Thank again, Japan is the size of California. This is rural Japan not a suberb. And even many of the actual suberbs in California don’t have fiber to the home.

This is about monopolies running rampant and misuse of public money not about the technical feasibility.

Edit: These companies literally bought back their own stock to inflate their market cap instead of building out the infrastructure we funded.

We determined this would be less expensive than the current system in the USA. More than half the jobs in “health care” are insurance related. We would completely eliminate that overhead. Insurance analysts could be retrained for useful work like nursing.

A single fraud investigator could monitor 100 doctors or more. Instead of each insurance claim needing to be reviewed by the practicing physician and an insurance company doctor we could have investigators watch for patterns and cite doctors who are overprescribing.

We had some knowledgeable people on the team so I think we were likely correct.

In my future leaders program we decided it would be better not to have benefits tied to income at all. Everyone gets the benefit. No cliffs. No need to ween anyone off. Like the roads these benefits could be part of the social contract. This creates an actual safety net and removes the most negative incentives.

Please accept a giant thank you for the clear and helpful answer. To me he seems genuinely centrist and in support of “the status quo but slightly better”. I can certainly see how accepting donations from big finance while talking about regulating finance can feel disingenuous. Trying to support Israel as a strategic ally while also denouncing genocide is an impossible line to walk and hate watching him try but he does seem to be genuine in his sad attempt.

I like AOC, Bernie Sanders, Kat Abughazaleh, and Zohran Mamdani more than Buttigieg but I love how he speaks and I still feel like I could happily support him.

Interesting. I think Buttigieg is one of the most genuine people in politics. Do you recall the moment you first noticed him lacking the quality?

True. Plenty of able-bodied hard working people are going without while others lounge about spending their trust fund checks. System is broken. System is also working as designed. :(

Nah but if I’m away from home for a week or a month then I’m living somewhere else.

I haven’t been homeless for a long time though. That sucks and I see the number off people living in cars and tents growing. :(

Nobody should suffer due to their ability. At the same time lacking luxuries like coffee, nice dinners, and fun trips is not suffering. I agree, everyone deserves some luxury in their life but to equate lack of luxury to suffering tells me you are totally out of touch.

I live in my home except when I travel. I suppose there are more and more people without homes every day.

The same voice as Saddam Hussein from previous seasons. lol

I keep jellyfin up to date in a container and forward tcp/8920 on my router to the container. Easy and plenty secure. People in this thread are wildly overthinking it.

It pretty valuable even if you don’t change it. He can see what his competitors are being paid. He can correlate it with Twitter’s user data to tie political enemies to physical addresses and more.

Not that they won’t corrupt it. They will almost certainly alter it to their own ends as well.

Denying reality doesn’t work very well here.

If the nation crumbles what do they have control over? If all the systems fail even the resources they hoard within a few miles of themselves and their guards are at risk.

The enemy of my enemy something something…

How does doubling wealth matter if the systems that give their wealth any value crumble?

Palestinian leaders begged US citizens to vote for Kamala Harris. Sometimes the lesser of two evils is the correct choice.

I donated last night. The Christmas spirit moved me

If we take control of our money and our government we could do that ALL THE TIME.

Well put.

I’m in the USA and it’s totally easy not to use Amazon. The first step is buying less shit though and people are pretty addicted to buying crap they don’t need.