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  • National Parks to raise fees for millions of international tourists to popular US parks

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  • I don't think you're wrong for noticing that trend, but I don't think it should be a trend we follow. A country that prides itself on freedom and equality (under the law) should probably buck the trend that says "because of where you come from, you must be treated differently."

    It's not that it's not a reasonable thing to do, but that it conflicts with our stated ideals.

    One thing I like about Americans is that wherever you go in the country, there's usually not the same international trend of a "foreigner's price" for things. Turks, Brits, and Yanks all pay the same for a New York hotdog, ya know?

  • White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt's relative detained by ICE

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  • I have no sympathy for Karoline, but this is such a fucked situation.

    Do nothing: "You're such an evil woman that you'd deport your own brother's wife "

    Do something: "Oh, of course. You'll deport other people's wives and mothers but the moment it affects someone close to you, suddenly the whole 'the law is the law' schtick evaporates."

    The mental gymnastics she'll be doing is gonna be gold metal worthy.

  • The CEO of Microsoft AI is unimpressed by the negative criticism of Windows AI.

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  • My work laptop has at least 2-3 browser extensions that are glorified keyloggers/traffic sniffers.

    One of them legit intercepts all my web POST requests and runs them through a locally hosted ML model to try to detect whether I'm mindlessly spilling company data into ChatGPT (or any other big name AI).

    That's all fine or whatever, but Chrome shouldn't be burning 10-15 GB of memory on my laptop with only a handful of tabs open...

    Sigh

  • The CEO of Microsoft AI is unimpressed by the negative criticism of Windows AI.

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  • What's worse is when your computer software manufacturer makes such a bad, unintuitive product that they have to invent an artificial super intelligence just to help you figure out how to use it.

  • Eli Lilly Becomes First Trillion-Dollar Health Company

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  • Oh look, another too-big-to-fail.

    What could possibly go wrong?

  • Federal prosecutors say Bondi’s comments shouldn’t affect Luigi Mangione’s death penalty case

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  • What about: "Bondi is a hippo"?

  • The CEO of Microsoft AI is unimpressed by the negative criticism of Windows AI.

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  • This is so true. I'm nearing 40 and becoming more and more frustrated with (mainly) horrible UI redos that move shit around every 6-9 months.

    I can't think of computers as tools anymore because every revision of their OSes just completely obliterates the muscle memory that I've built up from decades of using them.

  • Windows 11 to add an AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders, warns of security risk

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  • OH MY GOD MICROSOFT, WHO FUCKING ASKED?!

  • Effective tax rates before and after the Trump tax law

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  • And every single one of those companies has gone through rounds of layoffs in 2025. Not only that, but each one of them had released statements saying that their layoffs were (paraphrasing) "strategic reductions in force" unrelated to economic factors.

    Which is a long way of stating the obvious: corporate tax cuts don't encourage job growth. Even if that stupid theory were true, companies would have eliminated chunks of their workforce with or without the tax breaks because AI investments (/gambles) are majorly driving this iteration.

  • Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman hospitalized after fall, his office says

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  • You mean lack thereof?

  • Flight delays aren't slowing down despite move to end shutdown

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  • Yeah, because a lot of flight controllers STILL have to pickup gig work or else resign from their positions in order to pay the bills.

    That means less air coverage, which in turn means mandatory flight reductions.

    Even if the government 100% reopened this minute, it'll still probably be around another 2 weeks before the first round of paychecks go out, and even then it won't be enough to cover nearly a month and a half without income.

    The effects of this shutdown will still be felt for months.

  • Soviet Russia born FBI Informant Who Lied About the Bidens has been Secretly Released From Jail

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  • This is fucking nuts.

    Guy with dual Israeli citizenship who provided fraudulent testimony to the FBI that materially damaged a presidential candidate's reelection* efforts, and who was deemed an extreme flight risk, was ... just ... granted the equivalent of unsupervised work release? And now nobody knows where he is?

    I can only facepalm so hard. ; _ ;

  • Medicaid chief’s claim $1bn is spent on healthcare for ‘illegal immigrants’ is false, say experts

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  • So all of this is a big lie. Immigrants aren't given free healthcare; hospitals are required to give emergency healthcare regardless of whoever walks in the door, then left with the bill if/when their patients end up not being able to pay.

    Literally the entire situation is the direct result of Ronald-fucking-Reagan signing the 1986 EMTALA Act that effectively creates an unfunded mandate of care for virtually all hospitals. They mandated healthcare but refused to pay for it.

    Every year U.S. hospitals treat all kinds of people in their emergency rooms. Federal law prohibits hospitals from turning anyone away from emergency care, no matter the reason.

    A percentage of the people treated are what are colloquially called "indigent care" (basically, so poor that you couldn't make them pay if you wanted to). The bar for whether hospitals consider them "indigent" is whether or not they would ordinarily qualify for Medicaid in their state—regardless of citizenship status.

    Every year, hospitals can submit claims for a certain percentage of their states' Medicaid funds in order to help the hospital make up for the deficit they incur from treating people who have not paid their bill—as long as the hospital can provide documented evidence of a the bills that were not able to be paid.

    There's other restrictions and things involved, but the important part is that the hospital has already eaten the cost—they're only trying to scrape back some money to break even.

    Based on both personal experience as well as public data, undocumented immigrants account for less that 1% of the claims submitted by hospitals for Medicaid reimbursement. Moreover, many (many) hospitals make up for the huge deficits they run each year by relying on several of these reimbursement schemes.

    Gutting Medicaid reimbursement to states will effectively render poor hospitals insolvent and—if they're"lucky"—candidates for being bought up by private equity (or even worse, monopolistic conglomerates like Kaiser).

  • Americans ‘dumbfounded by cruelty’ of Trump officials slashing SNAP benefits

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  • Because it was a hypothetical based upon an argument from absurdity.

    I know that the statistics were absurd. The premise was, "let's assume everyone who didn't show up to vote this time around and everyone that voted for Trump (but didn't last time) are at fault."

    My goal was not to demonstrate what statistically plausible number of people that were "responsible for Trump winning" that were on SNAP benefits.

    My entire point was that even if you do shitty, uncharitable, worst-case-scenario statistics about the election, the original argument would amount to saying 42 million people should go hungry because less than a quarter of them didn't vote hard enough. My point was that even lying with the numbers would still result in the original premise being flimsy.

    Your gripe is that my math is wrong. My gripe is that even shitty math can't come close to justifying 42 million people thrown off SNAP, which further highlights the assholery of stating "hurr durr didn't vote hard enough so let them eat cake".

    Your pedantry misses the sarcasm and tone of my response, and—judging from your comment history—is perfectly in line with your MO of dropping one liners designed to be maximally contrarian without contributing further to the discussion.

    Like... no shit the real stats are wildly different—they would very likely show that a much smaller number of people who determined the outcome of the 2024 election are currently SNAP recipients. Which, again, would not make the original premise that I was responding to any stronger.

    You're failing at reading comprehension.

  • Poll: Views of capitalism slip, but socialism is still unpopular as Zohran Mamdani gains prominence

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  • YOU are not the average voter. You're likely much more informed than the average American voter.

    When the average American voter hears "socialism", they think of "the Ruskies" or the "Chi-coms", not Scandinavia.

    They think Scandinavia is the thing that sits on your printer that converts your documents into pdfs.

  • Poll: Views of capitalism slip, but socialism is still unpopular as Zohran Mamdani gains prominence

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  • That's my point. People overwhelmingly like DSA policies, but are hesitant to say that they would consider voting for a DSA candidate because of their (incorrect) association with socialism.

    McCarthyism has done such a good job of muddying the waters in American politics that any policies labeled as "social-anything" are immediately associated with USSR gulag bread lines or Maoist famine.

    A not-so-insignificant number of Americans believe the Nazis were the same as the Communists because their party has "socialist" in the name.

  • Americans ‘dumbfounded by cruelty’ of Trump officials slashing SNAP benefits

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  • "Hey kids! Sorry, we can't eat this week because the neighbors voted Trump. Oopsie."

  • Americans ‘dumbfounded by cruelty’ of Trump officials slashing SNAP benefits

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  • "ThATs NoT hOW sTatIStICS wORks" he says, in the midst of a conversation in which the motion being debated is whether some of the poors not voting correctly means all of the poors deserve to go hungry.

    Forgive me if I don't take your "nuh uh" as a persuasive rationale for starving 16 million kids. You're clearly the more intelligent of the two of us.

  • Americans ‘dumbfounded by cruelty’ of Trump officials slashing SNAP benefits

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  • At least 16 million of them could not possibly have voted for this.

    An estimated 39% of SNAP recipients are children.