Javascript? What’s that? I only know of ECMA-262-ECMAScript, rolls right off the tongue!

I love how people love to divide things into “left” and “right”, even though when you cross international borders not only do they not hold, but different issues become jumbled into their notions of “left” and “right” which they suddenly try to explain away with their own subjective prioritization of which issue is the most important. It’s specially ironic when it’s computer scientists doing it, computer scientists who have to deal with exponential growth of complexity in computer systems, yet still think wetware systems that are going to be much less defined and are going to be a lot less predictive somehow can have their ideologies put in a line. AI hallucinates, but the bipolar linear political system people delude themselves is proof that humans have no problems hallucinating themselves.

The day you can place dots for all parties everywhere without labeling on a graph (I’ll be nice, you can have an additional axis) with an objective definition for what is left/right/up/down such that everyone can recognize which dots correspond to each party is the day I will be proven wrong. There’s actually several models that attempt to do this and have been applied to AI political bias, and even they can’t agree on it. (tangential source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaroJxFTVFQ )

Left and right is the modern day equivalent of the Roman pantheon. There’s actually a far more objective criteria, and it is between those who are willing to work within the premises of a system of governance and those who are trying to game it, but unfortunately it does not correspond to what people consider left and right across the borders and is quite distinct and relative to each system of governance, never mind being pedantic versus considering the intent.

It all comes down to representative democracies being better than winner takes all personality driven democracies, which warps people’s views into extremes that can’t tolerate critical discussions e.g. US republicans who believe it’s all a conspiracy and want to radically change the US, US democrats who won’t discuss criticism about Israel, or consider ranked voting systems and popular vote over electoral college. With representative democracies, voting “nOt LeFt Or RiGhT” doesn’t result in a lost vote, but means you can have additional opportunities to refine your vote. It’s a big reason why in the last elections Spain didn’t fall to the fascists.

It’s about time, with the way things are going, the Vogon construction fleet can’t arrive fast enough. Unfortunately, they must have realized this making their naturally bureaucratic nature delay correspondingly.

It’s more like a school shooter whom Republicans refuse to do anything about in regards to restricting access to arms nearly killed their presidential candidate.

To be fair, not much of a demand for such a permanent cure in leading profit driven health care systems where diabetes medicine is gold. How about MSN? https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/world-s-first-diabetes-cure-with-cell-therapy-achieved-in-china/ar-BB1n7cNA

Though one does well to be skeptical yet.

Shouldn’t they just beg Bethesda to incorporate the script extenders directly into the new releases or the script extender devs to update?

No, because you could choose to spend it elsewhere, and you might not even feel obligated to live at or work at where it’s most expensive anymore. The real problem with UBI are the way speculative investors (meme stocks, crypto, penny stocks, casinos, any gambling addiction, etc) would prey on the vulnerable people, and there’s a lot of ways to handle that but only if there is a will.

But the real reason UBI won’t happen is because getting people to die is much cheaper than paying them to live so they have to pay even more for future generations. UBI can’t happen without proper future planning for entire societies. It works great in the short term and in test cases, as a lot of charitable ideas do until the predators come in.

False username, not sentient.

So why do insurance premiums go up if people use drugs? Imaginary reasons?

Because there are no instances in history where forcing drug use had been weaponized at the international level. Man, sometimes it’s so easy to see how lemmy is close to the same dark web that spams drug adverts on matrix.

Yes, but I’m not really arguing against that claim. The higher up you go, the more psychopaths you have as well. They can have all the drugs they want, the real work usually doesn’t depend on them, and psychopathy helps them make money if not contribute to society.

Companies perform drug checks for a reason. People who lead large organizations while regularly getting off on drugs are usually the biggest psychopaths around.

The article is literally about how much government spends on healthcare, not how much that healthcare costs …

Holy spamming troll. Any other comment you’d care to spam under, you insecure little snowflake? Just make your point and move on. Instead you are just replying under every other comment like the bad toxic shit you are.

The article is literally about how much government spends on healthcare, not how much that healthcare costs …

Being able to engage more freely with your doctor also helps keep the healthcare costs down because people can solve their health issues before they really become costly.

Sorry you find logic so difficult. It’s as simple as healthcare cost in US is higher, therefore costs more. Almost every comment except yours that replied to mine understood this really utterly simple fact to understand, but considering how you devolve the discussion into name calling, I don’t really believe you had any other intent than trolling.

Even if you consider the population about the same, the healthcare costs in Europe are about half of what they are in the US, so the fact that they spend 30% more than 0.9T is basically them spending 30% per citizen on the proportional healthcare. The real benefit is also, y’know, not going bankrupt over healthcare fees…

The population of the US is more, although not by much. I pointed it out because the results from the article are different, claiming the population from those countries is more than that of the US (no, it isn’t) with very different numbers, which hints at the hand they are playing.

This is a useless metric, the US has more population than all of those countries combined and the healthcare costs in Europe are about half of what they are in the US. This article is reaching towards a conclusion, not really objectively coming to it, although it’s not surprising considering the source.

United States 340M (Not 331M)

• Germany 83M
• UK 68M
• Italy 59M
• Spain 48M
• Austria 9M
• France 65M

~ 332M (Not 335M)

• Population source : https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/population-by-country/
• Healthcare cost source : https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/health-spending-u-s-compare-countries/#GDP per capita and health consumption spending per capita, 2021 (U.S. dollars, PPP adjusted)

(Just the first few results where this information could be looked up, no other criteria applied for these sources)

Guess people just don’t like facts.

It’s easy to see why, neither Hamas or Israel care about Palestinians, yet Israel can still gaslight about Palestinians essentially being Hamas. Even a lot of Palestinians are brainwashed themselves into supporting them. This grander version of the agent provocateur is all the fashion in neocolonialism, and Israel, capital of the suddenly materializing Russian Jewish ties that allow for Israeli nationality for oligarchs, is itself is playing both US and Russia on this.