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No true bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 1d

The basic problem of health insurance: if you want sick people to be able to get insurance, then the insurance product ceases to be traditional insurance, bc the insurer cannot price risk. Once you accept that sick people should get insurance, you must accept some variety of a socialized system.

Steven T. Dennis @steventdennis.bsky.social · 1d

Rick Scott told me his plan would be to take all of the remaining ACA subsidies and redistribute them to HSA accounts and people can then buy whatever insurance a state certifies. Basically a repeal/replace.
He denied when I asked wouldn’t that create two-tiered system where sick pay much more…

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Ridley @ WATCH LYCORECO @rcombs.me · 13h

there are a bunch of great memes about softbank selling their Nvidia stake, but nobody seems to have actually read the article, where they explicitly say "we're doing this to raise cash to dump into OpenAI"

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 2d

the minute flights got canceled, Dems folded like a house of cards, leaving me to wonder why the fuck this post made some of you so angry

Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 2d

not enough chatter about how frequently members fly and how attacking airport capacity directly affects them in a way that cutting SNAP does not

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woke mayor @brianvan.bsky.social · 3d

So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!

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Ridley @ WATCH LYCORECO @rcombs.me · 3d

daily reminder that if a financial instrument increases the prices that buyers are able to pay, that just means sellers can charge more

30-year mortgages do this already and are toxic to the economy; 50-year mortgages would be a worse version of that

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Ridley @ WATCH LYCORECO @rcombs.me · 4d

as one does

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Ridley @ WATCH LYCORECO @rcombs.me · 4d

can I get a GLP-1 *ant*agonist, I want to eat more

Ridley @ WATCH LYCORECO @rcombs.me · 9d

am I still the only one who uses this siding design in my factorio rail system

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 14d

this btw is the framing that's getting a lot of traction with my normie friends. The house GOP is trying to repeal Obamacare, dems are saying no and so the GOP shut the government down to try and get the dems to cave; trump is too busy caring about the ballroom.

Jacquie @jmteo.bsky.social · 14d

Trump is checked out and the GOP in Congress has ideological commitments to fucking healthcare

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · Jun 19

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

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Ridley @ WATCH LYCORECO @rcombs.me · 16d

what are you all up to, I'm about to collect 100 coins in Shifting Sand Land by only pressing the B button

rcombs - Twitch

SM64 - One Button Challenge stars by pannenkoek2012 - TAS Console Verification

twitch.tv

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Ridley @ WATCH LYCORECO @rcombs.me · 16d

I'm increasingly convinced that the Luma is actually an elaborate hazing ritual disguised as a hotel; they have developed a type of coarse-textured woven-plastic floor material that's physically painful to walk on barefoot, and installed it in their guestrooms of all places

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Ridley @ WATCH LYCORECO @rcombs.me · 17d

okay real question, not a joke, not a euphemism: does anyone know anywhere in san francisco where I can take an actual decent shower with decent water pressure, I am willing to pay an irresponsible amount of money

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Ridley @ WATCH LYCORECO @rcombs.me · 17d

anybody missing a car key

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Ridley @ WATCH LYCORECO @rcombs.me · 17d

apparently all the VAs got a bunch of detailed direction except for shigemichi, who was told to just do whatever

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Ridley @ WATCH LYCORECO @rcombs.me · 17d

daily reminder that if you think "confess" has romantic implications, you've seen too much mediocre J-E loc work; that is purely a shitty stock translation and does not exist natively in english

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Ridley @ WATCH LYCORECO @rcombs.me · 17d

I briefly thought I'd discovered the first ever case where translating 告白 (romantic) as "confession" without further qualification was grudgingly acceptable, but no, this is a *novel*, you have plenty of flexibility to adjust this gag in whatever way is necessary to make it actually work in english!

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Ridley @ WATCH LYCORECO @rcombs.me · 17d

okay I love to see the euphemism treadmill called out in a novel afterword

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Ridley @ WATCH LYCORECO @rcombs.me · 18d

. o O (anime student council election attack ads)

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🏳️‍⚧️ Chicken Puppet 🏳️‍⚧️ @chickenpuppet.online · 19d

Elon Musk couldn’t figure out how to make a pop tart without hurting himself

rich traditions @helldude.bsky.social · 19d

one thing thats kinda crazy to get your head around is not that the musk and thiel masters of the universe are ungrateful for the vast public infrastructure, public funding of research, and robust systems of laws and rules that made their wealth possible. it's that theyre too dumb to understand it

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digital stars 💾🌟 @eepy.computer · 19d

robotgirl’s favorite position call that hydraulic mating press

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Ridley @ WATCH LYCORECO @rcombs.me · 19d

finally made it, sorry I'm late, what's up

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Ridley @ WATCH LYCORECO @rcombs.me · 20d

"I'm sorry for being scared of you. I should've been scared of you in a different way."

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Technical appreciator @whatahellofawaytodad.com · 21d

Reminder that Violent J of Insane Clown Posse has the correct response to a lot of the shitty things he said in the early days.

STEREOGUM: People my age, we talk about how we were lucky that we didn’t have social media growing up, and there’s no record of all the dumb shit we said and did. You didn’t have social media, but everything you said and did in those years is on record, and you’ve got to live with it now. That’s tough.

VIOLENT J: And the amount of gay Juggalos out there is really surprising. I think about them doing their research and getting the old records, getting excited about it, and getting their hearts broke or something, you know? I tell my daughter, “For the rest of your life, when your friends ask why your dad said that, say it’s because your dad was a fool. Don’t defend me. Say I was a fool then, but I’m not now.” There’s no excuse. I was going with the flow, and that’s the very thing we preach against — being a sheep. And that’s what I was doing.

https://www.stereogum.com/2083804/icp-interview-juggalos/interviews/weve-got-a-file-on-you/

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Ridley @ WATCH LYCORECO @rcombs.me · 24d

a waitress just asked me "are you still working on this soy sauce?" and I was momentarily like. is that how that works? am I supposed to be chugging it?

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