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Comment Re:The "Screw Red States" bill (Score 1) 229

To add context to this: the bill does appropriate $50 Billion over the next 5 years for rural hospitals. Still, it's not expected to make up the shortfall from payments made by patients using Medicaid.

Source: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Ffortune.com%2F2025%2F07%2F04%2Frural-hospitals-1-trillion-medicaid-cut-big-beautiful-bill%2F

Comment Re: The entire world is gearing up (Score 1) 277

Simply put, maximum employment – sometimes called full employment – is the highest level of employment the economy can sustain without generating unwelcome inflation.

Capitalism: “We must have unemployed people so that Capitalism can work!”

I don't have a better answer, I just think that's sadly ironic.

Comment Re:Can you explain how instead of pontificating ? (Score 1) 491

Education already is mostly controlled by individual states, aside from standardized testing. And even then, the College Board (which manages AP and SAT) is a separate nonprofit organization.

The thing states may miss out on is about 268 Billion (13.6%) in federal funding. And sadly this seems to be getting rid of special education.

You can always judge a society based on how it treats the least of its members.

Comment Re:I got mine, so f__k you (Score 1) 491

Seemed pretty good back in the 90s. Then No Child Left Behind was passed by the Bush Administration, and everything has been "teaching to the test" since then. Funding is dependent upon graduation rates, and schools want to keep funding, so they keep teaching to the tests...not enough kids passing the tests? Well we'll just lower the standards a little bit...

Comment Re:Nature is out to kill you (Score 1) 233

Nature isn’t opinionated on whether you live or die, it’s just the state of things. It created US who live at the expense of OTHER things. Agriculture wasn’t part of some master plan, it was just a convenience that spread when other tribes realized you could store food instead of finding it that day.

Humans hijacked nature.

Comment Maybe we have enough (Score 1) 123

Maybe we've just hit peak gaming. How many of us have Steam libraries full of games played for less than an hour, if at all? As a teen in the 2000s with just a Nintendo GameCube, I was desperate for new games. As a single 30-something with disposable income, I couldn't even beat all the games I own in my lifetime (not without a long stint of unemployment, that is).

Comment Re: Not a coincidence (Score 1) 303

Now I donâ(TM)t know Europe very well, but Iâ(TM)d hazard a guess the US is much more âoeregionalââ"people working and living within a 1 hour radius. Many of the jobs around here in the Midwest involve driving 30-40 minute distances, maybe even just to fix a printer. We are a car culture and everything that comes with it, even more so when you leave the city.

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