Docs in the rest of the world don’t start with $200k student loans, and nurses don’t start $50k in debt. US medicare for all won’t magically give us Swedish hospital rates.

The US currently spends about $5 trillion on healthcare. About $1T of that goes through Medicare, another $0.9T through Medicaid, which leaves about $3T. Non-government spending is $1.6T through private insurance, $0.6T out of pocket, and $0.5T charities.

The “universal healthcare would be cheaper argument,” which I believe, is based on shifting that $3T of private payments into government spending and bringing the ~85% efficiency of care by private insurers up to the 98% that Medicare claims. i.e.: eliminating roughly $400 B of insurance company profit. That still requires $2.5T revenue increase, which is about 50% of current revenue.

Interestingly, the specific article cited is more making the case that all passenger cars are bad, and we’d be better off with e-bikes, transit, and walkable cities. i.e.: I don’t think hes saying 'EVs are worse than ICE," which is where the ‘lifetime emissions’ line usually goes. He’s saying “fuck cars, EVs not excepted.”

No person

Says nothing about God Empereors.

Doesn’t have to do them all. Democrats are super concentrated relative to Republicans. Here in Georgia, if ICE would shut down just Fulton county, they’d shift the state-wide margin by close to 10 percentage points, and that’s just 40 polling sites.

Fediverse growth is stalled for the same reason every alternative stalls: there’s no one here, so there’s no reason to join. Add on that there’s no way for content factories to recoup the costs of content creation, no way to ensure their work reaches maximum eyeballs, and you pretty much guarantee a niche platform.

It’'s the whole reason I’m here. I’m not interested in bullshit engagement-bait or people competing for imaginary internet points. Administration is going to do whatever administration wants, but if they’re open and explicit about it, I can shop around for an instance that fits me. If they obfuscate their heavy handed administration, then I might as well go back to the algorithm.

They’ve created a market for private food testing. Luxury brands that do (or at least promise) their own in-house testing and pathogen certification. What are you willing to pay for your health and safety?

And if some poors die, who cares? There’s plenty more where they came from. /s

Just what I was looking for. Recently got a kobo for experimenting, and just starting to figure out how to integrate it.

I’d still rather physical books, but sometimes there’s just too much premium for too shitty of POD trash.

Rush Limbaugh?

Extra sauce: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdh-sn1Ino8

Not even solar panels on the roofs.

As I understand his argument, it goes like: the 2020 Trump administration so badly bungled national security that foreign agents corrupted the election. The 2024 Biden administration fixed things enough to produce a fair election. Now that Trump is back in charge, he, himself, is saying that the 2026 election is going to be just as corrupt as the last time he was in charge.

Seems highly out of character to admit that he’s incompetent., but whatever

These are computer monitors, not TVs. Plugging them into a Windows box triggers Windows to silently install their “driver,” which silently installs a handful of other startup apps. It’s an escalation of the smartTV-wifi path.

Having not gone to any of my 40-or-so reunions, I feel like they would only get interesting after 20. Maybe 30. That’s long enough for everyone to have finished all the school they’re going to do, for people to have moved beyond their first jobs, or even first careers, and to have experienced enough life to really become their own people.

Physical dimensions? Some of these cards are pretty long and/or pretty tall. I’ve run into space constraints in smaller cases. Different manufacturers have different layouts, so that’s a specific card check.

https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/ has physical dimensions in the details, but not on the main table.

It’s been a while, but I read it more as a spoof. The characters more incompetent and self-aggrandizing than malicious. Kind of a foil to Le Carré’s usual work, where the hero is always one step ahead, even if he works through imperfect collaborators.

And then the Iraq WMD story came out, and it seemed disturbingly prescient.

The Tailor of Panama

I like Cory Doctorow’s take: AI is good for single-use, personal code to solve an immediate problem, and terrible for long-term, production projects. I imagine there’s a bunch of neophytes out there who use AI to create their first project, find out that github exists, and thinks someone else must be having the same problem they just solved, so why not release it to the public?

Doesn’t every WH renovation get named for the president who did it? Lincoln bedroom. Roosevelt theater. Truman bowling alley.

Trump Ballroom is obviously an occasional use facility, but “Trump heliport” is something they’ll say on the news every day for a thousand years.

Dunno how well it would work with kubernates internal networks, but my DNS is configured with different views for internal and external clients. So, when letsencrypt does a lookup, they get the external IP, but when an internal client looks up the same name, they get the internal IP. TLS is happy, because the certificate matches the name. I’m happy because it works even when the ISP is down.