Dude complaining about a dude complaining about apple being proprietary in 2024, when apple has built their entire business from day one by being the most draconian closed loop proprietary hardware/software model since personal computers were invented…
You just made the same argument, but in an aggressively dumb way.
No… just the federal marketplace. Like it should be.
The federal marketplace is not an adequate replacement for all income levels, it’s barely adequate for people who qualify for subsidies.
The federal government negotiates prices like all other civilized countries do
A large part of our current problem is that our fed government isn’t negotiating prices like other countries.
As I said, we can only get rid of employer based benefits if there is an adequate replacement.
it would disentangle health insurance from employment.
Not unless there’s a viable alternative… If put into effect today it would just be the equivalent to a giant cut for 15 million people.
Only problem is most of it’s bermuda, which is a fucking PAIN to get rid of by hand
Get yourself an Action Hoe, you basically run it back and forth and it digs/cuts the roots out. It’s very upsetting how easy it makes weeding the first time you use it, turns an hour long job to something you can do in 15 min.
You could also argue that being indicted by the Justice Department in 2012 forced Assange to seek the favor of governments who weren’t aligned with U.S. interests. It’s certainly a betrayal of Wikileaks founding principles that it passed in those Russian documents in 2017, but if I were already the target of the U.S. government, I probably wouldn’t want to piss off the Russian government as well.
That’s a fair point, however I would like to point out that being indicted by the government you’re leaking information against is a foreseeable conclusion. The thing that made WikiLeaks credible to begin with was their founding principles, abandoning those principles is also abandoning your credibility.
Also, please don’t take my defense of Assange against the U.S. government as a defense of Assange as a man. Just because I didn’t want to see him in a U.S. prison, doesn’t mean I didn’t want to see him in a Swedish prison.
I’m in the same boat, I don’t think anyone should go to jail for journalism. However, Assange towards his later years in the embassy had definitely been engaging in actions I would be hard pressed to label as journalism.
I still don’t think he should be in jail, but if he were still running WikiLeaks today I don’t know if it would still be a net positive. That’s depending on your geopolitical outlook though.
I think we can agree that having an unbiased publisher who is willing to report on state secrets that can negatively affect society is truly important. I think the debate is whether what WikiLeaks morphed into over the years qualifies as that.
Post 2016, I think it would be hard to argue that WikiLeaks is anything but a propaganda arm of certain state governments.
Not only that, but since the fall of print journalism the amount of actual journalists has shrunken to the point where any new hires are just a byproduct of nepotism.
Want to work as a journalist at NPR? Well, you better have an ivy league education, be able to afford to do a 2 year internship, and it would help if your parents worked here or are significant donors.
The reddit community will up vote them, and even down vote people who try correcting them.
Yeap… Especially with any topic where there’s a big hobbyist community.
I work in orthotics and prosthetics for a university hospital as both an educator and a healthcare provider. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been down voted by 3d printer enthusiasts for critiquing untrained and uneducated people fitting children with medical devices that can severely injure or debilitate them.
Tbf, the Bush presidency was led by his cabinet throughout the majority of his presidency. Bush spent nearly 400 days on vacation at Camp David while Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rove, Rice, and Powell pretty much ran the show.
I don’t really think Bush is smart enough, nor motivated by evil enough to be the originator of most of the big blunders that happened during his presidency. However, he is ultimately responsible for the actions of his government, and his inaction cannot be excused.
Any thoughts on how the plastic bumper at the bottom might impact that? Do you think that might make any difference at all? You’re still going to hit the metal parts regardless, but that initial impact might be plastic
It may prevent some of the older type injuries where you get your calves scooped off in a parking lot, but it doesn’t really look like it protrudes out far enough to help out in any other way.
really wanna see a 3rd party agency test this so we can finally get some answers, but with the lower front/angle, but the metal/front edge, it might even turn out to be a less fatalities, but more injuries type of situation. That edge is going to be the key factor.
From what I understand they won’t be allowed in Europe due to their increased protections in pedestrian safety standards. Not sure if they did actual testing, or they just didn’t meet the minimum standards.
Unfortunately the materials really matters with pedestrian motor vehicle accidents. When I first started working in orthopedics and rehabilitation, metal fenders and bumpers were still regularly on the roads and causing very specific injuries.
When a metal bumper hits you, it doesn’t just cause blunt force trauma, it tends to shear muscle away from the bone. There was a specific ankle foot orthosis that was widely produced up until the early 2000s that was meant to replace calf muscles that were scooped off by metal bumpers.
This truck is basically a giant flying wedge of stainless steel, I don’t see any pedestrian walking away from an accident with this monstrosity.
That may be too confusing, you’re just going to end up with a bunch of magic casters on horseback.
Mongolians are mainly known for their horsemanship rather than their marksmanship. They are probably the best marksman on horseback that have ever lived, but as far as historically being known for their archery…that’s the Koreans, and they’re still pretty dominant in the Olympics.
If someone’s been dishonest with you and you explain step by step how, and they still continue with the same line of reasoning. Then they don’t deserve the time it takes to make an honest response.
As I said, I’m just utilizing your line of reasoning. If you want honest answers, maybe start by being honest.
Still haven’t heard who you’re canvassing for, or why it’s relevant to the original claim. Until you answer that, I’m just gonna keep the convo to your level of integrity.
now you’re doing the “I’m rubber, you’re glue” thing
Just giving you a taste of your own medicine… No reason to be honest to a person who is obviously not interested in an honest conversation. This is a foreseeable conclusion when relying so heavily on arguments.
Ahh, I was hoping it was “I won’t be responding to any further post”. That one’s on me, guess I was being optimistic.
Though it is strange that you would suddenly start saying you’re ignoring certain aspects of the post, when you’ve been ignoring most of the argument the whole time.
This is becoming quite gaslighty
Unoriginal and a liar, what a catch you are! I bet you have to beat suitors off with a stick anytime you leave your goon cave.
“Come up here and let’s do proper discourse” (yes I know you didn’t say it, but I wish you did
Lol, is not pointing out the fallacy and trying to bring the conversation to the claim at hand several times not enough?
Good day to you, I need to get back to my doom scrolling and cat video’s
Fair, have a good one.
so I think I won’t reply to the rest of your post.
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