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After the middlemen are gone, the scale of the government could be put towards containing the costs of care and drugs.
Admittedly, there is a trade-off between containing costs and maintaining a proper supply of doctors, nurses, and drugs, but it's a balance that can be found over time.
Admittedly, there is a trade-off between containing costs and maintaining a proper supply of doctors, nurses, and drugs, but it's a balance that can be found over time.
December 14, 2025 at 7:57 PM
After the middlemen are gone, the scale of the government could be put towards containing the costs of care and drugs.
Admittedly, there is a trade-off between containing costs and maintaining a proper supply of doctors, nurses, and drugs, but it's a balance that can be found over time.
Admittedly, there is a trade-off between containing costs and maintaining a proper supply of doctors, nurses, and drugs, but it's a balance that can be found over time.
The only way I know of that costs can actually be reduced (instead of shifted around) is to remove layers of middlemen and the profits they extract, and the government would need to perform any necessary functions in their place.
So, basically, Medicare For All or some such.
So, basically, Medicare For All or some such.
December 14, 2025 at 7:43 PM
The only way I know of that costs can actually be reduced (instead of shifted around) is to remove layers of middlemen and the profits they extract, and the government would need to perform any necessary functions in their place.
So, basically, Medicare For All or some such.
So, basically, Medicare For All or some such.
If you read enough econ/finance stuff, you realize that there isn't "one weird trick" to make it all cheaper. You can shift the costs around, but they're still there.
If a $65 membership to Costco gave super-cheap insurance, high-risk people would flock there, leading to high-cost insurance.
If a $65 membership to Costco gave super-cheap insurance, high-risk people would flock there, leading to high-cost insurance.
December 14, 2025 at 7:37 PM
If you read enough econ/finance stuff, you realize that there isn't "one weird trick" to make it all cheaper. You can shift the costs around, but they're still there.
If a $65 membership to Costco gave super-cheap insurance, high-risk people would flock there, leading to high-cost insurance.
If a $65 membership to Costco gave super-cheap insurance, high-risk people would flock there, leading to high-cost insurance.
But, this time is different!
December 14, 2025 at 1:11 PM
But, this time is different!
*slow clap*
December 13, 2025 at 12:57 PM
*slow clap*
I can’t get past the ghoulish choice by the show producer.
This is a mass murder, being casually played on a loop while talking with a guest. Just every shade of wrong.
This isn’t the first time, either. There is something broken in these people.
This is a mass murder, being casually played on a loop while talking with a guest. Just every shade of wrong.
This isn’t the first time, either. There is something broken in these people.
December 2, 2025 at 11:06 AM
I can’t get past the ghoulish choice by the show producer.
This is a mass murder, being casually played on a loop while talking with a guest. Just every shade of wrong.
This isn’t the first time, either. There is something broken in these people.
This is a mass murder, being casually played on a loop while talking with a guest. Just every shade of wrong.
This isn’t the first time, either. There is something broken in these people.
Oh, I know: we use an AI agent to poll multiple LLMs and report a consensus summary.
Kinda like Mr. Burns from The Simpsons, there are so many points of failure that they all just manage to cancel each other out. Foolproof!
The innovations will continue until morale improves.
Kinda like Mr. Burns from The Simpsons, there are so many points of failure that they all just manage to cancel each other out. Foolproof!
The innovations will continue until morale improves.
November 30, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Oh, I know: we use an AI agent to poll multiple LLMs and report a consensus summary.
Kinda like Mr. Burns from The Simpsons, there are so many points of failure that they all just manage to cancel each other out. Foolproof!
The innovations will continue until morale improves.
Kinda like Mr. Burns from The Simpsons, there are so many points of failure that they all just manage to cancel each other out. Foolproof!
The innovations will continue until morale improves.
Does it count as fact-checking if you just ask the LLM the same question a second time and see if it gives the same answer?
Or even just a follow-up prompt of “Are you sure?”
‘Cause, then, you get a source AND a fact-check AND never leave the tool. Perfection!
Or even just a follow-up prompt of “Are you sure?”
‘Cause, then, you get a source AND a fact-check AND never leave the tool. Perfection!
November 30, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Does it count as fact-checking if you just ask the LLM the same question a second time and see if it gives the same answer?
Or even just a follow-up prompt of “Are you sure?”
‘Cause, then, you get a source AND a fact-check AND never leave the tool. Perfection!
Or even just a follow-up prompt of “Are you sure?”
‘Cause, then, you get a source AND a fact-check AND never leave the tool. Perfection!
A third option - impeachment and removal of Hegseth by Congress - is also in play.
In fact, it might be the likeliest result; the Republican Party in Congress is fracturing over how much to still support the Trump crew’s actions, as they consider the catastrophic electoral impacts inbound.
In fact, it might be the likeliest result; the Republican Party in Congress is fracturing over how much to still support the Trump crew’s actions, as they consider the catastrophic electoral impacts inbound.
November 30, 2025 at 11:52 AM
A third option - impeachment and removal of Hegseth by Congress - is also in play.
In fact, it might be the likeliest result; the Republican Party in Congress is fracturing over how much to still support the Trump crew’s actions, as they consider the catastrophic electoral impacts inbound.
In fact, it might be the likeliest result; the Republican Party in Congress is fracturing over how much to still support the Trump crew’s actions, as they consider the catastrophic electoral impacts inbound.
It's the "But I Really Wanna!" loophole. My kids know it well.
November 16, 2025 at 7:32 PM
It's the "But I Really Wanna!" loophole. My kids know it well.
My high school physics teacher told me the curve was because of the warping of spacetime around a singularity at its core. Dude never knew what he was talking about.
November 16, 2025 at 8:56 AM
My high school physics teacher told me the curve was because of the warping of spacetime around a singularity at its core. Dude never knew what he was talking about.
Corruption. Every day, every way.
November 15, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Corruption. Every day, every way.
For the uninitiated, "FFT" probably refers to the Fast Fourier Transform, a math/programming tool that must have captured his imagination for some reason.
November 13, 2025 at 6:53 PM
For the uninitiated, "FFT" probably refers to the Fast Fourier Transform, a math/programming tool that must have captured his imagination for some reason.
So weird, because Lutnick’s sons have been betting REALLY BIG that the tariffs will be struck down.
Truly, a mystery wrapped in an enigma.
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/lutni...
Truly, a mystery wrapped in an enigma.
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/lutni...
Lutnick Family Angling To Make Astronomical Sums Off Court Nixing Tariffs
This is not new. But I at least hadn’t heard any of...
talkingpointsmemo.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:15 PM
So weird, because Lutnick’s sons have been betting REALLY BIG that the tariffs will be struck down.
Truly, a mystery wrapped in an enigma.
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/lutni...
Truly, a mystery wrapped in an enigma.
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/lutni...
I can’t help thinking, “Man, that HOA doesn’t mess around!”
November 4, 2025 at 2:31 AM
I can’t help thinking, “Man, that HOA doesn’t mess around!”
"Lead from the hose" was the modern way.
I still have fond memories of the delicious lead from the hand-powered water pump in the front yard of my grandparents' house.
Progress is not always progress.
I still have fond memories of the delicious lead from the hand-powered water pump in the front yard of my grandparents' house.
Progress is not always progress.
October 27, 2025 at 4:31 PM
"Lead from the hose" was the modern way.
I still have fond memories of the delicious lead from the hand-powered water pump in the front yard of my grandparents' house.
Progress is not always progress.
I still have fond memories of the delicious lead from the hand-powered water pump in the front yard of my grandparents' house.
Progress is not always progress.
Someone's been reading ahead in the script...
October 20, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Someone's been reading ahead in the script...
All three of these were new to me, but that song by Thursday has the same feel as Rainer Maria's "Catastrophe Keeps Us Together" album, which I have loved front-to-back for a long time.
October 17, 2025 at 11:28 PM
All three of these were new to me, but that song by Thursday has the same feel as Rainer Maria's "Catastrophe Keeps Us Together" album, which I have loved front-to-back for a long time.
The only bit of solace is that the chances are really high that George will crime again, get caught again, and end up in prison again.
October 17, 2025 at 11:21 PM
The only bit of solace is that the chances are really high that George will crime again, get caught again, and end up in prison again.
Bingo. And his go-to response is to try to hide the data (as we saw with Covid in 2020 and BLS this year).
This is also a trial balloon for the concept in general. I'm sure he'd love to push back financial reporting beyond the midterms, if people let him.
This is also a trial balloon for the concept in general. I'm sure he'd love to push back financial reporting beyond the midterms, if people let him.
September 15, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Bingo. And his go-to response is to try to hide the data (as we saw with Covid in 2020 and BLS this year).
This is also a trial balloon for the concept in general. I'm sure he'd love to push back financial reporting beyond the midterms, if people let him.
This is also a trial balloon for the concept in general. I'm sure he'd love to push back financial reporting beyond the midterms, if people let him.
Millus Vanillus
September 14, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Millus Vanillus
I guess it all depends on how loudly they boo him at the U.S. Open. Narcissistic injuries can prompt lashing out.
September 7, 2025 at 5:07 PM
I guess it all depends on how loudly they boo him at the U.S. Open. Narcissistic injuries can prompt lashing out.
The only saving grace is that Tesla can only pay Musk money that they can get.
Their car sales are tanking, and their robotaxis, robots, and AI are all overhyped deadends.
TSLA, with a P/E ratio of 200, is already priced like those things are real, so it ultimately is going nowhere but down.
Their car sales are tanking, and their robotaxis, robots, and AI are all overhyped deadends.
TSLA, with a P/E ratio of 200, is already priced like those things are real, so it ultimately is going nowhere but down.
September 6, 2025 at 11:57 PM
The only saving grace is that Tesla can only pay Musk money that they can get.
Their car sales are tanking, and their robotaxis, robots, and AI are all overhyped deadends.
TSLA, with a P/E ratio of 200, is already priced like those things are real, so it ultimately is going nowhere but down.
Their car sales are tanking, and their robotaxis, robots, and AI are all overhyped deadends.
TSLA, with a P/E ratio of 200, is already priced like those things are real, so it ultimately is going nowhere but down.
Huh. The leader of the Department of War Crimes sneering at “legality.” Checks out.
September 6, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Huh. The leader of the Department of War Crimes sneering at “legality.” Checks out.