Well, nobody’s surprised, certainly. :)

Oh, I love this! Consider yourself hugged. I am going to swipe this line and use it against with my family.

Pope Leo confirms he’s a jackass.

That guy Nils sideswiped me when he was only 65, and he’s still at it…

Audrey Backeberg rocks my world.

This is the way to do it. Sick of the shit? Leave, and never look back.

I love that he said NO instantly, like, in 1/4 of a second after the guy stopped talking.

Sure, I want this to be good news, but there’s no rule of law for Trump. He will do whatever the fuck he wants, same as he has for his entire life.

Thank you for your service.

No company 1/1000th the size of Disney should be allowed to exist.

Totally bogus. The effect of one person eating a roast beef sandwich and side of chips is so nearly nothing it rounds to nothing. Saying, “If you choose to eat meat, you’re causing loads of climate damage,” is bald-faced misinformation.

This is damned difficult to believe from the Trump administration. My prediction is, it’s pressure to get something out of Google — probably a promise to make search results more MAGA friendly, or finger people making un-Trump-friendly search inquiries. End result, a fine at best. There’s just No Frickin’ Way this administration would actually do something to rein in Google.

No. It’s not 2/3 of climate change caused by wealthy bastards, it’s 100%.

Non-wealthy people don’t own factories spewing heat and trash into the air. Non-wealthy people might own cars, but they don’t design and build those cars to constantly spew dangerous & deadly emissions — wealthy people are responsible for that, and for the lack of a healthier, greener choice for transportation. It’s wealthy bastards who’ve fought against regulations reducing pollution, wealthy bastards who oppose public transit, and wealthy bastards who profit from the climate change that’ll eventually kill the rest of us.

Fuck if I’m causing 1/3 of climate change. Fuck, no.

Wealthy bastards make sure environmental protection is a punchline, and wrap everything in plastic like Laura Palmer. The rich are at the heart of every vile thing that’s being done to the planet. Virtually all of man-made climate change is caused by rich bastards.

Thanks for this. I’m a few thousand miles from Illinois, so my Pritzker awareness isn’t robust, but with what you’ve written and quoted here, I’m moving him to my list of good guy Democratic politicians.

There are 9, now including Pritzker.

Most Americans are, as you estimate, center-to-right, but that’s because America has no political party of the left, so lefty ideas are simply unknown to 90% of us. When genuine leftyism is spoken aloud by candidates who actually believe what they’re saying — AOC or Sanders and very few others — it’s very nearly undefeated.

America is center-to-right the same way someone who’s never eaten kiwi fruit thinks kiwi fruit looks icky. Give 'em a bite of kiwi, though, and they’ll be kooky for kiwi for life.

I simply cannot bear to watch the debates, ever. Not for decades now. Even the alleged ‘highlights’ are unendurable. The questions are imbecilic, the answers are rarely even answers, and by unanimous agreement of everyone involved, the questions that matter most are not allowed to be asked.

I don’t know about the hardware, but I think the software is substantially older than that — dates back to the 1960s. I might be wrong, though, and I’m too stoned right now to Google it.

I’m also an old person who yells, and I agree.

Mostly, though, if we’re going to ‘modernize’ the system (with or without AI), it needs to be done smartly and methodically, and by people who aren’t philosophically opposed to Social Security’s existence.

Thanks! The site won’t win any awards, but with an URL I can do daily updates, and additions when a show’s added on short notice, and corrections when I’ve made boo-boos!

I tried, but can’t bear to read the “article,” which, being Axios, is merely a collection of blips instead of actual writing and journalism.

As for the headline, I’m pleased to see plenty of common sense in the comments here. Seeing an MD in America is difficult, expensive, time-consuming, often preachy, and frequently not worth the co-pay if you’re lucky enough to have insurance. “Health care providers” have made it such a hoop-jumpy and slow process, that when I’m ill seeing a doctor is about my fourth choice.

What the fuck and why? What’s to be gained from this, for The Atlantic or its editor, Jeffrey Goldberg? Shit-can this dumb idea right here and now, please.