Yeah…

But the research had already split along that demographic divide.

If you’re upset about that, the logical point to raise that complaint would be with the original researchers, not people discussing it.

It’s the entire administration…

Everyone forgets trump got the Epstein files term 1.

So term 2 after Biden did nothing with it, trump (his handlers really) felt comfortable using it as a list of candidates, because if any of them don’t do what Trump says at any point, they can just burn them with the blackmail material they have, and absolutely no one else would protect them.

That’s why there’s never going to be an article 25, even if he tries another coup.

Everyone in Trump’s admin will fight tooth and nail for trump, because if trump doesn’t get what he wants he releases their Epstein dirt.

They won’t notice people skipping insurance that couldn’t afford to use their insurance in the first place.

Their sweet spot is people paying for it and never using it.

All Obamacare really did, is kick the van down the road by penalizing people for making the choice not to have insurance

That was a bandaid and as it gets worse people will decide the penalty is still better. If the penalty goes away, a shit ton of people’s math would change at once and it would crash the entire industry.

If it still doesn’t make sense, I don’t think I can explain it any simpler.

Buddy…

I’m not saying they never do it.

I’m saying the opposite isn’t true either, their top post is literally filled with people shit talking Israel.

Obviously I had some sort of problem with it, because I’ve blocked their whole instance already. Just like I’m doing here as soon as I hit submit.

You don’t have to interact with everything online. If an admin is a piece of shit, just stop going to the small insignificant corner of the Internet where they have control. It’s literally that easy.

It happens to everyone eventually

They delete anything questioning Israel’s geopolitics

The clearly don’t…

As evident by that comment thread I just linked…

Like, this is the opposite of how it’s supposed to work. One person makes claims, the other refutes with evidence

I’m providing evidence, and your refuting it with claims the already provided evidence disproves?

That’s enough to tell me he’s bad faith.

Maybe the admin is a douche, that would explain why I blocked the instance…

But that’s not the same as saying:

They delete anything questioning Israel’s geopolitics

Specifics matter

Half of all consumption spending in the US comes from the top 10% we are on track for that to narrow to the top 5% in my lifetime.

Ok…

But regardless of if that’s true, how does that effect the profits of the American healthcare industry besides gift shop sales?

Because I just don’t understand why you think it’s relevant or why American Healthcare corporations would care more about that than how much profit they’re making…

Apparently I’ve had their instance blocked for a while personally but, I went and looked at their front page and this is their top post on local:

https://feddit.org/post/25749999?scrollToComments=true

I honestly can’t remember why I blocked their instance, but if they’re rabidly pro-Israel across the full instance, they’re not doing a very good job of enforcing it if their top thread is any example.

Seems they’d have deleted all the comments talking about Epstein’s connection to Israel and Israel’s history of protecting pedophiles

Quality Control is what you’re paying for…

For pretty much any type of product where quality shouldn’t matter you can buy cheap, normal, expensive, insane.

100/1000 of cheap ones might have sleight flaws.

10/1000 normal may have flaws.

1/1000 expensive

And 1/100,000 for the insanely expensive ones may have a flaw.

So even if their optimal performanceshould be the same, the more expensive it is, the less likely the manufacturer lets subpar products out to market. Often it’s vertically integrated and as batches fail they get bumped down to a different label

Do the test again, they might score the same. But do it enough, and you’ll see the expensive ones eventually pull out ahead by a very sleight amount

Yep

Even if you make it big young, if you don’t keep working you’ll never afford 40 years of health insurance.

He made at least one good investment and didn’t blow his money. But that wasn’t enough to cover a major medical condition.

The rest of us don’t stand a chance, and I fully expect to be what actually gets us socialized medicine is going to be people just throwing the towel in on major medical treatment.

If a 40 year old gets cancer, we’re going to see more and more people just start refusing the treatment.

Once that starts becoming normal (it’s already happening) people are going to stop paying insurance because they know they’ll never really use it.

That would crash the healthcare industry, and would make them “settle” for a socialized system they could still make profits.

As long as they’re making money, they’re happy. Which is why long term Obamacare just forcing people to pay for healthcare is probably a negative.

If it wasn’t for that, lots more people would have opted out of healthcare.

Instead, the explanation stems from characteristics of the household: Women members of Congress are more likely to have a high-earning spouse. As the authors put it, they’re part of a “power couple.” Men members tend to come from very different households – ones in which their wives “take on flexible, lower-paying work and a disproportionate share of household responsibilities.” Women who want to run for Congress are therefore more likely to either not have childcare responsibilities or have the wealth to hire others to help with childcare.

I don’t think that they have even more wealthier spouses…

But if I was doing the research I would have went thru the tiny extra bit of trouble to treat it properly as a confounding variable and quantified it…

What’s more likely is that nothing about human variation is binary, and while it is mostly men attracted to personal wealth and power. But of women, if they’re likely to be attracted to the personal power if office, they’re also more likely to want their own personal wealth too.

That and it being more difficult for women to be elected, means the ones that do make it are more likely to be extra wealthy to compete with men. The outliers for wealth are the ones who got into politics to help others, and as such don’t prioritize personal wealth. They had other motivationa to run for office. I wouldnt be surprised if all the bottom net worth female politicians were solidly progressive.

This article makes it out to be an Israeli operation…

Because this guy was Israeli and he had a (reasonably popular) Israeli bullpup?

The article to the Cali event has similar evidence it was Chinese, except the Chinese stuff was at a higher level:

“Inside the Reedley Biolab, officials observed blood, tissue and other bodily fluid samples and serums; and thousands of vials of unlabeled fluids and suspected biological material,’ raising the concern that they contained pathogens,” according to a federal report from the Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party. Some of these vials were labeled with the names of pathogens in English or Mandarin.”

Like, doesn’t mean as much as it used to that the Feds think it’s Chineses and located it as part of an investigation into the Chinese government…

But it would seem more logical that this is just one Israeli working with the CCP, or at most that the two governments are cooperating than this is an Israeli operation that randomly has a CCP member in the media of the chain above this guy.

Posted this in Fediverse Memes but got deleted for some reason, can’t imagine why

Is it because you feel slighted by one mod from that instance so now you’re accusing an entire instance of supporting genocide?

Cuz that would be my guess…

Can you edit the link in?

Yeah, and they go out of their way to be obnoxious about it, reminds me of Blue Hair Timmy from WKUK:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pFD8ic4Lu4

Like, they go out of their way to throw as many as possible out there, desperate for people to notice and ask.

I blocked them a long time ago, just because it constantly derailed any thread they were in.

It’s not as rare as people keep acting…

He was on a hit TV show 20 years ago, but it was his breakout so he probably got no residuals

He wasn’t broke, he was a landlord that made like 12k/month off rent. But if his net worth was in the millions it was probably just like two LA houses that most likely still had mortgages. If you’re going off websites it’s probably reported wrong.

Like it’s applicable to everyone because insurance shouldn’t be tied to employment now that wages aren’t capped due to WW2 anymore, but it’s not like he was the 1% either. You gotta be well over 10 million for that.

Which should make us realize how bad wealth inequality has gotten. To the actual oligarchs Dawson and the rest of us are the same.

That’s actually huge as pc gaming becomes more and more divided…

If you’re a generation or two behind or running low RAM, it doesn’t matter how well it runs on brand new $5k machines.

You can filter any game based on matching specs and see how it handles.

I’d love to see them separate ratings for “technical” and “enjoyment” tho, but we’re still pretty far from that level of granuality

He was a fake Democrat before his stroke

Then it was a con long enough to get his wife and every other friend, staffer, and family member who has spoken publicly about it…

Like, that’s what makes brain damage so dangerous: the subject doesn’t realize they’ve changed.

He rationalizes away his prior opinions and it sounds like he was never progressive in the first place, he most likely doesn’t think he was.

It’s not like brain damage draws a line with a sudden change, it makes the person forget who they used to be. They view every memory thru the lens of the present, especially in Fettermans case where the damage is localized to frontal lobe.

I’m not defending him and this a million times worse than what you thought, but that’s why we need to understand it, we’re all one railroad spike to the forehead away from the same thing…

The issue was letting conservatives run the DNC under the label of “neoliberals”…

Like, there are fundamentally different ways a progressive and conservative think, to the point a brain scan can determine political leaning with an ~80% success rate after like five minutes of showing a human what to look for. Which is insanely impressive when you realize we rarely see 80% turnout in elections.

The neoliberals marketed themselves to Dem voters like we were conservatives, because that’s what they are and they lack the empathy to realize anyone’s different.

You can’t run a successful Dem campaign off fear, because if that appealed to Dem voters we’d be voting Republican already.

That’s why Obama did so well in 2008 off literally just saying “hope” and “change” over and over…

That’s all it fucking takes, and now that the neoliberals aren’t running the DNC, that’s what will come out of the primary naturally this time.

All the good parts will shut down…

ICE and CBP got that 75 billion no strings from BBB already.

Still better than everything else federal shutdown, but specifics matter. This won’t slow ice at all