This isnâ(TM)t original anymore. We donâ(TM)t need more dark gritty realism in 2024.

for all the cable. If they want to install cables, they need to pay every single property owner a lease charge.

Fair is fair.

The investigation into plastic recycling that pretty much sealed the deal as it being an unsustainable nightmare was made in Europe.

Women have outnumbered men 3 to 1 and have done so for the past three decades.

Itâ(TM)s more complex than that.

The only businesses that can afford those low costs are monolithic corporations who make special deals with manufacturers and suppliers. The rest of the world without that buying power still pay at those higher markups.

There are no local health care providers any more because insurance made deals with big corps for advantageous payout schemes. Big corporate providers employed loss leaders to obliterate the local markets. They are able to do this because they extract money from their patients in areas where they control the supply.

It's not about if it's possible (people have been getting "married" in video games for decades now). It's if you should be getting married in the metaverse.

The answer is no.

"Under her proposed system, you'd put your money in the Fed,"

Creating a Single Point of Failure is not the solution to modern banking woes.

TenFourFox is a great life saver for keeping my PowerMac alive and kicking, even if its just for nostalgia's sake, but surfing the web isn't really practical these days due to the memory requirements of the modern web. When most sites are gobbling up GBs worth of memory to visit them, surfing the net on a machine that maxes out on 2GBs necessitates knowing how to not browse yourself into a cold reboot.

Still, I'm grateful for all the hard work that's been put into keeping TenFourFox alive all these years. Bravo!

I think that the extroverts really just don't understand how much of this past years was an absolute join to us introverts.

Also, I don't know about you guys, but I wasn't lockeddown inside chained to my desk and computer. I went outside plenty. Probably more so then I did when I went to an office every day. I also interacted with folks outside plenty.

Some people make this whole thing sound like we were all placed into solitary confinement when that was far from the truth.

Leo Laporte seems to have made it work well enough with https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwit.tv%2F. Yes it is work and takes the varied talent of multiple people, but what successful business doesn't require some investment and expertise.

...rather its about control.

Come on guys, this shouldn't require a mastermind to figure out the plans of this villain.

continues it's relentless march forward to eliminate any semblance of usability..

They are compensated with time off. And yes, they generally earn a higher premium for picking up those shifts.

But none of that is the point.

The point is that people can and do work longer shifts at jobs that can be considered stressful. In pharmacy, the ratio of women to men is 2 to 1.

In a hospital setting there already are more then two people running a shift. during the day, but as you start moving into the evening and overnight shifts it's going to get more expensive. Not as many people want to work the overnight shift therefore they can demand a premium.

Lets say you have a very small hospital, and you need to cover 3 shifts per day (and were not even talking about making sure there's some shift overlap yet), at roughly $150k per staff pharmacist that's going to be nearly $500k per year to staff. Now there's also the requirement of at least 1 pharmacy technician per pharmacist, so that's another $250k per year. Then you'll probably need a director to run the operation, usually a pharmacist, that's another $150k, and maybe someone who runs the inventory/buyer, lets call that $50k. So bare minimum Your spending nearly $1 million to staff your small community hospital pharmacy. We havent even stocked the shelves yet or talked about any other operating costs. You want to tack on another pharmacist or two just to make sure nobody ever has to work overtime?

Where do you think the money is coming from?

Did I mention that Insurance companies don't care that their payout dont actually cover costs?

Because of supply and demand. People don't stop being sick just because it's time to clock out. Also, adding already expensive pharmaicsts to staff the extra work load would be cost prohibitive. There just comes a point where throwing more bodies at the problem isn't a viable solution.

Most of the young people who are complaining about crunch or working long hours don't ever take into consideration that costs associated with solving this problem. What it comes down to is that sometimes someone just has to step up to the plate and take one for the team. People are DIVERSE, and while there are some who wouldn't be able to work longer hours, there are others who aren't even phased by it. And they are the people who get the big bucks.