I didn’t know we need to regulate Elon Musk’s platforms. Now I do!

Is it so that there is usually no competition for health insurance providers in the US? I don’t know that system too well.

Do you think of the fire department as “some sort of public insurance”?

Yes, it can be viewed as such! Things can be viewed from many angles. Another one that’re not called insurance but kinda are, are flat prices for things whose price actually varies. Like electricity prices: they’re often based on a spot price in an power exchange, so if you as a consumer choose to get a flat price, you’re essentially paying a premium.

Insurance is a pretty great industry and good fit for markets if only there’s healthy competition. If there’s no fertile ground for competition, it’s one signal that perhaps the public sector should handle that one.

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Yes, exactly. Healthcare via taxation can be viewed as a some sort of public insurance. The problem there is that the level of resources needed has to be decided manually instead of letting the markets handle it “magically”.

What is confusing to me is why would it matter to Putin if Trump lied here? The Russian mode of government is lying and deception after all.

Does he actually think that his voters want Ukraine to lose? Oh fuck, do his voters actually want Ukraine to lose?

Where do you find Insurance like this?

Literally all the insurances are like this. If yours isn’t, why are you paying for it?

I broke my arm last year here in Finland. I think the whole bill for an overnight stay and surgery and all the medications was… around 50 euros.

Finland is famously having major problems with public healthcare currently because the costs versus clients relation is too low.

Healthcare provided publically can be thought of as nonprofit insurance.

If you live long enough, it will be costly.

This is why if you start paying for a healthcare insurance at an older age, your premiums will be higher. They are pretty good with the math there, and it’s not even very advanced math.

Pooling everybody’s money so that the ones who are unfortunate get money to help with their situation definitely is a product. Just because you don’t understand something doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.

France can probably already give them all the channel logs decrypted, like Russia has been able to since June 19, 2020. It took them too long to get there, but at least they finally did.

Just keep Pip away from any cellphones. He goes crazy with them.

Turnips are awesome. We get fresh ones where I live like 2 weeks a year :-|

Why is it that we have to talk about these things when there’s an economic downturn? Even Keynes thought that boom is the time to save money, recession the time to spend it.

I don’t remember any government doing cutbacks or delaying spending during an economic boom. It’s always so that when money is flowing in, spending is adjusted up. And then when the inevitable recession comes, suddenly we don’t have any money and are forced into austerity.

Is this entirely a symptom of democracy? Because saving is not a popular thing to do?

Funnily enough, this how he conveyed that message:

Ok, so logically GOP presidential candidate shooting are also. Thoughts & prayers & get over it and all that.

I wonder how many bytes were spent sending these three words to my screen.

Does one side disregarding the Geneva convention mean the other is free to do so?

I mean yeah if both conventions revolve around the same thing, like for instance if the same hospital is both a sanctuary for civilians but also being used by soldiers. A more general whataboutism is another thing.