If we eliminate the profit margin and the layers of office jobs needed to work through complex insurance obstacles and to come up with great ideas like dropping patients off at homeless shelters when their insurance doesn’t pay, we can pay the remaining staff doing meaningful labor more.

If the CEO is buying yachts and mansions, there is no luck of money to pay staff, there’s lack of intent.

These people live in high cost care facilities on the taxpayer’s dime for 10-20 years?

First, yes. Presumably they worked a full life and contributed to the taxes, it’s their dime. Second, these people?

They cost 10-20K a month, or 120-200K a year

No they don’t. That’s what they cost in the exploitative private for profit system.

The demand for healthcare resources is simple vast out supplies care that is available, especially as the population ages. Hence in ‘affordable’ healthcare systems you are still undeserved and it’s still expensive.

That’s true, but not an issue of cost. It results in expensive private care, but the issue itself is the lack is labor, not that each patient costs $20k/month.

That’s compiled by the fact healthcare workers, while in demand, and often getting good pay, burn out rapidly due to the demands of the job.

That’s another real problem, but it’s again irrelevant. It exists regardless of how socialized or privatized the system is…

Now we can keep people alive on machines for decades

Is that what you think happens in elderly care? Every patient receives terminal care for decades?

There are only so many beds, and so many staff that can work in these facilities.

You can fix that by better planning your economy, encourage students to pursue nursing and guarantee them jobs when they graduate.

Whatever the case, there are loads of “alternatives” to dropping them off at homeless shelters we can explore. Holy moly.

This is not the logo, it’s a new mascot. Firefox did not have a mascot before, just a logo.

“go ahead, don’t vote for genocide”

Okay.

Bernie is a Zionist, he’s all talk about Israeli crimes, but votes to fund them consistently under the “self defense” argument.

“Reasons”

Everyone who dismisses why Harris was an unviable candidate as “reasons” is just as bad as Trump voters.

Trump voting is not the fault of people who refused to vote for “most lethal military” genocide supporting Harris, it’s the fault of everyone who voted Trump first and everyone who voted for a genocidal unviable candidate second.

You’re anecdote is nice and all, but it’s an anecdote.

I couldn’t find much data specifically on rates of students of religious schools leaving that religion, but what little data I found says more people stay in the religion when enrolled in religious schools than not.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/4621974

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S073805932500238X

Most students in religious schools have very religious parents who indoctrinate them from early childhood, and my anecdotes are different from yours. Few students decide that losing their friends and support system are worth leaving the religion, and remain in it even if they have doubts. The more you force religion to be a part of a person’s social support system, the tighter you hold them in.

I agree that if they start reading and studying it honestly the more disillusioned they’ll become, that’s my personal experience also. But most people in my experience do not have the critical thinking skills or the ability to study independently to come to those conclusions, they rely on the religious text being interpreted for them, and they accept a figure head (priest or pastor or Imam or Rabi) to answer difficult questions and reject anything that makes them “question” their faith, because they’ve been warned about the evil world that will try to get them to question their faith their whole life. They don’t begin engaging critically with counterarguments because religious apologetics give them comfort.

Cult members might be fooled, but cult leaders aren’t stupid, they know what they’re doing. They’re targeting people who aren’t in religious schools, and don’t have religious indoctrination already, so there’s no effect on “leaving” the faith to consider here, any hooked student is a success.

There’s a reason they choose specific passages, and they’ll come with specific interpretations as learning goals.

Well, yes. I’m just responding to the anthropic doing it better part, yes but not by much.

‘const timePassed = (start, end) => end - start;’ is much simpler than creating a whole timer.

Imagine the US did away with political parties and instead created a single party called the Capitalist party. Anyone can reach the presidency by joining this party. It’s simply a war to preserve the system, which would such under capitalism, but not so bad when it prevents it.

It is not their only leverage, though it is by far their strongest card.

They’ve proven that they can destroy the energy infrastructure in the gulf, if they have to go full scorched earth. They’ve also proved capable of hitting Israel very painfully, and while it’s nothing compared to American bombs, the Nazis in Israel have a very low tolerance for any attacks at home, they can’t sustain a genocidal war when the victims aren’t mostly children and can actually fight back.

They’ve also already inflicted heaven losses on the US military, not to mention proved that they’ll come out on top in a war of attrition.

The only way the US/Israel can truly defeat Iran is with nukes, and while I do think Trump is stupid enough to do it, hopefully enough sane people can convince him that that’s not the victory he’s looking for.

It could simply save a timestamp of the “begin timer” message and compare it to the timestamp of the “end” message. It’s not that complicated, and writing a script and executing it is overkill… It just needs access to a calculator skill.

Yes, it handles it better, but it’s still a dumb approach and waste of energy.

your neighbors either agree with you or they agree with the representative…

They’re just refusing to be wrong, they’re doubling down on a technicality, not on who actually authors the legislation text.

Oh boy. Have you heard of this concept calling lobbying?

Your politicians don’t represent you, they represent the highest bidder, which are the wealthy corporations trying to enslave you.

No one asked you to use that word to describe them, why are you perpetuating it?

They’re not elite, they’re just rich fuckers who attained massive riches by exploiting the workers’ need for survival.

Make it support Podman next.

So does Plex… It transcodes AV1 just fine.

Clearly their hardware isn’t powerful enough to transcode it smoothly. So they resort to codecs that play natively on their hardware

They’re referring to 32 hour shifts, these are the extremes for certain occupations (nurses are notable example). It’s common to work 12-14 hour daily shifts for months at a time without any days off, though.

And capitalists would love nothing more than to apply it in the US, they see you as lazy leeches, not as the labor that makes their shitty business work.

I agree, and think you summarized it well. There was no win, and somehow Biden chose the worst way possible, leave the Taliban with billions of military equipment and abandoning everyone who helped the US, despite NOT sticking to Trump’s original timeline so be couldn’t even use that excuse.

He was under massive pressure to pull out because everyone was tired of this costly losing occupation, and he fucked up the pullout. That’s on him.