The opposite of a jumbo small.

mIRC/IRC is still going, right? Haven’t used that in probably a decade.

Yep. That’s a good term. Assembly line health care, conveyor belt health care…you’re just a part moving along and the QC is perfunctory - no errors, but it doesn’t mean the part is good.

It’s the same setup as the states, and I’m simplifying quite a bit.

Imagine basic insurance in the US. You’re going to be restricted to hanging out at regular walk-in clinics, regular ER if you need it, long waits to see your primary care doc if you even have one. You’ll be dealing with overworked and understaffed facilities. Your tests get scheduled a week or a month or more out, unless it’s serious. Doctors do what they can in the short periods they can talk with you, but it’s mostly walk in, diagnose, leave. You get the same treatment plan as everyone else.

It’s not bad, you get treated, but you’re nobody special. Get in line and wait wirh everyone else.

Now get good insurance. Your PCP can always make a spot for you. Yoir tests may be done in-office, same day, or at a facility that can fit you in more quickly. Your treatment plans are more thoroughly examined and tailored, your doctors will spend time with you discussing your condition and treatment avenues. They’re available to talk to if you have issues with the treatment or at least their staff are.

That’s sorta the difference. I have a family member in Europe that passed recently but had a long battle with a disease. He had the “extra” private insurance. Pretty much what I described above. He was able to get seen and have medications adjusted quickly. I have an in-law in the same country who just had a fairly major health event. She had to go to two different facilities to get pushed up the line for her condition. She has normal public insurance. However, she was taken care of quickly and is doing great.

In a nutshell the extra insurance gives you quicker access and probably a more tailored and personal experience, you’re not lumped in with the “commons” at a public health service facility, you can “skip the line.”

Don’t you love it when your bologna smiles back?

I think profit and power, or the lack thereof, can be the root of a lot of these awful human traits. It can just be straight up greed driven by a few looking to gain power and/or money that push an agenda of [insert tried and true bogeymen here like xenophobia, religion, racism, etc.] to create motives and instabity to trigger the wars. It could be genuine problems like economic issues or severe agricultural deficiency, via real misfortune or more likely due to greed, corruption, and mismanagement by the country’s leadership. Even religion can be the rationalization, a tit-for-tat, but nonetheless the end result is to take what the enemy has. It doesn’t have to be formalized markets or capitalism.

It can both be about profit and genocide. They can exist at the same time. IOW, genocide can be profitable.

What constitutes “mysterious” when it comes to a billionaire? Common people usually don’t have particularly creative or unusual modes of death. We going to find him strapped to the outside of a Falcon 9 booster like some James Bond-esque supervillain’s assasination attempt of Musk, the Main Character?

That’s history. The ones with the means hoard anything of value while blaming the commons for their problems. Doesn’t matter if it’s the Irish Potato Famine or telling us global warming is our fault because we didn’t buy enough greenwashed shit to fix it.

This was my thought. DNA isn’t stable so it’s a lousy storage medium. Degrades over time, mutations in living organisms, etc.

So unreliable except for what 98% of the world uses it for?

We live in a system that monetizes everything, then seeks to restrict access to those things in order to profit.

Knowledge is just one casualty.

All-out war, synonymous with hilarity.

A troll account is still a troll account spreading misinformation. That’s not “fun”.

I disagree. You can have low angle intercepts where the nose can be pointed well less than nose-on or almost the same direction even. Inertia in space would have the nose pointed away from the other ship in some direction to decelerate. I think your comment completely disregards vectors of thrust and velocity along with the relative motion of the target. Nose-to-nose would be an incredibly unlikely arrangement to intercept or rendezvous. Maybe you’re thinking more orbital mechanics where nose/nose would be right for say docking, but even then it disregards the maneuvering to catch up/decelerate/orbital altitude maneuvering needed prior to that meetup.

It’s infrastructure. Too inconvenient to find a spot to charge, the apartments where you live probably don’t have chargers, your workplace doesn’t either…

I use discord for a a couple of things, but I can’t stand the layout. That’s probably one of the main things that’s kept me from using it more.

Probably someplace Subarus are ubiquitous and driving under the limit happens a lot, it just happens you see more Subarus doing it because, well, lots of Subarus.

Where I live there always seems to be a tool going 5-10 under. Wouldn’t matter that much except it’s a metro area and just a couple of these clowns can really mess up traffic.

I think an automated battery swap system would work best for OTR trucking. Pull in, battery packs swapped, off they go. The charge for much larger batteries would take longer, or at least would be better done not attached to a vehicle for maintenance or in case of thermal problems.

lol, considering the “quality” content in the comments section it’s just going to be a continuation of that dumpster fire.