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_zg4q··on Reddit bans subreddit group “r/DonaldTrump”
I think it's unfortunate that you feel this way, especially if it's without any evidence. I wouldn't say that 80% of liberals are communists and socialists. I think this mentality will only further the division between sides.
_zg4q··on California Public Utilities Commission fired director who exposed missing $200M
> Can you explain to me what you think is happening in your Telegraph link?

Smokers and obese people are being prevented from receiving surgeries that are not deemed "essential" unless they stop smoking for 8 weeks or loose weight, respectively.

> In particular, why you think this is "the NHS" and not some specific services in one part of the country

Maybe this question isn't to be taken literally, but multiple articles' titles with some variation of "NHS bans some obese and smokers from surgery 'indefinitely'"

> and also why these patients can't make use of private healthcare instead.

As of 2015, only 10.5% of population was using private insurance [0]. We could assume roughly 89.5% of population is covered by the NHS since it's given by default. If you cannot afford private insurance, you will only have NHS.

In my opinion, I believe having a public option will slowly eliminate private insurance or at least reduce the types of services available. Additionally I think it's dangerous for the government to set that sort of precedent.

[0] https://www.commonwealthfund.org/international-health-policy...

_zg4q··on Zettlr – FOSS markdown editor for personal knowledge management and publishing
I'm not the poster you're asking, but I've been using Syncthing [0] for anything I need to share with my phone (or any other device for that matter). Very simple and fast to get using.

[0] https://syncthing.net/

_zg4q··on The Death of External Storage: Where's Google?
To everyone looking for a decent file manager for Android, please check out MiXplorer[0]. I just discovered it and was immediately impressed with it's features and functionality. Some of my favorite native features:

* Packing/unpacking 7z and Zip/Zip64 (splitted-encrypted), TAR, TAR.GZ, TAR.BZ2, GZIP, BZIP2, XZ, WIM, Lizard, LZ4, LZ5, Zstandard.

* Root access for all advanced operations.

* SAMBA, FTP, SFTP, WEBDAV supported as well.

* Intuitive, unlimited tabbed browsing.

* Very pleasing, nice-looking, easy to use interface (I know this is silly, but as much as I like Total Commander which is good I always felt it's interface was a little clunky.)

* Developer is very active and receptive to feedback.

Give it a try, it's free on XDA with a paid version on the Play Store[1] with at the time of writing, only 5 and 4 star reviews.

[0] https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1523691

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mixplorer....