mcherm

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[–] mcherm@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

LOL -- good point. I guess the correct answer is zero. πŸ˜ƒ

[–] mcherm@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

One.

I'm thinking of a comic made to tell the story of a relationship, culminating in a wedding proposal.

The definition of success is different for different cases.

[–] mcherm@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

That's the common gag, but ACTUALLY the difference is in whether the recipient of the comment was open to hearing it and whether the speaker intends merely those literal words or has other implications.

[–] mcherm@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

I carefully read through the article and did not find a link to the study. Would you be willing to share the link here?

[–] mcherm@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

He can appoint two new members to the Supreme Court and then have them rule that Trump, as President, is immune to being prosecuted or held responsible for any state or federal crime but like Bush v. Gore it isn't a precedent and doesn't apply to any other President.

[–] mcherm@lemmy.world 14 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Yes, that is exactly what he is saying. Yes, it is completely absurd and would undermine the bedrock principles of our legal system. However, apparently somewhere between 3 and 6 members of the US Supreme Court may be seriously considering it.

(To be fair, he does claim that this absolute immunity would go away if half of the House and 2/3 of the Senate decided to impeach the President.)

[–] mcherm@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago

Yes. The average cost of cancer treatment is around $150,000 USD here and expensive cases can be much more.

[–] mcherm@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago

Here is my perspective on the answer to your question:

Our government is not functional. It is not that it doesn't "want" a healthy work force, but that it isn't capable of setting any sort of a policy.

The last time the US made any meaningful change in healthcare policy was under Obama. My impression of what happened is that there was a brief (2 yr) moment when the Presidency, House, and Senate were all controlled by the same party. The Democrats passed "health reform" which was basically the Republican health care reform package from 4 years earlier.

In the 13 years since then, the only Republican position on health care has been that Obama's "ACA" law is "bad". There is literally no suggestion of what else would be better. (I'm not counting the anti-abortion laws as "health care" -- they are seen here as a moral issue, not a health care one.) The Democrats' position has been a mix of "we shouldn't let the Republicans take us back to something WORSE!" and "the whole system is broken and needs to be replaced".

We have two problems. First, our government is structured so that it cannot easily accomplish anything, at least without cooperation between the two opposed parties. Secondly, one of the two parties is insane and wants to destroy the government (and has enough electoral support to win almost half the time).

[–] mcherm@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Here's what I use:

  • LGBT+ most formal (and old fashioned)
  • LGBTQ+ less formal
  • "people" most inclusive
[–] mcherm@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

On my profile it says "redditor for 18 years".

[–] mcherm@lemmy.world -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The ad hominem criticism is irrelevant. The communities should be removed or not removed based on the server's policies regardless of who first raised the question.

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