This is retarded.

1. It isn't for profit healthcare that is the problem, it's THIRD PARTY PAY.
2. I don't use third party pay, ever, for healthcare. I've been insured nonstop for over 30 years, and NEVER ONCE has my insurer paid my doctor.
3. Even when I've had emergencies, I still called around, negotiated a fair cash up front rate, paid cash up front, and billed it to my insurer. My cash up front rate was sometimes below any co-pay negotiated with my insurer, lol.

I just recently had some elective surgery that would have cost me about $2000 on my annual deductible, but I was able to cash pay a negotiated rate of $400 including a follow-up "free". I submitted the $400 to my insurer and they reimbursed me.

Third party insurance exists because YOU VOTERS demanded the HMO Act of the 1970s, which tied health care to employment, and then employers outsourced it to third parties.

Health care is remarkably cheap in the US (cash pay, negotiated) and I don't have to wait months to see a doctor when I call and say I am cash pay. They bump me up fast.

Because they are on the ground.

That's outright false.

Can you stack them high enough that they get into where the wind actually is? And if so, why not just put one windmill where the wind is?

So make them use more horizontal space?

Obsolete and dead?

VAWTs make sense only on the tops of lonely hills.

Oh no a single symbol before a variable or array which makes it clear what it is and how it's being used, how will you ever read that code? bububububu

I think Moses needed it more.

On one hand, sure, it is that. On the other, it's still cultural appropriation, and the fact that it's using "apache" to refer to something which is "patchy" isn't positive either.

I don't understand why vertical-axis wind turbines are not more common: they take less horizontal space, you can potentially stack shorter pieces as high as you want (and use guy lines for stability), have various heights spin at various rates, etc... I'm no expert so I guess they have good reason for this race to gigantism, but it seems a bit like the dinosaurs...

Yes, but the airplane can't take things to their destinations. They have to deliver them to an airport, then the things need to be transported by truck.

The only part of a perl script that necessarily looks like line noise is a perlexp. But regexps look like that no matter what language you use. Just don't write your perl that way and it won't look like that. It takes a lot of lines to do what a complex regexp does without one.

You haven't seen the meat maxi-pads yet?

They don't even let you move at a full adult male walking pace? I can go 5 mph without trouble.

[I bike a lot (no ebike though)]. More accidents with ebike, sure that's a given: they are heavier so in a collision will do more damage; many are unlocked and can go to 80kph and that's scary as shit on a footpath, and they are often driven by people who are not used to biking (old people with poor reflexes, mothers with 2 kids on the back seat...). As for banning those e-fatbikes, they are still way better than motorbikes (slower and quieter), so maybe just restrict them to roads.

He came by Honda. Though he did not speak of it, he came of his own Accord.

So what?

This is bullshit. EVs reach CO2 parity well before 100,000 miles.

Yes, that's a valid thing to say. But EVs have lower lifetime emissions than ICEVs because an ICE is so pathetically inefficient. Yeah 40% is possible for some engines some of the time, but more of the time they are around 25%.

That's the weird beauty of hallucination. It's hallucinating both the explanation and the code. It just turns out that there's no part of the explanation that we can't interpret with small changes in it, while there are parts of the code which must be just so to achieve the desired result.

You're not wrong, but there is nobody anywhere on the planet who cares at all about video container formats who is not familiar with MKV.