Rivalarrival @ Rivalarrival @lemmy.today

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The children yearn for the mines.

$300 before or after the subsidy?

Fossil fuel prices in Canada can be decoupled from the global market if we really wanted to. We'd have to move to full domestic supply from extraction through refining to the pump.

That would mitigate some of the effects, but it wouldn't be enough to completely decouple. So long as pipelines, shipping terminals, and import/export policies expose Canadian fossil fuels to the global market, Canadians are going to be affected at the pump.

It is not universal. There is a coverage gap just below the poverty line, between losing eligibility for Medicaid, and becoming eligible for ACA premium subsidies. Just a complete lack of coverage for the people with the greatest need.

(Edit: to be fair, that gap was supposed to be filled by Medicaid expansion, but that largely fell through)

The fundamental reliance on private insurers is the biggest gap in universality. Public healthcare is subject to the private sector's willingness to permit treatment. With some companies boasting >30% denial rates, that "gap" is a gaping chasm.

The ACA was the best that could be done at the time, but it is a steaming turd and needs to be replaced with Universal Healthcare.

Venezuela. He's already invoked the Enemy Aliens act against Venezuela. He's going to have us in a shooting war in Central America by summer, against the "cartels".

This is First Past The Post in action. 2/3 of respondents selected someone other than her, yet she "wins" this poll.

Drop the bottom 1/3rd of the candidates, and revote. Repeat a couple times. This soon after the election, Harris's support is as high as it's going to get. Reduce the number of spoilers, and her numbers have nowhere to go but down.

Are you sure you're not Joe Biden?

https://jontic.com/two-ais-realize-theyre-talking-to-each-other-and-switch-to-a-secret-language/

Prior to the two AIs switching languages, this was two machines using "voice" to convey data.

Technically, they weren't using "Internet Protocol" over that voice link.

https://jontic.com/two-ais-realize-theyre-talking-to-each-other-and-switch-to-a-secret-language/

Technically, it's not internet protocol over voice, but the two AIs are initially using voice to convey (meta) data.

I never got beyond proof of concept, and definitely didn't keep any documentation.

I used voip.ms as a VPN trunk provider. They handled the incoming and outgoing calls to/from the PSTN, connecting them to my server.

If you're not familiar with Tasker, I wholeheartedly endorse it. I thought it was a little unintuitive at first, but I use it for all kinds of things now.

Your terms are acceptable.

I had a setup with a remote Asterisk server, and a Tasker app on my phone.

If I pressed a button on the phone, it placed a call to the Asterisk server, which dumped the call into a recorded conference room.

That was simple enough. The fun part happened next. The cops are always shown telling stopped subjects to stop recording and hang up phones. They'll take the phone out of your hand, and attempt to delete recordings. I wanted to address that.

I worked out a script on the Asterisk server where if the phone hung up, it would immediately dial back, and dump the call right back in the recorded conference room. Tasker on the phone would silently answer a call from that number.

That was about as far as I got. I had planned on some way of the asterisk server dialing a contact list and adding them to the conference.

The third party spoiler effect tends to hand elections to the worst option on the ballot. Rebuilding an extant party accomplishes the same intent.

Correct. Which is how they avoided the spoiler effect.

This, exactly.

Boomers grew up with a 91% top-tier tax rate.

Nobody ever paid that rate; anyone who was close to that line found some tax deductible way of spending their excess. That "tax deductible way of spending" was, ultimately, someone else's paycheck.

Without that punitively-high top tier, there is no need for them to actually spend their excess income. They invest it, creating a debt owed back to them.

We tolerate this horseshit out of fear that "they'll go away, and take the jobs with them". Which won't happen: When we restore our 91% top-tier tax rate, the rest of the world will follow.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

I didn't even know I needed to edit my prompt, but now I don't know how I have lived with it for so long.

They just aren't given enough to do what needs doing.

Guillotines are on back order, with earliest ship dates after December 4th.

They aren't a new party.

A distinction without a difference. Whether they are a new party, or a sect within the old GOP isn't particularly relevant. The relevant part is that the GOP adopted their positions and rhetoric.