This week the Times editorial board argued that Democrats need to show the country they have a vision for how to solve its most intractable problems — even if Mr. Trump wields his veto. So Opinion asked eight of our sharpest writers and thinkers to propose legislation for Democrats to consider. Some are bold ideas to bring down prices, others to end the war in Iran or expand the Supreme Court. They all speak to a hunger to move past Trumpism and imagine a new future.

  1. Build Housing
  2. Lower Prices. Now.
  3. Stop Giving OpenAI and Anthropic a Free Pass
  4. Pass Medicare for All, but for Kids
  5. Expand the Supreme Court
  6. Stop Elon Musk From Making Political Contributions
  7. End the Iran War
  8. Legalize Undocumented Immgirants
[–] [S] 2 points 18 hours ago* (1 child)

what would you think are the more important priorities?

i would disagree that NYT is conservative. not being progressive doesn't mean it's not very much liberal. especially now that Ross Douthat has left his position of influence

For example I believe one of them proposed more highway dollars to build more highways in places where there is more housing growth.

no, it proposes withholding the highway dollars in places that refuse to lift limits on housing construction, i.e. giving less highway dollars

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    No Tip founder Jack Chen told SFGate that the numbers make sense, given that No Tip is intended to be a catering program, rather than a way for one person to order lunch.

    The startup is meant to be a time-saver for businesses looking to cater lunches or parties. The company’s website says it can handle orders of up to 200 people at a time — and delivery comes with plates and forks.

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    what would you do? /g

    i for one would go for an anarchist revolution but the list has criteria that all the proposals must be things that congress can legislate (since it's a plea to Democrats), so nothing that would require changes to the constitution

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    This week the Times editorial board argued that Democrats need to show the country they have a vision for how to solve its most intractable problems — even if Mr. Trump wields his veto. So Opinion asked eight of our sharpest writers and thinkers to propose legislation for Democrats to consider. Some are bold ideas to bring down prices, others to end the war in Iran or expand the Supreme Court. They all speak to a hunger to move past Trumpism and imagine a new future.

    1. Build Housing
    2. Lower Prices. Now.
    3. Stop Giving OpenAI and Anthropic a Free Pass
    4. Pass Medicare for All, but for Kids
    5. Expand the Supreme Court
    6. Stop Elon Musk From Making Political Contributions
    7. End the Iran War
    8. Legalize Undocumented Immgirants
     

    the image linked to by the post is the Pangram LLM-detection report of paragraphs in the first screenshot below, reading "100% AI". in lieu of alt text for the screenshots below, I suggest scrolling through @eicker@lemmy.world's profile and https://lemmy.world/comment/26323310, which the screenshots are of. Look at the vote counts.

     

    Astonishingly, the private keys were 4, 56, 66, 115, 155, 156, 230, 237.

    exploiting compromised certificates requires an active adversary-in-the-middle attack, meaning the attacker must act as a proxy between two TLS parties and receive encrypted traffic, decrypt it, reencrypt it, and send it to the other party. Such capabilities, in some cases, are usually limited to only the most well-resourced attackers. People with control of a local network—at a coffee shop, university, or other organization—face much less of a challenge.

    https://emudhra.we-have-a-problem.com/

    Xkcd 221: int getRandomNumber() { return 4; // chosen by fair dice roll. guaranteed to be random. }

     

    Astonishingly, the private keys were 4, 56, 66, 115, 155, 156, 230, 237.

    exploiting compromised certificates requires an active adversary-in-the-middle attack, meaning the attacker must act as a proxy between two TLS parties and receive encrypted traffic, decrypt it, reencrypt it, and send it to the other party. Such capabilities, in some cases, are usually limited to only the most well-resourced attackers. People with control of a local network—at a coffee shop, university, or other organization—face much less of a challenge.

    https://emudhra.we-have-a-problem.com/

    Xkcd 221: int getRandomNumber() { return 4; // chosen by fair dice roll. guaranteed to be random. }

     

    Insurers and employers have been required to publish their negotiated rates for hospital and physician services every month for more than four years under what is known as the Transparency in Coverage regulation. But those data files have been filled with unusable data known as “ghost rates” or “zombie rates” — prices for services that would never happen, like if a dermatologist were to perform an open-heart surgery. Some research has suggested more than 90% of the prices are ghost rates.

    Trump officials said insurers and their vendors have been purposefully gumming up the datasets with these numbers to make it more difficult for the public to understand what the true, relevant prices are, and they are attempting to put a stop to it.

    “The evasive action was just to flood the zone with so much information that instead of enlightening the process, it actually obscured it further,” HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said at an event Monday. “The information was impossible to decipher, and even the employers who have hundreds of attorneys working for them could not figure out the differentiation in prices.”

     

    “Why would you even get into bestiality?” he asked. “We’re not into bestiality,” said Patel.

    In a further exchange, Patel explained to Senator John Kennedy, the Louisiana Republican, that previously, regulations had barred anyone who engaged in bestiality “on either side of it.”

    “Either side of what, the bestiality?” asked Kennedy. “So you disqualified the animal?”

    “We have great canines, but we’re not going to disqualify them,” said Patel.

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