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Comment Re:Now deport Elon (Score 0) 229

How about deporting him for lying on his citizenship application?

He entered the US on a student visa, didn't enrol or undertake studies (the purpose behind being on a student visa) and focused on his start up instead.

Clear violation of his visa terms. But because he's famous with money and has been perceived as an entrepreneur he's been able to avoid the same consequences as other people who have violated similar visa terms, i.e. citizenship stripped (as it was fraudulently obtained) and deported.

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I have no dog in this race though as I'm not a US citizen, nor do I live in the US. In fact it's quite funny to see the US speed run an empire collapse. I just hope it happens without an all-out war outside US borders.

Comment Re: You know what... (Score 1) 375

I had kidney stones when I was living in the UK.

At just past midnight I went to A&E with excruciating pain in my abdomen.

Within 2 hours, I was in an MRI machine where they noticed a kidney stone blocking the ureter.

I was then scheduled for an ultrasonic procedure to break up the kidney stones to take place later that morning should my condition not improve.
Fortunately, my kidney stones dislodged themselves and my kidney was able to drain into the bladder and I was subsequently able to pass urine. The actual surgery for removal of my kidney stones took place later using a keyhole surgery.

Total cost of everything: £13 for a taxi in the middle of the night to get me to hospital.
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Several years later, I'm living in Australia,
Find my self with a nasty viral infection in my throat. After a couple of bouts of very strong oral antibiotics not improving my condition, my GP told me to go to a local hospital for treatment. I stayed overnight, with intravenous antibiotics, had a MRI while I was there. Discharged the following day having improved massively.

Total cost of everything: $0.00

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Funny how these examples of socialised medicine cost me nothing, and yet, both of my treatments involved same-day use of an MRI.

Comment Re:That sounds about right (Score 1) 167

Sounds like a French formal garden, not some American thing. It's also one of the less likely varieties you'll find here.

No, I'm going to say that it is very much an American thing. They have to lay the perfectly flat layer of perfectly green grass because otherwise the little dictators in the HOA will put a lien on their property and force a sale because the grass was 3mm too tall, or not green enough in the summer heat because it wasn't watered enough, despite massive droughts.

For some reason, the nation that likes to beat its chest about its perceived freedoms from the big scary Government, seems unnaturally eager to run towards the neighbourhood oppressive dictatorships that HOAs are. All because they're scared shitless of a local municipal government taking out the trash

Comment Re:Cool. (Score 1) 245

Gotta tell you, it's reasonable to accuse me of TDS -- I think that dude is the worst, and a wannabe genocidal fascist who seeks to end Democracy -- but even I'm sitting here going "yeah, that's actually a reasonable call, to eliminate the penny."

Comment Re: Low Hanging Fruit (Score 1) 72

A new shiny thing after cryptocurrency wound up as a commodity traded like so many others, and not the civilization-changing invention envisioned.

AI looks like it'll be hampered by power generation and delivery (or rather the lack thereof).

On the upside, there'll be ungodly amounts of money spent upgrading and expanding the power grid.

Comment Re: The AI voices are awful (Score 1) 51

For the Irish language course the recordings of native speakers were taken offline in 2023. The AI replacements are nonsensical.

This story is about AI generated courses, not voices, but my post was still (accidentally) on-topic: when they previously used AI to increase volume of content, they were ok with quality being thrown out the window.

The AI generated courses might be low quality, and the original (English) courses might also go downhill because the type of exercises they produce may now be restricted to the type of things that their AI is able to reorganise for other languages. E.g. it might go further in the direction of vocabulary memorisation.

Comment Re: I don't believe the number is only 5.7% (Score 1) 113

I think a better question is whether we are seeing capitalism's end game: concentration of wealth in the hands of so few they decide that it's in their interest to remove the governments power to regulate them. (As has been stated by more than a few national figures about deregulating to the point the US Federal government "can be drowned in a bathtub")

At which point the wealthy can simply assert the role they already hold: as our feudal lords. They hold all the means of production, all the means of information distribution.

They'll likely even have swarms of slaughter bots to enforce their will. What can the rest of us gonna do to stop them?

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