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Is it even moral to help people if investors aren't making a profit in the process? (/s)

> There are plenty of health insurers

Yeah. And they all ultimately have to be paid by my health premiums.

When I visit my parents, and they have the TV on, and I see 3 90-second advertisments for prescription drugs every single commercial break, I remind myself that, no matter what, we have to keep funding these commercials. Whatever the US decides to do for healthcare, I guarantee these commercials will continue to be paid for.

I also guarantee that pharmacy company executives, and insurance company executives will continue to make millions of dollars a year. We have to keep paying them as well.

The huge bureaucracy of insurance workers who decide what is and isn't approved, that all will have to be paid for as well.

I used to work for a company that did background checks on doctors, we had different customers in every state, every state had their own companies and their own system for maintaining and verifying doctors licenses. These different companies in each state have to be paid. I made good money as a programmer doing background checks for these various companies and my paycheck also ultimately came from your medical premiums.

I think we need to stop and appreciate the patriotic duty we all have to pay high premiums and medical costs, because every time we do we're propping up a huge portion of US workers. -- Just kidding. The truth is a lot of companies need to go out of business before things get cheaper.


Related question. Have transmittable diseases spread in space? What examples do we know of?

There have been a few instances, IIRC there was an Apollo mission that had a head cold spread among the whole crew.

But that's unlikely to be the case here because they've been up there isolated for over 6 months now


> IIRC there was an Apollo mission that had a head cold spread among the whole crew.

Yep, Apollo 7.


Would it be possible for some food to have been contaminated with something? It seems unlikely.

this is what I'm thinking. GI related issues

This describes NASA's pre-flight quarantines since Apollo 14, and makes (very brief) references to in-flight diseases (and apparent transmission) prior to Apollo 14 ("upper respiratory infection"; "viral gastroenteritis"),

https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/ochmo-tb-006... ("Health Stabilization Program (HSP)")


Blocking subreddits is still possible with just the webpage btw. Go into the sub, click the 3 dots up top, choose "mute subreddit".

I do the same as you. If any post is harming my mental health, I just must the entire sub. But then weirder and weirder stuff just keeps surfacing. Some of it is funny though; like it keeps showing me alien subreddits now, which I find funny because I'm pretty sure 65% of the comments are just satire.


Tell the students that they will receive a one week notice during the middle of the semester that they need to migrate their git repo to a new server, then teach them the 2 or 3 commands they will need to enter to do this.

They will then understand that it is extremely easy to move a git repo.


Maduro is alive and charged with crimes in a US court. So, we will see evidence presented I guess. This is new.

I'm surprised Maduro wasn't just killed, and wonder if he might somehow die in US custody. The US will have to make a case in court while the whole world watches. That will be embarrassing I expect.

https://youtu.be/ijFOLv17RX4


This is immensely funny (actually it's not) that the US trials Maduro when they do not accept the ICC. I guess US law is the ultimate law.

If they have evidence he violated US law smuggling weapons and drugs into the domestic USA, he should be tried under such law. It's neither ironic, funny, strange, or anything else. What law should he be tried under if he did these alleged things?

They extradited him by force because Venezuela wouldn't. They don't have an extradition treaty. If Venezuela doesn't want this to happen again - negotiate a treaty.

The USA doesn't "accept" the ICC because it's not a party to the agreement. There are not-insignificant constitutional problems with the USA being a party. It's because they have such strong civil protections that those issues come up.

The ICC is also complementary - you misunderstand what it is for. If the USA is able to prosecute this guy themselves, you don't need an ICC, because it doesn't apply in this case.


Ok, war crimes are illegal too. So I guess someone extracting some US military people by force and trialing them somewhere else is fair game then?

Anyway, your whole comment is just word-sauce.


By endlessly asking #python on freenode how to do basic things like utilize a dictionary.

#javascript for me

Plumbing seems like a relatively popular AI-proof pivot. If AI really does start taking jobs en masse, then plumbers are going to be plentiful and cheap.

What we really need is a lot more housing. So construction work is a safer pivot. But, construction work is difficult and dangerous and not something everyone can do. Also, society will collapse (apparently) if we ever make housing affordable, so maybe the powers-that-be wont allow an increase in construction work, even if there are plenty of construction workers.

Who knows... interesting times.


As long as we can create and delete tags, they will never be immutable, right?


The purpose of the forge is to be able to prevent this. Protected tags are usually a feature which provides a way to mark tags as untouchable, so removal would require a minimum level of trust to the repository on the platform. Otherwise, attempts to push tag deletions or changes for tags matching the protected pattern would be rejected/ignored.

Of course, the repository owner has unlimited privilege here, hence the last part of my prior comment.


Congress can't really ignore a law though, anymore than I can.

Am I ignoring the TikTok law? No, because it's not my job to enforce it.

The executive branch is the one that ignores the law.


Congress have the power to remove a president.


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