Message from @ryuplaneswalker

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2018-12-30 18:07:55 UTC  

Some news sites are calling it a pulmonary lobectomy

2018-12-30 18:08:18 UTC  

Yeah thats the correct name

2018-12-30 18:08:27 UTC  

She has four lobes of lung left

2018-12-30 18:10:39 UTC  

Yeah from what I've read, her lungs should recover fine from the surgery. But you watch her in interviews and she seems to struggle to get the energy to talk, even before the surgery. Something doesn't look right

2018-12-30 18:11:59 UTC  

I've seen a guy on TV who is 107 years old and he seems to have more energy then Ruth

2018-12-30 19:22:21 UTC  

With two changes the ACA would be the best reform for healthcare insurance I could imagine. First, replace the now eliminated individual mandate with a hefty monthly penalty to add insurance later - something like 150% or double premium for two years. Make it really hurt to add coverage once you get sick to help remove the incentive to insure only when you need it. Something like that was in the attempted 2017 reform. Second, increase the cap for subsidies to keep premiums at a certain amount of income to something much higher even as the fraction of income taken up with healthcare costs rises with increased ability to pay. Current it caps at 4x the poverty level and 10% of income applied actuarial to health care costs (premium, deductibles, and copays). Make it more like 12x or 16x poverty and caps at 25% or so of income at the top of the subsidies. People are still responsible for their costs, but only to a certain point.

After that, then we need to actually fix healthcare which is an entirely different matter no one has really taken on yet.

2018-12-30 19:29:04 UTC  

As far as the Green New Deal, I still maintain the original New Deal was a good thing. That said, I don't think a response to what could have been a collapse of constitutional rule in the US would be the right medicine for energy. Any solution to our energy mess that doesn't take advantage of the enormous uranium reserves in North America is foolish. Focus our efforts on 4th Gen fission reactors to provide baseline to wind and solar that will provide power for AC and to heat homes when we need peak energy. Nuclear power can be banked up or down to fill whatever gap is presented by the "renewables". Also, oceanic/tidal power is reliable and another solution if we can accept it might hurt some sea life. I'll accept that just like I accept the impact on fish presented by dams.

2018-12-30 19:30:11 UTC  

When we have too much power generation from renewables and nuclear, use that to make HYDROGEN. H2 can then be used for all sorts of things where currently we use CNG.

2018-12-30 19:33:18 UTC  

Hydrogen combusts into water. A little investment in safe storage and distribution of compressed H2 and we could have cars that go wherever we want and and homes that burn H2 to provide warm air and hot water - just like we currently do with CNG.

2018-12-30 19:35:29 UTC  

And the win for me is that once this is widespread across the industrialized world, no one will need oil and the Wahhabists in Saudi Arabia can go back to whatever they do when they don't have the entire world paying them jizya. No more billions to fund terror.

2018-12-30 19:39:35 UTC  

That's my Green New Deal - redirecting the green away from people who hate us and instead to the creation of wealth for those who produce things that truly further civilization as we in the west believe it should be. Based on free markets and classically liberal principles of individual agency.

2018-12-30 19:40:09 UTC  

And they lived happily ever after :p

2018-12-30 22:47:06 UTC  

it's an interesting concept. I too would like to see more nuclear (uranium-rod or thorium-slurry) power

2018-12-30 22:54:28 UTC  

imagine phones with batteries of nuclear power

2018-12-30 22:54:33 UTC  

dang Cat

2018-12-30 22:54:38 UTC  

you and I agree on something finally

2018-12-30 22:54:52 UTC  

FUCKING NUCLEAR POWER

2018-12-30 22:55:11 UTC  

I have a dream...

2018-12-30 22:55:12 UTC  

we would be really active 😄

2018-12-30 22:55:14 UTC  

of Vibrators..

2018-12-30 22:55:19 UTC  

made of Uranium Rods

2018-12-30 22:55:20 UTC  

were nuclear

2018-12-30 22:55:24 UTC  

oh damn

2018-12-30 22:55:45 UTC  

I'M NUCLEAR
I'M WILD

2018-12-30 22:55:50 UTC  

they wouldnt need the D to have something come out of them

2018-12-30 22:55:54 UTC  

Equality is a total lie. Prove me wrong.
(Pro Tip, you can't)

2018-12-30 22:56:22 UTC  

Socialism is Slavery. Prove me wrong.

2018-12-30 22:56:26 UTC  

@Kepler x = x
checkmate
communism: established

2018-12-30 22:56:50 UTC  

Can you feel it? That's the feeling of all your food vanishing

2018-12-30 22:56:58 UTC  

if the periodicaly put inside themselves uranium then something would crawl out

2018-12-30 22:57:17 UTC  

@Copernicus that just means 0=0

2018-12-30 22:57:19 UTC  

So, did you guys know that America is about to become Communist?

2018-12-30 22:57:27 UTC  

True story.

2018-12-30 22:57:35 UTC  

True Horror Story.

2018-12-30 22:57:35 UTC  

@Copernicus in other words perfect poverty

2018-12-30 22:57:47 UTC  

I'm serious.

2018-12-30 22:57:57 UTC  

"perfect"
stopped reading there, let's do it

2018-12-30 22:57:59 UTC  

Everyone is in denial.

2018-12-30 22:58:19 UTC  

@Copernicus cus x = x isnt infinite it is 0 = 0

2018-12-30 22:58:42 UTC  

how do you know x isn't infinite

2018-12-30 22:58:56 UTC  

Socialism forces too many people to consume more than they produce.