The bar fits many many more people, some of whom you don’t already know!

https://www.wired.com/story/metadata-shows-the-dojs-raw-jeffrey-epstein-prison-video-was-likely-modified/

For most of the world’s population, things have significantly improved by almost every conceivable measure.

I strongly recommend Roslings book, Factfulness. The difference between how people think things have changed and what’s happened is wild.

Edit: Just saw the (US tag, sorry.)

Economist news podcast.

I don’t think everyone has to have read the original source material to enjoy something made from that material.

But if you’re going to complain about it being faithful to the source material? Naw, that’s in no way legit.

Which of those groups do you routinely lie to?

“Sorry date/group of friends/family/work function, we can’t eat here. I don’t want to scan a QR code.”

So far at least, I’ve found this much more charming than culture war bait.

But I understand how a TypeScript or Java dev could think that the difference between 1 and 4 bytes is negligible.

Shots fired.

Judging by how many people wear clothes made by children in sweatshops, I’d say the wants of the many seem to outweigh the needs of the few.

Canada… Depends what kind of visit really. I captain a few rec teams, so breaks or dislocations, we’ll go to emergency, get triaged and wait for a bit.

If it’s somwthing I’d like to get checked out but not urgent, I’ll schedule an appointment with my family dr, might take a week or 2?

For something sooner, I’ll go to one of the several walk in clinics nearby. Wait time really varies but generally pretty quick as long as I get there a little early.

Admittedly, a lot of taxes are misspent but a quarter of your income seems a bargain.

For example, I imagine getting to your jon would be really difficult without roads. Or a semi functional legal system that stops people from just robbing your business whenever they feel like it. Or a system that enforces contracts and property rights.

I’ve had a job where I didn’t pay taxes. It didn’t end well.

Hadn’t thought about it like that but really, if they want to boost profits more hospitals ought to have cigarettes in vending machines, bars in the waiting rooms and taco bell in the cafeterias.

The land of hopes and dreams.

Oh man, I figured that was most of the joke. Is everyone just like “huh, weird phrasing but I’ll roll with it?”

I just watched demolition man for the first time the other day, loved that and the future’s music.

Admittedly, most countries have wild plans; a family friend helped update Canada’s plans to counter attack America a few years back.