It's true the party in the minority has very little control in the short term. But it's not useless to resist. Resisting helps to bring attention to the injustices, to let the people affected know they're not alone, and to build support for campaigns to retake control in the next election.
November 10, 2025 at 6:41 PM
It's true the party in the minority has very little control in the short term. But it's not useless to resist. Resisting helps to bring attention to the injustices, to let the people affected know they're not alone, and to build support for campaigns to retake control in the next election.
I'm sorry to hear you were impacted by the shutdown. Thank you for your work as a civil servant. I hope you can continue to do good work.
November 10, 2025 at 2:49 PM
I'm sorry to hear you were impacted by the shutdown. Thank you for your work as a civil servant. I hope you can continue to do good work.
What has happened is to prove publicly the depth of the GOP's disdain for the welfare of Americans. They were okay with letting the shutdown affect millions of people like you indefinitely, to achieve their goal of making health care unaffordable for millions of others.
November 10, 2025 at 2:45 PM
What has happened is to prove publicly the depth of the GOP's disdain for the welfare of Americans. They were okay with letting the shutdown affect millions of people like you indefinitely, to achieve their goal of making health care unaffordable for millions of others.
That's too cynical, and not what I'm saying. I assume most Dems started the shutdown fight thinking they had a chance and an obligation to fight for the ACA subsidies. I also assume all 47 of the Dem Senators have their own take on the situation. They don't act as a single entity.
November 10, 2025 at 2:26 PM
That's too cynical, and not what I'm saying. I assume most Dems started the shutdown fight thinking they had a chance and an obligation to fight for the ACA subsidies. I also assume all 47 of the Dem Senators have their own take on the situation. They don't act as a single entity.
It's also virtually certain that Dem's efforts to restore ACA subsidies were not going to work. They had no leverage to negotiate because the opposite side doesn't care how much or how long Americans in either group were hurting.
November 10, 2025 at 1:58 PM
It's also virtually certain that Dem's efforts to restore ACA subsidies were not going to work. They had no leverage to negotiate because the opposite side doesn't care how much or how long Americans in either group were hurting.
I keep reading Bluesky folks wishing the Democrats would speak to more ambitious and unified policy agenda. A "Project 2029" to pitch to voters. I think national health care should be in them.
November 10, 2025 at 2:08 AM
I keep reading Bluesky folks wishing the Democrats would speak to more ambitious and unified policy agenda. A "Project 2029" to pitch to voters. I think national health care should be in them.
Yes, you'd think employers would be all over this change. If they could get out of the business of having to re-negotiate benefits every year, they could reduce HR costs.
November 10, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Yes, you'd think employers would be all over this change. If they could get out of the business of having to re-negotiate benefits every year, they could reduce HR costs.
Once national health care is an option, the regulations and subsidies that Republicans don't like about the ACA can sunset. Anyone who still wants to use only private insurance is free to do so. I don't think they will enjoy the cost or the coverage, but to each their own.
November 10, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Once national health care is an option, the regulations and subsidies that Republicans don't like about the ACA can sunset. Anyone who still wants to use only private insurance is free to do so. I don't think they will enjoy the cost or the coverage, but to each their own.
The more employers and individuals who use the Medicare-for-all plan, the more incentive health providers would have to accept it. If they don't accept it, they would have a dwindling supply of customers.
November 10, 2025 at 1:25 AM
The more employers and individuals who use the Medicare-for-all plan, the more incentive health providers would have to accept it. If they don't accept it, they would have a dwindling supply of customers.
The more employers and individuals who sign up for the Medicare-for-all plan, the broader the base will be, and the more affordable it can be for everyone. Obviously, it would have a mandate to be non-profit.
November 10, 2025 at 1:23 AM
The more employers and individuals who sign up for the Medicare-for-all plan, the broader the base will be, and the more affordable it can be for everyone. Obviously, it would have a mandate to be non-profit.
Folks who are under age 65 don't get free Medicare, they must pay premiums. That revenue would help to support Medicare and make it more fiscally secure.
The premiums would be controlled by law, so they wouldn't go up 18% or more per year for no reason, like happens with private insurance.
The premiums would be controlled by law, so they wouldn't go up 18% or more per year for no reason, like happens with private insurance.
November 10, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Folks who are under age 65 don't get free Medicare, they must pay premiums. That revenue would help to support Medicare and make it more fiscally secure.
The premiums would be controlled by law, so they wouldn't go up 18% or more per year for no reason, like happens with private insurance.
The premiums would be controlled by law, so they wouldn't go up 18% or more per year for no reason, like happens with private insurance.
A compromise to satisfy folks who are anti-public health is to make it opt-in instead of mandated. We would allow — but not require — all employers and individuals to enroll in Medicare.
If some folks would rather paying high rates for poor service with private insurance, be my guest.
If some folks would rather paying high rates for poor service with private insurance, be my guest.
November 10, 2025 at 1:16 AM
A compromise to satisfy folks who are anti-public health is to make it opt-in instead of mandated. We would allow — but not require — all employers and individuals to enroll in Medicare.
If some folks would rather paying high rates for poor service with private insurance, be my guest.
If some folks would rather paying high rates for poor service with private insurance, be my guest.
The difference is a society that emphasizes profit incentive as much as ours does. Any technology can be used to create value. But a profit incentive usually rewards creating less value, to the extent that that usually goes along with less cost.
November 9, 2025 at 10:11 PM
The difference is a society that emphasizes profit incentive as much as ours does. Any technology can be used to create value. But a profit incentive usually rewards creating less value, to the extent that that usually goes along with less cost.
Yes, I'll agree that machine learning or data science techniques are very useful. I agree machine learning is not the same as LLM's. Perhaps the previous commenter is conflating these two things.
November 9, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Yes, I'll agree that machine learning or data science techniques are very useful. I agree machine learning is not the same as LLM's. Perhaps the previous commenter is conflating these two things.
Why do you think it should be used only in STEM?
STEM is in some ways the *worst* place to use AI.
For example, this recent story about bogus AI-generated letters to science research journals (gift link).
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/s...
STEM is in some ways the *worst* place to use AI.
For example, this recent story about bogus AI-generated letters to science research journals (gift link).
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/s...
The Editor Got a Letter From ‘Dr. B.S.’ So Did a Lot of Other Editors.
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Why do you think it should be used only in STEM?
STEM is in some ways the *worst* place to use AI.
For example, this recent story about bogus AI-generated letters to science research journals (gift link).
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/s...
STEM is in some ways the *worst* place to use AI.
For example, this recent story about bogus AI-generated letters to science research journals (gift link).
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/s...
Besides the stock market, the economy thrives on all the spending by AI companies. For example, commercial real estate was struggling because of the pandemic. New AI startup companies have driven companies back into growth mode, which means a real estate boom.
Love it or hate it, artificial intelligence is reshaping California | Opinion
Investors are spending billions of new dollars every month in Northern California in search of a technological breakthrough.
www.sacbee.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Besides the stock market, the economy thrives on all the spending by AI companies. For example, commercial real estate was struggling because of the pandemic. New AI startup companies have driven companies back into growth mode, which means a real estate boom.
The Tech stock market loves AI. It was in free fall in 2022 until OpenAI released ChatGPT in November. AI doesn't offer much value for real people, but after crypto imploded, Tech needed another hot bandwagon to hitch itself to. AI was in the right place at the right time.
November 9, 2025 at 2:34 PM
The Tech stock market loves AI. It was in free fall in 2022 until OpenAI released ChatGPT in November. AI doesn't offer much value for real people, but after crypto imploded, Tech needed another hot bandwagon to hitch itself to. AI was in the right place at the right time.
Maybe not uncanny or creepy, but definitely ear-ie.
November 9, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Maybe not uncanny or creepy, but definitely ear-ie.
Yes, if the script is getting that long, it's probably worth developing a more robust service in Java or Go or whatever your favorite language is.
Or else break the bash script up into components, embracing the UNIX philosophy of making simple, reusable tools.
Or else break the bash script up into components, embracing the UNIX philosophy of making simple, reusable tools.
November 8, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Yes, if the script is getting that long, it's probably worth developing a more robust service in Java or Go or whatever your favorite language is.
Or else break the bash script up into components, embracing the UNIX philosophy of making simple, reusable tools.
Or else break the bash script up into components, embracing the UNIX philosophy of making simple, reusable tools.
Also: take bash seriously as a programming language.
A Java zealot looked at one of my shell scripts and said with surprise, "I didn't know it was possible to write well-structured code in bash."
A Java zealot looked at one of my shell scripts and said with surprise, "I didn't know it was possible to write well-structured code in bash."
November 7, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Also: take bash seriously as a programming language.
A Java zealot looked at one of my shell scripts and said with surprise, "I didn't know it was possible to write well-structured code in bash."
A Java zealot looked at one of my shell scripts and said with surprise, "I didn't know it was possible to write well-structured code in bash."
Cynical, but could explain why she spreads the crazy conspiracy theories.
She doesn't believe them — she just uses them to get attention, which drives fundraising. She's successful at that, way over average for a congressperson in 2022-2024.
Politicians are fundraisers first, legislators second.
She doesn't believe them — she just uses them to get attention, which drives fundraising. She's successful at that, way over average for a congressperson in 2022-2024.
Politicians are fundraisers first, legislators second.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene - Campaign Finance Summary
Fundraising profile for Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene - Georgia District 14
www.opensecrets.org
November 7, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Cynical, but could explain why she spreads the crazy conspiracy theories.
She doesn't believe them — she just uses them to get attention, which drives fundraising. She's successful at that, way over average for a congressperson in 2022-2024.
Politicians are fundraisers first, legislators second.
She doesn't believe them — she just uses them to get attention, which drives fundraising. She's successful at that, way over average for a congressperson in 2022-2024.
Politicians are fundraisers first, legislators second.
"A chamber may, however, adopt orders (while it is in session) providing that certain kinds of administrative business, such as the receipt of messages from the President or reports of committees, may occur during an adjournment."
www.congress.gov/crs-product/...
www.congress.gov/crs-product/...
www.congress.gov
November 5, 2025 at 3:42 AM
"A chamber may, however, adopt orders (while it is in session) providing that certain kinds of administrative business, such as the receipt of messages from the President or reports of committees, may occur during an adjournment."
www.congress.gov/crs-product/...
www.congress.gov/crs-product/...
Interesting trivia: It's said that the camera adds ten pounds, so to achieve the right look for this role, Christian Bale was filmed with nine cameras.
November 4, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Interesting trivia: It's said that the camera adds ten pounds, so to achieve the right look for this role, Christian Bale was filmed with nine cameras.
That's a good point, but it depends on whether they're ready with a new model at the time when the court orders them to discontinue the old model. If they aren't ready, but they're still obliged to alter or terminate the old model, they'd basically be out of business, wouldn't they?
November 4, 2025 at 4:42 AM
That's a good point, but it depends on whether they're ready with a new model at the time when the court orders them to discontinue the old model. If they aren't ready, but they're still obliged to alter or terminate the old model, they'd basically be out of business, wouldn't they?