I did read the article, and that’s true, but insurance companies have been using that as an excuse to drive up premiums at record rates for years now (and making very healthy profits as a result, no pun intended). In my state, the exchange prices went up an average of 21% this year due to the loss of ACA subsidies. It doesn’t help a lot to know that they are legally required to offer you coverage if you can’t afford to pay for it.

I’m in my early 50s. Over my life, I’ve been very diligent about saving, and I expect to have what I thought would be enough to retire in my 60s. But I’m looking at the cost of health care going forward and I’m very concerned that I won’t be able to afford it.

Well, in this case there’s no HOA. It’s the city zoning board that is causing all the problems.

He doesn’t really give a good timeline, but based on context that’s $300K in early 80s dollars. When median home prices were about $70K. Or about $1M in 2026 dollars. Dude worked so hard for so long, he managed to pay off that debt and two mortgages, but he still works so they don’t run out of money and have to go into debt again.

Except that the Republicans in congress have refused to allocate funding for ACA subsidies, which means this WILL happen again. This is a lesson from the past about the sort of outcomes we have to look forward to.

The Idaho Democratic Party now even sells these posters and has embraced the message as their cause — making clear that even if this message was not originally intended as political, it undeniably is now. A teacher’s claimed ignorance of political connections does not render illegal displays suddenly lawful.

Yeah, buddy. They became political because YOU made it political.

Social conservatives have shown, time and again, that they won’t stop at simply refusing treatment for themselves. They want to make sure that everyone lives according to their beliefs. They will, of course, claim they are protecting children.

Yeah… this is one of the (many) problems with generative AI. It’s trained to produce an end product. It doesn’t know or care about the process of getting to that end product, or what happens next. It knows how to make bits and pieces of code that look and function like the code it was trained on. If the problem you’re trying to solve has already been solved hundreds or thousands of times, you’ll probably be fine. But that isn’t why software engineers get paid good money. We get paid because we’ve spent years learning lessons about the advantages and disadvantages of different solutions and when to use them. AI doesn’t know or care about that. At best, it just knows “make thing work.” Trying to maintain or change AI-generated code is nearly impossible because there’s no reason or logic to how it made the decisions it made. Whenever it made a decision it just did whatever was the most statistically likely thing. If you want to make a change, the easiest thing to do is just modify your prompt and let the AI regenerate the entire codebase from scratch.

I mean, yeah… You’re not a prophet. It has been there in the background for many years. I don’t think many of us realized it could become mainstream so quickly and with so little resistance. The problem now is that it’s just subtle enough that for anyone not paying close attention and educated enough (sadly a large portion of the population) they can scoff and claim they’re just being “patriotic.”

Oh noes! Somebody danced provocatively on TV!

Anyway… who are the men that were redacted out of the released Epstein files?

On the morning of the shooting, Littler said Lucy had asked her father, “How would you feel if I was the girl in that situation and I’d been sexually assaulted?” while they were discussing Trump. Kris responded that he had two other daughters living in their home, so it would not upset him very much.

JFC This guy sounds like a real piece of work. The prosecutor apparently bought in to his story that he “invited her” to the bedroom to see his gun and it went off accidentally. Even though she hated the fact that he owns a firearm and they were about to leave for the airport.

Secretary of Defense. Congress has not renamed the department.

Actually, the article states that they delayed handing over any data to give the ACLU time to challenge the subpoena in court, so DHS got the info they were after some other way.

She’s not dead. Just FYI.

There have always been trends, rumors, and dangerous dares, social media didn’t invent that stuff.

Perhaps not, but they certainly enable such things to spread much faster and further than they would otherwise. And since there’s little or no oversight to what people post the harm is never checked. I’ve repeatedly reported posts on various social media platforms that are advocating fraudulent and/or directly harmful information. None of them have ever been removed as a result of those reports. As long as the content keeps audiences engaged, they refuse to act.

I rewatched it a couple years ago for the first time in decades. It holds up surprisingly well for an 80s comedy. The scene where they explain how the futures market works is basically right out of an economics text book. Like, literally. I believe they got an economics professor who wrote one of the most influential text books to consult on those parts of the film.

If you want a fun chaser, watch Coming To America right after. There’s a bit of an easter egg cameo.

Water we going to do?

You can get a spring-loaded automatic center-punch tool for like $5 at any hardware store.

Shawshank Redemption?

There was a lot of speculation that they were daring congress to open a case, which would force the Justice Dept to comply with discovery rules and make all the documents available to their legal team.

I mean… in a sense I kind of agree. Voter apathy largely allows people like Trump to win elections. On the other hand, 64% turnout is among record highs, even for a US presidential election, which traditionally draw the highest voter turnout. There are always people that don’t vote. I don’t assume that they all don’t care or are okay with the results. There are plenty of people who aren’t able to vote for a variety of reasons. Some of them because of economic or health limitations. Some of them due to outright voter suppression activity.