[-] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago

Is fuckboy really a curse word?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 22 hours ago

You know what would be great, would be to hold these weirdos liable for the time and expense that public agencies have incurred to deal with the bomb threats and idiots they've directly incited.

Freedom of speech is not freedom from consequences.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

Sure, but what does that have to do with this picture? The bridge looks deteriorated on that leading edge because 75 trucks have crashed into it at speed.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Or counting has gotten better

[-] [email protected] 70 points 4 days ago

What kind of lame equivocation is "second best?" If he's "second best" in a debate with two people, then that means HE LOST.

Are these GOP lawmakers and analysts so spineless and beholden to Trump that they cannot discuss this as just one more - in a long list - of his failures?

[-] [email protected] 17 points 5 days ago

The combined wealth of the ~750 US billionaires at the end of 2023 was about $5.2T. Total individual federal income tax revenue in 2023 was $2.2T.

So it seems non-billionaires could go federal tax free for 2 full years.

[-] [email protected] 81 points 1 month ago

This was the obvious move - attempt to change the venue to Fox, Newsmax or worse. I'm surprised Tucker isn't a proposed moderator.

Harris should counter with a live fact check requirement regardless of venue, which Trump and Fox could never accept.

[-] [email protected] 87 points 2 months ago

Trump's plan is to end support for Ukraine.

[-] [email protected] 71 points 4 months ago

The argument for AM appears to be: the vast majority of adults will receive an emergency broadcast through their cellphone, but what happens if some event has already occurred which disabled large portions of the cellular network (which itself is an obvious target to create havoc)?

I'm fine with using AM as a redundant system for alerts.

Maybe make it more useful though for people in the car? I don't need an AM button I'm never going to touch. Instead have it monitor whatever the emergency broadcast frequencies are automatically, and put something on screen when there is an alert. That would make it a useful "modern" feature as opposed to appearing as a legacy holdover.

[-] [email protected] 66 points 6 months ago

I'm all for single payer in the US but this diagram is a bit misleading.

  • There's still a program receiving government funding (e.g. Medicare).
  • There's still admin and billing (for the government program).

What I assume you're really gutting are profits and shareholders for insurance companies. (Good, because healthcare in my opinion should not be a profit driven business in any respect.)

What I fear, however, is who is in power at any given time might change the care you receive if such a system isn't setup with safeguards and ironclad mandates.

For instance, Republicans would absolutely attempt, through legislation, executive order, and the courts, to implement an effective federal ban on abortion or healthcare for trans and LGBTQ groups by changing how/if a single payer system would cover these services.

I would also be worried about the public availability of coverage data such that lists of frequent providers for these services are easily obtained and become a tool for harassment by religious zealots.

Or, imagine an anti-vaxxer put in charge of the program during the next pandemic.

How do other countries deal with these issues? Or, have politics become so broken in the US that this is a somewhat uniquely American problem?

[-] [email protected] 141 points 7 months ago

You're famous for being photographed shirtless on a horse. Is that because horses can't judge you, or is it a new Russian policy for reducing laundry costs?

[-] [email protected] 71 points 7 months ago

I recently went through these exact pains trying to contribute to a project that exclusively ran through Discord and eventually had to give up when it was clear they would never enable issues in their GitHub repos for "reasons."

It was impossible to discover the history behind anything. Even current information was lost within days, having to rehash aspects that were already investigated and decided upon.

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Completed my Mandalorian costume just in time for Halloween.

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