Here's what really tightens my jaws: if you take the average health care premium that you pay for employer-provided health care insurance and add that to the medicare / medicaid taxes, it probably comes out pretty even with what the medicare cost would be for single-payer healthcare.

It's not like private health insurance somehow gets massive discounts or something - Medicare sets reimbursement rates for procedures, so the care costs what the care costs. Hospitals love Medicare billing because they know what they're going to get, and they know they'll get it.

Private health insurance is a fucking leech attached to the money artery. How can anyone every expect an efficient health care system when you have profit-seeking entities in the middle of it, extracting money out of it while adding the only "value" of bureaucratic runaround and trying to dodge paying due to an "out of network" radiologist that you didn't choose and were not informed of looking at your x-ray in an in-network facility as listed on their own damn web site.

Their business model is to extract the most premiums they can, while paying out as little claims as they can. They exist to create inefficiency, and profit wildly for themselves. And we're all paying for it, for no reason at all.

I found your problem in understanding his statement: you are missing the very important context of the word "we".

Hint: "we" doesn't include you or me.

Now read it again and you'll understand perfectly.

Well then you better stop using any products that come in factory-built packaging like glass bottles and aluminum cans - that is unless the glass is hand blown and someone custom-rolled and welded that aluminum can together for you.

If not, then I guess you're secretly fine with not doing things by hand that robots are better at.

We've automated the manufacture of things before and the economy didn't collapse. Don't be such a chicken little.

The world needs people to operate ditch witches. Maybe they can influence some fiber up the hill past my place.

Because that doesn't allow you to be nearly as petty and petulant towards your even-more-petty-and-petulant global rival.

Yes, because suddenly everyone in the mineral extraction industry started listening to Greenpeace all of a sudden, but only on this one sector of minerals.

Or, and just hear me out for a second: the minerals that could be bought from China were cheaper than the minerals we were extracting and refining here in the US, and economics made the decision like it always does.

Which is more likely?

Moron.

It's very easy to not have NIMBYs and not have lawsuits when nobody in your country has any rights as far as the government is concerned.

Yes, China can move fast on things. That isn't necessarily a good thing.

A good media player has a setting for you to adjust audio latency for this.

Even some set top boxes have a calibration routine that allows you to adjust it. See: the 6-year old Nvidia Shield (2019)

Also, the hyperbole of "breaking inboxes" by sending a few hundred emails - what is this, 1993?

I'm sure their email server is more than capable of dealing with a few hundred thousand emails per day, and these assholes are just having a whinge that they someone made it easier to give electeds feedback about their stupid draconian crap that they justify "for the children" which may not even be technically feasible.

Sure. When you find something on this planet that is still in it's "natural state" after 200 years of human industrialization, let us know.

How many vehicles do you need at 100% for your emergency edge case?

In no way is it reasonable to have some asshole you've never heard of make a decision to cause hardware you bought and paid for stop working because they aren't interested in maintaining their service offering any more.

Anyone looking far enough to the horizon knows that if you start selling a product like this, you have to keep the service on until the last one leaves the world, or someone decides it's not worth maintaining any more and perfectly working hardware goes to the landfill.

Fuck Logitech for not making a final release opening the API so people can continue to use this perfectly good hardware with other frameworks, such as Home Assistant.

Or don't use scheduled charging, and then it's not a problem unless you don't plug it in?

WHAT A HARD SOLUTION.

So don't turn on scheduled charging, and then it charges the instant you plug it in.

You really love to make mountains out of mole hills.

... and service calls are an absolute bitch. They would either need to launch it with every spare they would ever need and the ability to recover from hardware failure with zero touch, or they're going to have >$100m servicing missions to replace hard drives and fans and shit.

It's fantastically stupid.