An authoritarian, controlled economy will fail. We don’t need any more examples to understand why.

I don’t know.

I like that we can fill in that blank for ourselves. It makes the reader think about their own perspective.

The rational subset of opposition to Sanders was that he was going to leverage the full authoritarian powers of the Executive to force further socialization of healthcare and education. The long term accumulation of power in the Executive office is why the office of President is now much more important than it once was.

The vast majority of people think voting will change the paradigm, don’t understand their electoral system, and absolutely do not want to learn. It has nothing to do with if they hate the industry or not.

We need to circulate this.

Yep. And, now there’s one more spreading the word.

Ken Klippenstein.

To the Feds, I’ll keep this short, because I do respect what you do for our country. To save you a lengthy investigation, I state plainly that I wasn’t working with anyone. This was fairly trivial: some elementary social engineering, basic CAD, a lot of patience. The spiral notebook, if present, has some straggling notes and To Do lists that illuminate the gist of it. My tech is pretty locked down because I work in engineering so probably not much info there. I do apologize for any strife of traumas but it had to be done. Frankly, these parasites simply had it coming. A reminder: the US has the #1 most expensive healthcare system in the world, yet we rank roughly #42 in life expectancy. United is the [indecipherable] largest company in the US by market cap, behind only Apple, Google, Walmart. It has grown and grown, but as our life expectancy? No the reality is, these [indecipherable] have simply gotten too powerful, and they continue to abuse our country for immense profit because the American public has allwed them to get away with it. Obviously the problem is more complex, but I do not have space, and frankly I do not pretend to be the most qualified person to lay out the full argument. But many have illuminated the corruption and greed (e.g.: Rosenthal, Moore), decades ago and the problems simply remain. It is not an issue of awareness at this point, but clearly power games at play. Evidently I am the first to face it with such brutal honesty.

I’ve some entirely unrelated facts to share. Just facts. No editorial.

Andrew Witty is the chief executive officer of UnitedHealth Group, the parent corporation of UnitedHealthcare.

Stephen J. Hemsley is the chairman of the board of UnitedHealth Group and has a net worth of at least $340.37 million.

David Cordani is the chief executive officer, president, and chairman of Cigna

Sarah London is the chief executive officer of Centene Corporation

David Joyner is the chief executive officer and president of CVS Health

Jim Rechtin is the chief executive officer and president of Humana

Gail Koziara Boudreaux is the chief executive officer and president of Elevance Health

All that’s changed is that there are far more neoliberal parents who have a new scapegoat for their chronic behaviors. Children chose to trust a chatbots online rather than the real humans in front of them. The root cause isn’t the existence of a chatbot. It’s that the parents are inadequately parenting. And, it’s difficult to blame them because our nation is a dumpster fire fueled by human suffering.

Way ahead of you.

It’s too late. They’ve already made backups. And, even little old me has been scraping for the proliteriat for nearly a decade. If you’re one that regrets not deleting your posts long ago, then please learn your lesson and stop posting on Facebook.

If Google’s not the final say in driver QA then I think it’s fantastic. But, the last phone that I’ve rooted was an S5. I don’t know what’s up today.

Samsung does indeed have a bunch of bloat. I think we’ve both made well-informed and reasoned choices, picked our poison. We likely share core ideology because we both would like to choose a fairphone.

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My wife and I’d Pixels were rock solid until one day a Google update came along and killed them with an unrecoverable loss of critical functionality. The only way I’d recommend one of these is if one heavily values having the newest thing for cheap, or for the wide angle camera.

That’s not a question. Your loss.

Coincidentally, that’s the almost exactly the longest life we had in our family. Then, one day my wife performed an update which immediately killed the screen. My Pixel failure was far more frustrating: After a system update I learned that if the screen wasn’t clean enough on post-update reboot, Google disabled multi-touch forever.

Consider that an S23 FE (one model behind the flagship and with lesser CPU) is 70-75% the cost of a Pixel 9. The only differences that most users would notice is: The Samsung has a telephoto and Google an ultrawide; The Samsung won’t unexpectedly die due to a software issue.

All strawman.

The shopping mall is not legally obligated to eject the Nazi.

But, you think government should force action upon the private entity because the majority disagrees with Nazis.

That’s exactly the opposite of why the 1st Amendment exists. Everyone else learned this when they studied why someone can burn the flag or why the ACLU supports Satanists.

I’ve no want for your nonsense. And, you do a disservice to others by repeating it. Go learn about quasi public spaces.

You keep explaining the letter of the law, poorly, to someone that understands both the law and justice system much better than yourself.

That’s not the definition of the word public in this context.

There you go again with the letter over the spirit. You’d have us replace judges with computers.

and do Nazi salutes in a shopping mall and sue them when security throws you out and you’ll understand the difference.

They mall doesn’t have to tresspass a person that’s doing Nazi salutes. If you’d the faintest concept of the ideology of justice as implemented in the US you’d understand the difference.