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Jarmak posted:There's mountains of evidence the court is making ideological decisions with super-majorities that include both sides of the ideological spectrum of the court? Do you have any actual arguments to make why the decision is wrong, the precedent is wrong, or even why the decision is bad public policy? On certain things yes, absolutely there are super majorities on both sides of the spectrum that come together on things they agree with, like decisions which prioritize capital over labor. As to your other questions, I have a lot more to say but it will have to wait until I'm off work for more effort.
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Main Paineframe posted:Is there an actual link to the study? Yea... I am really skeptical about this study when we have data such as this and there are further sources cited including a substack - https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1609535038726496257?s=20
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Jarmak posted:There's mountains of evidence the court is making ideological decisions with super-majorities that include both sides of the ideological spectrum of the court? Do you have any actual arguments to make why the decision is wrong, the precedent is wrong, or even why the decision is bad public policy? Also, c’mon, you think the rich Nazi dude is giving all that stuff to Clarence Thomas because he’s just that nice of a guy? SCOTUS justices are human and subject to the same foibles. cat botherer fucked around with this message at 22:55 on Jun 1, 2023 |
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Crosby B. Alfred posted:Yea... I am really skeptical about this study when we have data such as this and there are further sources cited including a substack - That's a different study of British Millennials. There is no official Tory party or Labour party in the United States.
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Jun 1, 2023 23:00
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Did you even read the article? It has sources for both UK and US studies.
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Crosby B. Alfred posted:Did you even read the article? It has sources for both UK and US studies. Yes, but the guy in the FT article is just measuring the difference between Millennials and the general population. It's not specifically measuring the transition of Millennials as they age. Millennials can still be getting more conservative as they age AND simultaneously be less conservative than previous generations (which is also what the NYT article says).
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Jun 1, 2023 23:08
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Jaxyon posted:Cops are the highest paid public employees in most cities. It's been several years since I've looked at Houston's numbers, but last time I did something like 4 of the highest-paid public employees (in the top 10) were police. 2 of them weren't even high-ranking, they just got DWI duty, and effectively unlimited overtime between paperwork and court followup.
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Jun 1, 2023 23:16
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It's almost as if the newer generations aren't getting those wealth milestones that transform your brain to a FYGM mentality, hmm
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Jun 1, 2023 23:23
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Hard to NIMBY if you don't have a BY
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Main Paineframe posted:Is there an actual link to the study? yeah i am also skeptical here. if presidential elections are all they are relying on, seems that the answer might be more 'young people don't like the president who told them to eat poo poo' more so than them getting more conservative. and anecdotally (yeah yeah i know), the other millennials i know have gotten less conservative as they've gotten older, not more.
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https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1664333235143188486 I wonder if these three idiots expect to win, and if the DSCC is going to offer them its full-throated support as I expect they will. I'm betting Manchin and Sinema are going to get BTFO, less sure about Tester.
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DEEP STATE PLOT posted:yeah i am also skeptical here. if presidential elections are all they are relying on, seems that the answer might be more 'young people don't like the president who told them to eat poo poo' more so than them getting more conservative. and anecdotally (yeah yeah i know), the other millennials i know have gotten less conservative as they've gotten older, not more. This is pretty much my interpretation of the article as well. I wonder if it's actually less "moving towards conservative" than "moving away from the democratic party" Looking at it from the perspective of what was going on at the time the article tracks their data, from 2004 onward, I can call out a bunch of other motivating factors that could contribute to the trends the article is reporting. In 2004 there was the Iraq war. People were still kinda riding on the "gently caress Yeah America" patriotism from the 2001 attacks. By 2009, millennials were sick of the war that showed no signs of stopping, while Obama started campaigning on "Change!" Millenials were starting to get hit from the effects of the 2008 recession by this election, so they latched onto the guy promising to bring about change, since things weren't working. After 8 years of pretty much "Not Change," people were kinda sick of being lied to (not only the president's promises, but also the whole "go to college and make tons of money" as well, leaving them with practically a mortgage with no job). People were sick of the status quo, and along comes Hillary to run for the Dems. The physical embodiment of the out-of-touch ruling elite who make false promises and who bail out corporations when they crash the economy. So Trump won that election because people who were sick of how things were going voted for the anti-establishment businessman who vowed to shake up congress. By the time Biden ran, people were more voting against Trump than for Biden since he literally campaigned on "Nothing will fundamentally change." Honestly, I think millennials are just sick of the lies and false promises from politicians, and it's causing those who would be voting for dems to not even bother, while right-leaning millennials were motivated by fear of "the others" so they were more likely to come out and vote. You want millennials to show trends of becoming more left as they get older? Bring out some politicians that represent us and what we want, instead of ancient, "how do you do fellow students" types of people who talk down to us like we're meant to be busy little bees and keep quiet.
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ex post facho posted:https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1664333235143188486 has Biden even vetoed anything yet?
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Jaxyon posted:has Biden even vetoed anything yet? a few random things, yes
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Jaxyon posted:has Biden even vetoed anything yet? 4 things so far, apparently. https://www.senate.gov/legislative/vetoes/BidenJR.htm
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Re scientology I don't think I ever posted about it because I don't want them showing up and murdering us but I have first hand experience how hosed up they make people. I don't think people that are partners of someone that is offspring of Mormons normally have to be afraid for their life. But my spouse parents are terrifying creepy people in a way that I never felt unsafe around literal mobsters, it will forever fascinate me how a literal terrorist group got categorized as a religion
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Jaxyon posted:has Biden even vetoed anything yet? The only major vetoes are a repeal of a water pollution regulation and a bill overriding D.C.'s new crime law (which came after he allowed congress to pass a law overruling a different crime bill in D.C.)
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ex post facho posted:https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1664333235143188486 Making life economically a nightmare for millions isn't going to get a lot of votes but I could be wrong. What are they even thinking
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ex post facho posted:https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1664333235143188486 Sinema's going to be an independent running against an actual Democrat so I don't see why they're going to support her at all. It's not like Bernie where they supported him since the independent label was a mutually understood personal branding thing.
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I'm pretty surprised by the lack of any consideration in that NYT article to the possibility that different people within an age cohort are voting in the two elections they focused on. Is it an 18% shift in the political opinions of specific voters, or partially/entirely a shift in who is voting and who is sitting it out.ex post facho posted:https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1664333235143188486 I'm not able to find an explanation for how this passed with a simple majority. Is anyone more familiar with the process who could explain that?
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Celexi posted:Re scientology I don't think I ever posted about it because I don't want them showing up and murdering us but I have first hand experience how hosed up they make people. their 'show up whenever spoken about even slightly and attempt to criminally harass people into silence' years are mostly behind them. they were actually such zealous harassers and suppressors that they were instrumental in helping establish protections for the earlier internet against assault and were also vital in helping wikipedia learn you couldn't just let everybody contribute
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This week in "Obama gave everyone healthcare" as the focus-group-tested trope goes: This Nonprofit Health System Cuts Off Patients With Medical Debt Cliffs: * "non-profit" does a lot of heavy lifting * Allina has talking points & procedures for 86ing patients with prior medical debt * Their cutoff for providing patients services is less than the standard deductible on bronze ACA plans (sucks to be a poor) * Around one out of every three Americans has medical debt * There are no federal laws spelling out how much unpaid care non-profit hospitals should provide * Electronic medical systems are used to deny patients care as well as access to medical records they may need for education or work * Allina lies and/or obscures its policy to not treat patients who owe money to them * Going on a payment plan for medical debt isn't good enough; patients can't book appointments until the balance is fully paid off quote:Many hospitals in the United States use aggressive tactics to collect medical debt. They flood local courts with collections lawsuits. They garnish patients’ wages. They seize their tax refunds.
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Baronash posted:I'm pretty surprised by the lack of any consideration in that NYT article to the possibility that different people within an age cohort are voting in the two elections they focused on. Is it an 18% shift in the political opinions of specific voters, or partially/entirely a shift in who is voting and who is sitting it out. Yeah I've seen people claim that 18 year old conservatives don't vote and that explains part of the age effect. I don't think it would actually change the article's conclusion but it would be interesting if some data could get at that. Baronash posted:I'm not able to find an explanation for how this passed with a simple majority. Is anyone more familiar with the process who could explain that? I guess there's no reason to do a filibuster if Biden is going to veto it?
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also re traffic chat I can only speak for Washington State here, but the traffic data is actually pretty weird. In terms of # of accidents, roads are actually safer than ever; accidents are down by a lot across the board, even ignoring 2020-2021 for covid reasons. That includes pedestrians/bikes accidents, drunk driving, distracted driving, everything. But the absolute number of fatalities is still notably up!
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Baronash posted:I'm not able to find an explanation for how this passed with a simple majority. Is anyone more familiar with the process who could explain that? (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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I don't know this for sure but the most likely explanation is that it was a Congressional Review Act resolution and not a normal bill, which cannot be filibustered
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Baronash posted:I'm pretty surprised by the lack of any consideration in that NYT article to the possibility that different people within an age cohort are voting in the two elections they focused on. Is it an 18% shift in the political opinions of specific voters, or partially/entirely a shift in who is voting and who is sitting it out. As haveblue said, it was a resolution using the Congressional Review Act, a 1996 law that created a special filibuster-proof fast-track process for Congress to overturn any agency regulation by simple majority within a certain time period. If you've never heard of it before, it's because even though the law was passed in 1996, it had only been successfully used to remove a rule once prior to the Trump administration. This is because CRA resolutions are actually extremely unlikely to work. Sure, they bypass a filibuster, but the president can still veto them and is typically very likely to do so. Overriding a veto takes even more votes than ending a filibuster does, so CRA resolutions end up being mostly for show. The only real use that's been found for the CRA process is for a new president with a friendly Congress to overturn rules passed in the last few months of the previous president's administration. When Trump took office, the GOP used it to kill a handful of Obama administration regulations from the second half of 2016, and when Biden took office, the Dems used it to kill a few Trump administration regulations from the second half of 2020.
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Is it necessary to get 60 votes for things if nobody's planning to filibuster? I know that we normally expect a 60 vote on anything of substance, but is it automatic that the higher threshold will always just be in place as a baseline?
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Ershalim posted:Is it necessary to get 60 votes for things if nobody's planning to filibuster? I know that we normally expect a 60 vote on anything of substance, but is it automatic that the higher threshold will always just be in place as a baseline?
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logger posted:My mom is a retired nurse and did hospice care, part of what she did for her patients end of life care was administer Fentanyl patches to make her patients last days go by peacefully. It's foolish to even have cannabis scheduled as it is, but to say there is no medical need for Fentanyl will lead to a lot of people dying in agony. Living in agony too, fentanyl's used in burn centers for wound care on patients with full-thickness burns so they can tolerate debridement. The other primary alternative would be general anesthesia, which has a high chance to kill people whose bodies are already that badly damaged.
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FizFashizzle posted:Well he doesn't have osteoperosis. Sandbag, he tripped over that. So so far, Air Force 2, Presidents 0
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FlamingLiberal posted:You need 60 votes to end debate on a bill, then if you get through that it's a simple majority Yea, a filibuster is refusal to end debate, which only takes one Senator, and the 60 votes are to forcibly end debate over the objections of the other 40. Once debate is ended, the bill goes for a simple majority up-or-down vote. It’s possible to not have anyone object to a motion to end debate, and it must happen sometimes for boring uncontroversial bills that don’t make the news
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Mellow Seas posted:This cannot fully explain an increase in traffic deaths that began in 2015. I hardly ever see any mention of ubiquitous cell phone usage and the distraction of the 18" TV screen in everyone's car. I rented a car not too long ago with a HUGE loving console display and found it incredibly distracting. Neither of those things explains the reckless speeding issue but I'd say does contribute to rear end collisions and people drifting into (bike) lanes. You also have the thing where people loving around with their phones are typically driving 10-15 miles under the speed limit and sending everyone behind them into a rage. There also seems to be a TON more 18 wheelers (and larger cars in general) on the road that create their own unique problems, but that could be my imagination. Honestly, I'd be satisfied if folks would learn to use their turn signals and properly use on ramps to build up a proper merging speed 
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Really, really bad optics with Biden falling, but paradoxically, it kind of highlights how healthy he is (physically, anyway). For an 81 year old to take a digger, get up and dust himself off? That's actually pretty impressive. Most people that age don't fall, they "have falls." Look at McConnell, who's the same age as Biden. That hosed him up for weeks.
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I feel like only a few years ago my friends who always had weed on them were super cautious when driving, scared to death of being pulled over. I'm curious if that's still the case these days even here where its still illegal but I think a small ticket at most.
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Liquid Communism posted:Living in agony too, fentanyl's used in burn centers for wound care on patients with full-thickness burns so they can tolerate debridement. The other primary alternative would be general anesthesia, which has a high chance to kill people whose bodies are already that badly damaged. Just to be clear the reporting is wrong, fentanyl is not affected by this lovely law, only derivatives that weren't already scheduled.
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quote:For an 81 year old to take a digger, get up and dust himself off? That's actually pretty impressive. Most people that age don't fall, they "have falls." Just as a PSA, a lot of elderly people who fall and then don't get back up relatively quickly do so because of osteoporosis; they don't fall and then break something -- something breaks and that causes them to fall. One of the biggest things to look out for when caring for elders is that the effects of a fall (that aren't caused by a fracture) often don't show up for days or even weeks. It's probably not a big issue for Biden because he's got the best healthcare this country can offer, but if you have an elderly loved one who falls but seems fine and gets right back up, you should probably still take them to be checked out by a medical professional. quote:Look at McConnell, who's the same age as Biden. That hosed him up for weeks. Not nearly enough. 
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I'm p. sure that bone scans, like many other tests & bloodwork, are covered under annual Medicare exams with no out-of-pocket costs if Dr. Epic says they're indicated (and age is an indicator). (That's with a traditional Medicare gap plan; not sure whether "Medicare" "Advantage" plans cover them too.) Willa Rogers fucked around with this message at 02:56 on Jun 2, 2023 |
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Dexa scans are every three years unless you’re high risk or already have an osteopenia/osteoporosis, then they’re annual.
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Mellow Seas posted:Really, really bad optics with Biden falling, but paradoxically, it kind of highlights how healthy he is (physically, anyway). For an 81 year old to take a digger, get up and dust himself off? That's actually pretty impressive. Most people that age don't fall, they "have falls." Look at McConnell, who's the same age as Biden. That hosed him up for weeks. Kamala Harris mutters as she re-butters the white house steps
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