It’s an amazing butterfly effect - how something seemingly small - Angus Deyton doing hookers and blow - led to Boris Johnson’s popularity on a panel show which led to his London mayorship and antics which endeared him enough to be able to swing enough votes during Brexit to sway one way or another.
But I also find it odd that Johnson became a guest host a few episodes after Deyton was kicked off in 2002. Was Johnson's adulterous nature not known at the time? Johnson's cocaine stories were, I think, 2005 (on the show itself), 2007, and 2019, and he hosted again in 2003, 2005, and 2006, at least the last of those should not have happened on the basis of the argument used against Deyton.
Sorry missing something here as a non Americana person. Why should someone have to understand and negotiate co-pay, or having to chose more efficient pharmacies and reimbursement rates when they just want the pharma that like keeps them alive?
I know that is the talking point, but that is not my lived experience. I have been on 5 regular meds for chronic conditions and I currently pay less than $25/mo with my insurance plan. Twelve years ago I did a 18 month stint doing freelance work with no health insurance and paid about the same.
Those same 5 meds are probably free in most EU countries and even some south american ones. It could also be given for free in the US at a fraction of the total spending but that would impact the GDP too much.
Making some assumptions here about mobility, access/ability to drive, and of course financial circumstances. All of which effect older people.
Another comment mentions pharmaceutical deliveries, common in my country abut then I have 3/4 pharmacies in a 1-2 mile radius and they are either cheap or free. Not sure of the availability or costs in the US
I often joke that social media or even just the comments section is the great filter of the Fermi paradox. As time passes it feels depressingly less of a joke.
“No matter how long you live in Japan… “ bit more like even if you are born in Japan with a non-Japanese heritage you will never be Japanese.
There are people born in Japan, raised in Japan that aren’t considered ok Japanese. Some don’t consider themselves Japanese because that’s the cultural norm.
Many other people in other countries would consider themselves a citizen of that country if born there. Japan is different.
Parents don't even have to be divorced to be a latchkey - I was one, being raised in an Eastern Europe city with both parents working and no grandparents readily available.
Not saying it’s good or anything but RM used to provided a kind of peg for pushing mail through the letterbox, not sure if its still supplied. I believe has some sort of record of which addresses have suspect animals on the walk.
Pretty much no one is arguing the world is going to end soon. Putting your own interpretation onto arguments. Mostly people are arguing the world is heading into huge sociological, logistical, political,scientific, immigration challenges and god knows what else kinds of problems through climate change.
Sticking your head in the ground and going la la la not happening, it’ll be ok, pretending people are suggesting the end of the world when they aren’t isn’t going to help and that is what people are protesting about.
I’d like to think we’d come up with solutions because I think there is some hope,but comments like this make me lose hope as I think it shows people with no hope or vision for change and improvement.
Pretty much all religions have some belief that the material world will come to an end. The Wikipedia article has details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eschatology
I think religions are worldviews that appeal to universal human needs. If they all converge on some variation of Doomsday, that says something about human nature.
We atheists have to fill this need in other ways. When I was young it was nuclear war, after the Cold War it's been mostly environmental disaster. Now AI is coming up as a new candidate.
You're right that no one serious implies the literal death of every single human. A big enough disaster fills the need well enough.
This is of course just my personal speculation. I can't prove it, and have been wrong many times before.
We have come up with solutions though. The solution is see what happens and deal with it as it comes, while using what time we have left to try and climb further up the tech tree so that we have more technological ability to deal with it as it comes. It's a far better solution than the tyranny of the mediocrity of government bureaucracy people are pushing as the alternate.
It’s the same logic as saying, “I played russian roulette 5 times, I will win the 6th time as well”.
Without an understanding of why it worked in the past, there is statistically no reason to believe it will work again.
Also, you can read human history as a record of societal collapse. Sure they recovered, it took sometimes hundreds of years for the history we know of. Since we talking climate and it may take hundreds if not thousands of years to stabilise again, one could argue, this is the scale of collapse we’re looking at. Humans could very well survive, but I wouldn’t call returning to the stone age something we should strive for…
Yeah sure this is the reason, also the iOS market is too insignificant to bother with apparently making a native app. Having it work for that minor platform called ios does make it a bit easier to work on that tiny platform called Vision Pro.
