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oh its not actually in cspam ignore me
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# ? Apr 1, 2022 15:45 |
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https://twitter.com/cnbci/status/1509907115212746765?s=21&t=8nx2VP73UqtCOF5b5HUH9g The revolving door revolves
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# ? Apr 1, 2022 15:58 |
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Mellow Seas posted:Since Andrew Schlafly's mother worked outside the home her whole life (even if it was to argue that women should never work outside of the home), his Bible is tainted by liberalism and modernity. Buy mine instead. There was that one Bible with the Constitution put in it which I'm fairly certain is a damnable action, God have mercy on their soul, etc.
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# ? Apr 1, 2022 16:05 |
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Hot Karl Marx posted:oh its not actually in cspam ignore me Is the great merge finally happening?
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# ? Apr 1, 2022 16:06 |
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Bishyaler posted:Is the great merge finally happening? Some admin decided to switch the top level links between the two forums. I assume most people use bookmarked threads so probably won’t even notice. Or maybe someone changed a completely unrelated piece of code. Probably a 50/50 chance of either
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# ? Apr 1, 2022 16:15 |
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Both forums were renamed to the other, nothing else changed. Happy april fools
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# ? Apr 1, 2022 16:17 |
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Bishyaler posted:Is the great merge finally happening? The sky and the cosmos are one!
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# ? Apr 1, 2022 16:18 |
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Hot Karl Marx posted:oh its not actually in cspam ignore me We are CSPAM now. God Bless.
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# ? Apr 1, 2022 16:18 |
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According to The Board, reintegrating CSPAM and D&D is impossible, and previous trials have resulted in death. (Sorry for two "Severance" references in a row but I haven't watched the new episode yet and I can't really think about anything else. Watch "Severance.") \/\/\/\/ That's okay, I can assure you that being dumb is not against the D&D rules.
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# ? Apr 1, 2022 16:20 |
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Kalit posted:Some admin decided to switch the top level links between the two forums. I assume most people use bookmarked threads so probably won’t even notice. im just dumb
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# ? Apr 1, 2022 16:21 |
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Do it for real and cause a meltdown about posting with tankies. Mods are cowards again.
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# ? Apr 1, 2022 16:22 |
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Gumball Gumption posted:Do it for real and cause a meltdown about posting with tankies. Mods are cowards again. Being called conservative for pushing back against feckless moderates not exciting enough for you?
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# ? Apr 1, 2022 16:25 |
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Gumball Gumption posted:Do it for real and cause a meltdown about posting with tankies. Mods are cowards again. Call the new forum D-SPAM
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# ? Apr 1, 2022 16:26 |
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mods please change my name to Feckless Moderate tyvm
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# ? Apr 1, 2022 16:44 |
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12 Republicans supported it in the House, but only 1 Republican in the Senate (Collins) has publicly supported the genera idea (but, not this specific bill) before. There aren't many Republicans on the record as opposing it, but it seems unlikely that they will get 9 other Republicans. Murkowski, Romney, and Portman have expressed openness to the idea before, but not commented on the specific bill. This bill is a modified version of the provision from the BBB and would only cover people with insurance (including government insurance like Medicare, Medicaid, etc.) https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1509712169058897924 quote:House Passes Bill to Limit Cost of Insulin to $35 a Month
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# ? Apr 1, 2022 16:57 |
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Lmao that drug-price controls are another "would you believe..." joke when it's the lowest-hanging fruit for voters of all political persuasions. In other news, Gallup did a survey & found that only 5 percent of Americans think they get a good bang for their medical insurance & feel they are paying the correct amount for value received: quote:Few Americans believe that they receive good value when the quality of their care is weighed against the amount that they pay for it. For example, 93% of respondents agree that people across the country are paying too much for the quality of care received, and 71% agree that their own household pays too much for the quality of healthcare received. When asked to evaluate their most recent healthcare experience, most U.S. adults (52%) agree it was not worth the cost, rising to 72% among the uninsured. This is also low-hanging fruit among voters that will never ever happen due to regulatory capture & donor-driven dollars. As far as "Even among adults" who are Medicare-eligible, their perceived value is twice that as other groups, plus the increasing bipartisan privatization of Medicare has hiked premium costs for traditional Medicare & gap plans, and masked the out-of-pocket costs for the heavily incentivized (and government-subsidized) Medicare Advantage plans.
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# ? Apr 1, 2022 17:12 |
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Willa Rogers posted:In other news, Gallup did a survey & found that only 5 percent of Americans think they get a good bang for their medical insurance & feel they are paying the correct amount for value received: The amount my insurance "covers" every year is in the tens of thousands. That doesn't make it "a good value" that I only pay about $4000 a year for those services. It's still ridiculous that I have to pay anything (for the privilege of being a functioning member of society), or that I have to have a good job like I do to even get that price. Given that only 5% said "yeah, it's great!" it seems my view is pretty common. Mellow Seas fucked around with this message at 17:28 on Apr 1, 2022 |
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Kalit posted:Some admin decided to switch the top level links between the two forums. I assume most people use bookmarked threads so probably won’t even notice. I'm not most people, but yeah, it seems like most people just cloister themseleves in their bookmarks. hell there's probably still a decent % of goons that some how actively post in their favorite bookmarked threads and somehow dont know of The Year of Troubles, the new admin, the death of the old admin.
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# ? Apr 1, 2022 17:41 |
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Does Mylan profiteer off insulin or just epi-pens, because there's no way Manchin is going to gently caress with his daughter's profits that's for sure. E: I don't put any stock in his statements of theoretical support after we saw how he kept moving the goalposts on BBB every time Biden caved to his demands
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# ? Apr 1, 2022 17:41 |
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Another new data point in how well Biden's blame-it-on-Russkies excuse for gas prices is doing, this time from Quinnipac:
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# ? Apr 1, 2022 17:44 |
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Willa Rogers posted:Another new data point in how well Biden's blame-it-on-Russkies excuse for gas prices is doing, this time from Quinnipac: (Like, was there some way to make Trump voters not blame Biden for it?) (Also, mandatory mention that "Biden policy" is approximately 0% the cause, and Americans are loving stupid about gas, and this is just another "Americans loving stupid" poll, which doesn't mean it's not of political concern and consequence but does mean it's legitimately frustrating.) A way to summarize this poll would be "a majority of Americans don't blame Biden for gas prices," wouldn't it? Mellow Seas fucked around with this message at 17:54 on Apr 1, 2022 |
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VitalSigns posted:Does Mylan profiteer off insulin or just epi-pens, because there's no way Manchin is going to gently caress with his daughter's profits that's for sure. Insulin would be Lilly and Sanofi primarily. AFAIK Mylan has nothing to do with insulin pens.
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# ? Apr 1, 2022 18:00 |
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Meanwhile in Good News... https://twitter.com/amazonlabor/status/1509934286727749675
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# ? Apr 1, 2022 18:13 |
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:This bill is a modified version of the provision from the BBB and would only cover people with insurance (including government insurance like Medicare, Medicaid, etc.) I don't have diabetes, but what a slap in the face to anybody without insurance. Its good that insulin will be more available to some, but as somebody who'd rather die than pay money to a health insurance company their power and control make me want to kick a hole in
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# ? Apr 1, 2022 18:17 |
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I'm not sure why anyone is talking about -if- student loan payments come back when they are already going to start one month from now
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BRJurgis posted:I don't have diabetes, but what a slap in the face to anybody without insurance. Its good that insulin will be more available to some, but as somebody who'd rather die than pay money to a health insurance company their power and control make me want to kick a hole in (You're right, of course.) The Sean posted:I'm not sure why anyone is talking about -if- student loan payments come back when they are already going to start one month from now
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# ? Apr 1, 2022 18:21 |
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Democrats will talk a good game about student loan forgiveness but actually do nothing. You and I will still owe that money, but the “uncertainty” about forgiveness will lead to lenders raising interest rates to credit card levels to mitigate the “risk” of forgiveness on new loans being issued in the future. What are kids gonna do, not go to college? Success!
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# ? Apr 1, 2022 18:22 |
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Meanwhile in Good News... This is doubly great when you learn that the guy who organized this was the worker Amazon fired and publicly targeted a couple years ago. Revenge is a dish best served by unionized labor.
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# ? Apr 1, 2022 18:22 |
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The House also passed a marijuana decriminalization (not legalization) bill that will assuredly die in the Senate. This is the second time the House has passed it, but McConnell didn't bring it up for a vote in the Senate last time. Schumer is going to bring it up for a vote, but it is most likely going to die there. Only two Republican Senators publicly support it and there are two Democratic Senators opposed to legalization (Tester and Shaheen) and three Democratic Senators who are "undecided" (Manchin, Kelly, and Casey) on legalization. It is not clear if the fact that this is a decriminalization bill and not legalization will change any of their votes. https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1509943718408728577 The National Labor Relations Board certified the first Amazon union today after the "Yes" vote narrowly won in a New York warehouse center. The one potential hitch is that it is a brand new independent union that is not affiliated with any national union, so there are no pre-existing resources, organization, or other members outside of this warehouse group. https://twitter.com/politico/status/1509942109595480069 quote:An Amazon facility on Staten Island, N.Y., voted to become the company’s first unionized U.S. workplace in a mammoth upset that would be one of organized labor’s biggest victories in decades. Leon Trotsky 2012 fucked around with this message at 18:26 on Apr 1, 2022 |
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Professor Beetus posted:Insulin would be Lilly and Sanofi primarily. AFAIK Mylan has nothing to do with insulin pens. Oh well maybe it might could happen then Good news in case I give myself diabetes once the Cadbury creme eggs hit the stores
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# ? Apr 1, 2022 18:23 |
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Mellow Seas posted:There are a lot of indicators that they are going to extend the moratorium again; check LT2012's posting from yesterday. As of right now there is nothing concrete. The moratorium ends next month. Biden campaigned on wiping student debt and hasn't acted on it so I'm not going to believe anything his administration says on it until it happens. The Sean fucked around with this message at 18:30 on Apr 1, 2022 |
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So, what, six months until that Amazon warehouse is "restructured" out of existence? A year?
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# ? Apr 1, 2022 18:28 |
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The Sean posted:As of right now there is nothing concrete. The moratorium ends next month.
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The Sean posted:As of right now there is nothing concrete. The moratorium ends next month. He 100% did not campaign on “wiping” student debt. He said he supports up to $10k in forgiveness through Congress Also, why wouldn’t they postpone payments again? They even postponed after saying “this is the last extension”
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# ? Apr 1, 2022 18:34 |
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Tom Cotton says that the Democrats' goal is to make everyone live in Manhattan... which is apparently where poor people live? And living in a high-rise apartment and walking to work is a hell worse than commuting? I think the culture war is getting more and more abstract and becoming "Single-family home in rural countryside with 20 acres of land vs. literally everything else." https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1509894441817067527
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Tom Cotton says that the Democrats' goal is to make everyone live in Manhattan... which is apparently where poor people live? I hope population density and multimodal transportation become contentious political issues, because a lot of people just don't ever think about how important they are, and the type of people who vote for Tom Cotton will always be 100% opposed anyway. I do enjoy the simultaneous beliefs that "housing prices are set by market forces and are inherently correct" and "the most expensive place to live in the entire country is bad and people don't want to live there." Mellow Seas fucked around with this message at 18:44 on Apr 1, 2022 |
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The Sean posted:As of right now there is nothing concrete. The moratorium ends next month. I think the last extension was also announced at the last minute (due to Omicron forcing them to abandon their plan to resume payments), so it's not out of the question but ridiculous that they're allowing the uncertainty to go on. Kinda seems like they might extend it because I haven't seen the big "you have to pay your loans next month get ready" campaign that they were doing last November when they intended to let the moratorium expire
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# ? Apr 1, 2022 18:43 |
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well i guess I'll take the tinyiest crumbe of good news on the amazon thing. How did staten island which I'm told is redder than some red states vote yes?
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PhazonLink posted:How did staten island which I'm told is redder than some red states vote yes? Because only people who work at the Amazon facility get to vote and not the whole population. It was also somewhat close (54/46), which is still really good considering the blowout ~70% no vote at the last Amazon union attempt.
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