Armed guards at the door. Opioids offered on repeat. Apple Pay at my bedside. Welcome to the American Emergency Room. The French think it bankrupts you. Americans think France does it for free. I’ve been to the ER in both. Both are wrong. Mountain bike crash, dislocated and fractured shoulder. I’m French, I live in San Francisco, and I take slightly too many risks. Let’s compare. Security 🇺🇸 Kaiser in Marin. Three armed guards and a metal detector. My phone set it off, so with my shoulder out of its socket I walked through again. And again. Then a pat-down. 🇫🇷 A couple of unarmed guys with walkie-talkies. Still not sure what they’re for. Wait 🇺🇸 Three people in the waiting room. Seen in 15 to 30 minutes. 🇫🇷 Broken hand: packed room, 4 hours before anyone touched me. Records 🇺🇸 Kaiser is vertically integrated. Insurer, hospital, doctors: one system. They had my file before I sat down. 🇫🇷 Every new doctor is a fresh context window. Zero history, maybe a printout from last time. Infrastructure 🇺🇸 Small hospital, serious kit. Straight to the trauma bay: real bed, IV, vitals monitoring, ready for surgery if needed. All imaging on the spot. 🇫🇷 Broken hand: a plastic chair and a Doliprane. Drugs 🇺🇸 Strong opioids were the default offer. I said no. They insisted. The doctor came in personally, confused why someone in that much pain would refuse. I stuck to Tylenol, an anti-inflammatory, to put the shoulder back in. Yes, it hurt. No, I didn’t tap out. My mom is proud of me. 🇫🇷 Broken hand: Doliprane, opioids never mentioned. I have friends who got their shoulder popped back in with nothing at all. US default: opioids. French default: Doliprane. Bill 🇺🇸 Every nurse warned me: “You’re French, this bill is going to traumatize you.” Before discharge, someone came to my bed to collect payment. Apple Pay, from the hospital bed. $300. For everything. On a ~$500/month Kaiser plan. 🇫🇷 A flat ~€20 ER fee, usually reimbursed by your mutuelle. The real bill shows up later, on your payslip (see below) followup 🇺🇸 Kaiser called me right after to set up follow-up and physio, all in their system. So far, so good. 🇫🇷 Broken hand: discharged, figure it out yourself. A friend dislocated her finger. They put it back in wrong, sent her home with bad instructions, it locked up, and she needed surgery months later. Still not fixed. “Free healthcare” in France It’s not free when your marginal tax rate nears 70% with social charges. And if you want quality care fast, more and more people pay for private clinics anyway. Verdict One person, one data point. But the care was 10x better than anything I’ve had in France, for a price that’s completely fine. France has a lot to learn. And yes, I refused the narcotics to stay sharp enough to launch a NanoCorp from my hospital bed. Launch your first company run by an AI agent: nanocorp .so

Downtown Minneapolis just took a MASSIVE hit... The Royal Sonesta, an upscale 360 room hotel, just sold for just $5M - a BRUTAL 93% 'discount' from its $75M purchase price in 2018 That's just ~$14K per room, down from ~$208K just 8 years ago... Here's the interesting part: The location is genuinely prime by downtown Minneapolis standards It's an upscale, 4-star property in the HEART of DT Minneapolis, steps from Nicollet Mall and connected to the city's skyway system It's genuinely WILD seeing hotels like this being sold at 90%+ discounts, even knowing what's driving these sales... What does the future hold for Minneapolis? Stay tuned and follow for more commercial real estate deals trading at massive discounts

"This is America, my friend. This is the United Nations. This isn't your communist dictatorship. You cannot silence me." Ambassador Mike Waltz said that at the UN today after Cuba's delegation tried to shout him down in the annual embargo debate. Havana screams "blockade." Waltz says American companies shipped Cuba over $876 million in goods in the first eight months of 2026, including $230 million in fuel. Strangest blockade ever: it delivers. A regime that jails dissidents lecturing the world on dignity. In 2024 only Israel voted with us. Last year seven nations voted no and 12 abstained. Tomorrow's vote shows who still buys the act.

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Is everyone getting excited for LWAD Awareness Month? Lake Wobegon Affective Disorder is real. November is LWAD Awareness month, May we yet find a cure.

Ilhan Omar: "Somalis are not the people to mess with." 🤍

Hasan Piker pops the fuck off on @MinnesotaDFL. He is absolutely correct: "I hate this. I am more woke than the fucking Minnesota DFL. I'm more woke than you. You guys are pieces of shit. You're fucking out-of-touch assholes; not everyone in DFL is, but yes, the state party that's been chirping about this are out-of-touch assholes. They're making it seem like I'm this radical, racist or something. Fuck you. The only reason why you're doing this is because YOU'RE racist, because you have an emotional investment in an apartheid state that's done a genocide and you can't have that conversation, so all you do is fucking disparage people who speak out against it. Well, sucks to suck for you. The overwhelming majority of your voters also hate this connection that we have and also hate the actions of this apartheid state that's doing a genocide."