Biden tried to forgive student loans
SCOTUS: "Whoa there buddy, uh, major questions anyone? Can't do it"

Trump revokes part of USC
SCOTUS: "Obviously he gets the benefit of the doubt."

What do we think non-profit actually means. Are you really thinking non-profit means the individuals don't make money? Is this is a serious question?

Also if the fund is $4.5B annually is it really so unreasonable to pay some "6-figure" ($100k? $800k?) salaries to admin it?

Also where is you source for that 35% because from the FCC report here it seems like their admin fees are $68M for over $2B in funds so right around 3% or maybe you have different info

Proposed First Quarter 2025 Universal Service Contribution Factor

Facebook wants a US economy that is growing, not receding.

Microsoft as a strategy seems to not do exclusives anymore: Project Latitude: More Details About the Rumored Plans To Bring Xbox Games To Rival Platforms Out

I think the Microsoft strategy today is "We own and bought a shitload of game studios so we can sell those games everywhere".

Comparable *;like i already stated* These are all highly developed, highly educated, high GDP nations,. Do try to keep up.

The numbers mean the per capita spending on healthcare.

Apparently you didn't or we wouldn't be doing this fucking boring pedantry. Yawn.

Sorry, not enough homes where people want to live

Yeah it feels excessive. It's little but a ridiculous example I think of is there are some ramen bowls at Costco I have gotten. It's a little plastic bowl, wrapped in plastic wrap and inside are 4 little packets of the sauce and seasonings and all of them are in individual little plastic sachets. Just feels like a ridiculous amount of waste for something that comes out to like $1.68. Plus we all remember those giant blister packs retailers were so fond of a decade or so ago.

I think the public pressure to it is having an effect. I have gotten more products in paper packaging, just recently the cans of dog food I get changed from a cardboard base wrapped in shrink wrap to an all paper packaging. Either the economics changed or there is some public pressure.

So what that tells me we could have a Bismarck style universal system like Germany (whose system I think is the closest, best fit for a US universal system) with no real change in health expenditures. Sounds great actually.

If they're not buying those homes then it makes my case, we just don't have enough homes.

We've had huge population growth before, all this stuff doesn't really matter since it comes back to the core issue: not enough homes where people want to live.

Population growth is good, it means economic growth, it shouldn't cause any housing spikes if development is allowed to keep pace.

If we don't like demographic shifts then just stand ground on that and let's not use housing a dirt little reach-around to get the immigration policy we want. Housing should have little to do with it, if it does then the reasonable answer is not to restrict immigration it's to build more homes. If these people have jobs then they need homes around those jobs.

I've encountered the same which is why I suspect there has been consolidation on the backend, like we have a bunch of data middlemen and all these front end search engine sites. The whole thing feels like a scam sometimes with these no name sites.

How many miles through the snow did you have to walk to get to that HR office?

I appreciate how each side of the political spectrum has their own fairy tale about real estate:

Conservatives: illegal immigrants are buying all the homes!

Progressives: hedge funds are buying all the homes!

Neither is correct and these are just bugbears for politics. The actual answer is we as a nation, states and cities embraced housing restrictions, some bad regulations, bad zoning and general NIMBYism and let bad faith community groups restrict development for decades and now here we are in a simple demand crunch that people purposefully refuse to acknowledge.

It also doesn't matter because the answer is always the same: just build more homes. Affordable homes, luxury homes, market rate units, doesn't matter, you just need supply. Easier said than done but it's the only way to actually change things, anything else like deportations or rent control is really just papering over that core issue.

Indeed, LinkedIn, ZipRecruiter and the dozens and dozens of other affiliate, clone, mirror, white labelled sites that operate today. It's a real mess out there.

Feels like job hiring has gone the way as travel bookings with Sabre where you have a couple big database systems with the actual information and then dozens of sites that just provide front ends for the same group of listings.

I never claimed you said the US had better healthcare, i only said comparable and you all but admitted you even understand the numbers with implicit context, that was a sneaky little turn of phrase there, sneaky sneaky.

The numbers are correct, the US is at the top because we spend the most, it's even per capita! Are they incomplete or do they lack context? I would say the latter, is there a country higher? There is not.

It's also a tall order ask to rate care because how? Spending is easy.

Sure you are correct but let's be real, look at that list of countries and be honest, do you really think their overall quality of care and life is that far off than America?

These are all highly developed, highly educated, high GDP nations, that's part of why the number is so egregious. Fucking Sweden which you probably think is just firing cash dollars out of a socialism cannon into the ocean and manages to pay half per person?? Free markets baby!