Tar_alcaran @ Tar_alcaran @lemmy.world

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we’ve had generations of Americans come and go without the need* of unions,

Thanks to the work of the unions formed by the generations before them.

Try something simple in Windows like setting custom keyboard shortcuts… insanely frustrating.

You can set macro's under Mouse and Keyboard center (though only in win11, welcome to 1995 Microsoft!) You can set a keyboard shortcut for a program under a shortcut's properties (since at least a couple of editions ago).

I've lived in the US, the UK and the Netherlands, so I have a little info here.

WTF healthcare actually gets taxpayer funding in the US,

Yes, quite a lot, but not for everyone. There's a program for people over 65 (Medicare), and a program for low-income people (Medicaid). Then there are several other programs, such as Veteran's healthcare which comes from the Defence budget, and a crazy number of other programs.

and how are basic things like an ambulance or insulin insanely expensive?

Lack of collective bargaining.

Lets say I'm selling a pill that cures the deadly disease papercutitis, and I want to sell it in the US and the EU. I fill a shipping container with my pills costing me 50 bucks per pill, and I go the USA. I send my representatives to doctors and hospitals, and I find out that I can sell more than I make. So, I simply increase my prices. I end up selling my cure for 5000 bucks a pill, because people are going to die otherwise. Some people have insurance, some people have the government pay, and some people pay it privately, but they all pay.

Now, I go the UK, and take my 5000 dollar papercutitis pill, and the NHS goes "Hahaha, no. We'll pay 85 quid per pill, take it or leave it." And well, these pills cost me 50 bucks, and I make 85 quid, and there's 65 million british people, so I'll take the 85 GBP per pill. The same in the Netherlands, which had private insurance, but the insurance companies will very happily come together and with the government's backing say "Your choice, we can either buy asprin form Company X at 5 euros, OR we can a million asprins from you at 4,50, but you have to sell your papercutitis pills at 80 euros". And since I make a profer there too, I'll say yes.

So, in why is the US so expensive? Because the healthcare industry can make it so expensive. It's literally free profit (if you don't count the dead and bankrupt, but they don't).

Because the short-term equation is easy:

Would you rather have 10 users paying nothing but taking up server space and bandwidth? Or would you prefer 1 paying user and 9 people leaving? In the short term, option B is a win-win.

And if that leads to Twitter becoming a dead husk of itself, oh well, that's a problem for next quarter

The ancients were wrong about a LOT of things.

As in the people working with knives and hot water?

And since they're soft, they're quite grippy, even when on smooth and wet surfaces.

Maybe i have super soft water, but I bought the cheapest thermo faucet about 10 years ago, moved houses with it and it works fine.

I did have to recalibrate it when we switched from a gas heater to a heat-pump, which required some violence and some cleaning vinegar soaking. But otherwise, it's been great.

Thankfully, some stray braincells engaged for a few seconds and we realised much of what he says is bullshit.

Which goes far on NCD

I have an aunt who keeps posting minions memes in 2023, so... yeah

You can absolutely have free speech, but nobody is forced to actually listen to you.

Which is good, because in the real world, every place that has "zero censorship" rapidly devolves into a Nazi invested shithole.

No, he doesn't have four bears, they're dead. Wow Gandalf, pay attention.

Yes

Not really. The G8 was G7+Russia, not because they were in 8th place.

But the G7 itself is more of a "largest economies among countries we like", since China and India also arent in it.

Like literally every conservative

I'm not. The both sucked in the past. But let me repeat:

Russia is committing genocide. Right now. China is committing genocide. Right now.

Yeah, the suckage of, say, Germany or the Netherlands being less nice to refugees and farm animals is exactly the same as Russia and China actively committing genocide right now.

They sell phones, tablets and watches at basically every electronics place.

Wanting to use it for gaming is totally valid though, in which case you should probably get a Windows machine

Russian tourist in Crimea: "ugh, why is this bridge blocked?"