The reason health care fails in this "free market" capitalist idealism is bc it is not a free market for the consumer. You must buy this to be born, to live, even to die in dignity. There's no greater leverage than your life. The wealthy can't imagine a world where you have to budget around this.

Ooh, this is exciting.

I'm here for it. Also, don't sleep on The Money Pit.

It would be kind of hilarious to see the Oilers part with assets to acquire Jarry.

i think the financial incentive to bait people into engaging with dogshit is a big part of how we got where we are.

Africana Studies students know all the things. Why? We actually teach all the things — the good and the bad. The most rounded education you can have in the contemporary university. Just sayin’.

We do have to realize that his most cogent logic, even as prez, is concerning real estate.

Addendum, having just seen the news on Hellebuyck's surgery: WPG will likely be regressing to the negative, too. As long as Bucky was healthy, he was papering over some troubling numbers (they really miss Ehlers!).

The Dems, ever looking for the opportunity to faceplant, tell on themselves how they feel about universal healthcare (and education, and Social Security, etc.). Do they not think this vote won't come back to bite them when they deliberate on funding for those things?

He might actually like him more than JD

It's that time again! Candidates for positive regression: EDM, STL, NSH. Candidates for negative regression: SEA, WSH, CHI. Most of the anticipated negative regression is probably goaltending; ditto for NSH & maybe EDM on the positive. Though, can we admit that Saros might be lost and gone forever.

"academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it... The dominant four collectively generated... $12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024."

Unfortunately still true bsky.app/profile/adam...

When I was a kid, we had a 20 ft high metal tornado slide that, in the winter, somebody would secretly go and throw water down overnight so it was an ice chute by morning. That thing would always have a long line of kids waiting.

Fun exercise: what song does Billy Bass sing? You'd think it was YMCA, but you have to think more sociopathic. "You're Sixteen," Ringo Starr version.

Me, 41 years old: "Yeah, I could've made the big leagues." Me, had I made the big leagues:

Mmm, yes, AI, thank you. What if October 31st 2025 is not, in fact, a Thursday? Like...c'mon. You are not going to beat the bubble allegations like this.

Who is this? Wrong answers only.

That whole Prez/AI thing played surprisingly accurately to one of the big statements in Team America: World Police.

Powdered Toast Man has added a bit of salt and pepper

CALL AN AMBULANCE BUT NOT FOR ME

Envisioning this going like the President's phone call to the Soviet PM in Dr. Strangelove

You know the club goes hard when they have Fast Orange in the bathroom

The weird thing about all of this stuff is that the British sending troops to Boston to quell the people they considered radical was/is American Revolution 101. And, like, the British had a fair argument!

Hell yeah Jeff Hiller

The irony of somebody whose come-up was a book about escaping the (as he saw it) low-character lifestyle of his childhood community.

Skaters play most games with someone getting similar icetime to them, but it's not as tight as we sometimes think. Pinched, though, for sure, along that axis.

Might want to read a bit about how hard dictators shake down the people they believe are their opponents. I've heard they shake pretty hard. The most, even. Unless, of course, you plan to be a supporter.

A key element of white suburban mentality, which is the predominant mentality among his supporters (including among white people who would say they're rural), is a hatred of the city. It's couched in racism and ignores that suburbs have a parasitic relationship to the city.

what land is Russia giving up as part of a deal? Ukrainian land they're illegally occupying does not count

The whole National Guard thing is to see if he can do it, if the courts and GOP will allow it to happen.* The next time he does it will be to keep himself in office January 2029. * Y'know, on top of having his brownshirts harass and kidnap immigrants and protesters

that summit could've been an email

One thing that AI could be great for in history is programming its outputs to propagandize the past for an authoritarian government. See: Musk's efforts to manipulate Grok's outputs All you'd have to do is have the proprietors of major AI companies cooperate with (or capitulate to) said government!

Remember when he was like (in response to inflation concerns), little girls need to settle for just one doll instead of 37

Dude worked miracles in a state government hopelessly shackled by a death cult. That's a tough loss.

Call it what it is, extortion. If SCOTUS hadn't already rubber stamped this behavior, they'd be hitting nearly every specified mark in a RICO case.

Seen in the first issue of The Hockey News (Oct. 1st, 1947), p. 5: "[NHL veteran Bobby] Bauer has left the Bruins to help his father-in-law manage a skate manufacturing business in Kitchener, Ontario..." Wonder how that worked out for him.

Another example of something our media should be doing. Say what you will about The Daily Show, but they were ALWAYS better than any other media organization at video archiving and searching to expose the truth behind statements like this.

There really shouldn't be an interview with any administration official that doesn't sound like this.

Stop and Frisk, that most popular of municipal PD strategies

"Jeffrey Epstein...the financier?"

Without exaggeration, he is likely the most litigious, lawyered-up human in legal history. In a country where there are severely limited checks on the judiciary, his legal teams have helped him rig the system in his favor. He is, at this point, a king.

Been waiting for this for quite awhile...long enough for it to become ever-more allegorical of a contemporary fascism

Folds: If we’ve been told our whole lives that we can’t spend money on the arts because they’re not important—then why was taking over the Kennedy Center and the arts the first thing they did? It is extremely important. It’s the bedrock of self-expression.

We never finished Reconstruction, and that’s why we got Jim Crow. We never finished the Civil Rights Movement, and so now we’re getting Jim Crow 2.0. There is nothing as American as anti blackness.

This ends in The Hague.

For anybody holding out that Trump is some sort of mastermind, you can give up now. He has been, and always will be, a mediocre mind propped up by lawyers and sycophants.

Re: Nikolaj Ehlers...the PP1 thing was the most egregious, consistently dumb usage all the Jets coaches were guilty of doing. I think there's a common coach mentality that a player has to "earn" PP1 time through their ES play, but that relies on coaches to be willing to put more faith in the data.

I think, in his minutes, this is true for Ehlers. But I've often wondered if the persistent under-utilization of Ehlers could be because (unlike Marner) he would struggle if pressed to play 21 minutes/game.

Let me tell you something you can't unsee once you start paying attention to it: people barf in movies and TV way more than they used to. And more often than real life. It's become such a weirdly common plot device.