[-] Euphorazine@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago

Well, for almost a decade the GOP has had time to come up with their vision. They ran on "Repeal and Replace" in the 2016 cycle. But when it came time to vote to repeal, they still didn't have a replace option.

Prices didn't go down when the 2018 tax cuts reduced corporate tax by about 30%, I doubt when the ACA gets repealed and insurance companies can drop the uninsurable people they will lower the prices for healthy Americans, because they are already anchored at the higher price.

[-] Euphorazine@lemmy.world 18 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Technically that's true, because it changed the law where you can't be denied coverage because of pre-existing conditions, but I'm guessing OP means he uses the marketplace thingy instead of having insurance provided by work.

(Also, the affordable care act didn't force you to have insurance, it was a tax penalty to not have insurance, but the 2018 tax act set that penalty to $0)

[-] Euphorazine@lemmy.world 19 points 3 weeks ago

I think he spent like 10 minutes talking about childhood obesity, blames the problem on the Dems and wants to support Trump.

Didn't the Trump admin basically cut the Michele Obama's school lunch nutrition standards because "kids don't like the lower sodium options, so we're bringing it back because at least they'll eat the processed foods"?

He's just postering to try and get a seat somewhere.

[-] Euphorazine@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago

Amazon does probably do this, but burning down a retail store wouldn't hurt their competition.

Tinfoil hat time, the equity firm that bought toys r us, bain capital, somehow got people to agree that they could use the equity of toys r us as collateral, then heavily leveraged themselves to buy out a bunch of companies that competed with toys r us and therefore Amazon, and after buying out all these companies, collapsed in on themselves dragging all of them down with it.

Amazon already handled a lot of toys r us's logistics at the time, so it was a nice boon for them to already have the infrastructure in place to support that market when suddenly toys r us starts making highly risky leveraging decisions.

[-] Euphorazine@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago

July 16th is the 197th day of the year on non leap years. July 17th is the 199th day of the year on leap years.

Both of those are prime.

[-] Euphorazine@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago

That's not a book, it's a petrified ice cream sandwich

[-] Euphorazine@lemmy.world 14 points 4 months ago

Just remember polls gave Hillary almost a guaranteed win. For all intents and purposes, Trump is the front runner regardless of what any polling says

[-] Euphorazine@lemmy.world 13 points 5 months ago

I wore shorts and flip flops to a grocery store in the dead of winter. Guy asked if I was cold, and I was like "I went from one climate controlled box into a drivable climate controlled box, and now I'm in this climate controlled box"

Yeah, things could go wrong like a car wreck or something where I get stuck outside for an extended period of time and would become uncomfortable. But it is what it is.

[-] Euphorazine@lemmy.world 14 points 5 months ago

Well prosecutors and cops are incentivized to get arrests. Whether to pump numbers up for promotions or to use in campaigning. So it wouldn't surprise me if cops turn a cold case into a witch hunt because some partial DNA match in a "private" database gave them a few suspects and then they start to build some case to fit the suspects.

[-] Euphorazine@lemmy.world 14 points 8 months ago

Ah, the "I am aware I'm doing something wrong, but I'm doing it anyways" button.

[-] Euphorazine@lemmy.world 14 points 8 months ago

Yeah, think of the property values. Move all the homeless a few blocks away and lower their property values until a developer buys up the whole block and then push them somewhere else. Rinse and repeat.

[-] Euphorazine@lemmy.world 17 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Yeah, if we could not be 2016 election deniers, that be great.

Electoral college won't change until Dems flip states like Texas or something to where the presidential seat is guaranteed every year.

If the DNC didn't want Trump to win, they shouldn't have put up Hillary. If the repubs didn't want Biden to win, they shouldn't have put up Trump.

Sadly, I think the DNC made a mistake in not setting up a replacement for Biden and letting him try for two terms.

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