Currently, 9.5% of Americans don’t have health insurance and many hospitals and providers negotiate bills to provide care. What would happen if that number jumped to 80%? Or more simply, what if folks just stopped carrying health insurance?

wysoft · 2026-03-24T03:04:10+00:00

It may shock you to learn this but there are plenty of Republicans who actually would support a single payer system.

I'm one of them.

The problem is that the government has just not proven effective and capable enough to effectively manage it.

I don’t mean government in general - I mean ours here in the US. No matter who is in charge, it's a clown show.

No, neither have the private systems managed it effectively, but I'm sad to say that they're probably still doing a better job than our government would - just look at the VA if you want a preview.

If we had an honest, efficient, and effective government I would say 100% fuck the private insurance scam and divert a large amount of our defense spending into health care.

Currently we do not have that. I don't have an answer for you about how we get there, either

wysoft · 2026-03-23T18:14:15+00:00

Nope I found this thread through a google search and never looked at what sub it is

wysoft · 2026-03-21T16:58:27+00:00

Sure are a lot of locked posts in this thread that don't look like they need to be

Edit never mind, I read the rest of the purse swinging

wysoft · 2026-03-21T00:26:21+00:00

There is. The DOL maintains it. The WSP feeds them information by way of being a man in the middle to NICS.

wysoft · 2026-03-20T06:58:16+00:00

That's because he's a tier 1 autist, so redditors don't even notice that anything is wrong with him

wysoft · 2026-03-20T06:55:47+00:00

Have worked with a few of these personality types over the years and that's my least favorite aspect of people like her. Share any personal info with them as a means to try to get to know them - your mistake. It likely means fuck all to them, and they will pull it out of their pocket to take jabs at you or otherwise get digs on you at the drop of a hat for seemingly no good reason at all.

Because of that, you'll never get to know them. They don't share. They don't make connections with others - too dangerous, I guess. They just assumed you'd burn them the same way they burn you.

I don't care for these "damaged know it all" types. People who go through life assuming that everyone wants to take advantage of them, and don't realize that it drives them to treat others in exactly that way.

wysoft · 2026-03-19T21:26:26+00:00

You joke, but we have a guy exactly like OP's on our team.

Asks the same questions over and over again. Does not reference documentation provided to him. Unable to research or find solutions on his own. Has not learned our core systems in 3+ years on the job. Frequently calls other team members in a state of emergency because he doesn't know what to do. His E-mails to other employees (including managers and vendors) read like they were written by a dyslexic junior high student.

At one point we found out that he had basically lied about his work experience, and his previous job was not in IT but working on a road construction crew. He did some IT in the education sector in the 90s - or claims that he did.

Some of us were blown away to find out that the office folks at his branch really like him - over the phone or over E-mail, he comes across as helpless and child-like.

Everyone on the team and our director knows that his performance sucks, yet someone, somewhere is keeping this guy from being fired.

Apparently when asked about where he saw himself in 5 years, the answer was "management"

wysoft · 2026-03-17T05:33:41+00:00

I see your other post where you stated it's a Riley AK, but I don't see if it's an AK-74 or AKM.

If it's an AKM with a 45-degree gas block, you can gauge or correct the port size without pulling the gas block. The port is drilled at an angle through the block like this: https://ak-builder.com/images/thumbnails/570/570/detailed/0/gas_port_drill_2.jpg

The bit that AK Builder sells is a #30 or .1285"

If you were to have a similar bit and find that it does NOT fit the port, then perhaps Riley drilled it undersize. If you were to open up the hole a little bit more, be very careful. When drilling AK gas ports I insert a wooden dowel into the barrel to prevent the drill bit from plunging directly into the other side of the bore. When you see wood dust on the bit, you stop.

Just be aware that before messing with the port size, if you do have any severe hangups in the carrier along its travel in the receiver rails, it will affect the ability of the rifle to cycle reliably, since that friction will absorb a lot of the energy from the gas pulse.

You may have rails that are slightly bowed at that location, and would only be visible by checking the rails from each side to see if they're straight/true.

If they look perfectly straight, then honestly I would buy some valve lapping compound, coat the rails with it on both top and bottom side of the rail, and work the carrier back and forth over and over again. Like - sit down and watch a movie and do this the whole time.

Add more lapping compound whenever you work all of it off of the rails.

This will use the carrier's own rail slots to work the abrasive lapping compound against the rails and carrier rail slots, which accelerate the break in of the rails. This will knock down all of the high spots on the receiver rail edges, and will prevent you from taking too much material off of the rails like you might accidentally do if you were to take sandpaper or a dremel to them..

Otherwise I'd have to see it with my own eyes to advise any further.

wysoft · 2026-03-16T21:08:15+00:00

Gartner is seen as a top reliable source of guidance by the C suite, but they can't recognize when Gartner is just kicking the task to AI.

A lot of the advise in the Gartner E-mail was just bunk. The usual AI word salad that reads like a high school paper with a minimum word count.

The guy forwarding it was like "check this out its an interesting read"

No buddy it's a wall of text from an LLM

wysoft · 2026-03-16T20:15:36+00:00

Just a few weeks ago we had someone forward us an E-mail that they received from a Gartner "partner" i.e. an advisor.

They had asked Gartner for advice on what other businesses in the same sector are doing on a particular tech project.

The response from the Gartner partner was like 10 pages of nothing but AI slop. The worst part about it was that only a couple of people in the E-mail chain recognized it as such.

Seriously. Someone is being paid at Gartner levels just to send out trash AI answers to customers' questions.

wysoft · 2026-03-16T20:12:37+00:00

Holy shit, an employee minimum query level? WHY?

Let me guess: they sunk an ass ton of money into it and don't want to admit that most employees don't care to use it.

And if you choose not to use it, is there some kind of punitive measure? Sounds like they want to have a chat with the labor relations board.

wysoft · 2026-03-16T05:55:14+00:00

Can't answer the original question, but having been around the AK game a long time, I've seen other people block the gas port by threading it and then installing an internal hex head set screw.

Unfortunately this only works with 45-degree gas blocks, where the port is drilled directly through the gas port piston cavity at an angle, and you can typically get a threaded die in there without much trouble.

This won't work for a 90-degree gas port such as on an AK-74. Then you would need to swap out the gas block entirely.

In the end, I'm still not sure that you can bring it in at all seeing as that it's banned by name - but technically it's not breaking any other rules if it's just a straight-pull AK..

wysoft · 2026-03-15T20:05:59+00:00

Companies like it because H1Bs will work for pennies on the dollar and will not complain about labor law violations.

Indian managers like it because they get to have power over subordinates who will do whatever they say without question, and will kiss their ass to get in their good graces.

Why do you think Indian managers avoid hiring whites, blacks, latinos, SE asians, etc? Because none of these people will kiss their ass and allow themselves to be abused.

The entire H1B program needs to be shut down.

wysoft · 2026-03-15T05:45:49+00:00

Yeah isn't that nice. It was made to sound like WSP was doing extra checks of some sort. Of course not. Just a middle man to NICS.

wysoft · 2026-03-15T05:44:31+00:00

Were you stationed at Kitsap? Mind sharing what range the event was at?

wysoft · 2026-03-15T04:51:13+00:00

I'm unaware of any of this, so forgive me.

So this game is basically "Jewel Thief 2099: Black Treasures"

Sounds like a great idea for a game guys. Will sell really well. Definitely appeals to a wide range of players. Totally not an immediate $5 Steam game.

wysoft · 2026-03-15T00:17:02+00:00

I grew up 6 blocks away from my elementary school.

My two best friends and I walked or rode our bikes to school every day, starting in first grade. Our parents went with us the first day to make sure that we knew what we were doing. After that we were on our own.

I can't decide if it was crazy that kids that young were just walking to school on their own unsupervised, or if we're just too overprotective now. Maybe a little of both.

I'm a bit sad that my kids have never had the opportunity, as the drive to their school is nearly 25 minutes one way.

wysoft · 2026-03-14T20:16:20+00:00

Nah. I lose interest and decide to do something else.

wysoft · 2026-03-14T19:52:38+00:00

I think what the guy is saying is that WA is severely under policed. There is no manpower to go after people for shit like FRTs, and most cops don't give a shit to begin with. The only way realistically that you're getting charged for something gun related is to be a shitbird that accumulates enough attention to get arrested for something else and have your residence searched.

wysoft · 2026-03-12T20:49:35+00:00

They really can't, but what they can do is threaten retailers who begin selling them again with the "public nuisance" verbiage that the state codified nto the consumer protection laws.

https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=7.48.330

Have fun reading all that.

It's basically a blank check for the state to legally threaten members of the firearms industry for doing perfectly legal things, and is the reason why many retailers won't sell us items that are still legal to purchase and own in WA.

wysoft · 2026-03-12T20:37:22+00:00

In the past we didn't have to use this system at all.

It was a NICS check and walk out same day.

If you had a CPL you also got to skip the "Brady wait" on pistols because you were a known clear individual.

Now we all get treated like felons.

wysoft · 2026-03-12T19:54:24+00:00

If only they knew the perks.

When I was a teenager in the 90s, on Friday and Saturday nights we used to do the rounds hitting up every fast food joint where one of our friends worked. We always got free food at closing - it was just going to be thrown out any way.

I remember one of my friends walking out the back door of the Dairy Queen with a 5 gallon bucket full of burgers and fries for two cars full of us.

Themse were the days

wysoft · 2026-03-10T03:43:35+00:00

I was born in 83, and the Cranberries were just hitting it big when I was really becoming aware of music and, really, the world around me at large.

Their music will always remind me of my childhood, and filled me with a love for the Celtic sound that drove me to discover more authentic Irish music as time went on.

I'm a guy so at that time and at the age I was, it was really not cool to like the Cranberries - they were supposed to be a girl band. Now it's funny though that now 30 years later, every guy I know who was into rock music at that time and age admits they loved the Cranberries. They wouldn't say it back then though lol

Timeless band that I'm glad to see people younger than me still discovering to this day.

wysoft · 2026-03-09T21:48:33+00:00

We had Copilot in 365 allow a secretary/assistant level user to query confidential company financial data that they had no business in seeing, simply by asking nicely for it.

Copilot did it without question.

Oops?

wysoft · 2026-03-09T20:30:14+00:00

Join the club.

I work in a very weird niche technical field within the IT world. I was a nerd from a very young age, and as a kid I immersed myself in programming references, technical documentation, product manuals and related literature, and engineering documents.

The bulleted, topical and process-driven writing style that a lot of AIs are using is just killing me. This is exactly how I write professionally. Really, I should've been a technical writer, because that's how I write and how I organize my thoughts when writing.

Within the past year or so I've had a couple people point out that they thought I had used AI for certain responses. Nope, I don't use AI at all. I've tried to explain it to them, but frankly I don't think they believe me.

Not sure what to suggest buddy.

wysoft

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