Liz

Yeah the quality of care and health outcomes among rich countries is pretty much the same across the board. Each country has specific areas they’re particularly good or bad in, but overall health outcomes are pretty much the same, including the US. We just wildly over pay for healthcare because we’ve defined our consumer to be individuals, which means they have no bargaining power. Normally this wouldn’t be too big of a problem if the industry had heavy price regulation, but we also don’t have that. If we switched to M4A, the consumer would become Medicare and bargaining power would go through the roof.

Yeah that’s been an anticipated problem, since home solar is essentially a lost customer for the utility, but infrastructure maintenance costs don’t change. Honestly the power grid shouldn’t be a commercial enterprise, even if it’s under shit tons of regulation. It’s so absurdly critical to society we should have nationalized the power companies a long time ago.

Can’t sell your excess power to the grid?

In every fucking program ever it’s a single tool.

I barely use GIMP, but years ago I heard about it and gave it a go. It simultaneously opened three or four seemingly random windows and no actual workspace as far as I can tell. I immediately gave up. It wasn’t until recently that I had a reason to try again, and at this point I had forgotten the absurd situation I ran away from the first time. Luckily they’ve made some improvements since then. It’s still a bit obtuse, but I hear a big update is coming soon that might fix some of the UI issues?

See here’s where this analogy is perfect. Sometimes a bicycle is the best solution, just like how sometimes a microcontroller is the best solution. You use the tool you need for the job, and American product design is creating way too many “smart” products just like how American town planning demands too many cars. Bring back the microcontroller! Bring back the bike!

Open Roller Coaster Tycoon 2! You need to own an official version of the game in order to get the models and textures and whatnot, which are still under copyright. After that, you can play with ORCT2 and enjoy the expanded capabilities,

Social services investment would save the government money by reducing policing and incarceration costs, among other things. We could do both. I’d have to learn more about the financial side of infrastructure to say anything meaningful.

Grammar is just, like, your opinion, man.

Is it actually necessary? I figured you could leave it implied. But hey, if it’s confusing people, then I guess it is necessary.

I say again. The defense budget nor any other current spending is preventing us from having free healthcare. Medicare for All would be significantly cheaper than our current healthcare costs. We’re already paying for both defense and healthcare. Switching to M4A would save us money and improve our healthcare experience while completely ignoring the defense budget. We can easily do both. The insurance companies, big pharma, and hospital executives are the ones preventing M4A, not Raytheon.

Ignoring the confusion between caliber and platform, .556 out of an AR-15 is still a great choice for anything roughly cat-to-human sized. Prairie Dogs, antelope, goats, sheep, foxes, coyotes, that sort of thing.

Yep. That’s a long rifle.

WORLD’S. FASTEST. BULLETTRAIN. NETWORK.

A rail line that can handle a 280 foot piece of cargo would be heaven for high speed adoption with how straight it would have to be.

I want to be able to turn off those silly animations.

It limits the accessibility of the information, meaning that both terrorists and freedom fighters will be less likely to find it. YouTube suppresses age restricted material, whether they claim to or not.

He fucked himself over with some of the auction houses by trying to set up backroom deal to buy a gun outside of the auction. Understandingly they don’t appreciate that sort of thing. Ian has a history of not being a great person, but he’s good at hiding it from the public eye.

TRAAAAAIIIIIIIINS.