Because it literally was. It was a version of Romneycare, that’s part of why they couldn’t repeal and replace, there’s nothing they could replace it with cause it was their plan.

Shame is good. Shame is one of the few means we have of sending a message that their actions are unacceptable. They don’t represent you or me, they represent their donors. And before you get on your high horse - yes I vote for these corrupt assholes, but I don’t understand why we would be content with this. I don’t understand why you’re defending them. It’s like Stockholm syndrome or something. Maybe if they actually stood for something they’d have more than a paltry majority. They can’t even stand against genocide, like, for fucks sake that’s the bare minimum. I think that’s what’s been so eye opening for so many recently.

Other countries aren’t like this. Our country wasn’t always like this. Things can be different. The system has been completely consumed by the interests of the wealthy and wealth inequality is higher than it’s ever been.

Mandami talks about FDR style governing. The last time a Democrat tried that he got elected 4 times and ended up dying in office. Don’t tell me thats unelectable.

A. “we grew a carrot”

B. “Okay but why stop there? Let’s build a whole garden so everyone can eat!”

A. “Oh so you want the person we gave a carrot to to starve huh asshole?”

Wtf are you on about?

1. Politics is about coalitions. These are people that are saying they are going to work together to enact specific changes they’ve outlined
2. Yes people should do that but they don’t. So we adapt to the world we have rather than let it burn waiting on people to change.
3. The idea that persons A opinion of person B has no relevancy to my potential opinion of person B goes against a million years of evolution.
   3a. Experts exist. If I have a specialty and recommend someone in my field that has more value than someone else who isn’t in that field. I know enough about this person and his expertise to take his opinion into account when forming my own.

Except voters in Texas. Unless you’re arguing they are pro jackass which isn’t an unreasonable take at this point.

Yeah randomness has been used effectively in the past but typically not that broad. Adding some chance to the process can be a good thing though as it limits the impact of corruption.

Well yeah, last time Americans elected a socialist they kept electing him til he died. Can’t have that happen again. They aren’t going with safe they are going with what they are financially incentivised to do. Look at the funding for democratic candidates, that’s their constituency. You’re projecting your own morals on them, they don’t actually care about what’s good for the country

What data supports this? What exit pills show that people were concerned about voting for a woman at rates that matter? Cause there’s tons of data showing it was other reasons. Democrats need to get out the base, exciting candidates is how you do that

Yeah this is having a huge negative impact on industry. New grads expect step by step process for every task. Every year there is less ability to solve problems. I don’t know what the solution is but even if we remove llms from the conversation we have an issue with graduates not being able to problem solve. Add on top of that the influence of social media and the constant fear of being wrong and you end up with paralysis once these individuals enter the workforce and are required to solve bespoke problems.

I don’t understand why we don’t like them asking this question. This seems like a really good thing to know the administrations position on so that a legal response can be made

I feel like this is a really bad idea on their part. So far they’ve only been terrorizing blue communities, now everyone is gonna get a taste. Just a litttttle but harder for people to ignore their own eyes and ears.

How do you define continent?

I’ma trust the experts on this one

Lol no these companies are now building their own fossil fuel plants. Mortgage the future is always the plan. I’ve been in the power industry for 15 years and only since AI have I been asked to work on fossil fuel construction projects rather than decommission projects

Neurons are much more sophisticated than transistors. A neuron can have multiple connections and can provide a range of values. Digital logic is all yes/no. I’m not sure we even can build something that mimics a brain with current technology.

I think the issue is you assume it will be enforced universally. It won’t. It will be dependent on the makeup of the district and the color of the individual voter. It will be up to individuals at polling stations (and any ICE present) whether ‘exceptions’ can be made for people that are ‘obviously citizens but forgot their ID’. Or whether a married woman’s name mismatch is an issue or not based on her skin/hair color and way of speaking. It’s going to be selectively enforced, by design

Edit - see poll tests

Props for not deleting. I love this

The author doesn’t disagree with you - they cite all sorts of reasons and that isn’t one of them

We should have genocided all of Germany? We should have killed the POWs? Not rendered aid to enemy casualties?

Generally the correct answer is, it’s complicated. If you’re arguing something is black and white you’re probably privileged enough to have never had to make one of these decisions yourself. Do I want ICE to exist? No. Do I want all conservatives to die? Also no. What’s more, people have all of 2 seconds to make these kinds of decisions and generally fall back on their training, which is to render aid first and figure out the rest later. Personally, I like that that’s what their instinct is, and I’m not going to give them shit for it

Yeah I think what’s missed is that there weren’t a lot of long form podcasts like that at the time. It was great to be able to hear someone like Sean Carroll come on and talk about Spacetime for 3 hours and then have Joe convince him to start his own podcast, which is still going and really dang good. Joe served as the interested but uninformed audience to just kind of keep the person talking. Not to defend what it’s become, but it wasn’t always like it is now

You’re saying they shouldn’t spend money on this? What alternative would you propose? In my mind this seems to fall pretty squarely in the good column.