Yes

I realize you know this, but what you describe is a dangerously incorrect assumption by non-technical people. I would agree with you to the extent there's no point to local apps that are basically just a webpage. We are not most people, though, and most people prefer to use the Facebook app over a mobile browser. Why? Precisely because they want seamless access to local resources - Camera, microphone, gallery, whatever. Even if FB asked every single time, users would obediently click "approve" without even reading what's being asked for.

More to the point - Some people believe the Earth is flat. They're wrong and nobody should be suing Big Globe to protect fools from reality.

Look, absolutely Zuck Facebook with a red-hot pitchfork, but this the dumbest reason ever. Nobody's "confused" about whether posting an image requires access to your images. The first time you open it, it very bluntly asks for permission to do X, Y, and Z. What else is it supposed to do if it needs those permissions? Ask about one then close and refuse to run for 24 hours before asking for the next permission? Great, a week later and you'll be in!

I'm by no stretch an "America rah rah!" guy, and don't even use any Meta products; but this is just another example of increasingly irrelevant Euro satellites' local leadership pissing and moaning over an American company giving people more-or-less what they want, with no viable home-grown alternative.

Conflating end of life care with basic healthcare is a mistake. We all die, and we could spend almost infinite resources at the end to hang on just a few more days. That's a legitimate - but separate - discussion from whether or not we can guarantee everyone gets their annual checkup and the occasional illness or injury fixed.

Outside that, supply can (with some regulatory reform) expand arbitrarily to meet demand. If we need more doctors/nurses/pharmacists/etc, pay for the tuition and watch people line up to enroll. If we need more drugs (in the "supply" sense), stop letting pharmaceutical companies abuse the patent system ("make it and make enough of it or lose it"). DME is merely a manufacturing issue encumbered by, again, our insane patent system. It's really all that simple.

When people colloquially say spy they mean asset. Nitpicking the difference is how influence operations work to weaken democracies

Not a crypto bro at all, but I can explain part of what happened: crypto became mainstream, and when it became mainstream, it started acting like any other investment. In this case, a risky investment. The technical term is financialization. We've seen this before. For example, real estate was somewhat decoupled from the financial markets, then REITs became common, and with that, real estate started acting more like other investments.

Looking again, I think you've lost track of the thread.
My point was that if you wanted to subdue the population by denying them vaccines, measles would be a silly place to invest your effort.

Yeah, but compare this with other vaccines, like mumps or tetanus or polio. Those made a huge difference

Measles is a very poor way to achieve that end. When I was growing up there was no measles vaccine, and nearly everybody did quite well. ... Yeah, not everybody. But it's not going to have an effect on the population except perhaps of the American Indians and the Polynesians. (I think only some of the Polynesians had ancestries free of measles, but I'm pretty sure some did.)

You're confusing things. There's nothing stopping a fascist from also being a socialist (and conversely).

That doesn't work for everything. It works for transmissible diseases. Most of the expensive stuff is something else. One example is cancer.

OTOH, the US health care system is one of the more expensive systems in the world with sub-optimal results. This is (partially) because sick people can't really negotiate. I still remember trying to dial a phone with a broken hand so I could get the insurance company to approve treatment.

Then why is the US is the only 1st world nation struggling with this?

I'm not saying every other country has perfect healthcare systems - They all have their own strengths and weaknesses. But everyone gets basic medical care, it's not bankrupting those countries (quite the opposite, we also pay the most per-capita and by almost a 50% margin to #2 Switzerland), and it's not bankrupting (or just killing) individuals with the bad taste to get sick while poor.

Yes, that is the kind that of attitude that accepts this kind of failure and normalizes it. Makes it part of institutional culture.

Contrast with organizations with well defined CAPA and executive visibility into the process where everyone is religious about making sure It Never Happens Again

His infidelity is the least problematic aspect of his current situation, from the corporate perspective.

Notice he remained CEO for over two weeks after NYT broke the story? He stepped down only after it came out he also slept with a subordinate. What does that tell us?

Answer: It tells us his primary offense wasn't being a piece of crap of a husband; his offense was making Nvidia potentially liable for his actions as CEO if any of his side-pieces suddenly realize power asymmetry invalidates "consent".

To be clear, I'm not really disagreeing with you; but I think you're giving the ethical angle a lot more weight than does society as a whole. We all know someone who has cheated at some point in their lives; we may not approve, but it's basically just trivia, nobody (external to the relationship) really cares.

Let's hope rhey know where the Hams are who have all kinds of thin wire hung up in their trees.

And they stay out of their private airspace.