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The reason is because Medicare for All is viable both politically and implementation-wise. It's been studied for decades and the bills are already written. Just phase it in by stepping it down: 65+, 55+, 45+, everybody.

All providers already accept Medicare.

The only disruptions will be to private insurance, which is a backdoor white-collar, make-work jobs program for millions of Americans. But most jobs are bullshit anyways. That's a broader problem and we don't need to sacrifice lives to deal with it.

My dude: Cocaptain 8.4 just dropped! You're living in the past. Don't get left behind!

> ...nobody's actually doing this?

I think you're right.

I am a programmer and I use GPT occasionally, and I even pay 20 bucks a month (for now), but even for my job it's not a not a world-shattering improvement.

> ... the entertainment value of typing things into the box and seeing what comes out ...

I would only add that in a consumer society like ours, entertainment is important. Changes to entertainment seem to have, like, weird ripple effects. Not the knock-down economic disruptions that AI is promising, but I kind of think LLMs are just going to make our culture weirder. I can't anticipate how, but having a bunch of little LLM-powered daemons buzzing around the internet is just gonna be freaky.

Sad news. Nuclear needs to be in the mix for an energy grid independent of fossil fuels.

Read Thomas Hobbes. Really read it and try to absorb it.

Real New Yorkers kind of loathe Times Square.

As a newcomer to Emacs in the past couple of months (my second try), I think I agree with you that it's a lot of work.

But for the Emacs fans who've had success, that work pays them back because they can bend the editor to an extremely bespoke workflow.

I'm unsure if it will work out for me long term but I can sort of see the appeal. No other tool even attempts to be what Emacs has become.

So yeah, it's different from every other approach I've tried. But there's a chance it will work for me. Jury's out, though, and I am only now realizing that I'm going to have to put more effort into hacking my workflow than with other things I've used (Kakoune, Neovim, sublime, etc)

View source on this one!

Wow... I never really knew when I was visiting a website transformed by XSLT

This is really cool

We already give so much of our lives to earning a wage for a (most-likely) useless job. Give us some time back, at least.

> It makes them feel useful and a productive member of society.

This is a lie for most jobs. Making internet ads more "clickable" is useless. We only work these jobs because the alternative is either starving or accepting a lower status in society by doing something more blue collar.

Yes, that's what I'm saying. The commuting and associated infrastructure are wasted on most office jobs, and they're not important enough to warrant it.

Ew, yuck

Yea, but 99% of all jobs aren't important enough to demand it. The average tech startup is vastly less important than a hospital, grocery store, etc.

The government doing things is good, actually.

Innovation? Really? All meaningful advancements come from public funding of basic research.

As for "purpose"...wow. Ask the next GrubHub employee that comes to your door if it gives them purpose.

Working less should be a social goal, a targeted outcome of public policy.

Who said anything about rights? We just want health care to be free at the site of service and funded by taxes. Just like fire fighters, police, etc. Every other western country does it that way, and none of them are clamoring to build a system like the USA currently has.