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> Sometimes I think there’s a ton of theatre in modern medicine.

It's a free market, baby!

> There is a balance of interests.

Literally what? If this isn't the meaningless bullshit it sounds like, I will be stunned.

> We aren't going to see state or federal elections flooded with corporate votes.

What makes you so confident that things are going to change?

The title is perfectly fine. It's literally a Delaware bill. I don't know what world you're living in, but it's not the same one as me.

Recalls the legendary Parisan lamp post photographer Charles Marville https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Marville

I am regularly astounded by the depth, breadth, and usability of https://marxists.org.

Good catch lol

> The phrase "spiraling downwards" is common for something falling out of control, and is the correct usage here in terms of a degree's value. But can something also "spiral upwards"?

Absolutely, especially in economics. The cost of American college degrees is a great example, or the cost of American real estate. Both are rising and quite literally out of control.

> I wonder now if "stupidity" as a phenomenon is JUST social signalling to demonstrate group association...

I considered myself stupid when I came to this realization years ago. I recall thinking "why didn't my parents teach me how to be stupid to fit in?" Well, better late than never? The realization had some pretty significant effects on my life. It has enabled me to sympathize with people on a whole new level. It has brought me much closer to my family and made me better in all of my personal relationships, but at the same time it has made me feel so much more alone than I ever felt before.

Sure, and this is for the range of distances most common for desktop computer users.

I'm guessing it's due to the influence of the TV market on the digital display industry. TV users don't care for >4k, which could make manufacturing >4k more difficult. It's only a guess, and not a very educated one either.

Great comment. I just bought a new Dell 6K display and I'm struggling to imagine a purpose for 8k, but it's incredible that we have the technology to drive that.

I don't have a definite reference for anything between 185 and 217, but it is a big difference visually. Somewhere in that range, the pixels disappear at a reasonable viewing distance.

Yeah, for TVs that sounds right, but not for desktop displays. I wonder if desktop display pixel density is only stagnated because the TV industry has so much influence on the momentum and the TV industry thinks 4k is good enough.

I agree 4k is enough for TVs, but not for computer displays. 27"@4k still looks pretty bad on a desktop display. For desktop display, 220 ppi (27"@5k or 32"@6k) is perfect.

I think desktops need at least >200.

I think there is actually a pretty common consensus that returns diminish at ~220 ppi, i.e. what Apple calls "Retina."

Content over 4k is readily available and even cheap to produce, but most of the good stuff is still being produced in 4k, so why is that???

I should have been more specific about pixel density. TVs have very low pixel density. I've updated my comment for more clarity about this.

It's amazing that pixel density has been stagnant since 2014, when the first 5k TV (low ppi) and 5k desktop displays (>200 ppi) were released. It's 2023 now and it still takes a kidney to get 5k >200 ppi, and we only recently got the 6k >200 ppi option for 2 kidneys. Pixel density, however, is stagnant.

I expect the industry realizes 6k is basically the stopping point so they're intentionally approaching it very slowly.

Edit: Updated with ppi specs to draw focus to pixel density of desktop displays.

Historically and culturally, the west is absolutely a meaningful entity.

Benefits aren't always clear. How old are you?

This doesn't answer the question at all.

> Ultimately you have to take their word that it works as well as described.

Compared with what other options?

Mullvad does not support port forwarding. You can try to defend it all you want, but if someone needs port forwarding and your alternative does not support port forwarding then you need to find another alternative or your point is moot.

I reached the same conclusion within approximately 1 week of first learning about UML.

Google might make your resume look better, but jokes don't work like that.

> Look at the opioid epidemic for a recent US example.

For anyone with even passing familiarity with the US opioid crisis, it sounds absurd to suggest it was a cause of societal problems rather than a symptom of them.

If I'm not mistaken, the Ford Lightning EV pickup truck has only been available through direct sales online ordering.

> You'd think there would be some whistleblowers after all of these years...

I wouldn't think so. In a society so rife with obvious scams everywhere you look, at every level in public and private sector orgs, it would be patently idiotic to trash your own career on account of a dishonest restaurant review operation.

I wish we lived in a world where such bravery were meaningfully valued, but we don't. For any might-be whistleblowers, this reality has been made painfully clear in the time since the Snowden leaks nearly a decade ago, during which nothing has changed.

This is why I don't use Obsidian. Without giving root to an aggregate of random git repos, the most important features are very subpar. I have no idea what I would even do with a fancy star graph or whatever it is, and VS Code has much better search.

Edit: Also, why is the search bar for searching all notes so buried, requiring so much effort to open? Is that because it works so poorly?