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Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum has issued a landmark decree to establish a Universal Health Service, initiating a process to ensure all 120 million citizens can access any public medical institution. The first phase begins April 13 with the rollout of a new Universal Health Credential, starting with citizens aged 85 and older. This unified digital and physical platform aims to eventually streamline care across facilities like the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS), the Institute for Social Security and Services for State Workers (ISSSTE), and IMSS-Bienestar.

This little guy has been visiting me at work almost every day for the last few weeks. He lives across the street and he comes running as soon as I pull up in the morning.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/c/economy/p/1972277/bloomberg-pawn-shop-loans-spike-as-high-gas-prices-weigh-on-americans

[Bloomberg] Pawn Shop Loans Spike as High Gas Prices Weigh on Americans

Pawn shop owners across the US say they’ve seen an increase in demand for loans in the past month or so, a sign of just how punishing higher gas prices are for some Americans.

“We’re making a lot more loans,” said Tim Cassidy, the fourth generation in his family to run Cassidy’s Jewelry & Loan in Stockton, California. “They have to have that gas, they have to get to work.”

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Pawn shops can offer timely signals about consumer strain that may not be clear in official statistics, which often mask the experiences of different socioeconomic groups and are typically released with a lag.

Emphasis mine.

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TOS s2e25 "Bread and Circuses," TNG s2e18 "Up the Long Ladder," VOY s2e21 "Deadlock," and DS9 s6e13 "Far Beyond the Stars"

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Innovative concepts in exposing city kids to nature

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/45435884

"the company admitted it likely won’t be able to keep up with competing models."

"As such, the announcement is a bit of an enigma: if it can’t keep up with the competition, why release it at all? There’s a good change Meta is just trying to get its foot in the door — or a “seat at the big kid’s table,” as Wired put it. The company has struggled to stay relevant in a rapidly changing landscape" "Meta’s preceding Llama open source models largely failed to catch on, with a major controversy last year finding that Meta may have faked benchmark results to make its Llama 4 model seem more capable than it actually was."

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“Oo! Icky icky! … Something just went down that surrrrrrre wasn’t plankton!”

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Bill Pulte’s charity, Team Pulte, sent $65,000 to a nonprofit called “One World Love LLC” in 2023 to help the “underserved,” according to the charity’s tax filings. But our February reporting found that One World Love does not appear to be a nonprofit and is instead a corporate entity with ties to the law firm that represented President Donald Trump in his efforts to prove election fraud and to avoid paying damages after the January 6 insurrection at the Capitol.

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Long before his show business career, he was known as Mr. Liberace, the wood-shop teacher.

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