Yeah, I just posted because many of us are fans, but I forgot some people never leave an opportunity to politicize a topic. Poor guy is in a lot of pain from what I understand. I know I've received a lot of enjoyment from his cartoons over the years. I hope he doesn't suffer too much.
On Fri, May 23, 2025 at 9:13 AM rory <[email protected]> wrote: > Be serious guys. You have posted some ridiculous statements. No child is > starving in schools, fluoride is in every toothpaste today as opposed to 50 > years ago, and the guy you hate is bringing our country and the world back > from the disaster of the last 4 years. That's my opinion. Now, how about > we get back to technology instead of politics. Let's debate the othe stuff > on Facebook since we clearly aren't going to agree. > > > -------- Original message -------- > From: Nate Burke <[email protected]> > Date: 5/23/25 6:44 AM (GMT-07:00) > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Scott Adams -Dilbert > > Wait, your schools weren't like the trading pits at the Stock exchange? > "I've got an oreo and half a cinamon roll Anyone had a capri sun" > On 5/23/2025 8:36 AM, Robert wrote: > > Don't worry, the current administration has defunded all those school > lunch programs. So no bad lunches and no good lunches. The kids have > gone back to just starving. > > On 5/23/25 6:18 AM, Steve Jones wrote: > > i do remember when michelle destroyed the school lunch system, giving > beets to regular kids while hers ate gourmet 13 cheese mac and cheese that > led to massive school lunch waste and an explosion of childhood obesity > because kids threw the beets away, came home starving and gorged on chips. > I do remember that intellectual move. know who else remembers, pepperidge > farms remembers. probably not the best example to use. But the good > byproduct of it was that kids, particularly from poor families were so > hungry that the ultimate outcome was pretty much every school know has free > lunches and the nations lunch ladies revolted and got edible food back in > the cafeterias. My neighbor, Mrs Misses was a lunch director so I got the > full rundown on how that went down. It was crazy, it literally cost school > districts insane amounts of money in excess dumpster fees due to the amount > of waste her program caused > > So technically, her program did work in the end, after it was dismantled, > plus as a side benefit, she completely boomed the childhood diabetes > market, the outcome of that is the price controls on insulin. end of the > day, the nation benefited immensely from her abject failure. So I guess she > really is an intellectual superior and the lunch ladies were just anti > intellectuals. The kids, who refused to eat the garbage she fed them > definitely were anti intellectuals and if they had just followed the > science, their friends wouldnt have been fat little diabetics > > On Fri, May 23, 2025 at 7:52 AM Darin Steffl <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> There's nothing wrong with trying to make our food better quality with >> fewer bad ingredients. The problem is RFK and orange man believe and spread >> conspiracy theories. They're trying to claim fluoride in water supplies is >> harmful to us when it's so clearly not. Even dentists recommend it to >> prevent cavities and tooth decay. >> >> Google "fluoride in water safe" to review more about how it benefits us. >> >> >> They are anti-vax which will cause an increase in measles cases like >> we've seen. It will spread to other things like spikes in flu cases if >> people don't get flu shots. Who's ready for polio to come back? I see >> videos on tiktok of stay at home moms that aren't doing any child >> vaccinations at all. They think their natural essential oils will protect >> their kids from deadly disease. >> >> Under this admin, there's a war on intellectualism. Anyone that's smart >> is being labeled stupid and funding for important research has been cut. >> Aid for overseas disease prevention has been cut. The world and our country >> will become more deadly and sick under our current admin as a result. >> >> Does anyone remember when Michelle Obama tried to address childhood >> obesity and the conservatives cried about their freedom being taken away? >> She did it the right way with no conspiracy BS. >> >> Google "Michelle Obama obesity" if you want to read about her efforts. >> >> On Fri, May 23, 2025, 12:43 AM Bill Prince <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I was taking tamsulosin, but it really didn't work. Ended up with a >>> thing called TURP (you can look it up, but it's basically a roto-rooter on >>> your prostate). You get a free biopsy with the procedure, and I was clear. >>> >>> bp >>> <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com> >>> >>> On 5/22/2025 7:12 PM, Chuck McCown wrote: >>> >>> Just took a blood test, no results yet. >>> >>> >>> >>> If I miss one day of tamsulosin I can’t piss well. Reminds me of Tom >>> Hanks in The Green Mile. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> *From:* AF [mailto:[email protected] <[email protected]>] *On >>> Behalf Of *Ken Hohhof >>> *Sent:* Thursday, May 22, 2025 11:19 AM >>> *To:* 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group' <[email protected]> >>> <[email protected]> >>> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Scott Adams -Dilbert >>> >>> >>> >>> My personal belief is that most men over 50 have prostrate cancer, what >>> matters is how aggressive it is. For awhile the medical profession went >>> crazy with PSA tests. Based solely on a blood test, they would offer you >>> the choice of surgery or radiation. >>> >>> >>> >>> Bill is exactly correct. If you are diagnosed with non aggressive >>> prostrate cancer at age 75, something else is likely to kill you first. >>> Let’s face it, we’re all going to die of SOMETHING. Or maybe they just say >>> “natural causes”. Go back far enough and they just didn’t talk about >>> cancer, it was taboo, so someone died but it wasn’t cancer because they >>> wouldn’t say the word. >>> >>> >>> >>> It’s like the supposed “epidemic” of autism. More like better and >>> earlier diagnosis. >>> >>> >>> >>> *From:* AF <[email protected]> *On Behalf Of *Bill Prince >>> *Sent:* Thursday, May 22, 2025 11:36 AM >>> *To:* [email protected] >>> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Scott Adams -Dilbert >>> >>> >>> >>> Certain cancer rates for younger folks are up (e.g. colon cancer). That >>> one's a mystery. >>> >>> However, longer life expectancy increases the odds of cancer later in >>> life too. >>> >>> There is also better screening, so that is an unknown in terms of what >>> the actual "rate" is. >>> >>> We had a friend who was diagnosed with prostate cancer when he was >>> around 75. Doc told us, the prostate cancer was not going to kill him. Sure >>> enough, he died almost 20 years later at the ripe old age of 94, and no, >>> the prostate cancer is not what got him in the end. >>> >>> >>> >>> bp >>> >>> <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com> >>> >>> On 5/22/2025 8:56 AM, Dev wrote: >>> >>> Is it just me or does it seem like cancer rates are rising? You’d think >>> with enough smart people in enough rooms, we’d have solved this by now. >>> >>> >>> >>> On May 22, 2025, at 6:24 AM, Cameron Crum <[email protected]> >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> I know I'm not the only Dilbert fan in the group, but this is kind of >>> sad. >>> >>> >>> >>> Scott Adams, the creator of the "Dilbert" comic strip, announced on May >>> 19, 2025, that he has metastatic prostate cancer that has spread to his >>> bones. He stated that he expects to live only "months" and "sometime this >>> summer," and that he is in constant, "intolerable" pain, requiring a walker >>> to move around. >>> Adams revealed his diagnosis on his YouTube show, "Real Coffee With >>> Scott Adams," after former President Joe Biden's office announced that >>> Biden also had prostate cancer. Adams said he decided to share his own >>> health news to "slide under" Biden's announcement and deflect some of the >>> public attention. He also mentioned that he had been keeping his diagnosis >>> private to avoid becoming "just the dying cancer guy." >>> He stated that he has had time to process the diagnosis, get his affairs >>> in order, and say his goodbyes. 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