Syrc @ Syrc @lemmy.world

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Religion is basically just “your own hypothesis on how the world works”. People in good faith would encourage progress to see if their hypothesis is correct, not hinder it for fear of being proven wrong.

Not really, it’s just that people can’t stand by this

EA, Konami and Blizzard give good competition, I wouldn’t be so sure.

In a just world the “wealthy” would have at most 100 times the wealth of the poorest person on earth, and it would barely matter.

It happened so often it even has a Wikipedia page

Millennial/Gen Z depending on definition here, I did not.

And after watching it I’m still not convinced it wasn’t an impersonator sketch.

I meant, they’re not the conventional short names, which are the ones used in pretty much every context. And the conventional short name for the USA is “United States”, not “America”.

Actually neither are official names, unlike USA. The United Nations use the three in the meme.

Unfortunately it only works on Kanji (which is probably the hardest part, I guess if there's no alternative for kana there isn't enough demand?), but thanks!

If there were 100 people to blame for all of this I could go out and kill them, but 100 million? What the hell can any of us do about that?

Oh you could definitely go a long way by killing the right 100 people. I think killing even one of those would require a coordinated effort by way too many people though, so not that it changes much.

Why do you care anyways?

Because I want enshittified platforms to fail so this horrible “trend” can stop and companies actually start focusing again on “how to make a better site” instead of “how to make the site that will make us the most money”

Calling it “x” is a thoroughbred-mouthbreather move.

I’m calling it X. That site doesn’t deserve to be called Twitter anymore. Let them lose the recognizable brand and cling onto a random letter that makes searches and discussions about it much harder.

I don’t know what the standard is in the US, but to me 80k is definitely not “a small town”. Like, here in Italy we only have 66 cities with more people than that. Someone in an 80k city not finding a gastroenterologist to visit him in three months within 1 and a half hour of driving seems absurd to me.

If having private healthcare causes all these issues with insurance I think it’s really not worth it at this point. I don’t think the quality of the service would decline either since even in free healthcare countries doctors earn a lot and are a coveted job.

I can’t find the ones I saw before, but just searching “insurance” here brings results like this or this which are actual horror stories (both the ones in the posts and the ones in the comments).

It seems to me that queue issues are the same everywhere, with the difference that in the US you pay to wait. I’m glad your experience was different and I’m sure not everyone goes through that stuff, but the fact that it happens at all is pretty dystopic to me.

Well, it is one of the most developed countries in the world, it would’ve been weird if it didn’t have a lot of specialized doctors.

Other than the price though, I’ve seen a lot of people complain about long waits and surgeries (even reconstructive ones) not being “approved” by insurance companies. It’s probably skewed since people only talk about the bad experiences they’ve had, but just the fact that they can do that seems crazy to me.

Oh that sucks. Seems like a very specific case so I guess I shouldn’t lump it in with the generic knowledge I have, sorry for talking out of my ass.

I still think a country like the US could manage with universal free healthcare, but I shouldn’t have assumed that every country that has one works just as well, you’re right.

But remember: she’s not fascist until we find a Mussolini bust in her house.

…yes, we did find one in the house of the president of the senate that her party elected, but it wasn’t her house so it doesn’t count.

I don’t think AI is at risk of going communist any time soon.

Well, it has no concept of capital, “takes” stuff without paying and makes free stuff for everyone without discrimination.

The companies making them might be capitalistic, but AI in a vacuum seems pretty communist to me.

Yeah, I know, that’s weird. I’m on browser and sometimes it happens here too.

See if this link works

I really want something that just translates kanji/kana to romaji. There was an extension in Chrome that did that and it’s the only thing I miss after switching to FF.