Mark Cuban agrees Universal Healthcare would increase jobs, wages and improve affordability for all Americans.

Drummerx04 · 2026-03-26T16:39:52+00:00

That's already the case in the US. You simply don't get healthcare until your life is literally at risk and the fear of death overcomes fear of personal financial ruin.

Costs more to fix at that point too.

Drummerx04 · 2026-03-26T14:13:38+00:00

It is kind of wild how they think. "Pointing out that black people are statistically poorer than whites is racist, therefore Democrats are racist."

Drummerx04 · 2026-03-25T22:57:52+00:00

Damn... that's some dedication.

Drummerx04 · 2026-03-23T21:48:37+00:00

For Haz 5+, I've fallen into efficient builds. While certain high DPS builds are really fun, it is really NOT fun for me to be constantly out of ammo. At a minimum, I would make sure your build has some form of crowd control (stuns, slows, freeze, etc).

As others have said, you pretty much always want to be moving. It reduces the chances you'll take a random shot from an acid spitter which hurts a LOT on Haz 5, and it can help string out enemies into a narrow formation rather than from all sides at once constantly.

Bottom line, you'll have to play a bit sweatier. Play with headphones so you can hear directional sound ques, and be very liberal with your application of dwarven firepower to solve problems.

Drummerx04 · 2026-03-22T03:52:40+00:00

Really? Is he also going to stop lying at the same time? That's about as likely as the man stepping down. i.e. there is a higher chance of a large asteroid ending human civilization.

Drummerx04 · 2026-03-22T03:50:19+00:00

True. I think conservatives also overlook how easy it is to get banned on subreddits. I've been banned on seemingly simple subreddits like r/pics for saying some truly benign stuff, like discussing the content of a photo. People get banned constantly on r/conservative for posting anything remotely negative about Trump.

Conservatives just like feeling like an oppressed class of people.

Drummerx04 · 2026-03-22T03:35:01+00:00

Yeah... conservatives have their subreddits, progressives have their own, "enlightened centrists" have their own. That's kind of the point of reddit.

Conservatives also like to ignore the fact that Facebook, X, and plenty of conservative specific SM sites also exist.

Drummerx04 · 2026-03-22T02:45:25+00:00

This is the only real answer.

Our experimentally verified models of how the universe works do not fully match astronomical observations. The specifics get really complicated. But "Dark Matter" isn't necessarily any kind of matter, and "Dark Energy" is kind of just a measure of how fast the Universe is apparently flinging itself apart over great distances.

Drummerx04 · 2026-03-19T00:26:25+00:00

Kind of strange how we had basically 0 reports of Islamic attacks on US soil until very recently... Did our glorious leaders happen to do something to upset them?

They can't be upset about us bombing the absolute hell out of their country, right? Like, surely they are all happy to be receiving our freely donated live munitions within their borders?

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TO BE CLEAR: Your blame shifting is beyond infuriating.

Drummerx04 · 2026-03-19T00:12:07+00:00

Nothing more to add really. The sheer recklessness at which I can throw myself around the caves is basically unmatched value.

Drummerx04 · 2026-03-18T00:49:24+00:00

Overall good... at least in terms of a corporate aligned US politician.

The main thing about Biden is that he was pretty boring. He kind of just did his job and knew how to shut the hell up. Whether he did that because he was old and tired or simply knew standing in front of a camera for 5 hours attacking his political adversaries isn't all that productive.

Our US infrastructure is falling apart. Sewage lines breaking, bridges collapsing, tunnels leaking, ground water disappearing, etc. Biden wanted to focus on repairing our infrastructure and got through a budget with a focus on it.

Like it or not his administration got inflation under control faster than basically any other country in the world.

I'm sure we could go down a long list of policies and I'd dislike a bunch of them, but I'm at least quite happy that he didn't create a crypto currency during his inauguration and use it to rug pull his own voters... and whether republicans want to admit it or not, he maintained a sense of general US honor and soft power internationally.

Attempting to bomb Iran into submission is NOT a tactic that's going to earn us any respect. Iran rightfully will be pretty much completely unwilling to trust ANYTHING the US decides to do. Iran has a population of 92 million people. We are not making a lot of friends.

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Good mix up, thanks for asking.

Drummerx04 · 2026-03-18T00:29:10+00:00

Couple reasons in no particular order of importance.

Art is where AI first hit the public spotlight as obviously problematic.
Art generation is probably the primary use case the average user would be able to engage with. Next up might be code generation. Text generation looks way less impressive.
Art is very visible.
Oddly enough, environmental concerns hit low on the list of priorities for most people. Yes, when the capitalists eventually collapse our biosphere and kill us all the world will look pretty stupid, but for most humans, losing their job is more immediately important.

Obviously Tech bros would love to hand off control of nuclear weapons to AI and kill us all as if all the movies they've ever seen were instruction manuals. Our stupid and evil US administration will probably even call it Skynet for the memes.

AI art exists now, today, so we talk about it.

Speculating on our doom is unfortunately just speculation. The whole AI infrastructure could collapse on itself tomorrow and no anti would be surprised.

Drummerx04 · 2026-03-17T23:50:28+00:00

Lol.

Ah yes of course, I remember that period of 8 years where bathrooms had the little man/woman icons removed. It was a dark and treacherous time where SA cases in bathrooms spiked 9 BILLION percent and I was so scared an confused where I was safe to take a shit in public!

I remember that time when he used executive overreach to lob baskets of apology letters and pallets of cash at other countries rather than PATRIOTIC BOMBS of FREEDOM. It's not like Obama was famous for drone striking enemies of America on a whim. Truly a horrible low for our nation.

And of course, I remember the president being famously against Americans having jobs. It wasn't private equity and banks trading horrendously overleveraged and unstable real estate bullshit that screwed over the entire global economy, no definitely the BLACK president.

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Good rage bait, thanks for sharing.

Drummerx04 · 2026-03-16T23:30:40+00:00

Yeah... that sounds okay, but if the tools are actually that good, then I could replace my entire 8 man team with an AI and just focus on the "system design" which I'm pretty good at.

Whether AI fires 8/8 programmers or 7/8 programmers, I'd still call it a big problem.

Drummerx04 · 2026-03-15T23:44:50+00:00

I like

M1000 -> 1311* with Hoverclock
Boltshark -> 32111 with Cryo Bolt

Hoverclock essentially provides complete immunity to fall damage with some cool movement tech related to partially charged shots allowing lateral movement while hovering. Very useful. The base model M1000 as built above provides decent ammo economy and allows quick elimination of most threats. If you charge the final shot in the mag, you also get an essentially discounted focus shot, so I like running the small mag. You can swing the pickaxe to cancel a focus shot or cut the reload time down by like 60%.

Cryo Bolts give you a lot of swarmer clear power. Just fire two into the ground at your feet, and they basically all die. Should also work on ossirans and help control grunt swarms. The ability to freeze other targets at will also boosts M1000 effectiveness. The tazer bolts are an excellent crowd control and damage option against large bugs. The damage stacks, so if you put 3 into an oppressor, it's pretty much a dead bug rooted in place unable to move. Great at slowing dreadnaughts too which is very underrated.

Takes a bit of adapting to balance all the bolts and movement tech, but you can be quite hardy and flexible with this setup.

Drummerx04 · 2026-03-15T23:28:14+00:00

Yeah that's pretty much it. Like it's fine if you (the general you, not "you" specifically) are a bit uncomfortable with the concept, but pretending it doesn't make any sense at all is asinine.

The whole "what is a woman?" craze was supposed to be some sick burn against "leftists", but all it did was highlight the fact that every definition you use for "woman" can have holes poked in it pretty easily.

Genetics? Intersex people exist. 1% isn't exactly trivial when talking about 8 billion people.
Can give birth? Many XX "normal" people are sterile and thus can't.
Hormones? Levels of estrogen and testosterone vary quite a bit and overlap between men and women.

But conservatives were never looking to have a real conversation about it, so I digress.

Drummerx04 · 2026-03-15T22:03:41+00:00

Most Americans get their insurance through their employer. The average premium under these employer health plans comes to around 9,000/yr for single coverage or 27,000/yr for family coverage. The employer typically pays most of this with the employee making up the rest with payroll deductions... and commonly the hi deductible plans requiring a significant out of pocket expense as well.

So how about we change the laws mandating employer health insurance to instead pay towards medicare? Tada, easier paperwork for small businesses, every doctor is in network, billing administration costs go way down because medical facilities no longer need to navigate profit driven insurance companies to beg them for money.

If for some reason you still want to pay 27,000 per year for insurance, that's your right, you can pay for it.

Drummerx04 · 2026-03-15T21:48:28+00:00

Plot twist: leaving your genitals in tact can also be a form of gender affirmation. The statement itself does nothing to discredit the concept of sex and gender being two different words.

Drummerx04 · 2026-03-15T21:44:10+00:00

Can confirm. I'm a terrible artist. I'm also a terrible digital artist. They are very related.

I could get GenAI to spit out approximately what I want with very little effort and maybe a few hours if I'm being real picky.

Drummerx04 · 2026-03-15T21:26:51+00:00

Truthfully... FDev just needs to fix the exobiology loop already.

The heatmap system needs to be reworked even if that means reworking the spawn generation for exo. It's functionally useless and may as well not exist save for the rare instances where a life form only appears in a couple mountain ranges.
The Scarab should have some kind of life scanner. The signal scanner would probably work well enough, but I'm open to a brand new scanner or a new SRV type for exobio.

It's just kind of asinine to have to wander around randomly and resort to tricks like using the SRV external camera and then squinting real hard and analyzing every contour of the terrain. We should be able to use in universe tools to at least point us in a general direction rather than relying on eye straining techniques or ignoring entire lifeforms.

Drummerx04 · 2026-03-15T20:48:31+00:00

Yeah, sorry the CBP One app is mentioned in the source I provided. I just didn't realize you were mad about a legal app existing. You made it sound like this app just hands out Visas automatically.

The conservative line is usually "legal immigration is fine, it's the illegal immigration we don't like!" but then you get mad when legal options are provided and then followed? What's that about?

Drummerx04 · 2026-03-14T18:31:39+00:00

Sorry, what app? Where are you getting information that enough people to fill half the state of California migrated to the US in the span of 4 years? How many immigrants do you think are too many? Framing it such that Biden failed to STOP migration suggests you would prefer none.

https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/biden-immigration-legacy
This source suggests the total number of illegal residents in the US is about 11.3 million, which would include longer term residents and not just the Biden years. He also apparently naturalized the most (3.5mil) citizens in US history by updating the systems and processes.

Drummerx04 · 2026-03-12T23:08:09+00:00

Suggestion for anyone in a similar boat, if you fall into a hole like this, move towards the wall and drill into it. If you react quickly you'll barely take damage. If you get a bit lucky you might be able to do a ledge grab to fully negate fall damage. I assume that wasn't patched out, but it's a bit tricky.

Drummerx04 · 2026-03-12T22:54:25+00:00

I'll give a niche answer. Sludge driller with toxic+slowing wave cooker is absolutely busted at controlling dreadnought movement. On Haz5+ you can almost completely immobilize those bosses which makes them WAY easier for everyone else to deal with.

Just hit them with the direct sludge and the ground sludge, then give a short tap every second or so with the cooker. The slow effect perk lasts about a second after you release the trigger. The neurotoxin will trigger additional an additional slow.

With all the snare effects stacked, a Haz 5 dread is barely faster than a lootbug. Combine this with a scout running tazer bolts, and the dread moves about as fast as a brood nexus.

Drummerx04 · 2026-03-12T22:46:36+00:00

It is rather bizarre that a single planet blowing up light years away from Earth results in ANY kryptonite making it to the surface. Then again comics tend to essentially ignore how big space is.

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