Can’t Meme & gets it completely backwards. The fact is that storing embryos safely in a cryogenic nursery DOES take a lot of resources and this ruling makes it prohibitively expensive to do so!
▪️The background of this case was that a hospital patient wandered into a fertility clinic through an unsecured door. They entered the cryogenic nursery, removed several embryos, then dropped them on the floor when they freeze-burned their hand, killing the embryos.
▪️The couples who these embryos belonged to sued for damages based on Alabama’s Wrongful Death of a Minor Act. The trial court dismissed it as it determined the IVF embryos were not children, but the Alabama SC reversed this, saying even “extrauterine children” are children protected under this act.
▪️Thus, this decision has nothing to do with neglecting embryos or controlling women, it’s the exact opposite. It means every single embryo in an IVF clinic is considered to have the rights of children, and the legal liability that carries with it. It means clinics must protect embryos as if they were children.
▪️Clearly, no one would want to operate an IVF clinic in this sort of legal environment. It’s reasonable that if an embryo is lost or destroyed a couple would be reimbursed for its costs, but to allow them to sue for damages as if it were an actual child brings a huge increase of risk to IVF clinics, for which services are already extremely expensive to prospective parents.
▪️This is a proposal that pertains only to graduate level nursing degrees, not undergraduate ones (which were never considered professional degrees). The proposal will have a 30-60 day public comment period next year, where groups can object, before the DoE will decide on it.
▪️This is about how much federal student loans someone can take out for a particular degree. The cap on graduate degrees is $100k ($20,500/yr), while a “professional degree” limit is $200k ($50k/yr).
▪️Under the new rule proposal, professional degrees include:
🔹Pharmacy
🔹Dentistry
🔹Veterinary medicine
🔹Chiropractic
🔹Law
🔹Medicine (including osteopathic medicine & podiatry)
🔹Optometry
🔹Theology
▪️The nursing degrees excluded are ones like master of science in nursing (MSN), doctor of nursing practice (DNP) and PhD in nursing. These degrees would be limited to $100k in federal student loans, like all other graduate degrees.
▪️These changes came from the One Big Beautiful Bill’s...
▪️The left keeps using this meme but they don’t actually believe it. If you believe SNAP subsidizes companies to pay below a “living wage” this implies that if you take food stamps away they would suddenly pay a higher, “living” wage. So why not get rid of food stamps, then?!
▪️Except they know, and everyone knows, this isn’t true. Wages are set by supply and demand, not some mythical “living wage” metric. Absent food stamps there would actually be downward, not upward, pressure on wages, because the reality is food stamps subsidize the poor to not work as much as they might otherwise need to.
▪️Without SNAP, some low income people would need to work more hours to make ends meet, increasing the availability of low-skilled labor and lowering wages (all else being equal).
▪️Plus, we all know the left loves and supports food stamps. Which means, by this meme’s logic, they love to subsidize corporate profits. But they don’t really, they just think this ...
▪️Wait, this is the guy libertarians and the new right rave about being a great historian?! This sounds like a clueless meme from The Other 98%, except they wouldn’t add in the bizarre defense of feudal lords. Feudalism didn’t deprive peasants of their livelihoods for abstract goals? This is total fantasy.
▪️Amazon employs 1.55M, so this is less than 2% of their workforce, although these cuts will be to corporate, which employs 350k, so 8.5% of that. The CEO says there is an excess of bureaucracy at Amazon, and AI can automate certain repetitive tasks. Also, much of the cuts will be to HR, which is expected shrink by 15%, yay. Managers and HR are peasants now?
▪️I don’t know the inner workings of Amazon, and neither does Darryl, but this seems to be normal management practice to keep a company efficient and competitive. Given the immense size of Amazon the numbers look large, but far bigger shakeups happen all the time in the private sector. Apparently, under the new ...
