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Nice Guy Eddie

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  1. In his defense, it was premium air.
  2. One huge flaw in the Biden admin was their inability to communicate because Biden was unable to communicate well. While I would rather have a president who can manage the govt well as opposed to just communicating, communicating is key to staying in power. im not saying Biden was perfect in managing the govt, far from it. However his lack of talking to the US allowed others to set the narrative.
  3. From my point of view, the problem the Dems have with trans rights is the that the Right wants trans people to disappear. If Dems collectively agreed that a trans athlete can’t compete in women’s sports, the Right will shift the focus to bathrooms and bullshit “forced transitions” in schools. While they point to those issues today, their main focus was on sports. Then say Dems agreed on public bathroom exclusions, then the Right will then want federal protections in calling someone whatever name or pronoun you want. The Right won’t stop. the sports issue is definitely a reasonable argument but don’t pretend that will satisfy the Right.
  4. Someone posts about their mother’s inhumane stay at an assisted living facility for 3 years. Good job helping mom Justin.
  5. They thought he was only going to punish CA or NY. Everyone loves to complain about govt waste but 99% of that "waste" goes into the pockets of everyday Americans. Wasting money with Ukrainian war has put billions into American defense contractors who hire everyday people. Now we divert that waste into state unemployment benefits.
  6. I know many innocent or naive people will be hurt, but I don't have any sympathy for a Trump voter who is harmed by Trump's policies. If you voted for him after hearing him say that he would take away your livelihood or that he would deport your relatives, not sorry about the consequences.
  7. I'm intrigued about how crypto works with the newest generations of AI agents. basically there are some AI tools that now have crypto wallets to manage on their own. They can trade, stake, or give it away for whatever reason they want. It's not that inconceivable that we could soon have a billionaire AI agent that doesn't have human control. I played around watching some videos about the Virtuals Protocol protocol and one of their AI agents, aixbt. Admittedly I don't still fully understand this tech but there's something there. You can invest in both and many others. aixbt runs a 24/7 twitter account that gives advice about crypto investing. I'm tempted to throw a few thousand $ at the top players. Most likely many will be complete flops but if only a couple 100x, who cares.
  8. Probably worth a lot to the right person. and most likely a small buyer group.
  9. While not a cabinet pick, it's looking more likely that DeSantis will appoint Lara Trump as Rubio's replacement in the Senate. She resigned as go-GOP national leader today. I can't believe that DeSantis would do this move without something for himself, and I don't think that he would be dumb enough to do this solely on a promise that Trump will take care of him in '26 when he's out as FL governor. Makes me wonder if we're closer to Hegseth being out.
  10. But the games became about the money for the school and conferences only. The school president and AD get to be treated like a billionaire nfl owner for a few days.
  11. If you’re moving on to the nfl or another school, zero reason to play in a bowl game. Don’t waste time practicing the sport, instead spend time improving your combine numbers. most bowl games were pointless before but who is going to care about them in a playoff era. They’re like the NIT tourney in basketball now. They may survive just because espn needs content for live tv and the news/talk programs.
  12. I would have been too afraid that prank would have been placed on my permanent record and followed me for the rest of my life.
  13. Since Probst is open to negotiations, I would win the reward for sanctuary/letter from home, and then offer Jeff a deal where I drop out but replace myself with someone else. Sure it pandering but it doesn’t feel like anything negative will come out of it.
  14. One possible strategy for Sam and Genevieve is to conspire with the remaining underdogs to all dump Andy next. It’s doubtful any of them can trust him.
  15. Grapevine minister and substitute teacher found with the child videos and placing hidden cameras in a house.
  16. Sacks acts like he’s this independent billionaire who made it in his own but he’s a toady for Elon and Thiel. How nice for Elon that the AI czar will be able to slow down Open AI or Anthropic so Elon’s xAI can catch up. Gotta have competition here but god forbid if the govt helps other EV manufacturers.
  17. Amazing how the underdog allies didn’t appear to doubt Andy’s commitment for a second when he came back from sanctuary. Or at least we didn’t see it.
  18. Genevieve and Sam almost assuredly threw the comp. If either had won immunity, it would have eliminated the need to split the vote. Good on Rachel to win but the competition was lacking. if Rachel had lost, I would have bet that she would have played the block a vote if not just flat out used her hidden idol.
  19. Rule 1 is never buy a meme coin. The suckers benefit the rest of us. Most likely a fair amount of their losses get rolled up into eth, solana or btc. I hate to benefit from the ignorance of others but this occurs in everyday investments, credit card rewards, etc.
  20. Don’t we spend over $4.5T on healthcare? $50b isn’t that much. But I agree that efficiency and cost savings should be targeted.
  21. The govt programs (Medicare and Medicaid) only survive because commercially insured patients cover the real costs of doctors and hospitals. If we all switch to a govt system, the costs will go drastically up and/or care goes down. someone like Bernie goes on how much people love Medicare but he never addresses the other side of the equation. and I’m fine if we all switch to single payer if that is what we are agree about but realize that wait times will go up and care will go down. This type of system will negatively impact the vast majority. The poor and the wealthy will be the ones who benefit.
  22. insurance should never pay a dime for clinical trials. Or at least it should be an option that you must opt-in to a clinical trial policy in advance. OR the insurance company and their policy holders should share in any future profits of a trial.
  23. Gotta laugh at yourself. Trump politics being set aside, this is the party when long term hodlers finally sell. Except with fewer guests.
  24. Hyperbole much? How are insurance companies responsible for million of annual tragedies? Insurance companies don’t force hospitals, doctors, medical device companies, pharmaceutical to charge as much as they do. I’m not going to dox myself more with stating my background but I definitely don’t work or support insurance companies. they’re just part of the system that rations healthcare. america could offer 100% full healthcare with no authorizations required. You and your doc want something for you, you got it. Then your monthly premiums will be exponentially higher than today.
  25. I have to wonder what is the play for Sam and Genevieve from here? With Rachel’s Block a Vote, the new alliance is still effectively a minority even though it’s 3-3. I think they have to convince Sue that Rachel is running away with the show and sitting next to Rachel at the end is just a way to be the best loser. And that if Sue wants to win, she has to make a big move now.
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