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Comment Re:Sounds like a standard medical scam. (Score 1) 23

My insurance keeps going up because private insurance in America has a monopoly on access to healthcare so they can charge whatever they want until the public gets so fed up they demand a single pair of healthcare system.

If things continue the way they're going with voter suppression and right wing extremists buying up the voting machine companies I don't think it'll matter anymore and then that will be the end of that. About 10% of the country will be allowed to have health care and odds are you won't be in it.

Comment You do not want AI examining your X-rays (Score 2) 23

AI is designed to take shortcuts in order to improve performance. It's already been caught more than once for example appearing to find problems on an X-ray with a very high rate of success when in actuality it had just picked up on a simple pattern where for example something is dumb as a ruler was included on the X-rays that had the problems and wasn't included on an X-ray that didn't...

Not that any of us have any say in this whatsoever. AI bullshit is going to dominate everything whether we like it or not. Just like how the price of ram has increased by 5 to 10 times and we all just have to suck it down.

We have a very small window left to the side of we are going to live in a society where around 2,000 people get to decide how we live. And we need to decide if having the girl that hands us our coffee say Merry Christmas is worth giving up everything else to those 2,000 people.

Comment Re:If you think this is something (Score 1) 59

Yeah, never expected to get another strongly built sedan. Handled like a boat, though. Since then I've looked for cars that have decent handling. I got lucky with my 2005 300C (good handling for a heavy car, thanks to Mercedes suspension), got T-boned, but they were able to straighten out the bent post, etc., and there were no issues.

OTOH my old '91 Firebird (I liked the handling but the engine was meh) was #3 in a 5-car chain reaction. The frame was tweaked, and though it was "straightened", it never handled properly. It was no fun any more. I've been rear-ended in the 300C and, like you, got a smudge on the bumper cover while the offending car was smushed a bit rather than smudged.

Comment Re:Like His Fat Ass Can Fit In One (Score 2) 97

Not being constitutional has never stopped Trump in the past why should it stop us?

I mean at this point Trump has wiped his ass with the Constitution so many times it's going to take a full rewrites to get the shit stains out.

Assuming We don't have a third term of Trump. He might be too senile. Multiple doctors have mentioned that it's likely the bumps and bruises on his hands are from an IV drip for an Alzheimer's medication. And if he's that far along he's not going to make it to 2028.

Comment It's a desperate attempt (Score 0) 97

To deal with the affordability crisis. It doesn't work because if you get hit in one of those by an American SUV you might as well have gotten hit on a motorcycle. Hell you might be better off getting hit on a motorcycle is a small chance you wouldn' Get thrown clear instead of grinded into paste

The other problem is they aren't fast enough for freeways. Even the ones that can hit freeway speeds can't accelerate quickly enough to safely merge.

And of course there are much lower profit so nobody is going to want to make them. If a competitor company started to make them then it would get bought out and shut down similar to how Microsoft buys out and shuts down anyone that threatens their windows or office Monopoly...

It's a completely unworkable solution to a problem Trump created himself.

Joe Biden was on track to do the kind of trust busting we needed to do in order to start getting prices down. He had already gotten inflation to around 2%. But Trump wanted 2 trillion and billionaire tax cuts and to get that he needed to raise taxes on you. So he did tariffs. Basically a national sales tax so he could pick your pocket and put the money in his pocket and the pockets of his billionaire buddies who bankrolled his campaign. Meanwhile he's gotten millions of dollars from the trusts Biden was going to bust. So you can imagine what happened to those investigations...

Affordability is a political problem and we aren't going to solve it by electing convicted felons with multiple credible rape accusations.

Comment Remember the same people scaring you with this (Score 1) 6

Are the same people who want put these back doors in your devices so they can monitor "criminals".

I'm not saying we ease off to Chinese, we got to keep that cold war going somehow or people are going to start trying to cut the fence budgets and redirect them to education and we can't have that now can we?

But maybe ask if you're the dog the tail is wagging.

Comment India has some issues (Score 1) 17

>"India is weighing a proposal to mandate always-on satellite tracking in smartphones for precise government surveillance"

What? This is the same India that just tried to force non-removable government spyware on everyone's phones. Then claimed it wasn't spyware, could be removed, that it couldn't spy on anyone using it, and then claimed it was always going to be voluntary to use?

It is obvious that they are pushing the populous to see what they can get away with.

Comment Love my RATGDO! (Score 1) 106

Saw the headline and assumed it was RATGDO. One of the first and easiest ESPHOME projects I did with my HomeAssitant system. There are a couple things that don't work with my system (open to %), but it makes for an easy way to open my garage door if someone needs to get in while we are gone (without giving the code). Just wish I could do the same with my Viking Access gate opener.

The main benefit of it is that it is so much easier to maintain a secure network as the system doesn't need internet access.

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