> No, it really isn't. Men in civilian clothing or blank fatigues blowing things up with zero identification is indeed distinguishable from men in uniform with American flag and POLICE patches.
As someone living in Minneapolis and owned a business in St Paul Midway where police have actually been defunded I feel no less "defendful" than last year. The police are pretty useless at keeping me personally safe and keeping my property safe,there has been no sudden spike in crime. Guns are essentially an adult nightlight and are rarely used. Shit is not hitting anything, crime is far below where it was in the 90s when Minneapolis was known as Murderapolis and I see no evidence showing it's going to go that way but I read a massive amount of fear mongering online. People bought a ton of bitcoin and thought the price was going up to $100,000...they were wrong.
Concrete has poor liquidity though both literally and figuratively so when it turns out you spent way too much money on concrete instead of agricultural development you are screwed. Also, US financiers are bondholders, meaning the public. The public reposessing corporations would mean nationalization, which...Chinas economy is already far more nationalized than the US.
Jared Diamond, who is much more researched than anyone else commenting here, has written a lot on this topic, and briefly stated - it has more to do with a society's capacity to receive and process outside ideas. It's less about American culture and more about the fact that America has been for the most part an open society, but more so American metropolitan society and not America as a whole.
Onlyfans will commoditize what your cousin is selling in short order, just like early adopters on Uber, Airbnb, Ebay, etc...the laws of supply and demand will only allow this to last a couple years, tops! Then what will she have learned and what skills and experiences will she have to be ready for the following two years? What skills and experiences will you have at that time? Easy come, easy go.
Also, "depressed," is different than, "discouraged." Careful of your word choice and make sure you are labeling your emotions correctly.
It's going to end up killing people. Chloroquine is nasty stuff and irresponsible to be hawking...pharmaceuticals can cause as much damage as they can prevent! There is no clinical basis and Trump continues to hawk it ultimately because he is so vested in hotels and hospitality and is more focused on financial damage control of his own investments than the health and safety of the American people.
You don't get to, "not buy the argument," because R&D costs are constrained by layers of unimaginably complex legislation and compliance. The company had to jump through ridiculous hoops for every component of said machine. Until you pull out the book and say, "Nope, see here Section 93...they did not have to do X, it's needless," you don't really have a good counterpoint because this is the case for all medical equipment. You can't just out of the blue say, "Yeah but not this one!" The entire medical regulatory and compliance system is overly complex. You're making the $10000 toilet seat argument...yeah, well the toilet seat needed to be delivered to a highly regulated aircraft. Ironically those $10,000 toilet seats are now $300 because they are 3d printed.
Or...there are engineers who realize this regardless of hacker news and push better design factors by communicating customer needs and impact on branding. Hacker news is not as influential as we may believe.
I literally just did a search for "Westinghouse radio hub" and other variations and this post was the first thing that came up, the rest was all about 1940s Westinghouse electric tubes and things like that. Westinghouse effectivly went out of business effectively in 1995 as they were bought by CBS, when the Gopher protocol had more users than the WWW. This just sounds like such an outdated argument or example it does not make any sense. Sure, network connectivity has disadvantages but refusing all connected products because of oulier examples is extreme paranoia.
It's awful that you have access to a premium life saving service which gets better every year, beyond the immagination of years prior? Or is it awful that the price for said service is high? What exactly is awful to you?
We already have socialized medicine in the US and you can go ahead and compare average billing rates to calculate the insanity ratio by using Medicare and VA.
Well for one thing our population is over 12x that of Australia, harder to govern on a federal level. For another we are likely much less healthy than Australia. Thirdly, medical lobbying by the AMA and doctors being treated like holy men and getting a pass for said lobbying.
Sir, you are choking and dying would you like the premium $500 intubation tube or the discount $10 one? Oh thats riiiight he cant talk lets just assume he values his life and give him the good one.
Oh, sincere apologies about not trying to save you money.
One third of our healthcare by cost is socialized in the US, and yet people seem to not understand that basic fact. There is no anti-socialism debate, it already is one third socialism.
No, because there are extreme penalties and disincentives to overbill. Also, payers are not strictly payers in the US, they are what is known as HMOs, they are incentivized to bring healthcare costs down or at least slow the rise.
Healthcare costs will inevitably rise in the US however, as labor is scarce, practioners are scarce, people are increasingly unhealthy and older...we are in for a massive healthcare cost spike due to economic conditions and blaming HMOs is emotional and politician inspired at best. Its like blaming insurance companies for a rise in car crashes.
No, the ACA maxes out total profit payers can take home at 15% for large groups and 20% for small groups respectively throughout a year, so it's not a commission based system like you are imagining. There are severe penalties for improper billing including prison. No one likes insurance, but HMOs are not at fault here, it was due to overcomplexity and lack of regulation within private practice.
> The city had next no no nightlife just a year ago, and it is common for all kinds of entertainment establishments to close very early.
Wow, that is not a true statement at all! Lived in Shenzhen 2009-2010 and have been back a lot since. There was always stuff open super late. Maybe you are talking about western oriented stuff?
This is not really what happened. I have toured many battery factories in Dongguan - they have stock on-hand even of non standard sizes. I have been shown the actual inventory spreadsheets from product managers. Also, buying batteries from a friend of a friend is very risky...batteries are the most risky thing to buy, at least li-ion, you are almost guaranteed to violate International shipping laws.
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Anything can be turned into a narrative, even your anti-narrative narrative.