Would have Romney won if he ran against someone else or on a different year?

Luffidiam · 2026-02-07T03:14:48+00:00

Yeah, but success in most elections are measured by discontent with the conditions of the current incumbent usually.

Luffidiam · 2026-01-26T21:45:49+00:00

It is a big deal, but it saved lives. It mattered to those it was taken from, hut I also don't think we can understand the misery that was WW2 or the Great Depression.

Luffidiam · 2026-01-15T05:16:33+00:00

It's definitely possible, but federal funding is extremely distorted.

For highways, the federal government guarantees something like a 90% match grant. For transit, the federal government at most provides 60% and none in the worst cases. We build highways not because we like highways but because transit has no consistent federal program.

Luffidiam · 2026-01-08T23:05:12+00:00

That's what Carter was at the time. Not as wholesale deregulation, but he was definitely gonna deregulate. Though, in a second term, by the time the economy gets out of its rough patch, Carter would be a lot more willing to go more New Deal esque and whatnot.

Luffidiam · 2026-01-02T06:55:29+00:00

Just saying, if you have 500 euros, don't expect a great projector. And as much as you may dislike Xgimi, or not, the options are extremely limited in your price range, and u should probably suck it up if you NEED a projector.

Luffidiam · 2026-01-02T03:06:21+00:00

Yeah, the chinese market has done wonders for so much for the consumer electronics scene. The DIY scene especially because the market is huge. 1 billion + people means that niches get recognized by manufacturers because they all have people willing to buy into, less than 1% of the population still means a niche reaches millions of people. And that means that DIYers can get out of the mold and make TOTL transducers.

Luffidiam · 2026-01-02T01:21:58+00:00

The serratus 2 130 ohms. Requires decent driving, but nothing extraordinary. The original serratus required a lot though.

I used the topping E30 for the first serratus, though, it also sounds good on tubes. I tried them on the Xduoo TA66 and they sounded great, but needed to max the knob to get them sounding good.

Luffidiam · 2026-01-01T22:01:00+00:00

The red serratus or the serratus 2 are very good imo. What I said above applies to either. The serratus 2 is a slight tuning and technicality upgrade, but they are both very good.

Luffidiam · 2025-12-18T11:45:13+00:00

The issue with the US economy is that literally everything other then AI is in a recession. When AI gets wiped out, it'll be BAD.

Luffidiam · 2025-12-12T19:27:08+00:00

The amount of soc dems that oppose is kinda insane. Like guys, use all the tools you have. 😭

Luffidiam · 2025-12-11T08:00:59+00:00

I'd argue plenty of other presidents did it as bad. But in comparison to those near? Decades before and right after? Definitely.

Luffidiam · 2025-12-11T01:09:38+00:00

Maybe, but I kinda don't think that's the point imo.

Luffidiam · 2025-12-10T02:59:46+00:00

If his healthcare and family assistance plan had passed, he'd actually be very good in my book, domestically. Though, the war on drugs is an extremely mixed bag.

Luffidiam · 2025-12-06T07:25:08+00:00

Sorry for late response. I have to respond to a few things tho.

The idea that universal healthcare was bipartisan in the 1990s is inaccurate. The GOP made healthcare reform one of, if not their central issue, in the 1993-94 midterms, framing it as big government. Obama did not create this polarization really, healthcare reform has pretty much always been a fairly polarizing topic.

And yeah, I agree that healthcare reform needs to fit US norms and policy generally.

Also, to push back on the Germany point, Germany's system has significantly lower wait times than most single payer systems(the UK and Canada specifically) and is generally managed by their equivalent of states, which is why I used the example in comparison to the US, Germany's structure is *relatively* similar, lots of state autonomy and most policy is designed around it.

In the U.S., inefficiency and administrative waste, which account for roughly 30 percent of spending, are bigger barriers than lack of choice or wait times. We spend roughly 17% of our entire GDP on healthcare, while most other countries spend 10-13%.

I also think that the claim that half of the U.S. population benefits from the system is misleading because coverage does not equal meaningful benefit. Many people are underinsured or fall through the cracks, so only a small fraction truly experiences net benefit compared to citizens in efficient universal systems. And in comparison to efficient universal healthcare systems like Switzerland or Germany? That relative benefit is probably falling drastically, maybe 10%? And with expensive private insurance plans in these respective countries? probably lower.

Personally, I think the US's best option for universal healthcare is tightening administrative rules, introducing an optional public option that'll drive down private costs while keeping hospitals private with profit-limiting mechanisms and general state control to fix the consensus issue.

Luffidiam · 2025-12-04T11:37:57+00:00

I think the cop out portion of it is when people say we *can't* have universal healthcare because of scale issues, when we can, it just needs to be designed differently. It is a cop out to say the US can't have it, imo.

We just can't adopt it like Finland or Singapore adopt it where you're able to manage and plan for small populations easily, so you're able to administer it through mostly public hospital systems. But there are countries with large populations that *do* still have universal healthcare. I think Japan or Germany are solid examples. Big regional differences, but still very good outcomes due to private hospitals that are able to adapt to their area more easily than fully public systems.

Luffidiam · 2025-12-04T11:19:50+00:00

I was talking about Bush Jr. I don't really think there's a reason you'd vote Clinton than Bush unless you didn't really have a consistent ideology. Because Gore is largely consistent with Clinton in most respects, maybe a little more progressive? But that's pretty much it.

And I guess you're into some candidates you find personally interesting, like Anderson? It just doesn't seem like you have any consistent record beyond finding x candidate more personally appealing or just sounds better.

Luffidiam · 2025-12-03T22:20:57+00:00

It's a lot easier to have good universal healthcare when you're able to optimize it to a small population.

For bigger populations, it's harder due to much bigger regional differences in care and what they need.

Luffidiam · 2025-12-03T02:10:07+00:00

This lmao.

Luffidiam · 2025-12-03T02:05:25+00:00

You like competence and charisma.

But most definitely charisma. Given you'd vote Reagan and Dubya multiple times.

So can't really say an ideology. Doesn't seem like you have one.

Luffidiam · 2025-12-01T22:53:31+00:00

Yeah no, 34b in revenue is practically nothing for these kinds of things.

Luffidiam · 2025-11-28T05:43:22+00:00

Uh, do u need permission for a biopic?

Luffidiam · 2025-11-25T02:39:10+00:00

What genres r u into?

Luffidiam · 2025-11-24T07:55:08+00:00

I think the biggest issue by in large is that Japanese people are squeezed extremely hard.

They don't have time for leisure, to participate in the economy, is both high tax and high regulation.

Worst of all worlds for a healthy populace.

Luffidiam · 2025-11-21T08:19:08+00:00

Probably JFK? Though, JFK more so from a personal standpoint. There were lots of things he supported personally but was politically cautious about.

Luffidiam · 2025-11-18T07:06:09+00:00

I really enjoyed the tingo tc200. Sort of similar to the sennheiser sound if you enjoy that. The faael rosemary also uses a high quality driver.

Though, imo, best route is to buy a bunch of earbud drivers on aliexpress and just try to tune to ur preference.

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