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During the heights of the pandemic, the Cuban health system sent over 2,000 doctors to 23 of the most affected countries. No other country sent nearly that many doctors elsewhere, and Cuba is a tiny place!

Nigeria sounds like paradise! I wonder why more Americans don't move there.

Very interesting. Photo 4 is a significant step in the right direction. It's refreshing that it doesn't veer towards a Gaussian look either. Thanks for sharing.

You won't get very far. The EU is an anti-democratic organization.

There are many legitimate criticisms one can make of American unions, but this isn't one of them. I am not a union cheerleader by any stretch of the imagination, but you obviously don't have the slightest clue what you're talking about. Hard work and valuable contribution are recognized, celebrated, and rewarded as much or more among union workforces as otherwise.

The benefit is that it's easier to request.

Same. Somewhat ironically, my art school vocabulary has come in very handy when writing art generator prompts.

From the perspective of EU leaders, LLMs are the final ingredient. They won't be able to sleep knowing the NSA is having all the fun without them.

The focus blur is repulsive. I think convincing focus blur will be the milestone that replaces stock photography.

Back when I was a 3D modeler, I loved UV unwrapping. It's such a zen activity. It allowed my brain to recharge for some reason.

What country? All I see is different capitalist interests competing with each other for various opportunities to exploit working people for a profit. If these whiners are serious about wanting to build something, they should start with a society.

> As a country, we still remember all the horrible crap that was built in the 1950's and 60's

Nonsense. As a country, Americans know practically nothing about our history at all. Furthermore, Americans know practically nothing about the alternatives that exist elsewhere. This is glaringly obvious to virtually everyone who interacts with even small aggregate samples of average Americans. I wish you were right, but I'm afraid your thesis just falls flat on its' face.

I will gladly get in line to trash talk American post-war urban development, but even if average Americans shared our disposition, it's pretty naive to think average Americans' opinions would have any meaningful influence politically.

Have you used it yet? Was it actually that easy? I can't wait to try.

I guess I mind that it occurred that way because it was preventable and millions of innocent workers died as a result, but nonetheless it's history now.

The policy has been good for workers in Germany, and might be the best example of how universal material demands for (actual) worker power are extremely popular in practice. Not even the most conservative German politician would dare challenge the policy in public.

It is, nonetheless, unsustainable. Without the threat of the Soviet Union, pro-worker legislation is losing its necessity in legitimating the Western ruling class. Once its founding generation is gone in a few decades, the policy will dissolve along with them, short of a newfound radical workers movement throughout the EU.

> ...and now it’s time to right size to better fit a changing market.

Come again? What is this supposed to mean?

I hate to break it to you, but the ruling class agreed to this compromise only after 2 world wars. The conflict to resolve was/is not between political parties, but rather between the working class and the ruling class. In this case, the ruling class upended the labor party during WW1, then were obliterated by the Soviet Union for doing a holocaust (WW2), which laid the conditions for the so-called compromise.

This is the elephant in the room. HN types have incredibly strong cognitive dissonance around the structural foundations of the tech industry.

Sadly, most people don't have a clue which world they live in.

I wouldn't believe ChatGPT about what it's doing with my data any more than I would believe a human.

> I'm dismayed at how this sounds like a marxist handbook, instead of looking at how other developed nations do it. I've been inspired by codetermination in Germany, where the unions has like half of the board seats by law.

Guess who's to thank for that German policy...it begins with an 'M' and ends with 'ists.'

More like Universal Basic Capital

The low wages cannot go any lower. As it stands, poor workers in the US already don't make nearly enough to survive. They just keep increasing their debt until they either climb the ladder or die of an overdose or some other tragedy.

FWIW you are not crazy. I completely agree with every part of your comment.

The cheap 2x4s are the most significant point of failure. The houses will twist and warp to many extremes during their lifetimes. The first symptom of doors that won't open/shut properly usually shows in the first 10 years of these houses. In a 1920s home built with domestic timber, that process would take a lifetime. After 30 years, this contributes to all sorts of creaks and leaks. Repairs are questionable and don't last as long because the frame of the structure is unstable.

Despite the US's deficit in housing ever since, many millions of houses houses have in fact been abandoned. Please explain.

Also, Levittown construction and materials are not comparable in any meaningful way to McMansions.

> Don't fall for the socialism anti-landlord brainrot

You mean the economic principle of supply and demand?

> as the population ages, who is going to buy all the McMansions?

The McMansions will be unlivable by that point. They weren't built to last.

Exactly

If you didn't go to college, your poverty is your fault because you should have.

If you did go to college, your poverty is your classmates' fault because there were too many of them.

It's funny how the system is never to blame.

No police were disciplined as a result of this lawsuit. The city just payed the plaintiffs.