American Politics 4.0 - Orangeyou Glad He’s Back?

[MelBridgeman]

Originally Posted by Cali Panthers Fan

Chat GPT is often erroneous. Like more than half the time according to this Purdue study.

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3613904.3642596

I mean, for you, being wrong only 52% of the time might be an improvement in your win percentage, but I'd be cautious about handing out "L's" anytime soon using Chat GPT.

God, you're such an insufferable wanker.

Often? lol Chatgpt is a dumpster fire...BUT stackoverflow can be more of dumpster fire

Sticks on stones bro sticks and stones.

[MelBridgeman]

Originally Posted by BigThief

My goodness, is 2007 your join date or birthdate? Just try to be a little adult. Ain't even asking you to act your 50+ age, 25-30 wound be nice. L's? Dub? Yeesh.

Oh been around here much longer than 2007....

Like i said when in rome...the L's werent't a Mel thing, it was a Mel Fan Boy thing.

Just trying to fit in

[MRCboicgy]

Just drop it ffs. Polluting threads all over the place. Enough

[afc wimbledon]

Originally Posted by GGG

What’s interesting though is that life expectancy even among wealthier Americans only compares to poor people in other countries. So despite having access in theory to superior care Americans die sooner.

Because US insurance is also dreadful, the hospitals and care they cover are great but the effect of deductibles puts even well off going for routine check ups and tests and when they are diagnosed with serious illness a percentage just get their coverage taken away

The job of a health insurance company is to pay for as little medical as possible, we tend to think of healthcare as one thing, basically Dr's and hospitals, healthcare in the US is comprised of 2 opposing forces, Dr's and Hospitals trying to treat patients (they are great, best in the world) and a wholly separate Insurance system trying to prevent treatment

[dino7c]

Just over a week until Trump breaks a few hundred day one promises

[Thor]

Originally Posted by Goriders

Not 100% sure what his strategic interest is in greenland anyway. What are you inheriting by absorbing it?

Reindeer maybe? Or frozen fish filets.

Arctic rights, the arctic routes are opening up, ice sheet retreating and that means shipping lane rights, mineral rights, its a big deal for all the countries in the artic, the US would massively increase their rights/presence in the arctic if they managed to take Greenland.

[Paulie Walnuts]

Add another loser to the list. Mel Gibson said his friends drank bleach 3 of them and now they don’t have cancer. 3 of his friends dealing with stage 4 cancer.

[GGG]

Originally Posted by MelBridgeman

Ok dude, you aren't digging enough.

And for all the MEL USES CHATGPT FAN BOYS out there...you know where chatgpt gets its info from right? It's a internet search engine that can somewhat maintain a conversation with you.

So anyone can search the internet or read something in a book thats now on the internet and chatgpt will pick it up.

I used chatgpt in the AI thread, that's it, that's all....it is an AI thread, figured why not


Lots of L dished out here.
I will take the DUB

I don’t care if you use chat gpt or not though describing it as a search engine is not accurate.

My issue is that when you quote something you imply that there is a source for that information that is a direct quote. So it isn’t your interpretation of something. And is something that can be fact checked. And is something that you would provide a link to so if someone wants read more about the quoted topic they can.

Buy putting information not found in the source website you are misleading people into the provenance of information. The quoted sections aren’t quotes they are your interpretation of information you are reading. Or if it is AI output. AIs calculation of the words most likely wanted to be seen.

If you are going to quote rather than opine you should provide sources for your quotes. This is basic decorum. Put in a link and then have that link actually link to the source where you copy and pasted it from. It’s basic decorum.

[Fuzz]

And if you are using AI, you can specify what, even with a link and prompt. If you are doing nothing more than copying the Google AI summary, we can search the same phrase, and then click the links to the sources so we can then see just how badly Gemini reinterpreted them, and scold you for being so simple as to trust AI output as fact.
TIA!

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by Paulie Walnuts

Add another loser to the list. Mel Gibson said his friends drank bleach 3 of them and now they don’t have cancer. 3 of his friends dealing with stage 4 cancer.

That's truly amazing! Can we get him on Rogan and Fox so many more can hear this miraculous cure? The word must be spread, and the dosage increased. We might have hope for this world after all.

[Paulie Walnuts]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

That's truly amazing! Can we get him on Rogan and Fox so many more can hear this miraculous cure? The word must be spread, and the dosage increased. We might have hope for this world after all.

He shared this on Rogan. They took the horse paste as well.

[tripin_billie]

Originally Posted by ThePrince

Again, misleading. This is not how things would play out.

If you got laid off, you would use the 60 days to look at marketplace plans, which in a state like CO are in the $300/month range (for a single person) and if you are a low income earner, you likely qualify for Medicaid or a reduced monthly premium. If you didn’t have any medical events over those 60 days, you would elect into your marketplace/Medicaid plan. If you did have a medical event, then you’d probably elect COBRA, then opt out and go with a marketplace plan.

You would never be “uninsured”. If something happens, you go with COBRA retro-actively. If something doesn’t happen, you go with a marketplace plan/Medicaid.

This is really quite wrong. About 12% of insured Americans will experience a gap in coverage during a year. That expands out to about 20% when you look over a 2 year period.

COBRA is often cost-prohibitive for those who just lost their insurance.

Employer based health insurance is a remnant of a tax loophole that employers used during WWII to be able to pay more than the compensation caps set to prvent rampant inflation due to the labor shortages created by sending millions of young workers to war. It was never something thought out or planned. It is not a "system."

Health insurance is a financial product and increasingly, it's a poor product. You wouldn't buy car insurance with the gaps in coverage tor deductibles that health insurance often includes.

Some sources for this:

https://www.commonwealthfund.org/pub...iennial-survey

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/b...y-finkelstein/

[ThePrince]

Originally Posted by tripin_billie

This is really quite wrong. About 12% of insured Americans will experience a gap in coverage during a year. That expands out to about 20% when you look over a 2 year period.

COBRA is often cost-prohibitive for those who just lost their insurance.

Employer based health insurance is a remnant of a tax loophole that employers used during WWII to be able to pay more than the compensation caps set to prvent rampant inflation due to the labor shortages created by sending millions of young workers to war. It was never something thought out or planned. It is not a "system."

Health insurance is a financial product and increasingly, it's a poor product. You wouldn't buy car insurance with the gaps in coverage tor deductibles that health insurance often includes.

Some sources for this:

https://www.commonwealthfund.org/pub...iennial-survey

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/b...y-finkelstein/

You clearly didn’t read my first post, where I specifically noted that COBRA was very expensive. There are only a few very specific cases where COBRA makes sense. As I’ve stated multiple times, you would only really use it after you got laid off, and you had a medical event and needed coverage retroactively. Otherwise, you would be using a marketplace health plan which is much more cost effective, and if you are a low income earner, quite cheap. If you don’t have a medical event, then yes, you technically experience a “gap in coverage”, but you didn’t have a medical event, so it doesn’t really matter.

Again, I’m not saying the system is good, or that it doesn’t need substantial improvement, I was just responding to a post that said that when you get laid off, you lose your coverage immediately and you’re basically screwed unless you find another job ASAP. That’s not the case. But obviously there’s still an unlimited number of improvements that can be made in a system that’s clearly failing to provide for many people.

[Fuzz]

So if you gamble and don't get COBRA, but then get in a car accident or some other traumatic event that puts you in hospital, can you apply then?

[ThePrince]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

So if you gamble and don't get COBRA, but then get in a car accident or some other traumatic event that puts you in hospital, can you apply then?

Yes, that’s what I mean when I say you can elect into your plan via COBRA retroactively. You have 60 days from the “qualifying event” (ie. when your employer health insurance terminates) to elect into the plan.

So if my employer coverage terminated on January 31st, and I got into a car accident on February 1st, I would just elect into COBRA coverage for February. Then terminate COBRA within 60 days after my employer coverage was terminated and switch to a marketplace plan.

[Mccree]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

When comparing Canada and US taxes, this cost should be added to any comparison to make it even. It never is, but should be.

I got hired by a US firm to work remotely and the main reason was it was Cheaper and the benefits were a big driver of that. Even adding a Canadian benefit plan it was still cheaper for them to hire me.

[Fuzz]

Braedon: I come from a nation that believed in fascist ideology for a while. And we don’t want to go to that again. We are close to it because people want to simplify complex problems. The essence of fascism is to simplify complex problems and feed people who don't have time to read some bull####

https://bsky.app/profile/acyn.bsky.s.../3lfei33odm52v


Beware the populists that try to boil reality down into 3 word slogans...

[Monahammer]

> has no idea what chat gpt actually is but thinks he does
>> admits to using chat gpt to write posts on online forum for him (?)
>>> claims to take a "dub" (was someone playing a game with him or something?)

I think you can stop telling us how smart you are, bud.

[activeStick]

Originally Posted by photon

SCOTUS denies Trump's request to block his sentencing. Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh of course would have blocked it.

The judge went through today with Trump's sentencing and has given him an unconditional discharge from the 30ish charges he was found guilty of a year ago. Trump will not face any fines or prison time as a result of the judge's decision.

[WideReceiver]

Who didn’t know that was coming? But now he’s officially a convicted felon.