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I don't disagree with you

She was subpoenaed by name, not by title, and just because she is not in the AG role anymore doesn't mean she can't be subpoenaed and legally compelled to appear by Congress. She absolutely still has information Congress has the authority to compel her to provide.

See Hillary and Bill Clinton just a few weeks ago, or Hillary being subpoenaed about Benghazi in 2015, long after she stopped being Secretary of State.

Senate Republicans: "Congress needs to have a say in military action! We're going to vote to ensure it happens!"

Trump to Senate Republicans: "Don't vote for this or I'll have you primaried and have my supporters make death threats to you and your family."

Senate Republicans: "We got assurances from the administration that we'll be included in any future actions, so no need for this anymore."

Pathetic.

The Reddit API changes around third party apps like a lot of other people here. It was so clear they were being disingenuous about the changes and that it was a de facto ban. Pretending it wasn't a ban and that they "support third party developers" really pissed me off.

It's one thing to charge for API access (which is not unreasonable, per se, since API calls cost Reddit money), but Reddit decided to charge an extremely unreasonable and unjustifiable rate to third party app developers. On top of that, they decided NSFW labeled content could only be seen in their official app and could never show up in any third party apps that decided to pay for API access. They claimed it was about "making sure children don't see adult content," but that was clearly BS since they could just not serve that content in the API for non-18+ accounts and require third party developers to agree to certain terms of use or have their app cut off.

So Reddit forced third party apps to have to charge a subscription fee to their users and those users would not get full access to Reddit content anyway. Gee, I wonder what users will do if they have to choose between paying a subscription for less content or using the crappy official app with worse and fewer features to get all content for free...

The disingenuousness of the justification for the changes and pretending there was no ulterior motive was worse to me than the changes themselves. I missed Reddit a lot at first, and occasionally I still do, but I haven't been back since.

They're not centrists. Not a single one.

They just realize this is a political loser and are pretending to buck party leadership because they're all in districts that they're almost certain to lose in the midterms. They know the Senate will never approve the subsidy extension. It's all about publicity for them. I hate that they're being described everywhere in the media as moderates just because they realized they're going to lose their next election unless they act like they support the ACA.

They all voted for the Medicaid cuts. Bresnahan in particular put on this big show saying how he's "a hard no on Medicaid cuts" and that he "told leadership I'm not backing down."

Then the bill came up for a vote and, surprise surprise, he voted for it without hesitation, then insisted it wasn't actually Medicaid cuts because it was "only targeting fraud."

Any market where choosing not to participate is simply not a viable option should be prohibited from being for-profit.

If all smartphone makers start getting too greedy and charge too much, people will just not upgrade their phones and the smartphone makers will have to lower their prices or justify their higher prices with innovations. People can choose not to participate in the market and pressure the entire industry to lower their prices or create new features to encourage participation.

If insurance starts getting (read: gets even more) greedy, cancelling your insurance isn't an option, especially if you're sick. Foregoing insurance means either dying or accumulating extraordinary medical debt you can never repay. There is no pressure on insurance companies to lower their prices because you will always have to pick one of them. As long as they all increase their prices together, they all benefit and their profit keeps going up. Their only "innovations" in the industry are to minimize payments for medical services and maximize how much they shove in their pockets.

For-profit health insurance should be illegal.

It definitely is.

If a recipe calls for 3 and 3/4 cups flour, I know right away I need three 1 cup scoops of flour and one 3/4 cup scoop.

If it calls for 15/4 cups, now I need to calculate how many one cup scoops it is and also what the additional remaining fraction is in addition to how much I've actually measured out so far.

The more numbers you need to keep in your head when following a recipe, the more likely you are to make a mistake.