Healthcare being expensive is not the issue. The issue is that after services are completed, they cannot collect on them. Thanks to the Affordable Care Act there are limits on how much they can collect and the types of items covered by insurance. While they may charge $500 for something, they may only get $100 from the insurance company, and then may get stiffed from the patient for the rest. This is from experience in the industry. Since the Affordable Care Act went into place deductibles skyrocketed in order to keep the insurance companies profitable, so the patients end up having to cover MUCH more of their costs rather than insurance companies. Also, when insurance companies were forced to cover every problem they had to make up the costs somewhere. Insurance transformed from being insurance for big unexpected costs, to being literal health care coverage, which was impossible for insurance companies, so they offered much worse coverage for more expensive of a price. Most people are paying more monthly now than they were paying annually before the Affordable Care Act, especially after factoring deductibles paid. But that should not be a problem for Walmart or Providers, it is only a problem for them because when the costs are passed onto people like this instead of insurance companies, people end up not paying. It was like the Affordable Care Act wanted to make things so bad for people that the only option would be to convert to national healthcare.

In a country like the United States that has Free Speech, it is incredible that the U.S. government would try to take down an application with zero evidence of wrongdoing. Many people claim they are promoting 'propaganda' yet other apps and websites are extremely moderated as well. Why should TikTok not have the right to moderate their own content as they see fit in a country with Free Speech? Apparently the government wants to play the parent for its adult citizens and tell you what you can view. The other argument is that TIkTok is spying, but this is a complete conspiracy theory. No, they aren't listening to your microphone without your permission, they aren't tracking you, and they aren't hacking your networks. This is a simple case of those in congress being too old to understand the world. A congressman accused them of accessing networks, this congressman is so incompetent they don't know that in order to send information over the internet, you have to use a network. I really hope TikTok wins this unjust fight that somehow they got caught up in for being partially Chinese owned. It was embarrassing enough that during the congressional hearing congress continued to question the CEO on his allegiances to China and assumed he was Chinese throughout when he isn't even Chinese, he is Singaporean.

Imagine a company so profitable that the employees protest against the business it gets. Google's monopoly on search needs to be broken up if AI doesn't help take them down.

Everyone expects their videos to be downloaded, just not saved locally permanently. Assuming they streamed the videos instead of downloading them would that make it okay?

You used to at least know a High Schooler could do things like, show up, follow directions. Post covid a high school diploma means nothing. In our district you literally get a passing 'D' grade with 40% now (used to be 60% pre-covid). It used to be you miss more than 10 classes then you start to get detention and if you missed 1 class without a parents note, you got reported to your parents. These limits are non-existent. You used to get expelled from school for hitting someone as the aggressor. Now you get detention. They have focused so much on 'graduation rates' that the whole process of school is even less than a participation trophy, since you don't even need to participate.

On so many levels this stinks. If Samsung had a better technology, QD-OLED, then why would they partner to use a competitor's displays? Why would they agree not to advertise their technology as better if was truly better? And why would you make the exact same model of TV with more than one panel type? Not only is the technology, brightness different but the shape of the pixels is arranged differently, as per the article. These different shapes lend themselves better to monitors, as opposed to TVs. Something smells extremely fishy about the explanation given in the article that basically Samsung didn't want to deal with convincing consumers QD-OLED is a different tech..

Literally zero people are craving a upscaler for windows games. They target a niche that's already being filled and put their own project that may or not be better. This feels like what Microsoft has been doing recently and the end result will probably be more evil designs meant to lock you into products or put ads on them.

Wasn't Fox Sports required to be sold off by Disney so they wouldn't have a monopoly on sports channels. Well now they are partnered with a company that includes that channel and can again make a sports channel monopoly. Funny how that works.

Let me get this straight. Cell companies pushed a phrase that in meaningless to consumers other than denoting 5th generation is after 4th generation. And now using a very descriptive and accurate name is not allowed. Great move NARB. /s

However the actual information is interesting, although appears to only apply to melatonin and CDB pills

This article is blowing things out of proportion. It compares like a similar mouth and eyes or a similar fluff of hair. We aren't even talking about full characters here. Even the parts that are similar still have differences. There is no way any of these accusations of copyright claims hold up.

At the end of the day, only monopoly power exhibits the traits you indicated that billionaires exhibit. In the US at least there is opportunity combine good and services from others to a greater whole product and that is what these companies do. Ideas alone are useless but execution of ideas is what these billionaires have.

Is windscreen the name for windshields in EU or something?

None of the prompts in the suit filed by the NYT work at all for completing sentences after trying to do it. I don't know what version of ChatGPT they were on, maybe the bing web based one, that literally does browse the web for you?

The headline of this article makes it appear like 23 is in the wrong but it's not so clear. The article indicates passwords were "Brute Forced" which is not just a generic leak of passwords. Brute Force attacks should be a thing of the past due to login limits and time out. A user might still use an extremely common password that can be guessed within 10 guesses anyways though. Given that the data 'stolen' on the non-hacked users is not actual DNA data, but rather just relation and profile data, then this seems all blown out of proportion for lawsuits. 23andme seems to be in the right here.