And, as a quick aside, a side effect of the sweetener is to damage DNA.

After a bit of research, I’m forced by facts (NS records can be cached for an undetermined time) to see what you’re saying. Thank you for teaching me.

The workings are, of course, a bit more complicated than what either of us have said (here’s a taste), but there is a situation as you describe, where separating the registrar from the name servers, and the name servers from the domain, could save the domain from going down.

If a registrar goes out of business, ICANN transfers the domain(s) to another registrar.

If a name server business fails, you change name servers through your registrar.

You can’t really fix registrar services in your name server, nor name server problems through your registrar. (Unless, of course, your registrar is also your name server.)

In addition to traditional answers (Plato, Solipsism, Descartes, …) this question is also the next-to-last step of coming of age: the realization that other people have minds, feelings, reasons, memories, and existences as complex, varied, and real as your own.

Though, rather excitingly, this does not reduce the questions.

nearly did a push-up

Sounds more like: couldn’t do a push-up.

The arguments are pretty spot on (with plenty of exceptions, e.g. efforts to privatize healthcare in each country; but we’re generalizing here), not so much the conclusion:

not sure why you’re talking about expanding the very thing we’re politically unable to sustain as if it’s a way to sidestep the problem.

Unsustainable: US healthcare for profit. Evidence: Most expensive healthcare in the world with average or worse results.

Sustainable: Universal healthcare for everyone. Evidence: Every other country in North America, Europe, Australia, parts of Africa and South America.

The US is already among the worst for infant mortality (bottom 4th among North American and Western European countries). The downward-trend causes and solutions are interrelated and complex, and include (and aren’t limited to):

• For profit (privatized) healthcare (for those under 65, the child-raising generations); solution: universal basic (single-payer) healthcare.
• Laws limiting healthcare options for women; solution: reinstate Roe v. Wade
• Limiting financial support for families forced by law (and religion-based moral public pressure) into providing for a child they can’t afford; solution: universal basic income and healthcare.
• Local environmental conditions (chemical exposure of workers and residents); solution: improve, enforce, and fund environmental protection.
• Pharmaceuticals based on loose evidence for lack of harm (e.g. short-term, limited, selective studies); solution: independent long-term studies based on evidence of safety.

None of the problems are a surprise, they are the predictable consequences of choices. None of the solutions are flawless, even while they head in a more public direction.