Online Scams Revisited

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I recently posted on this topic, and this piece was brought to my attention as providing some additional insight into what to avoid and how to avoid them.

In addition, the Federal agency overseeing the Affordable Care Act, Medicaid and Medicare — the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) — expressly bars any unsolicited phone calls or door-to-door solicitations to sell Medicare policies. In other words, if you get a call you didn’t request, the caller is breaking the rules. If you know someone is dishonest, why would you ever want to do business with them?

I’m sure you’ve heard the old saying, if someone shows you what they are, believe them.

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Vegan Sopa de Maní (Bolivian Peanut Soup) Recipe – NYT Cooking

This vegan version of a traditional Bolivian soup is made with a base of puréed peanuts but has none of the heaviness of peanut butter Instead, it’s creamy yet delicate, hearty without heft Patrick Oropeza, the chef of Bolivian Llama Party in Sunnyside, Queens, primes the stock with a powder of locoto chiles, gutsier than jalapeños, and quilquiña, an herb that delivers the sunny grassiness of cilantro, with a sly kick

Source: Vegan Sopa de Maní (Bolivian Peanut Soup) Recipe – NYT Cooking

The US needs gun control … NOW

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As of this moment, I am aware that the latest mass shooter is a trans MANS and not a trans woman. I am also very aware of how the right wing are trying to use this as some of sort of “proof” that trans extremist are an epidemic. In “fact”, they are such a epidemic the Right have been able to name all the trans and non-binary in all of one tweet. Even then, one of them wasn’t actually non-binary.

Now Right Wingers, type into ONE tweet all the male, mass shooters.

Of the more than 100 mass shootings that have happened in the United States in the last four decades, the vast majority have been carried out by men. – By Max MolskiPublished March 27, 2023Updated onMarch 27, 2023at6:32 pm

Of the 141 U.S. mass killings since 1982, only six were carried out by women…

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