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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 Who benefits from this? (Score 1) 103

Who benefits? the travellers certainly won't because the boarding passes could be obtained via e-checkin anyway and you would still need to go through the luggage checkin process.

How will e-passports save time? you will still need to go through the immigration clearance. Why not just print a QR code or a barcode on the visas such that the immigration clearance system can easily pickup the details about the visa from their database?

Comment Meta has been mangling access to news worldwide (Score 1) 258

I think a lot of discussion around "fact checking" that Meta has been doing completely misses the point that Meta has been actively manipulating news worldwide and not just in the US.

For instance, in India, FB has been actively censoring news that is inconvenient to the central government.
https://www.indiatvnews.com/ne...

Facebook has also been allowing advertising calling for genocide in India:
https://www.theguardian.com/wo...

Google and Youtube are also actively engaged in suppressing independent journalism in India.
https://reutersinstitute.polit...

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