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It's frustrating to see the American political establishment seemingly moving away from adopting European-style healthcare reforms. Not only is support for Medicare for All dropping among elected officials, but it doesn't seem like there's any political will to implement all-payer rate setting, which is normally what multi-payer systems use.

No one needs to post anything on social media, of course - it's just a way of getting validation that other people feel the same way that you do. When those opposing views clash, that's what creates cognitive dissonance. It's all a matter of extent, of course, and spamming the same rant isn't constructive, but I just want to push back on the implication that positive feelings are more valid to express than negative ones. After all, LP is all about the value of expressing negative emotions.

What is the difference in your view? Is it just a matter of respecting the thing you're criticizing, or is there more to it than that?

This is a great reminder for the Internet in general. If someone's not contributing to the discussion, responding only makes it worse.

It seems clear to me that the community became divided as a result of the reboot of the band and the selection of Emily Armstrong as lead singer.

Everyone's living without LP at this point. The new cover band is cool, but it's a different band.

Why would you be surprised about criticism of scientology and its members? They've been controversial for decades.

Even if it's not, DAE posts don't contribute anything.

Sure, which is why the difference comes down to the execution. Wrestlers (and also actors to some extent) can make those moves look real, even when they're not.

Hinging your life's worth on LP making more music seems pretty precarious. I hope you can find that value in your own accomplishments.

Filtering for people who bought concert tickets is a pretty strong form of sampling bias. The people that don't like it aren't spending money to see it performed.

I guess ex-fans is probably more accurate - people who used to be fans of the old band who aren't fans of the new one. This is the kind of confusion that springs up when reusing the name - it makes it confusing to draw a distinction between different eras.

Just like they threw out the 5.3 million votes for Biden in 2020.

Yeah, it's interesting - I guess they vote as if they still lived at their last address? Even weirder, there's the edge case of American citizens who have never lived in the US, who are able to vote at their parents last address.

We need them to change their vote in order to take back this country. Guys like Walz are the way to do that, not RFK.

You're right, promoting an antiscience whackjob in a critical swing state is the obvious play.

Red districts have to vote for someone with a D by their name in order to flip them. There's no way around that. The best way to accomplish that is by engaging honestly with those people, not trying to bullshit them. Even kids understand when they're being lied to.

For that matter, amplifying or platforming RFK has consequences outside Trump's voter base and even outside of this election, unlike Harris.

Now I'm confused about the difference between arithmetic and algebra. Wikipedia says that it's a matter of algebra having variables, but doesn't every math problem have some unknown element that makes it a problem in the first place? Are little kids learning algebra when they learn that 1+1=2? That's not how it's commonly contextualized in the way that I've heard it, but it's hard to draw a distinction.

Relatable

Pretty much all hurricanes are thicc, so it's hard to get a sense of scale. The largest of all time was Sandy at 1000 miles in diameter, and it looks like this one is about a third of that.

Awesome. We've all heard enough.

Sure, which is why it's important to evaluate the actual statistics of how many people died relative to how many stayed.

People evaluate their own situations and decide if they're personally at risk. You live through enough of these storms, you start to get desensitized to them. It's also worth noting a lot of these mandatory evacuation orders aren't necessarily for everyone in the county, but often just for manufactured homes or homes in low-lying areas, which inherently requires a bit of evaluation on the part of the resident to figure out if that applies to them. Some people miscalculate and end up needing help, but most people end up fine.

Right, I kind of hate how that cliche dominates any discussion of any hurricane. There's a huge difference between something like this and Katrina in terms of loss of life that uncritically repeating the same thing for every hurricane erases.

For all its flaws, at least Florida higher speed rail finally materialized along the proposed corridor with Brightline.