single-payer will fix it.
republicans are the party of grift. democrats are the party of a nice sinecure.
“numbers do not adequately capture the sense of intensifying lawlessness that seems to have pervaded the health care system.” #MoeTkacik https://prospect.org/health/2024-12-13-final-boss-of-our-medical-misery/ ht @ddayen
we live in the worst timeline there's literally a person called Siri becoming a subject of public concern. Siri it turns out is anti-vax. https://mastodon.social/@GottaLaff/113645998843318398
they’ll want us all to cheer a “great economy” while it kills us with impunity.
but check out those GDP numbers! https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/trump-transition-recommends-scrapping-car-crash-reporting-requirement-opposed-by-2024-12-13/ ht @keubiko
the new york times is just vogue for mids.
move fast and break other people.
i'm so glad this community will have more political influence and less regulation, in order to innovate even more aggressively. https://www.cnbc.com/2024/11/22/synapse-bankruptcy-thousands-of-americans-see-their-savings-vanish.html via @ernie
if you look at an ad on facebook or instagram, you are participating in a donation to Trump’s inauguration.
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sometimes i find myself saying “thank you” to claude.ai then i wonder whether my politeness is burning down the rainforest.
dystopia is not salutary.
@John but rents whose recipients would not have them displaced.
crypto begins as, its entire architecture is shaped and constrained in order to be, a form of money or commodity independent of states. it is an experimental alternative to state coordination of finance and even contracts.
now it’s surging, solely as a function of expected endorsement of the state.
i hate to link over there, but #MattBruenig is so good on this stuff. https://x.com/mattbruenig/status/1866915041154568279
this #MattBruenig piece on health care economics is a work of art.
1) administrative costs associated with health insurance are HUGE, not a rounding error next to inflated provider costs;
2) the only justification for those costs would be to rein in provider rents, but not only do private insurers fail to, they have structural incentives to let them grow.
read this one.
@peter for not entirely unrelated reasons, they’ve taken the same approach to suicide. there’s no acceptable attribution of cause or motive beyond “struggling with mental illness”. why the person themself thought they did it is apparently as unworthy of examination as a schizophrenic’s hallucination.
Text: The politics of stupid is believing that the way to deal with Farage or Trump type populism is to do what Farage or Trump happens to be shouting about at the time. Concern about immigration is real enough, but it is important to ask why there is concern about immigration. To put it very simply, there are probably two types of reasons why voters find populists going on about immigration attractive. The first is that these voters don’t like foreigners. Immigration numbers don’t matter to these people when there are already plenty of foreign looking people already here. The second type are voters who mistakenly think that problems like finding it difficult to see a doctor or buy a house are because of immigration. Cutting immigration is only likely to make those problems worse, by stopping doctors or construction workers coming to the UK
“Where are all the bureaucrats?” a useful chart by #KevinDrum https://jabberwocking.com/where-are-all-the-bureaucrats/