see the difference between Hasan and Beijingers is that Beijingers love their dogs.

The refrain used to be that there's no point switching to renewables while China is pouring out pollution. Now China is leading the world in renewable energy, and Trump's US is lagging far behind. In another three years of his term, it will be impossible to catch up.

What, you mean the pothead podcast bros lied to them??? No way...

Is the United States really about to touch the stove on insurance? Like are we really about to fuck this whole thing up, as a country?

It is *not possible* to have pre-existing conditions protection without some sort of system like the ACA in place. i mean, technically it is, but you end up with obscene premiums that no one can pay (which is what’s happening now)

Once you accept this, the question is whether you want a vestigial private in name only insurance system to administer things, or a fully nationalized system, or something in between. But you are not getting something resembling a real market.

at the end of the day, market insurance cannot provide insurance for sick people. It isn’t because insurers are greedy (though they are); it’s because every insurer would go bankrupt.

I've never smoked weed and won't any time soon due to the conditions of my employment. That said, a beautiful woman who happens to be Chinese national and who has an interest in lanyard-wearing middle aged men is a bigger threat to national security than that same lanyard wearer hitting the penjamin

You're right. We do not include or tolerate murderous Russian fascists.

Conscripts in the Russian military aren't sent to Ukraine, it's part of why there's such little pushback over the war domestically.