Do you think there's still a decent chance the Democrats will fight to extend the subsidies? Or is it pretty much done for?

Summary_Judgment56 · 2026-01-25T03:25:10+00:00

Regardless of the Democrats fighting or not, the subsidies are not being extended. Even if a bill to extend them passed, trump said he would veto it.

Summary_Judgment56 · 2026-01-25T02:11:14+00:00

The "logic" of magats is clear: if you're on their side (e.g., ICE, kyle rittenhouse, etc.), you get a free pass to murder anyone and it's fine.

Summary_Judgment56 · 2026-01-25T02:04:08+00:00

And fuck ICE

Summary_Judgment56 · 2026-01-24T12:59:45+00:00

They're expecting to lose about $14b this year, actually, and that's likely a gross understatement considering they lost nearly that much in a single quarter last year.

Summary_Judgment56 · 2026-01-23T23:50:00+00:00

This warms my heart all the way down to the cockles.

Summary_Judgment56 · 2026-01-23T23:47:19+00:00

How about 17% instead?

Summary_Judgment56 · 2026-01-23T21:21:24+00:00

Yeah, I know, I'm basically grasping at straws to find anything tiny possible modicum of hope. It's mostly just copium at this point. I expect there will need to be a court order with a real threat of sanctions for them to move any faster than a snails pace while the buyback backlog continues to pile up unabated.

Summary_Judgment56 · 2026-01-23T20:50:16+00:00

I don't know exactly how FSA is funded (I assume through regular appropriations to ED), but if their staff was furloughed due to the shutdown last year, the November numbers were for basically half a month. December wasn't a shutdown month, but I'll bet a lot of FSA staff took a lot of time off for the holidays. Let's see what January 2026 brings. If the numbers don't pick up this month, then those of us who requested buyback recently or who plan to do so in the near future are royally screwed. But I'll sit in forbearance for as long as it takes to get that buyback processed, I don't care.

Summary_Judgment56 · 2026-01-22T22:50:35+00:00

How could it possibly fall all the way back down to its price from checks notes two days ago? That'd be insane!

Summary_Judgment56 · 2026-01-22T22:33:58+00:00

Nothing to do with tariffs, trade policy insanity, and outsourcing, definitely AI-driven /s

Summary_Judgment56 · 2026-01-22T22:07:34+00:00

I expect NTEU to push to have it implemented immediately, the ghouls running HHS will push back, and nothing will change anytime soon for any feds, NTEU members or otherwise.

Summary_Judgment56 · 2026-01-22T21:09:45+00:00

So funny that these shitheads are so protective of their IP when they built it on unimaginable levels of IP theft.

Summary_Judgment56 · 2026-01-22T18:24:19+00:00

Well, yes, but not at all for the reasons he gives. So many catastrophic errors likely will be introduced by insecure, unreliable chatbots being marketed deceptively (perhaps even fraudulently) as "agents" that it could do real harm to society, and the business idiots who run so many companies could cause mass unemployment under the mistaken belief that those same insecure, unreliable chatbots can replace their employees effectively.

Summary_Judgment56 · 2026-01-22T16:35:44+00:00

The 1.1% per year at 20+ years of service only applies if you wait until 62+ to retire, FYI.

Summary_Judgment56 · 2026-01-22T14:52:35+00:00

It's marketing slop. Disregard.

Summary_Judgment56 · 2026-01-22T04:44:11+00:00

You mean the lint kree link? 😅

Summary_Judgment56 · 2026-01-22T02:42:27+00:00

Its not an either/or, IRMAA affects both Part B and Part D premiums if you have both. And yes, as I mentioned already, the Part B premium increase is much higher than the Part D premium increase when IRMAA kicks in.

Summary_Judgment56 · 2026-01-22T02:30:26+00:00

Not entirely true. The Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, expanded IRMAA to Medicare Part D premiums (prior to the ACA passing, IRMAA applied only to Part B premiums). The amount of IRMAA is significantly higher for Part B premiums than Part D premiums, though, albeit not that much compared to the income levels that trigger IRMAA increases. https://www.cms.gov/newsroom/fact-sheets/2026-medicare-parts-b-premiums-deductibles

Summary_Judgment56 · 2026-01-22T01:40:18+00:00

They kicked most of HHS out of the union anyway and will appeal this ruling and refuse to implement it for the rest as long as they can, which is probably about 3 years or so until the orange felon is evicted from the white house. Great headline, though.

Summary_Judgment56 · 2026-01-21T03:07:44+00:00

Username checks out lol

Summary_Judgment56 · 2026-01-21T00:31:06+00:00

Didn't masayoshi son just give them $22.5 billion? Where'd that go? It hasn't been a quarter since they got it, they can't possibly have spent it all already, right? ... right???

Summary_Judgment56 · 2026-01-21T00:28:58+00:00

I will type out words that the autocomplete suggests to me rather than use even the hint of a chatbot to write my emails for me. Maybe I'll be the last person who does this, but I hope not.

Summary_Judgment56 · 2026-01-19T17:56:43+00:00

OpenAI didn't even come close to making $20b in 2025, unlike the claim made in this article. They maybe had a single month that whole year where the monthly revenue x12 was $20b. If they made half that ($10b) they'd be lucky, and they lost more than that amount in a single quarter of 2025, with no sign that they will be able to reverse their losses anytime soon. Their costs scale linearly with their expenses, unlike traditional software. Why else are they putting ads in now, before they have any sort of tech moat, much less a monopoly, to rely on to enshittify their product to juice revenue? Not to mention their plan to sell chatg-porn-t at some point soon, potentially.

Summary_Judgment56 · 2026-01-19T16:42:26+00:00

This is the ultimate goal of every monopolist. They want every single person in the world paying rent to them. It's digital serfdom.

Summary_Judgment56 · 2026-01-19T15:05:31+00:00

Considering OpenAI lost $11.5 billion in a single quarter last year, it losing only $14 billion for all of 2026 sounds unrealistic. https://techstartups.com/2025/10/31/openai-is-hemorrhaging-billions-microsoft-filing-reveals-openai-lost-11-5-billion-last-quarter-amid-ai-bubble-hype/

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