If you count anything with a battery/plug as a robot that may not be too far fetched.
ShellMonkey
joined 11 months ago
They may have the ability but they don't have the appetite. The other side of it of course is that if we start doing things like that on one side the other will as well and then we have no functioning vote regardless because congress would just do whatever they feel like.
I like to think you're catching the point, but it seems lost still.
I know perfectly well they have no power. The ones that are going to sit there and throw a fit at the Dems though are the leftists who will say the Dems didn't do anything.
The Dems who do have power have to make a choice of take this with the poison pill, or sit and argue, or do nothing and hope the incoming admin won't make it worse when the current R's refuse to move. Which choice would you make?
Good try, but I was referring to the leftist/tankie division as you well know. The choices as it stood are functionally sign this, keep arguing until the next admin comes online and signs something far worse, or sit on your hands and do nothing for the same result. Those pushing the provision know time is on their side, and so do you.
So you get this bill, or you get theatrics that go nowhere until you get something worse, which do you choose?
What you get here is literally Republican politics. It was a R provision. You take this now or come January you get this and 10x it added from the republican wish lists. Want to say no and refuse it, fine, but the calendar marches on and you'll lose either way.
It's not ''Biden signs anti LGBTQ+ bill' as the spin would have it. The Republican speaker of the house put in a provision saying Tricare can't cover gender care for the children of service members.
They could either sign this, or have the government shut down and then when Trump takes over in less than a month they put in something far worse.
Chances are something far worse will come to pass at the end of 2025 with the Republicans having controll of all 3 chambers in the next term, but that'll just be ignored because it's not a chance to shit on the Democrats.
I must be missing something. Firefox only shows me a 'add to home screen' option but not an 'install' on my phone. Is there some sub menu setting?
Edit: these same options below are the way it presents for any known web-apps enabled site.
It's not ''Biden signs anti LGBTQ+ bill' as the spin would have it. The Republican speaker of the house put in a provision saying Tricare can't cover gender care for the children of service members.
They could either sign this, or have the government shut down and then when Trump takes over in less than a month they put in something far worse.
Chances are something far worse will come to pass at the end of 2025 with the Republicans having controll of all 3 chambers in the next term, but that'll just be ignored because it's not a chance to shit on the Democrats.
The one I own, people get upset when I take theirs.
I'm of mixed opinions on it generally but like the web-apps where you go to a site and then 'install' it. My mixed thoughts are because it seems to only work in chromium browsers rather than Firefox, but it's a nice way to get a custom configured app on the spot.
Vehicle and property insurances are a public good safety measure. If you go and cause serious injury to someone with your vehicle or in your home they have every right to expect to be made whole again. Without that insurance you would personally be liable for those debts. Unless you're willing to say that those kind of debts are not dischargeable in bankruptcy then insurance to cover them is essential for anyone who doesn't have a few hundred thousand laying around.
Workers comp is useful much the same way, unless you want that dim employee who cuts their hand off to be the death of your business.
FDIC helps ensure that some fool tanking every asset the bank has won't leave the depositors holding the bag.
Health insurance is for the vast majority of people required in some form under the rules of the ACA.
Insurance in the most basic sense is a pooling or risk. A universal single payer healthcare system is simply a pool that everyone is a part of by default. There's a lot to be said for having a single entity to contact for payments, but you can be sure that even if we fully did away with the insurance system as it is today that there's not going to be a 'free MRI Wednesday' in exchange for it. Someone will always be looking to keep a check on who spends howuch on what.
I don't know about major coordination, but I keep a couple sets of walkies that use CB band channels around for just such a purpose. It's comforting to have coms available that don't rely on a central infrastructure.