Some people get very culty pro and against various political inclinations.
-- Mike Hammett ----- Original Message ----- From: "rory" <[email protected]> To: "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, May 23, 2025 9:12:23 AM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Scott Adams -Dilbert Be serious guys. You have posted some ridiculous statements. No child is st= arving in schools, fluoride is in every toothpaste today as opposed to 50 y= ears ago, and the guy you hate is bringing our country and the world back f= rom 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.=20 -------- Original message --------=20 From: Nate Burke <[email protected]>=20 Date: 5/23/25 6:44 AM (GMT-07:00)=20 To: [email protected]=20 Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Scott Adams -Dilbert=20 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"=20 On 5/23/2025 8:36 AM, Robert wrote:=20 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 t= o just starving.=20 On 5/23/25 6:18 AM, Steve Jones wrote:=20 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 t= o 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 rem= ember that intellectual move. know who else remembers, pepperidge farms rem= embers. 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 ulti= mate outcome was pretty much every school know has free lunches and the nat= ions lunch ladies revolted and got edible food back in the cafeterias. My n= eighbor, Mrs Misses was a lunch director so I got the full rundown on how t= hat went down. It was crazy, it literally cost school districts insane amou= nts of money in excess dumpster fees due to the amount of waste her program= caused=20 So technically, her program did work in the end, after it was dismantled, p= lus 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 i= s an intellectual superior and the lunch ladies were just anti intellectual= s. The kids, who refused to eat the garbage she fed them definitely were an= ti intellectuals and if they had just followed the science, their friends w= ouldnt have been fat little diabetics=20 On Fri, May 23, 2025 at 7:52 AM Darin Steffl < [email protected] > wr= ote:=20 There's nothing wrong with trying to make our food better quality with fewe= r bad ingredients. The problem is RFK and orange man believe and spread con= spiracy theories. They're trying to claim fluoride in water supplies is har= mful to us when it's so clearly not. Even dentists recommend it to prevent = cavities and tooth decay.=20 Google "fluoride in water safe" to review more about how it benefits us.=20 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 tikto= k of stay at home moms that aren't doing any child vaccinations at all. The= y think their natural essential oils will protect their kids from deadly di= sease.=20 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 f= or overseas disease prevention has been cut. The world and our country will= become more deadly and sick under our current admin as a result.=20 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.=20 Google "Michelle Obama obesity" if you want to read about her efforts.=20 On Fri, May 23, 2025, 12:43 AM Bill Prince < [email protected] > wrote:= =20 I was taking tamsulosin, but it really didn't work. Ended up with a thing c= alled TURP (you can look it up, but it's basically a roto-rooter on your pr= ostate). You get a free biopsy with the procedure, and I was clear.=20 bp <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com>=20 On 5/22/2025 7:12 PM, Chuck McCown wrote:=20 Just took a blood test, no results yet.=20 If I miss one day of tamsulosin I can=E2=80=99t piss well. Reminds me of To= m Hanks in The Green Mile.=20 From: AF [ mailto:[email protected] ] On Behalf Of Ken Hohhof=20 Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2025 11:19 AM=20 To: 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group' <[email protected]>=20 Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Scott Adams -Dilbert=20 My personal belief is that most men over 50 have prostrate cancer, what mat= ters 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 choi= ce of surgery or radiation.=20 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=E2=80=99= s face it, we=E2=80=99re all going to die of SOMETHING. Or maybe they just = say =E2=80=9Cnatural causes=E2=80=9D. Go back far enough and they just didn= =E2=80=99t talk about cancer, it was taboo, so someone died but it wasn=E2= =80=99t cancer because they wouldn=E2=80=99t say the word.=20 It=E2=80=99s like the supposed =E2=80=9Cepidemic=E2=80=9D of autism. More l= ike better and earlier diagnosis.=20 From: AF < [email protected] > On Behalf Of Bill Prince=20 Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2025 11:36 AM=20 To: [email protected]=20 Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Scott Adams -Dilbert=20 Certain cancer rates for younger folks are up (e.g. colon cancer). That one= 's a mystery.=20 However, longer life expectancy increases the odds of cancer later in life = too.=20 There is also better screening, so that is an unknown in terms of what the = actual "rate" is.=20 We had a friend who was diagnosed with prostate cancer when he was around 7= 5. 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 prost= ate cancer is not what got him in the end.=20 bp <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com>=20 On 5/22/2025 8:56 AM, Dev wrote:=20 Is it just me or does it seem like cancer rates are rising? You=E2=80=99d t= hink with enough smart people in enough rooms, we=E2=80=99d have solved thi= s by now.=20 On May 22, 2025, at 6:24 AM, Cameron Crum <[email protected]> wrote:=20 I know I'm not the only Dilbert fan in the group, but this is kind of sad.= =20 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 mov= e around.=20 Adams revealed his diagnosis on his YouTube show, "Real Coffee With Scott A= dams," 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."=20 He stated that he has had time to process the diagnosis, get his affairs in= order, and say his goodbyes. As a California resident, he also referred to= the state's End of Life Option Act as "an option."=20 --=20 AF mailing list=20 [email protected]=20 http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com=20 --=20 AF mailing list=20 [email protected]=20 http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com=20 Darin Steffl=20 Minnesota WiFi=20 www.mnwifi.com=20 507-634-WiFi=20 Like us on Facebook --=20 AF mailing list=20 [email protected]=20 http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com=20 --=20 AF mailing list [email protected] http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list [email protected] http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
