You just know he's completely fucking alone all day. No friends. His wife detects him. His kids all have families they'd rather be with. Just him, alone, rattling around the White House like a lost ghoul, lonely and angry and scared. Outraged that for all he has, he doesn't have enough.

I think of you as a perfectly adequate size, Tim. As average as average gets.

Nobody serious about this thinks legislation is a silver bullet. Much like the ACA, we know it'll be a complex solution with components and phases.

But man, it'd be great if (just spitballing here) prominent political voices would actively support it rather than poopoo it at every turn.

Those algorithms are typically informed by your viewing habits, Gianmarco...

Of course not! He wants the EXPERTS to weigh in, not "scientists." That's why he's skeeting at randos on Christmas Eve and then running out of the room with his fingers in his ears. That's how you get hard policy analysis, Colin.

Mark. There are so many answers to this. It isn't a mystery. The myriad qualified voices to respond to this are not going to reply to your posts on BlueSky.

If you REALLY want the answer, call a policy summit and offer a million dollars to the best proposal. You'll get your answer, and then some.

Nobody tell this guy about Final Fantasy XIV. We'll lose him forever.

... which provokes backlash, obviously, and they trip over their dicks being like "oh no not THAT AI! Not like that! Just the normal way!" and now this fucking cloud hangs over them forever. When they could've just said "Yeah, we don't use any generative tools" in the beginning and avoided the mess.

Part of this is people still don't know how to talk about AI. Devs and designers and artists have been using AI tools for ages. GenAI is the problem. I still see people be like "yeah, we use some AI stuff" without clarifying that they mean the tools they've been using forever, rather than GenAI.

*psst* that's not what happened in the script or in the movie

I think people, chief among them our owners, are really underestimating how much harder player signings are going to be now that we've transitioned from a somewhat low-key bad team to the most obvious flaming dumpster fire in the league.

Seems like a like for like replacement for Dotson.

The Affordable Care Act originally had a mandate that required people choosing not to be covered by a plan to pay a fine. The money taken in by that mandate helped fund lower premiums and keep the system sustaining. It wasn't perfect, but the math worked.

The mandate was repealed by Republicans.

Republicans are more willing because this continues to spin the American healthcare system away from the actual solution, which is Medicare For All. Democrats are "dug in" because you're suggesting things that don't actually fix the problem. A pig in lipstick is still a pig, and this bill stinks.

LOL EAT SHIT NERDS

The point of posting these is not to highlight my amazing foresight. It's to illustrate that thousands, if not millions, of regular people, along with most historians, saw easily and clearly where this was headed, while Very Serious People and prestigious media outlets refused to take it seriously.