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I don't see the situation changing in the US anytime soon. In order for us to have single-payer healthcare, doctors would need to accept drastic pay cuts, pharma companies would get far less for drugs, and insurance companies would go out of business. None of that will happen. Instead we'll have more and more and more regulation until it just stops working.

Here in the USA, everyone is litigation crazy, so an enterprising lawyer would probably happily file a suit against the maker if someone was injured because of it.

> Yes but that's because the security footage didn't provide any actual information on the thief.

No, as he stated in the video, the police said it just wasn't worth their time.

I tend to view ownership as more transactional. Does ownership confer a shot-term and long-term benefit? Some of the biggest purchases in our lives turn out to be wasting assets: cars and houses. I'm happy to not own because those things are liabilities. I put my money into income-producing assets whenever I can: rental real estate, stock and bond funds, hard-money loans, etc.

I'd be more than happy to not own a car and just pay a monthly membership fee for a driverless car that will pick me up and take me wherever. I like renting my home because it offers maximum flexibility and I don't have to worry about a broken water heater, leaking roof, or getting in trouble for not shoveling the sidewalk.

> But why do FCC comments even matter?

They don't, and everyone knows it. But this involved a charged political issue, so people act upset.

Gotta love articles that consist of short-sentenced, one-sentence paragraphs.

Or separate regular Amazon from the marketplace so a user can search one or the other.

Today, everyone is in a group, and if that group is not your group, the other group is bad.

So what? Far more new jobs than that have been created.

I was simply providing numbers as a counterbalance to those that were weirdly lamenting that the tax cuts are responsible for job cuts, similarly without evidence.

> At no point was that ever insinuated.

Then when is the meaning of the parent comment?

> why are they doing the opposite of what the tax cuts were supposed to do?

I'm curious what news you're reading or consuming.

Wages are up 3.1% YoY (biggest increase in 10 years) and unemployment lowest since 1969: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/31/wages-and-salaries-jump-by-3...

2.7 Million more full-time jobs since January 1, when the tax cuts went into effect.

Are you claiming that there hasn't been any job growth since January 1?

Why aren't you asking this of all the comments in this parent? People seem to be blaming Verizon cutting 10,000 jobs on the tax cuts. Or claiming that jobs weren't created. Or that somehow the tax cuts were an economic negative. None of those things can be attributed to causation.

Full-time employment is up by 2.7 million since the tax cuts went into effect.

Michigan's unemployment is the lowest it's been since records have been kept: https://www.michigancapitolconfidential.com/21325

Or Signal, because it's not Facebook.

> * Starwood brands include: W Hotels, St. Regis, Sheraton Hotels & Resorts, Westin Hotels & Resorts, Element Hotels, Aloft Hotels, The Luxury Collection, Tribute Portfolio, Le Méridien Hotels & Resorts, Four Points by Sheraton and Design Hotels. Starwood branded timeshare properties are also included.

It mentions mixmaster and mixminion, but those projects seem to have died. I feel like they are needed more than ever.

> No tengo ni idea que estan diciendo por nada.

I feel this way about some Caribbean Spanish accents. I was recently in Havana and sometimes I felt like they weren't even speaking Spanish. I find Argentine Spanish pleasant to listen to.

Weird. My partner and I visit Paris annually for weeks at a time. I've had maybe one or two rude experiences that I can think of. Everyone else I've encountered has been pleasant.

Many states limit supply of MRI machines through a "certificate of need" program where you have to convince a regulatory body that you should be allowed to own one.

Man shooting up a baseball game of Republican congressmen while screaming "this is for healthcare!"

Puebla sin Fronteras, for one. Their name literally means no borders.

Apparently, if you decide to oppose someone and that person happens to be Jewish, then yes, you are now anti-semitic.

Or, you know, people can be genuinely against global centralization and not have anything to do with anti-semitism. In my view, the attempt at linking anti-globalist views to anti-semitism is just an ad hominem attack.

Sorta how 1 + 1 = 2 is oversimplified for laymen.

No it doesn't. And you've made my point perfectly.

Isn't it incredible how many "hot button" political issues go right back to this basic economic law? Healthcare, tuition, minimum wage, housing, etc. Econ 101. Supply and demand. But so many people hate the idea of supply and demand. They try and tweak around it and legislate like it doesn't exist, and things get more and more distorted.

I think both can be the case: legacy media is actively attacking online media lately. I've seen a rise is poorly-veiled anti-first amendment articles recently from places such as the New York Times and the New Yorker. So I have no doubt legacy media feels very threatened. But at the same time, Facebook is fucking evil.

So we have Twitter taking down accounts at the behest of a political party?

As though it's a binary choice. Washington DC metro, or the boonies.