They have "a concept of a plan."

When she starts making her payments, they should send her a butt plug as a thank you gift.

Weird fact:
My brain does jigsaw puzzles based on the shapes of the pieces. Not sure why.

They already function as the single payer for damn near half of us.

#MedicareForAll

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... insurance or covered by private insurance.

I was on Medicaid for a while, twenty years ago. It was, by far, the best insurance coverage I've ever had.

The argument that the government shouldn't function as the single payer in a "medicare for all" system is ridiculous, on its face. (2/3)

If you think it's hard on a laptop, try it with an IBM Selectric!

Nah. Watch this:
There once was a man from Nantucket, who...

"Just kidding," quoth the raven. Of course they're hard to write. There are so many moving parts!

Do I?

... attempt, what I've gotten back from the "AIs" is either junk code that I would be embarrassed to do a pull request for, or is simply completely, utterly, wrong/useless vis-a-vis the specification prompt I submitted. To be clear, I've studied, pretty in depth, how to write good prompts. (2/2)

I've been a coder for 52 years. I have coded in at least 18 different languages, from BASIC to Rust. Out of curiosity, recently, I've tried letting the professional business versions of ChatGPT and OpenAI write some code for me or to check/improve code I've written. In every single ... (1/2)

Meanwhile, there is absolutely no doubt in my mind that ICE rammed him, not as they wrote in their reports, he rammed ICE.

Either that, or they cut him off and he was unable to get stopped before he hit them.

Or, whether tens of millions will go bankrupt or die, trying to stay connected to the broken US healthcare system.

... people who will go bankrupt now that capitalism has a another chance to kill people who can't pay?

... contributed $50,000 to that senator's campaign, that senator would be precluded from voting on any legislation that had a direct effect specifically on Boeing.

Yes. And there are other such exceptions that would have to be written into the law as well as some threshold for "significance." If the President of Boeing gave $200 to the campaign of the senator from their state, that contribution would be overlooked. But if that same person ... (1/2)

Not private citizens donating $35 dollars. Of course there would be some threshold that would be defined as a "significant" contribution. I don't know what would be reasonable. Maybe any single donation over $1,000 for individuals and all donations from PACs and/or corporations?

... to police themselves. A new branch of the FEC would be formed and the reps and sens would be prevented from voting on anything the FEC said was a conflict. The new branch of the FEC, of course, would have to be completely independent from the Legislative branch. (3/3)

... couldn't be done for each piece of legislation that passes through the House and Senate. The FEC and OpenSecrets.org already track the campaign contributions of every senator and representative in the Congress.

The way I see it, the members themselves would not be on an honor system ... (2/3)