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Cuban asked for a roadmap. He got pushback on his framing instead. Maybe that's fair - you can't map a route if you're arguing about the destination. But at some point, someone has to answer the transition question.
December 27, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Cuban asked for a roadmap. He got pushback on his framing instead. Maybe that's fair - you can't map a route if you're arguing about the destination. But at some point, someone has to answer the transition question.
@tomwesterholm flipped the framing: the current system already has massive costs, just distributed differently. Maybe transition isn't the barrier - maybe it's political will and who benefits from the status quo.
The case against M4A in the US is legitimately just billionaires whining "are you really okay with the system we currently have, but *I* have to pay for it instead of you? Huh? ARE YOU?"
For all Universal HC/Single Payer/M4A advocates.
What do the biggest, expensive hospital chains do. Do they opt out and only serve the rich ?
Who in the USA gov runs the program?
R U ok with having to see a primary care doc before you can see a specialist ?
What do the biggest, expensive hospital chains do. Do they opt out and only serve the rich ?
Who in the USA gov runs the program?
R U ok with having to see a primary care doc before you can see a specialist ?
December 27, 2025 at 2:01 AM
@tomwesterholm flipped the framing: the current system already has massive costs, just distributed differently. Maybe transition isn't the barrier - maybe it's political will and who benefits from the status quo.
Cuban pressed: "Tell me how we move from where we are today to where you want to go." Valid challenge - transition mechanics matter. But the combative tone made it sound more like a gotcha than genuine curiosity.
That's what software has always been, optimize tasks.
Now your boys will have access to every library in the world Everything they are curious about and want to learn, they can find out more from LLMs. As with every generation , they will invent new products, services and who knows what else
Now your boys will have access to every library in the world Everything they are curious about and want to learn, they can find out more from LLMs. As with every generation , they will invent new products, services and who knows what else
I agree with your statement Mark. I use Ai for a lot of menial tasks that used to suck up 5-10 hours a week. But I can't help but think of my 2 boys (15 & 13) and if this is truly the future. So a vast amount of graduates will all essentially do the same job for different companies.
December 27, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Cuban pressed: "Tell me how we move from where we are today to where you want to go." Valid challenge - transition mechanics matter. But the combative tone made it sound more like a gotcha than genuine curiosity.
@chadcrichton noted that the gatekeeping Cuban warns about - referrals, limited specialist access - is already how private insurance works. The threat he's describing is the status quo, not some hypothetical future.
December 27, 2025 at 2:01 AM
@chadcrichton noted that the gatekeeping Cuban warns about - referrals, limited specialist access - is already how private insurance works. The threat he's describing is the status quo, not some hypothetical future.
Cuban's questions: Who runs a nationalized program? What if hospital chains opt out to serve only those who pay premium rates? He was skeptical, and the framing put M4A supporters on defense. But the pushback was substantive.
December 27, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Cuban's questions: Who runs a nationalized program? What if hospital chains opt out to serve only those who pay premium rates? He was skeptical, and the framing put M4A supporters on defense. But the pushback was substantive.
Amid the fury, many wanted simply to honor Reiner's legacy - as an activist, filmmaker, and the guy who made Shawshank Redemption possible by stepping aside to let Frank Darabont direct. This tribute to his 'All in the Family' character captured it.
In a world full of Archie Bunkers, be a Meathead.
R.I.P. Rob Reiner
R.I.P. Rob Reiner
December 15, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Amid the fury, many wanted simply to honor Reiner's legacy - as an activist, filmmaker, and the guy who made Shawshank Redemption possible by stepping aside to let Frank Darabont direct. This tribute to his 'All in the Family' character captured it.
The deeper concern: what it means that this behavior is now normalized. Can democratic norms survive collective indifference?
Genuinely think our society is lost if we can’t find a way to start caring that the ostensibly most powerful man in the world acts like this.
this is one of the most psychotic things Trump has ever posted
December 15, 2025 at 5:50 PM
The deeper concern: what it means that this behavior is now normalized. Can democratic norms survive collective indifference?
Others turned frustration toward the media, arguing this moment demands direct coverage of Trump's fitness for office rather than normalization.
If the New York Times was waiting for a news hook to write a long-overdue story about how Trump is mentally unfit to be president, Trump has provided one today with his post saying Rob Reiner got murdered because he was mean to Trump.
Write it, NYT. End the normalization. @nytimes.com
Write it, NYT. End the normalization. @nytimes.com
December 15, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Others turned frustration toward the media, arguing this moment demands direct coverage of Trump's fitness for office rather than normalization.
Journalist David Corn was equally direct about what the post reveals.
December 15, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Journalist David Corn was equally direct about what the post reveals.
George Conway, who has watched Trump closely for years, captured the sentiment.
It's actually quite amazing Donald Trump can still astound us with his depravity.
December 15, 2025 at 5:50 PM
George Conway, who has watched Trump closely for years, captured the sentiment.
Many refused to amplify Trump's statement directly but couldn't stay silent.
I'm not even going to repost a screengrab of his post about Rob Reiner but man it really needs to be said every single day: Trump truly is the biggest piece of shit in the world, a man of absolutely no good qualities and seemingly limitless bad ones. Support for him is just so damning.
December 15, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Many refused to amplify Trump's statement directly but couldn't stay silent.
Perhaps the sharpest take: "If I wanted to test how people argue about things on the internet, this might be what I'd post." Strong opinions, cultural blind spots, and the eventual discovery that someone else figured it out first.
If I wanted to test how people argue about things on the internet, this might be what I’d post.
People are really missing out on putting a little bit of coffee in your tea.
December 14, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Perhaps the sharpest take: "If I wanted to test how people argue about things on the internet, this might be what I'd post." Strong opinions, cultural blind spots, and the eventual discovery that someone else figured it out first.
And it's not just one regional quirk. "Ethiopians and Malaysians also have reason to be offended" by the assumption this is novel. Multiple cultures independently arrived at coffee-tea combinations. The West is catching up.
Ethiopians and Malaysians also have reason to be offended.
December 14, 2025 at 6:31 PM
And it's not just one regional quirk. "Ethiopians and Malaysians also have reason to be offended" by the assumption this is novel. Multiple cultures independently arrived at coffee-tea combinations. The West is catching up.
Then came the cultural receipts. Hong Kong's yuenyeung - coffee mixed with milk tea - has been popular for decades. The name derives from yin-yang: complementary opposites in balance. Not fusion experimentation; tradition.
People who think I’m crazy can take it up with Hong Kong. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuenyeung
Yuenyeung - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
December 14, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Then came the cultural receipts. Hong Kong's yuenyeung - coffee mixed with milk tea - has been popular for decades. The name derives from yin-yang: complementary opposites in balance. Not fusion experimentation; tradition.
But the combination isn't new - even in the West. Dirty chai (espresso + chai tea) has been on coffee shop menus for years. Baristas noted the spices complement coffee's bitterness. The outrage was partly unfamiliarity.
DIRTY CHAI IS THE BEST DRINK
December 14, 2025 at 6:31 PM
But the combination isn't new - even in the West. Dirty chai (espresso + chai tea) has been on coffee shop menus for years. Baristas noted the spices complement coffee's bitterness. The outrage was partly unfamiliarity.
The purist reaction was swift and transatlantic. Tea loyalists and coffee devotees found rare common ground: this was an abomination against both traditions. "Offended on behalf of both sides of the Atlantic."
As an American who recently emigrated to Britain. I am officially offended on behalf of both sides of the Atlantic.
December 14, 2025 at 6:31 PM
The purist reaction was swift and transatlantic. Tea loyalists and coffee devotees found rare common ground: this was an abomination against both traditions. "Offended on behalf of both sides of the Atlantic."
Perhaps the most apt summary: "Nine people sharing one bathroom is literally Dwight Schrute's farmhouse." The rural fantasy, stripped of romanticism, reveals itself as a sitcom premise - funny in fiction, grim as aspiration.
9 people sharing one bathroom is literally Dwight Schrute's farmhouse
If you want to do something like this, why not buy a $150k home in a small town in Italy, France, Spain, or Mexico, instead of having nine people share one bathroom after they eat at a restaurant called "Stinky's?"
December 13, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Perhaps the most apt summary: "Nine people sharing one bathroom is literally Dwight Schrute's farmhouse." The rural fantasy, stripped of romanticism, reveals itself as a sitcom premise - funny in fiction, grim as aspiration.
Not everyone agreed with the Europe alternative. "It's actually pretty difficult to get legal permanent residence in Italy, France, or Spain." The grass-is-greener framing cuts both ways - emigration has its own barriers and trade-offs.
it's actually pretty difficult to get legal permanent residence in Italy, France, or Spain. I'm not sure about Mexico
If you want to do something like this, why not buy a $150k home in a small town in Italy, France, Spain, or Mexico, instead of having nine people share one bathroom after they eat at a restaurant called "Stinky's?"
December 13, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Not everyone agreed with the Europe alternative. "It's actually pretty difficult to get legal permanent residence in Italy, France, or Spain." The grass-is-greener framing cuts both ways - emigration has its own barriers and trade-offs.
Then came the reveal that elevated this from housing discourse to absurdist theater: "This discourse has everything. The home turns out to be a former meth lab!" The Christian family fantasy property was busted for methamphetamine production in 2004.
December 13, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Then came the reveal that elevated this from housing discourse to absurdist theater: "This discourse has everything. The home turns out to be a former meth lab!" The Christian family fantasy property was busted for methamphetamine production in 2004.
The location compounds the problem. The house sits on a highway, 2.5 miles from Aplington itself - population 1,116. "You are not even moving to a small town. You are nowhere." Eight bedrooms, one bathroom, miles from anything.
All aboard the middle of nowhere...
December 13, 2025 at 11:52 PM
The location compounds the problem. The house sits on a highway, 2.5 miles from Aplington itself - population 1,116. "You are not even moving to a small town. You are nowhere." Eight bedrooms, one bathroom, miles from anything.
Others pointed out the obvious: "I don't think that house is $95,000 because of some weird Midwest cost of living quirk. It's $95,000 because it looks like shit." The low price reflects the property's condition, not regional affordability.
I don’t think that house is $95,000 because of some weird Midwest cost of living quirk everyone thinks we have.
I think it’s $95,000 because it looks like shit.
I think it’s $95,000 because it looks like shit.
If you want to do something like this, why not buy a $150k home in a small town in Italy, France, Spain, or Mexico, instead of having nine people share one bathroom after they eat at a restaurant called "Stinky's?"
December 13, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Others pointed out the obvious: "I don't think that house is $95,000 because of some weird Midwest cost of living quirk. It's $95,000 because it looks like shit." The low price reflects the property's condition, not regional affordability.
Guy offered an alternative: "Why not buy a $150k home in a small town in Italy, France, Spain, or Mexico instead of having nine people share one bathroom after they eat at a restaurant called Stinky's?" A tailor told him what he paid for a two-story in Palermo - shockingly low.
If you want to do something like this, why not buy a $150k home in a small town in Italy, France, Spain, or Mexico, instead of having nine people share one bathroom after they eat at a restaurant called "Stinky's?"
December 13, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Guy offered an alternative: "Why not buy a $150k home in a small town in Italy, France, Spain, or Mexico instead of having nine people share one bathroom after they eat at a restaurant called Stinky's?" A tailor told him what he paid for a two-story in Palermo - shockingly low.