A vote of no confidence, meant to convey a group has lost faith in a leader or administration, would be a sign of serious dissatisfaction and put pressure on university leadership to take action.

Pressure? And like… what else…? Honestly if the admin people are proper shitheels, they won’t give a single fuck.

I think it is, right now; it’s just not a very fast pop, because everyone is very, very busy pretending it hasn’t actually popped, because a lot of people are making a lot of money from this shit.

Honestly dude I don’t know what you’re even arguing for here. You are genuinely not making any rhetorical or logical sense.

Don’t forget western PA. It’s called Pennsyltucky for a reason.

Unpack that one for me, buddy.

Your pithy, dismissive responses about this makes it pretty clear you don’t actually understand the nuances of how medical/healthcare works, either in or out of the US.

At any rate: I’m not defending the US healthcare system. It’s an absolute shitshow. But if you think this particular development doesn’t matter much and things as of right now are already “as bad as they can get”… well, buckle up, buttercup. There are a lot of ways they can make our medical system meaningfully worse than it already is. This is just one mechanism to accomplish that.

Simply because we are talking about the orange regime here, there is a roughly 100% chance of at least one of the following:

• someone friendly with the regime is getting a big fucking kickback
• physicians/nurses/specialists/etc (actual care providers) will get screwed over in some fashion
• patients will get screwed over in some fashion

So, no, despite the wrapping paper, I do not believe this will actually end up being Uplifting News.

Normally there is a human in the loop. That is the specific difference, and it is a real and crucial difference.

I get that you’re being pithy and taking a cheap shot at the US healthcare system, and it deserves to have cheap shots taken at it, but this is a whole brave new frontier of “incredibly fucked”.

As someone who works in biotech, and who has more than a few friends who work in medicine and clinical settings: this is absolutely going to kill people.

Hey I’ll happily be a trophy househusband if I just get to work on fun projects and hobbies and read all day

Fuck’s sake, PA, are you trying to give Florida a run for the money or what?

Damn dude you got antler snails? That’s crazy

Would absolutely not be shocked if the affluenza defense is used here :|

Reminder: if you anticipate being in contact with law enforcement and have any spare moments at all: restart your phone and do not unlock it. This “before first unlock” (BFU) state does not yet have auth keys loaded and secrets decrypted in active memory, and is thus rather more difficult to exploit and gain entry to.

Be that as it may, I absolutely do not view religion (Christianity or any other faith, abrahamic or otherwise) as a positive influence on this country or the world in general.

If we’re just talking about the US and Christianity (such as it is) here: the fact that so many people have been so easily and readily swept into the ideological sphere of evangelicalism and Christian Dominionism is one of the primary cancers that is destroying the social and political fabric of this place. I’m talking about not just about mega churches, but small town evangelical preachers who’ve gone round the bend and are now full theoated Nationalist Christians, with all that that entails these days (my uncle turned into one of those a while back - we are not on speaking terms). The fact that “normal” Christians appear to be perfectly content to cede ideological control and leadership to a dizzying combination of white nationalists, end-times enthusiasts, tech-magnate neo-feudalists, and profit-gospel MLM scam artists is just… well, there’s a whole fucking section in the Bible about how all of that is a bad idea, but nobody in the cult is reading that, and no “normal” Christians seem to have made much headway at all in getting those people to understand what the religion is supposedly intended to be about.

Billions is OpEx. It needs to be a percentage of their operating revenue (not profit). It should hurt, and be commercially crippling.

This… uh… seems pretty open and shut.

But I’m sure the Tribunal of Six will find some way to be fucking dipshits about it.

the saga continues…

If a given company is paying workers so little that they need to go on government assistance, it should categorically disqualify that company from claiming any deductions whatsoever on their tax bill. Yes, any. No, no exceptions, in any category.

Yes, that will be absolutely crippling to exploitative businesses, some of whom are very large. That is by design. This, if enacted, would be the “find out” part for those corps.