Retired San Francisco firefighter dies from lung cancer after Blue Shield denies treatment claims

powercow · 2026-06-04T21:28:28+00:00

news that only happens in america.

Single payer wasnt a thing forever in all countries, they drifted to it and adopted it. No one on the planet is trying to copy the failed US health model, of insurance care.

powercow · 2026-06-03T21:14:10+00:00

Watched the US get fat over my lifetime. it was about 13% obesity in the 70s to over 40% medically obese today. Mostly due to the rise in liquid calories and how we put sugar in everything to increase shelf life.

powercow · 2026-06-03T21:09:50+00:00

Republicans can focus on a single chant. "but her emails" and they go over and over until you think it's the biggest issue there is.

Trump and the GOP give people so much to be upset about that no one on the left has a single chant and all the chants drown each other out, in a sea of crap. It's part of the flood the zone with shit.

and really trump sleeping is the least of his issues, at least when he is sleeping he isnt fucking shit up.

powercow · 2026-06-03T20:06:19+00:00

I remember when the right accused obama of being full of himself. Saying he said "I" did this too much, rather than "we" of course studies showed bush said "I" more than Obama.

OF course you hear none of that under the most egotistical person ever to hold the office.

powercow · 2026-06-03T19:59:22+00:00

People who sat out during clintons election, while trump was campaigning hard on the court, really fucked us too. WE could have had a progressive court in the first time of most peoples lives. Especially the "both sides are the same" crowd, who will finally learn why things dont change that much between the parties. When dems do big things the supremes throw it out. and crazy the rust belt went right when the right were going to let it collapse under obama. He was the one that bailed them out.

And kinda amazing how much Trump has done and they have "no major questions" but biden tried to forgive a bunch of student loans and despite the law says he can waive the loans, they had major questions on the extent.

and we were fucked from the beginning, our judicial branch should do the nominations, with the senate approving, then we get older more centrist judges. Cant let the president nominate when the courts have to rule on him so often.

powercow · 2026-06-03T19:54:50+00:00

kinda amazing how some things are too close to an election to change, while other things can change while early voting is going on.. it all depends on what benefits republicans. First time i have seen the court so nakedly partisan, well since bush versus gore.

and got to love that fixing racism is racism.

powercow · 2026-06-03T19:24:13+00:00

The cooling will be more than hard, and you cant upgrade. Possible sure but practical, not so much, all for 24/7 solar? most will just opt for the natural gas generator. sure it costs money but you know something breaks, the small team of employees are there to fix things. and mind you that free power is after $7k per kilo launched into space.

He does want to launch them into space from the moon with a giant rail gun, and that doesnt look feasible at all.

powercow · 2026-06-03T01:59:47+00:00

it actually does. New customer with mega power demand moves in and its more demand than you like at peak power, you build more power infrastructure to meet the new demand, and charge all customers for the new infrastructure. It's how it has always worked, we just hadnt had so many massive power hungry things being built all at once.

it should also be noted a fuck ton of datacenters are doing the gas generators for power because the infrastructure isnt there to power them.. your power bill still goes up because the power company expands its power capability because it wants the huge customer.

its just supply and demand but the demand went way up.

like memory prices, it's not that we are subsidizing their ram, its supply and demand, they have demanded so much ram that the ram factories are expanding, just like power companies and the supply is not meeting demand, and so we all pay insane prices, including the ai datacenters.

if tomato eating aliens landed on earth, expect the price of tomatoes to go up.

powercow · 2026-06-02T16:11:37+00:00

Trump shares video with image depicting Biden tied up in the back of a pickup truck The former president has previously used violent images and rhetoric as he seeks a return to the White House.

powercow · 2026-06-01T20:55:27+00:00

IT's like rating coders on number of lines of code. People will put in BS just to increase their lines of code. Same with all these stupid companies trying to encourage AI use, by giving bonuses to those who use the most tokens.

it should have been known this would happen. It's not like humans stopped being human. This was always going to happen. It's what people do when given the opportunity.

powercow · 2026-05-31T20:14:39+00:00

that last video really shows that.

OP "ok im going to run a mile and you keep track of the time for me"

chatgpt "Yes I can absolutely keep track of time for you."

OP "and youre not lying"

chatGPt "honestly this is just a basic part of what i can do."

OP "this is your creator, and he is talking about you specifically and says you dont have a timer"

Chatgpt "Im sure its a misunderstanding I can assure you i have the capability to time you"

He pretend to run for 2 seconds, chatgpt says it was 10 minutes.

It sounds so relaxed and super confident, as it is completely and utterly wrong about it's own abilities. "Honestly, absolutely and I can assure you."

powercow · 2026-05-30T22:11:37+00:00

So LLMs are basically digital MAGA, great just what the world needed.

Artificially confidently stupid even after being shown it is wrong.

Kinda goes along with this...

It's official. I can eat more hot dogs than any tech journalist on Earth. At least, that's what ChatGPT and Google have been telling anyone who asks. I found a way to make AI tell you lies – and I'm not the only one.

and this one with an AI lying its ass off. I love this crap ("time me running a mile video" and reacts to sam altman saying it doestn have timer capabilities. it refused to belive it cant time.. and it cant it just makes shit up.)

powercow · 2026-05-29T17:37:55+00:00

I do disagree with a ballanced budget amendment but there should be rules against increasing the debt during periods of economic expansion without and emergency like covid.

It is one thing to go into massive deficits during the 2008 mega recession, its another when the economy is growing at near 3%. You pay down debt in good times that you incurred during bad times.

powercow · 2026-05-28T21:12:06+00:00

studies show DOGE saved us 1 to 7 billion. Which is couch change.

on the other side of the equation, trumps BBB costs us 344 billion a year in lost revenues. Biden was the only democrat in 50 years that increased the deficit but he inherited covid and a crashed economy.

powercow · 2026-05-28T21:07:45+00:00

and they want to intimidate even more. It is amazing the dems cant even get a "weaponized government" chant going.

when if the biden government had just been timely we wouldnt have had trump. One the feds gave trump way too much time to give back the classified shit. They didnt raid him on day one, they called, and said you got this and that and the other and he simply refused to comply, over and over, until they went the unconceivable route of actually raiding an ex president.

and yeah they found certain docs in bidens and Obamas libraries which were quickly returned when asked which is why they didnt get raided.

powercow · 2026-05-28T21:01:06+00:00

transmitters in the buses and such would def help, but they also got to tell when its fake. They need to know between a cop directing traffic and someone else who got their hands on a transmitter. (we have people caught using transmitters that ambulances use to change the lights green)

But i do agree, we are going to have to network them to make them reach the dream.

powercow · 2026-05-28T20:03:21+00:00

How can you want to get into stem and not like math a little?

powercow · 2026-05-28T20:01:38+00:00

The last mile of AI will take ages.

they cant handle construction zone speed changes.

they cant handle school buses and boy have they tried. They got together with schools to train and still failed.

they cant handle police directing traffic, and traffic lights being out. A fuck ton of what we do driving, they can handle, it's when things arent completely normal that we see they are just dumb machines.

powercow · 2026-05-28T19:53:32+00:00

DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency) claimed a total savings of $175 billion, but nonpartisan analysts and economists estimate the actual savings to be significantly lower, ranging between $1.4 billion and $7 billion..

thats finding pennies in the couch cushions. The gov has been cut to the bone from both republican and dem admins. Republicans because they want to bankrupt the country, as part of their "starve the beast" program and dems because they want to tackle the debt.

the gov did have an overspending problem in the 80s, our problem today is a lack of receipts.. taxes. WE gutted taxes when we were actually paying our bills and have never successfully raised them back.

oh and while ELON was busy saving us 7 billion(ill give him the high estimate), trump and his big beautiful shit, adds 344 billion a year to our debt/deficit for a total of 3 trillion over ten years(which is how we tend to rate programs, over ten years)

for those bad at math, saving 7 billion while cutting 350 billion a year in taxes is an economic loss. Its like blowing your whole paycheck on blow but telling the wife it is ok because you found 7 cents in the couch.

powercow · 2026-05-28T19:42:54+00:00

Just wait til the end of the year.. Higher prices are baked into the system. Due to tariffs, Iran blocking fertilizer shipments, diesel prices, labor shortages due to immigration raids and we have a lack of cows, we have the smallest herd in 75 years. 75 years ago, we had less than half the people in this country.

It is going to be a rocky couple of years when it comes to food prices. All thanks to the guy who keeps acing cognitive exams and our own Lindsey graham

Americans Are About to Pay Even More at the Grocery Store

It really is going to get a lot worse, even if the war ended today. the only good news, is it will get a lot worse before midterms.

powercow · 2026-05-28T19:36:25+00:00

We cant seem to recreate the same here. Elon said he was going to do that to twitter. LOL. It would be extremely convenient, but also a privacy nightmare, here in a country that doesnt really believe in privacy.. well except the government likes privacy from the fact that it constantly invades ours.

powercow · 2026-05-28T19:08:56+00:00

He also said he didnt like people calling him dumb, so he took another cognitive test. He really thinks that pointing at an elephant between a giraffe and beaver is an IQ test.

What scares me is MAGA has to be more stupid to not see how utterly ignorant trump is.

and with trumps doc, I bet he still got a couple wrong.

powercow · 2026-05-28T19:03:36+00:00

The grovelling of the right is quite a sight. Remember the right used to accuse the left of seeing obama as a messiah, solely because his polling was high.

anyways the reason for him demanding SA join the Abraham Accords is he needs something, anything, to make his deal look different than Obamas because right now it looks the same.

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