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9 votes
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Andrew Yang’s new US non-profit is giving away $500,000 in free cash as a UBI experiment
23 votes -
What if the court saw other rights as generously as gun rights?
12 votes -
The Boeing 737 MAX aircraft: Preliminary investigative findings from the House Committee on Transportation & Infrastructure
5 votes -
How the working-class life is killing Americans, in charts
26 votes -
The CDC’s rocky effort to get Americans tested for coronavirus, explained
9 votes -
EARN IT act is a direct attack on end-to-end encryption
25 votes -
What happened when Tulsa paid people to work remotely
9 votes -
California directs some health insurers to waive co-pays, deductibles for coronavirus tests
11 votes -
Other countries are testing patients for coronavirus by the tens of thousands. Why the U.S. is so far behind
20 votes -
SXSW cancelled due to COVID-19 coronavirus
14 votes -
Super Tuesday: who did you end up voting for and why?
I'm curious how other people think about this.
23 votes -
Elizabeth Warren is ending her US presidential campaign
47 votes -
Joe Biden outperformed because he won US voters who decide late
17 votes -
Amy Klobuchar looked great on paper. What went wrong?
5 votes -
The American restaurant is on life support
10 votes -
Suckers list: How Allstate’s secret auto insurance algorithm squeezes big spenders in the US
7 votes -
Facebook files lawsuit against Namecheap
9 votes -
Many young voters sat out Super Tuesday, contributing to Bernie Sanders' losses
29 votes -
Michael Bloomberg drops out of US Presidential race, endorses Joe Biden
30 votes -
Live election results: Super Tuesday 2020
26 votes -
If the US removed FPTP and the electoral college, what new parties would pop up?
(You could replace FPTP with STV to keep the districts that elect representatives in the house intact.) I'll start. The Democratic party breaks up into the neoliberal and progressive parties. The...
(You could replace FPTP with STV to keep the districts that elect representatives in the house intact.)
I'll start.
The Democratic party breaks up into the neoliberal and progressive parties.
The neoliberal party is where centrist candidates like Joe Biden and Michael Bloomberg go.
The progressive party is where progressive candidates like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren go.
The Republican party might lose a large part of their electorate to the libertarians, since many Republicans are more concerned about letting business prevail and don't really want cultural conservatism.
Andrew yang maybe also leaves the Democrats and founds his own party, the party for online reform.
The greens also become significantly more popular but they may have too much in common with the progressives.
The Senate could be changed to include as many seats as the house for proper representation.
18 votes -
Bogus automated copyright claims by CBS blocked Super Tuesday speeches by Bernie Sanders, Mike Bloomberg, and Joe Biden
11 votes -
Anthony Levandowski, former head of Uber's self-driving unit, files for bankruptcy after a court confirms he would have to pay Google $179 million
7 votes -
Companies are contracting out more jobs—that’s not great for workers
10 votes -
NASA won't be able to send commands to Voyager 2 for the next eleven months, while upgrades are made to the Deep Space Network
8 votes -
Cost matters: Why Lambda School should have a lower success rate than college
3 votes -
WFIRST, proposed for cancellation, is approved for development
3 votes -
Falcon Heavy to launch NASA Psyche asteroid mission
6 votes -
The high-tech iBackpack received almost $800,000 from crowdfunding, but backers never received their bags. Now the creator is being sued by the FTC and state of Texas
13 votes -
Here's how Biden and Sanders stack up when it comes to how they would govern the tech industry
6 votes -
The 2020 endorsement primary
15 votes -
Pro Chef, Molly Baz, makes a meal with $10K+ Caviar
3 votes -
QAnon now has its own super PAC, established by the owner of 8chan
21 votes -
The twenty-year argument between Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren over bankruptcy, explained
10 votes -
Tech was supposed to improve caucuses. Instead, it may have doomed them
14 votes -
How to build your own starter house in just five steps — for $25,000
6 votes -
Japanese toilets are marvels of technological innovation. American toilets not so much
7 votes -
The forgotten story of America's first EMT services
5 votes -
Which US presidential candidate do you think has the best foreign policy?
The nice thing about electability being uncertain is that you can choose the candidate you think is best. Unfortunately I have lost faith in my ability to decide that. Studying candidates'...
The nice thing about electability being uncertain is that you can choose the candidate you think is best.
Unfortunately I have lost faith in my ability to decide that. Studying candidates' policies seems useless since, after all, Congress makes the laws. We are likely to see either stalemate or centrist legislation regardless.
Maybe I should decide based on foreign policy instead? Most people don't do that but I don't see why not. Any recommendations for interesting articles to read?
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Healthcare rant thread
So I don't know about all of you, but I'm pretty sick of terrible healthcare in the USA. So I'm starting this thread for all of us to rant about our personal issues with healthcare. I'll be...
So I don't know about all of you, but I'm pretty sick of terrible healthcare in the USA.
So I'm starting this thread for all of us to rant about our personal issues with healthcare. I'll be writing my rant into it's own reply later (it's a bit of a long one), but I wanted to start the thread now to give others a chance to start venting.
Rules of Rant Thread:
- Don't argue a rant
- Thread is likely going to be incredibly USA-centric. USA healthcare is assumed unless stated otherwise.
- Rants should involve people no more than 2 degrees of separation from yourself. This thread is to vent about your personal experiences, not hearsay from total strangers.
In order to foster further discussion, and include those without a rant: Here are some things I personally would appreciate and expect for replies, but others might not.
- Explanation of how things would work out for you if you were in a similar situation
- Advice for dealing with any ongoing or future problems
33 votes -
The boss who put everyone on $70,000 minimum salary
22 votes -
Progressives' foreign policy dillemma
3 votes -
How DuPont may avoid paying to clean up a toxic 'forever chemical'
10 votes -
Firefox has started enabling DNS-over-HTTPS by default for all US-based users
33 votes -
How rockets are made (Rocket factory tour - United Launch Alliance)
6 votes -
COVID-19 situation in the US progresses in three ways in Washington state: first death, first case in a healthcare worker, and first possible outbreak
19 votes -
How Bernie Sanders answers a question
23 votes -
Vox just made four videos on the strengths of the 2020 frontrunners
The case for Bernie Sanders The case for Joe biden The case for Elizabeth Warren The case for Pete Buttigieg
9 votes -
Calling out the super polluters
6 votes