If that was the case the medicine and health industry all over the world would be negative, have no profit. But this is not what happens I can't think of a country where the US or foreign health industry don't make a profit.

What is happening is not that you are subsidizing the rest of the world, you are simply getting bled out for additional profit over the normal profit the health industry does everywhere else. There is zero subsidizing here. You are simply getting fucked.

https://pubs.aip.org/aip/adv/a...

I would not expect open system to have a certain direction for entropy, when he consider only the information genome of a being or the information of a memory stick, there is nothing to say the entropy should increase in that system. What the second law says is that in a fully closed system (or the universe) the entropy of the system can only increase. When he compare that to information system with his infodynamic he takes open systems anyway, and find the entropy must be equal or decrease, i can only say "duhhh". If the information entropy was always increasing for , say, a hdd, then it would be a very very poor information system. Am I missing something ?

Feed a LLM any creative task which include only ROUND objects, and they will only spit round stuff. Feed it all art until renaissance included, and it will be utterly unable to come up with synthetic cubism. LLM can only spit out what they were given based on weight and complex matrix calculations and a few math algorithm. They are utterly unable to come up with something NOT based on the premise objects or combination thereof.

Distraction from other boondoggle, distraction from certain bad political decision (e.g. see abortion), distraction from inflation and general structural issues with US society, and simply with on congress side to use power, and others I may have missed. There is plenty of reason which are ALL very , shall we say, terrestrial.

If other civ are as dumb as us, they will do the same error, then it is too late , and most countries, including the richest, will be too busy trying to survive the upheaval to send probe outside of the solar system. We don't see any civ colonizing/sending probe all over the milky way, because all civ fall into a similar dumb issue. We have found the great trap/selector : damaging enough your own environment so much that it becomes the sole survival concern of the civilization.

https://harpers.org/archive/20...

" For recurring bills, we have "e-bills", where a company can send charges to your account - but they don't get paid automatically. Instead, you log in to your e-banking, see the list of e-bills, and approve or reject them."

The auto payment is quite the norm for many form of regular payment in Germany. e.g. see the difference between Lastschrift / Dauerauftrag for example in Germany : you don't have to approve every month the payment.

Rights are not granted by government

Actually , they are. Without a government enforcing those right, through a legislative and judicial framework, you have ZERO right : this becomes an anarchy of the strongest enforcing their wish over the weakest. Look at all places in the world where the government fails, or disappear : the inhabitant then have zero rights , with the local warlord doping whatever he wants from torture, to killing, to slavery and worst.

Your right are only as good as far as the government enforce them. In fact there is quite a nice counter example to "inherence" of rights even in the US , you may have heard of it. Slavery. Until the government stepped in with more amendment , certain persons of African ancestry had zero rights, were simply sold like cattle, raped, killed (slave code law were very rarely enforced), and force worked at the will of the owner. No Matter how you see it , where was the inherent right of the slaves ? nowhere because without any body enforcing those inherent rights, they had NONE. And only when the government intervened, changed the rules, and enforced them even through a bloody civil war , only then slaves started getting rights and stop being slave (and those right were later trampled by little evil villain from the south by inventing vagrant law and penal labor to resend many freed black into enforced slavery , and there was red lining and all sort of racist fuckery but that's another debate).

TL;DR : without government to protect rights, you have none , only those you can enforce yourself onto other, which for most people is zero in lawless area.

If I recall correctly my orbital mechanic physic stuff, applying a downward force as you suggest, only changes the vector direction slightly and can even be contraproductive if you are for example after the apogee , you would accelerate the satellite debris, thus making their orbit higher, and longer in space. What you need is to decelerate the satellite to make its decay quicker - so probably you would need to explode in contrary direction from its current orbit - not downward. Also explosion are rarely that clean so chance anyway you would send debris in all sort of direction. Even if your idea was working - you would do an uncontrolled decay of the debris - including potentially over your own cities.

Anyway killing satellite such ways are bad idea all the way around. Kessler Syndrom is no joke.

Maybe your US ISP should buy the billing software of EU ISP. /s

Either there is less serial killer... Or the great filter of "police inquiries, arrest" removed the one which were sloppy. 51% murder are solved on average. And that's an average so there are places in the US with higher rate of unsolved murder. And that's not counting all the vagrant population for which there is a relatively high probability if they disappear nobody is reporting it, and if it is reported, the police will shrug it - no bodies no problem.

https://www.pewresearch.org/sh...
68% don't want targeted ads

https://www.businessnewsdaily....
"Back in 2017, a study designed to explore how consumers cope with online behavioral advertising, published in the International Journal of Advertising and shared by Taylor & Francis Online, found that many consumers are worried about the risks to their privacy that come with personalized ads. âoeThe perception of risk is much stronger than the perception of benefit,â the authorâ(TM)s study said in a statement."

"The vast majority want targeted ads" is quite refuted IMO. There are even more that way, and you can see the various article showing customer wariness and the ad agency trying to convince customer targeted ads is A-OK.

The incredible majority of the population vastly prefers targeted ads

The vast majority of the population want NO ads. Care to point to a study , not done by advertiser, showing the vast majority of the population want targeted ads ? The way I see it, speaking to my friend and colleague, NONE of us want targeted ads as they mostly break our privacy.

While the research DOES say that some food are digested later in the tract thus the available energy is not fully released by the body, but rather used by the gut microbiome, it does say nothing about quantity. Ultimately you gain weight because you eat more than your body require to maintain weight, and store the excess as fat. I *did* live through that going from ~84 kg (my "normal" weight without too much fat) to ~96 kg (main reason was me eating too much and stopping doing sport due to depression). Now that I am doing sport (not that much 4 days a week and 30-40 minutes daily maximum - some week I even only go once per week) again and slightly changed diet to limit my calorie intake, paying attention to not go above board, especially stopping ALL soda , guess what ? I lost 5 Kg in 6 Months. I am below 91 Kg now.

Ultimately while there are SOME subtlety about calorie and how they are absorbed "Eat less, move more" is ultimately correct. For the average person No metabolism problem whatsoever will force you to eat the equivalent of 3000 cal per day. Exercise is an issue, I saw myself how difficult it is to pick up, but watching calorie in , yes that's an issue most people ignore and gain loooooot of weight from.

The Fermi paradox. Now it seems like why we don't see anybody else : everybody reach a point where the short term drive to consume , reproduce, and enjoy life goes over the long term drive to inquire about the universe. Result : in a hundred year all those endeavor like go into space will take a backseat to "save our infrastructure and feed our people, fight off invasion to steal our resources" which will be IMO the next century themes.