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Even barring that, they could also have issues with unexpected/unplanned vacancies and missed votes. Health problems, delayed flights, lazy house member, etc. can all pose a giant pain for them

Know there's already been concerns raised in the senate about the new WV senate Jim Justice's attendance problems (they'll have 53 in the senate)

Plus keep in mind that many of their margins are far smaller than they were in 2016. Then, they had 241 house seats. Next year they'll have 220 seats (just a 3 seat majorty)

You only need a handful of defections to defeat bills so it's a reminder to keep fighting them

Plus at the sate level were also much stronger with control of 31 state governors. They had 25 state government trifectas compared to just 6 for dems (rest divided)

Next year they will have 27 state govenors and a trifecta in 23 state governments compared to 15 dem trifectas (rest divided)

Also keep in mind their house majority is super tight so this kind of thing matters even more than usual. They lost a house seat this last election and will only have a 3 seat majority. If they follow their currently stated plans, they'll also only have a single seat majority for at least couple of months based on who they're planning on pulling from the house into the admin. (House vacancies are not filled by governor, unlike the senate. They are just left vacant until a special election)

I get the sentiment, but medical debt forgiveness this way is nothing new. It's not helpful to lambast every single good story with dooming. Constant despair isn't helping us move the needle and fight back. Point out the fights where they, otherwise we're just making people too despaired to fight at all

The non-profit they partnered with has been doing work forgiving debt since 2014. And there's been high profile cases of people doing this too. In 2016, John Oliver forgave $15 million worth of medical debt for ~9 thousand people

Other local governments have done the same thing with the same non-profit:

In January this year, New York City said they were going to do the same for around 2 billion worth of medical debt for 500 thousand people over 3 years (paying around $18 million to buy that debt)

In 2023, Oakland County Michigan forgave around $200 million (paying around $2 million for the debt)

And so on

They are buying the debt and then just forgiving it rather than collecting any of it. The hospitals/medical facilities are selling off the debt and get money like they would if they had sold it to a debt collector. Not much for reason for anyone involved here to sue about. They'd have to be extraordinarily spiteful even by republican standards

There are other app views in the works from other people, but yes in the current state it is rather centralized. That's why I started off saying it was semi-decentralized. I wasn't claiming it was super decentralized

YouTube does have 8k support and a handful of 8k videos

It's actually more so the other way around. The backend (PDS and relays) is open source but I believe the AppView is not currently open source

https://github.com/bluesky-social/pds

https://github.com/bluesky-social/indigo

https://github.com/bluesky-social/jetstream

> Published July 28, 2020

This should be clarified in the title. Maybe add a (2020) to the end of it so people don't think this is recent

I think that's a good part of it, to be honest. Plus I think also helps that Bluesky's handles look visually less confusing and unusual than the conventional double @ sign for the fediverse

@user.bsky.social vs @user@bsky.social

Plus other things like having starter packs

Who's now left Bluesky which is probably for the better given his views on a lot of things

I noticed that and deleted my post but the deletion probably hasn't federated just yet, sorry about that

Bluesky is at least semi-decentralized, however, though not to the same extent as something like Mastodon

I'd also argue that Twitter is also uniquely bad even among other problematic platforms

This was the second vote on it. The 2nd impeachment vote in the US uh didn't exactly get 2/3 in the senate unlike South Korea getting 2/3 in the National Assembly. Though now it goes to the constitutional court. The prime minister is acting president while they consider to keep the impeachment or not (for a maximum of 180 days)

Given my limited knowledge and all of the highly unpredictable things going on in democracies around the world, I'm just gonna opt out of making any firm predictions myself. We'll find out in at most 180 days (they have that amount of time to decide)

I'll note that others predict the court will ask the national assembly to try to fill those 3 vacancies. If they do so, it would make it easier to pass since it requires 6 to vote in favor for it to succeed regardless of vacancies. There are currently only 6 on the court

I'll also note that in 2004, the constitutional court rejected Roh Moo-hyun's impeachment when there was strong backlash to the impeachment in the public. The charges there were much more minor than what happened here

Although the constitutional court does have 3 vacancies right now and it does look more conservative at the moment so it's not fully a given that it will get through

The Impeachment process isn't identical between the two. US congress has a lower bar for impeachment but requires a 2/3rd vote in the senate to convict which is where those both failed.

In South Korea they have a 2/3rd threshold to impeach and then it goes to a constitutional court to uphold or not uphold it. The prime minister becomes acting president right after impeachment while the constitutional court reviews it

There's recent precident of the constitutional court upholding an impeachment unanimously in south korea in 2017

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment_of_Park_Geun-hye

Note that it's not a one time increase to that, it's an increase each year until it reaches $30/hr by 2028

Under the proposal, the minimum wage for hotel and airport workers would go up in increments of $2.50 per year, starting at $22.50 in July and moving to $25 in July 2026, $27.50 in July 2027 and $30 in July 2028.

Yes, people organized around the olympics as a reason to push for the higher minimum wage. That's not something hidden that's something in the article

The campaign for the so-called Olympic wage had been spearheaded by Unite Here Local 11, which represents hotel and restaurant workers, and United Service Workers West, a local of the Service Employees International Union whose members work at Los Angeles International Airport. Both organizations staged rallies, led marches and, this week, organized a three-day fast by tourism workers stationed outside City Hall.

Also note that this is a city council decision in LA, not from the Governor Newsom

They're planning on voting again

Opposition lawmakers have submitted another motion for Wednesday, December 11 – the next available date they can vote on Yoon’s impeachment.

They were just a few votes short of the threshold