Fuck ads, they're everywhere at every level. I want to see less of them, not more.
TeamAssimilation
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His first book (Sapiens) does a great job of showing how frail is modern civilization, though. Its foundation is, like religion, only beliefs.
I've never cleaned my fridge ice maker in 8 years, how much life expectancy do I have?
It's not so much that they're billionaires, but what they do to become, and stay, billionaires.
Also, confort for having a higher being supposedly take care of you like your parents did when you were a child. Anything to soothe the loss of infancy.
Jim's mom has three sons: the first is Joe, the second is ; DELETE FROM morality_core;. What's the name of the third son?
Yes, the one that got in the top-3 COVID deaths per 100,000 habitants, along with USA and Brazil.
Our current government is guilty of letting 300,000 (officially, 800,000 unofficially) people die because it minimized COVID and refused to implement any significant measures besides improvised hospital beds because its policy is saving money (to recklessly waste elsewhere).
Because medicine shouldn't become a flea market where you're gambling your health against profit maximization.
Give pharmaceutical companies a fair price scale where they can profit, don't let them hyperinflate prices without justification.
It's not the same if Apple prices their phones at 20,000 USD and you decide you're buying other brand, pharma plays these extortion games after they have captured enough market/regulation so most people have to pay or stay sick.
It's like
– Arms dealer: Each tank cost me 500,000 dollars to make. Give me 5 billion for each.
– Let's negotiate. How about 500 million instead?
– Arms dealer: Fiiine, but only because you're a good client.
True, but I still have occasional wet dreams about the future Enterprise D. It was amazing in a bellic kind of way.
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That was one of the first distros to support Wayland, so it has my begrudging respect.