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Main Paineframe posted:Is it actually at historic levels? I didn't see that in the article. I'm not finding any stats on subway track pushings, but I'm also not finding any reporting about a rash of NYC track-pushings. I just see one other one in January, someone arrested in NYC for a track-pushing in Baltimore, and a bunch of articles complaining about homeless people hanging out on or near the tracks. There seems to be no proof it's at historical levels and the closest thing we can look at, crime rates in the subway system, are not at their historical highs of the 70's and 80's. Violent crime on the subway system also is not near any of it's historical highs. If we isolate it down to just murders than you did see a real jump in 22 with I believe 7 but I can't find a lot of historical data on specifically subway murders during the high point of NYC crime. I think a sane country would look at this problem and make it harder to be pushed into the subway hole. Instead we're doing this.
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:As I mentioned earlier, the trains in Boston are nowhere near reliable enough to commit murder by pushing someone in front of them. A few years ago a similar incident was only prevented by a passenger pulling the emergency brake...
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Crossposting from SAL:Enfys posted:NOAA is trying to get this area designated as a marine sanctuary to protect it, and public comments are allowed (and encouraged) in case anyone wants to get involved in some small way. quote:You have through June 2, 2023, to add your voice on the proposed Pacific Remote Islands National Marine Sanctuary! NOAA will consider and respond to novel or substantive comments on this matter, so it's worth taking the time to do so. Federal Register notice: https://www.federalregister.gov/doc...atement-for-the There have also been a number of public meetings on the subject, with a couple virtual ones open for registration toward the bottom of this page: https://sanctuaries.noaa.gov/pacific-remote-islands/ Direct link to the commenting interface (click the blue "comment" button): https://www.regulations.gov/document/NOAA-NOS-2023-0052-0001
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Pardon the rewind, and I have only skimmed the article, but did Rhodes name his kids after pickup trucks?
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Discendo Vox posted:Crossposting from SAL: Most people haven’t been to remote islands in the Pacific. What I would say is that there is a remarkable difference between protected and unprotected. It’s been twenty years since I’ve seen places like these. The inhabited islands I went to had visible coral bleaching even then. Even damaged they were remarkable. Undamaged they are places God will not forgive us for failing to protect.
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# ? May 26, 2023 07:00 |
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Did Lauren Boebert really talk at a House panel about birth control, and said she couldn't afford birth control so she went ahead and had another kid? Yes, she did. https://people.com/lauren-boebert-having-kid-cheaper-birth-control-aoc-responds-7503362 I also heard something heartbreaking about a 911 tape where her son called the cops on his father? And Boebert told the cops he was lying? Yes, she did. https://krdo.com/news/2023/05/25/he-doesnt-need-help-rep-lauren-boebert-tells-deputies-not-to-come-after-son-calls-911-for-help/ It is enraging these dipshits keep putting these kids in harms way, saying these things in public and dismissing their very real concerns. I hope these kids make it out of their childhood ok.
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She's also a 30 something grandma who is in the middle of a divorce with some rumors swirling around of an affair with some maga country star dude.
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in case any of you are wondering what rahm emanual is up to as our ambassador to japan, rest assured he's using his time wiselyquote:Rahm Emanuel, the US Ambassador to Japan, took the unusual step of getting involved to make the case for the US, as a counterbalance to the Sunak effort. The former mayor of Chicago, who also worked in the White House and in investment banking, met with Son and his lieutenants more than a dozen times, according to the people. Emanuel repeatedly relayed the view that Arm would be “penalized, not rewarded” for a joint listing on LSE. somehow putting together pitchdecks for the listing of private companies is even more craven and mercenary than i had expected
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cr0y posted:She's also a 30 something grandma who is in the middle of a divorce with some rumors swirling around of an affair with some maga country star dude. Don't worry, if/when this gets published, she'll be sure to complain incessantly about that being her private life. Hypocrisy seems to be a requirement to be a politician these days.
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:As I mentioned earlier, the trains in Boston are nowhere near reliable enough to commit murder by pushing someone in front of them. My cousin got dragged for two blocks by a San Francisco MUNI train that closed its doors on his front sweatshirt pocket. He now has asymmetrical butt cheeks from where the pavement ground off part of his rear end.
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small butter posted:It's actually way more insidious than any polling can show you. There's also how much insurance companies are practicing medicine without a license. It's common statistically, and anecdotally hit me recently with my insurer deciding not to cover the medication my doctor feels is correct due to not wanting to pay for something that isn't generic. I make good money, but can't exactly swing $400 a month out of pocket, so have to deal with less effective medication with worse side effects.
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Nameless Pete posted:My cousin got dragged for two blocks by a San Francisco MUNI train that closed its doors on his front sweatshirt pocket. He now has asymmetrical butt cheeks from where the pavement ground off part of his rear end. On the other hand, that's some really durable stitching for a sweatshirt pocket
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Liquid Communism posted:There's also how much insurance companies are practicing medicine without a license. It's common statistically, and anecdotally hit me recently with my insurer deciding not to cover the medication my doctor feels is correct due to not wanting to pay for something that isn't generic. Congress is starting to get involved with this, at least. I think we've seen a few other posts here, but hopefully it will go somewhere.
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Shooting Blanks posted:Congress is starting to get involved with this, at least. I think we've seen a few other posts here, but hopefully it will go somewhere. God, I hope so, I'm pretty sure it'd be easy to bust out the actuarial tables and determine just how many person-centuries insurance companies burn off people's lives a year to make their insane profits.
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Neo Rasa posted:Yeah it pisses me off because it should be news that this happened, but the idea that there's a people getting shoved in front of trains wave in NYC or that "New Yorkers" in general are terrified of the subway is some real horseshit. The LA Metro isn't perfect, but every single article about it and it's expansion is full of commenters who are all scared white people who don't ride the trains talking about the unwashed hordes and filth they put up with the 1 time they rode the train 3 years ago and asking why we don't have the LAPD have an armed firing squad at every station to execute the indigent.
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We have the PBS here, so at least it's the government deciding if a given drug is worth it. (If a drug is on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme list then the end-user pays maximum $20 per refill, any difference between $20 and the actual-price is paid from the PBS. In return they use this purchasing power to negotiate with pharma companies about whether their product will be on the PBS and how much they have to reduce the price by in order for it to be added)
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Willa Rogers posted:So an ACA exchange like every other state? I'm trying to suss out what makes it more left-leaning than other states, as intimated by the post to which I was replying. Maybe I misunderstood that post. I don’t know if this is different than other states, but in mass up to like $35-40k in income you can buy into the state health insurance which is maybe a couple hundo a month in premiums at the highest tier and then you have no other costs (no deductible, no copays, nothing)except like $4 for prescriptions which caps at a few hundred bucks a year. Much of the state is unlivable at that income level but it’s something I guess. pencilhands fucked around with this message at 08:34 on May 26, 2023 |
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Yeah, there are places that eliminate the coinsurance, deductibles, premiums, etc. But, most single-payer systems have some cost-sharing. Deductibles are a McKinsey invention stemming from the late 80s iirc. In any proper society, they should be banned. Coinsurance and copays in a sane nation like France are actually pretty reasonable. I know ppl that had major medical issues there as tourist's visiting there and they managed to pay like 85 bucks for everything
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:A lot of things like this are explicable by suicide cluster mechanics. Dramatic violent event hits the news, gets covered, inspires copycats. Nyc has 2.4 million people using the subway everyday. Posts yelling about the homeless (which with city halls policies shutting down shelters is the only plavlce they can exist) is part of a misinformation campaign to justify our abhorrent treatment of them.
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Shageletic posted:Deductibles are a McKinsey invention stemming from the late 80s iirc. In any proper society, they should be banned. Medicare had a deductible when it was created in 1965.
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karthun posted:Medicare had a deductible when it was created in 1965. Shot that off the hip too quick. I was thinking of the RAND study that today is still used to justify deductibles despite well grounded cries about its methods and result https://www.researchgate.net/public...ealth_Insurance Deductibles were introduced by Blue Cross in the 1950s and we have more than a half century of studies showing it leads to less health visits and worse health outcomes. And we had a golden moment in the late seventies where politics were aligning on veering it away before the aforementioned RAND study, then the Healthcare industry, and conservative politicos on both aisles batted it down
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Changing the subject briefly: That guy who won $5MM from Mike Lindell over the voting data has a short writeup in Politico about what he found. It's short, sweet, and a nice reminder that once in awhile, good things do happen.
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If this is accurate, then we might escape the debt limit fiasco with just about the best possible deal. The House Freedom Caucus and Progressive Caucus may have actually somehow saved us from the worst version. The House Freedom caucus has pledged to not support any deal with fewer cuts than the House bill they already passed. They have 35 votes. The House Progressive caucus has about 101 votes and said they would not support a deal with work requirements for Medicaid or major spending cuts. The White House said it would only agree to a deal that at least 100 House Democrats (about 50% of the caucus) would support. As a result, McCarthy is trying to thread the needle on something that would let him declare victory, but also either get 100% of Republicans on board or be something that a chunk of the progressive caucus would vote for. I actually find it really hard to believe that this is the final outcome, so I am just assuming that this will get tanked by the end of today and will be pleasantly surprised if it does not. In a sane world, none of this should be happening over the debt limit and would be happening during budget negotiations. But, if they do adopt the provision that makes it so they don't have to do any budget negotiations with Republicans for FY24 or FY25, then they prevent the Republicans from coming back and trying another hostage situation with a government shutdown and Biden can keep his rhetorical pledge that "we negotiated over the budget and not the credit of the U.S." The highlights: - Extends the debt ceiling into 2025. - Military and veteran's spending will go through at the level requested by Biden's budget (no cuts, but about 20% lower than Republicans wanted to raise it). - All other spending will be frozen for 1 year, but at FY23 levels (which is basically no cuts) and then increase by only 1% for 1 year. - They will cut $10 billion from the $80 billion in additional IRS funding that was authorized by the IRA and use that $10 billion to make up the funds to other discretionary spending that was supposed to rise by more than 1% in FY25. - No work requirements for Medicaid. - Rescind unused Covid money and count that towards deficit reduction/spending cuts. - Locks in these changes for the FY24 and FY25 budget, so there are no more budget negotiations with Republicans until after the 2024 election. That means that there is effectively only $10 billion in cut spending (and it is all coming from a one-time increase in spending anyway and not the normal budget) over 2 years. It's not clear where the $10 billion in IRS funding would come from or what impact it would have. They would likely end up cutting down the number of new permanent customer service jobs. Needless to say, the House Freedom Caucus thinks going from 10-year caps and $3.5 trillion in cut spending to 1-year cap + 1-year increase of 1% and $10 billion in cut spending is not acceptable. quote:As negotiators inched closer to a deal, hard-right Republicans on Thursday were becoming increasingly anxious that Mr. McCarthy would sign off on a compromise they viewed as insufficiently conservative. Several right-wing Republicans have already vowed to oppose any compromise that retreats from cuts that were part of their debt-limit bill. Major Undecided Issues: - Still negotiating about work requirements for SNAP and additional work requirements for TANF. House Dems and White House are very against it for SNAP, but willing to do something on TANF because TANF already has work requirements and hasn't received new funding since 1996, so it is essentially just "tightening up" existing work requirements for a mostly abandoned program. Republicans want some work requirements for SNAP if they are giving up on work requirements for Medicaid. - Specific details of permitting reform: Permitting reform would apply to both green energy projects and oil and gas projects. It would ease requirements and include "maximum time limits" that the federal government could spend holding or reviewing permits before having to make a decision. Which specific building requirements, how long the time limits, and how to enforce the time limits are still undecided. https://twitter.com/jimtankersley/status/1661878466705276928 quote:White House and G.O.P. Close In on Deal to Raise Debt Limit and Cut Spending Leon Trotsky 2012 fucked around with this message at 14:22 on May 26, 2023 |
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Are the "strict spending caps" even relevant at all? Like... isn't that just preemptive budget negotiation? No spending was going to pass without McCarthy putting it on the floor anyway. It really feels like the $10 billion in IRS funding is the entire concession, with the rest just a fig leaf for McCarthy to claim he got real cuts. Are there automatic increases that were already legislated for '24-'25 that are now not going to happen? If so, how much money does that represent?
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Sounds like enough megadonors got through to McCarthy finally. I'd also be willing to believe that there are enough moderate Republicans pissed at the Freedom Caucus for holding the whole process hostage that they're willing to suck it up for a deal that like less - as long as it means a deal is done.
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Shooting Blanks posted:Congress is starting to get involved with this, at least. I think we've seen a few other posts here, but hopefully it will go somewhere. I'm delighted to hear that Congress is starting to take action against insurance denials-by-algorithm; I haven't heard of anything up to now, and the ProPublica piece & a follow-up only mention a congressional hearing & a DoL official expressing "concern." But I haven't heard of any legislation introduced at the federal level to rein in private insurers; do you know of any?
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If that is the final deal I have to imagine that McCarthy's speakership is over.
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Shooting Blanks posted:Sounds like enough megadonors got through to McCarthy finally. I'd also be willing to believe that there are enough moderate Republicans pissed at the Freedom Caucus for holding the whole process hostage that they're willing to suck it up for a deal that like less - as long as it means a deal is done. I don't know. Conservatives are already flipping out over it. https://twitter.com/russvought/status/1662060353348411394 https://twitter.com/Olivia_Beavers/status/1661911052374663170 Mellow Seas posted:Are the "strict spending caps" even relevant at all? Like... isn't that just preemptive budget negotiation? No spending was going to pass without McCarthy putting it on the floor anyway. It really feels like the $10 billion in IRS funding is the entire concession, with the rest just a fig leaf for McCarthy to claim he got real cuts. Pretty much, which is exactly why I am not super optimistic that this survives. This is basically what a normal budget negotiation would look like where the Republicans controlled one House of Congress, but only got some minor concessions as part of the deal. Krugman pretty much sums up the fundamental issue: https://twitter.com/paulkrugman/status/1662095880961286149 Leon Trotsky 2012 fucked around with this message at 15:28 on May 26, 2023 |
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Willa Rogers posted:I'm delighted to hear that Congress is starting to take action against insurance denials-by-algorithm; I haven't heard of anything up to now, and the ProPublica piece & a follow-up only mention a congressional hearing & a DoL official expressing "concern." No legislation as of yet - but private insurers denying people healthcare seems like it would have pretty broad bipartisan support. Mom/Grandma/Kids getting denied necessary treatment by algorithm is a pretty surefire way to piss off everyone.
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Shageletic posted:Deductibles are a McKinsey invention stemming from the late 80s iirc. In any proper society, they should be banned. Leon also didn't mention that Part A Medicare covers hospitalization (and subsequent rehab, in most cases) in the U.S. with absolutely no costs for up to 90 days per year, and there's no premium to carry. Regulatory capture & donor-driven politics have allowed Medicare pricing to recipients to climb over the past couple decades--especially while incentivizing & subsidizing "Medicare" "Advantage" at insurers' behest--but it's hands-down still a bargain compare to any employer-provided or ACA exchange insurance. I pay a total of around $3200/year (the standard for everyone + a gap plan) and aside from that puny deductible everything is 100 percent covered for any provider for any state in the country who accepts Medicare (about 98 percent of them, including places like Mayo & MD Anderson). I doubt there's a comparable policy for comparable prices for anyone under 65.
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Mellow Seas posted:If that is the final deal I have to imagine that McCarthy's speakership is over.
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Who would you rather see as speaker? McCarthy seems pretty mild for a GOP leader these days.
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Willa Rogers posted:Leon also didn't mention that Part A Medicare covers hospitalization (and subsequent rehab, in most cases) in the U.S. with absolutely no costs for up to 90 days per year, and there's no premium to carry. Part A does have a premium, but you get exempt from it if you have 10 years of employment where you pay at least $X in FICA taxes. There are definitely better plans than Medicare out there for people, they are just very rare. Medicaid is explicitly better than Medicare from a cost-sharing perspective. Tricare also has lower cost-sharing requirements than Medicare. There are some very generous employer Cadillac plans, but they are generally reserved for highly compensated/non-profit/local government/collective bargaining agreement positions. When I worked for a major union, I had a healthcare plan with a $250 deductible and my premium was only $41 per month. If you worked there for 30 years, then you could keep your healthcare benefits after you retire and they would cover everything that Medicare didn't. So, not accurate to say better than "any" other plan. But, for the average person, it is usually going to be better than plans you have access to under 65. And many other countries have similar single-payer systems with lower cost-sharing than Medicare as well. But, that is sort of a different scope.
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Willa Rogers posted:Who would you rather see as speaker? McCarthy seems pretty mild for a GOP leader these days.
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Gumball Gumption posted:There seems to be no proof it's at historical levels and the closest thing we can look at, crime rates in the subway system, are not at their historical highs of the 70's and 80's. Violent crime on the subway system also is not near any of it's historical highs. If we isolate it down to just murders than you did see a real jump in 22 with I believe 7 but I can't find a lot of historical data on specifically subway murders during the high point of NYC crime. subway shoving is only a problem because legacy mass transit systems have been extremely slow to install modern automated or semi automated gate and barrier systems to prevent riders from entering the hazardous areas. Open platforms are a literal deathtrap.
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Willa Rogers posted:Who would you rather see as speaker? McCarthy seems pretty mild for a GOP leader these days. Meanwhile you get "Republicans in disarray" narratives, which aren't likely to help them in '24, and if they don't have any other candidate for speaker who can half-please both factions like McCarthy kind of did, then who knows what happens.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Part A does have a premium, but you get exempt from it if you have 10 years of employment where you pay at least $X amount in FICA taxes. Medicaid is now almost all managed care that buckets you into a narrow network. It's also useless for care outside the coverage area (usually county lines) unless it's emergency care. You cannot simply call up a specialist & see them directly, as you can under Medicare. I had a friend who was diagnosed with multiple myeloma & had to fight to see specialists outside of her Medicaid managed plan. She was finally able to get Medicare (after being on disability for a year while in her 50s) and only then was she able to get a stem-cell transplant and other top-notch treatment. Medicare as secondary insurer for a retiree plan is virtually the same as comprehensive Medicare coverage with the employer subsidizing the premiums, but now that most public-sector unions are bucketing retirees into "Advantage" plans (which, granted, are better than the "Advantage" plans for individuals, yet still not as good as traditional Medicare) those secondary-insurer plans for retirees are disappearing. Last I heard about Tricare was that recipients outside of those using the V.A. were also being bucketed into managed-care plans, but I'm not as up to date on that as other social programs; maybe some vets could weigh in.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Why are New Yorkers suddenly pushing people into the subway tracks at historic levels in the past year? Ok but seriously why did you add a bunch of wrong data to this that isn't even in the article? You can find NYC subway attacks going back decades. There was a push in Boston a few months ago. It's happened in the past year in Chicago. Portland had a case last year where a woman pushed a 3 year old into tracks.
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Gumball Gumption posted:Ok but seriously why did you add a bunch of wrong data to this that isn't even in the article? You can find NYC subway attacks going back decades. There was a push in Boston a few months ago. It's happened in the past year in Chicago. Portland had a case last year where a woman pushed a 3 year old into tracks. I can't find anyone actually being injured/killed in Boston by being pushed into a train in the last year via google. What case are you using? The only one I can find in the past year is one with no injuries. quote:In the first incident, Perry-Marshall, a 23-year-old, is suspected of kicking a person into the train pit at State Street Station about 2 p.m., according to MBTA Transit Police, who arrested Perry-Marshall Wednesday afternoon. The victim wasn't hurt. https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/attempted-murder-charge-for-mbta-subway-kick-suspect/3009975/
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:I can't find anyone actually being injured/killed in Boston by being pushed into a train in the last year via google. What case are you using? Kind of an odd thing to question... there's that one, and this one. I don't think anyone has died in recent memory? But also, like the way the MBTA is set up, there aren't a lot of stations where someone can be killed by pushing someone onto the tracks, it'd take very deliberate and careful timing because the trains go at like 2 mph https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/02...ed-police-said/ BRAKE FOR MOOSE fucked around with this message at 16:24 on May 26, 2023 |
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