To be fair, the Democrats had control of Congress during an earlier term too (2009-2011), and in that term they passed the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare). When was the last time the Republicans passed anything beneficial at all, let alone as beneficial as the ACA?

The rate at which new doctors are trained in the USA has historically been bottlenecked by the number of residency program slots available. Hospitals financially benefit from each resident they employ, but not as much as they do from adding other roles, instead (such as nurses). Also, it is not trivial to create a new residency program or expand an existing one (accreditation requirements, other fixed costs, etc.). This is why 25 % of USA physicians are immigrants. The Republicans have also made it more expensive to get loans for medical school, which will discourage some people from going to med school in the future, although the insufficient supply of residency slots might still end up being the bottleneck.

But even if we did not increase the supply of doctors, moving to Single Payer would still benefit us by reducing cost. I don’t think Single Payer would need to be coupled to increasing the supply of physicians.

Impeach and convict.

Underestimate AI at your own peril.

Public transit is mostly at the city and state levels. Amtrak is the only exception I can think of.

I was checking out used 2023 EVs recently, and some models were in the low 20 kUSD range. Accounting for inflation, that’s less than I paid when I bought my used ICE car (17 kUSD) in 2014. The main detractor for me is that level 3 chargers degrade the batteries, and as a renter, I don’t have a place to charge at home. But if you own a home and can charge an EV there, there’s really no reason to buy an ICE car these days if you just want a commuter vehicle.

I’m a woman but I have never worn shoes like that and I never will

She’s out of control! Initiate the lockdown!

I think most mammals are digitigrades, right? Afaik the only plantigrades are humans and bears.

Oh nice, the wiki page you linked has a list. The other living plantigrade mammals are:

• Several primates (including humans and lemurs) Carnivora:
• Ursidae: bears (with the exception of the hemicyonines)
• Musteloidea: skunks, raccoons, weasels, badgers, otters, and red pandas
• Rodents: mice, rats, porcupines
• Hedgehogs
• Hyraxes
• Marsupialia: kangaroos, opossums

job interveiw kweschuns:

• Are you hot?
• Are you loyal to the One True God Donald J Trump?

Appropriate username

Yes, it is fake.

For those unfamiliar with Yandex, it’s the largest search engine in Russia. So the implication of the post is that Trump is a poorly coded Russian AI troll.

10 PRINT "So in order to log into most websites, you need your username/email address and a password."
20 PRINT ""
30 PRINT "You can save your username/password in your web browser or in the cloud."
40 PRINT ""
50 PRINT "Sometimes people get lazy and reuse passwords, sometimes people forget their passwords."
60 PRINT ""
70 PRINT "Passkey is a replacement for usernames/passwords. It does require that the passkey is saved somewhere, often on your device (in the cloud is possible, but non-standard)."
80 PRINT ""
90 PRINT "When you "; CHR$(34); "create"; CHR$(34); " a passkey, this passkey is used only at a single place. For example, you"; CHR$(39); "d have a passkey for your bank, another one for your email, another one for Lemmy. You have no say in the matter, that"; CHR$(39); "s just how it works."
100 PRINT ""
110 PRINT "When you log into a website that has passkey enabled, your passkey/password manager pops up, you click on the passkey and that"; CHR$(39); "s it. There is no email address, there is no password, no MFA."
120 PRINT ""
130 PRINT "edit: oh, you also asked about the difference between passwords."
140 PRINT ""
150 PRINT "It"; CHR$(39); "s all about improved security."
160 PRINT ""
170 PRINT "You go to certain websites, and they"; CHR$(39); "ll only allow a-zA-Z0-9, others require a minimum length of 8 characters, needs 3 symbols (except ! for whatever reason ;)"
180 PRINT ""
190 PRINT "Then you have no idea how the website is storing your password. Are they encrypting it? Did they do it correctly?"
200 PRINT ""
210 PRINT "If you look at the number of "; CHR$(34); "breached/leaked"; CHR$(34); " passwords on the internet, it"; CHR$(39); "s because it"; CHR$(39); "s hard to securely store passwords."
220 PRINT ""
230 PRINT "Passkey solves all this. Websites are just given "; CHR$(34); "a public key"; CHR$(34); " and it can be "; CHR$(34); "just stored"; CHR$(34); ", no special treatment necessary."

I’m not familiar with any of these limitations that you described. Those might be limitations of the specific credentials manager(s) that you’re using. You might want to try a different one.

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Fortunately, this is exactly why we have ballot measures. Go vote!

Brains are just fancy matrices too. That’s why the matrices are called “neural networks”.

Bad choice, Newsom, especially considering we already have some wealth taxes, like the tax on real estate wealth. It’s not like wealth taxes are unprecedented. At least he’s not running again.

Meh. Companies will always operate in their own interest. What matters is to constrain their behavior with legislation, like California’s Cap and Invest program.

How do you justify democracy when people are voting for life to be worse instead of better

How are you determining “better” and “worse”? In most cases, there’s no way of knowing what is “better” or “worse” sub species aeterinatis, because most government decisions are not optimizing a single parameter, and are instead making a judgement call by choosing one of multiple options from a Pareto frontier. With democracy, the people get what the majority of people want. Majority rule is better than minority rule.

This is my hole. There are many like it, but this one is mine.