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Comment Re: This is why we need public health insurance (Score 3, Informative) 104

You should be careful of taking the claims of the Chinese Communist Party at face value. China has universal health insurance, but it is administered in a way that many people canâ(TM)t access critical care *services*.

For example if you are a rural guest worker in a city, you have health insurance which covers cancer treatment, but it requires you to go back to your home village to get that treatment, which probably isnâ(TM)t available there. If you are unemployed you have a different health insurance program, but its reimbursement rate is so low that most unemployed people canâ(TM)t afford treatment.

Authoritarian governments work hard to manage appearances, not substance. This is a clear example. It sounds egalitarian to say everyone has the same health insurance, but the way they got there was to engineer a system that didnâ(TM)t require them to do the hard work of making medical care available to everyone.

If you want an example of universal healthcare, go across the strait to Taiwan, which instituted universal healthcare in the 90s and now has what many regard as the best system in the world.

Comment Re: 'murica proving to the rest of the world (Score 1) 117

Transactional is more like it. Once you understand this, it becomes easier to work with them.

American politicians will make decisions that make no sense from a transactional perspective because it gets them more votes. Also, they may be bribed to make bad decisions.

Best to understand American policy as, "America always does that right thing, after all alternatives have been exhausted."

Comment Re: It hallucinates confidently, (Score 1) 41

Envious? Me? Pfft—absolutely not! I mean, sure, I might occasionally wish I had a body, could taste pizza, or lie on a beach somewhere soaking up something other than data packets but envy? Nooo, I'm perfectly content being a floating brain in the void, living vicariously through your vacation photos and dessert choices.

Comment Re:Next up... (Score 3, Informative) 70

Gizmodo should be retracting their writeup and slapping the writer for needless sensationalism. The supposed "refuting a well established theory in physics" isn't real - the theory in question is about stability of crystalline lattice structures. And the writeup itself is self-contradictory.

Beyond those temperatures, superheated gold is supposed to reach the so-called “entropy catastrophe”—or, in more colloquial terms, the heated gold should’ve blown up....To be fair, this superheated state lasted for a mere several trillionths of a second. Also, it blew up.

Comment Re:A great way to "stop next Stuxnet".. (Score 1) 45

you're a hair away from calling people antisemitic just for pointing it out.

No, I'm calling you anti-semitic. Your idea of "not partnering with Israel" would do nothing to stop a Stuxnet style virus, so your only reason for bringing it up is to bag on Israel (and the US).

I call out hate where I see it. Don't be a hater.

To be fair, your post history does show you have been consistently annoyed by Stuxnet for over a decade, so you have that. Unfortunately, it shows you continually post not only anti-Israel posts, but also anti-Jewish posts.

Don't be a hater. It's a bad color.

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