[-] elrik@lemmy.world 2 points 20 hours ago

Is fuckboy really a curse word?

[-] elrik@lemmy.world 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.

[-] elrik@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Or counting has gotten better

[-] elrik@lemmy.world 67 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?

[-] elrik@lemmy.world 13 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.

[-] elrik@lemmy.world 66 points 2 weeks ago

Bash said: "But what I wanna ask you about is what he said last month. He suggested that you ‘happened’ to turn Black recently for political purposes, questioning a core part of your identity.”

Where was the question? That's simply a statement about what Trump said.

Politico's headline is outrageous, but what was Bash even trying to do here? Because it reads like she was trying to ask (without asking) if Harris is black, which is just as weird and absurd as Trump's original comment.

Harris's reply is great because it applies both to Trump's racism and the problem with journalists giving these comments anything more than ridicule.

[-] elrik@lemmy.world 62 points 3 weeks ago

Proof of work, which becomes computationally expensive to scale, along with other heuristics based on your browser and page interaction. I believe it's less about clicking the box and what happens after you've clicked the box.

[-] elrik@lemmy.world 79 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.

[-] elrik@lemmy.world 84 points 2 months ago

Trump's plan is to end support for Ukraine.

[-] elrik@lemmy.world 71 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?

[-] elrik@lemmy.world 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?

[-] elrik@lemmy.world 67 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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