Got the process backwards. The early flavoring was designed by finding something with a strong scent or flavor and then labeling it as whatever they thought it was closest to or would sell best.
Less “finally, this tastes like banana” and more “I bet no one will complain if I call this banana”.
A big part of that is that other countries view to medical staff as a fixed cost. They’re not reflected in the “bill”, much like how you don’t get billed by the fire department. They’re simply paid to be there, and costs for treatment are more reflective of the cost of the treatment.
It’s complicated, because it’s American healthcare.
The hospital charges $200k. The insurance agrees to pay a negotiated discounted rate of $100k. $75k goes to the various insurance plans of the doctors and hospital. $15k goes to the people providing care and materials costs (everything is itemized, so then $50 aspirin you see is because it includes the time of the pharmacy tech who got the order, entered it into the system and checked for interactions, the tech who filled the order, the pharmacist who had to sign off on it, and the nurse who carried it to the patient.). $10k goes to the hospital as profit.
The insurance then makes the patient pay their $5000 deductible, which is what you pay before the insurance you pay for pays for anything, then the patient pays their $2500 coinsurance, which is what you pay after the insurance you pay for starts to pay for things but they only pay for half. After that the insurance covers it. The “perk” is that having met your deductible and coinsurance costs you likely have to pay little or nothing for care for the rest of the calendar year, making January to most financially responsible time to have a medical emergency.
In terms of actual “cost”, I think the biggest difference is the itemization of everything. Universal healthcare is intrinsically more cost efficient, but it still has to pay doctors and nurses. When that cost is viewed as part of the cost of running a hospital as opposed to part of the service “charged” to the patient it can bring the “list price” down a lot. You end up with the price of a broken arm being the cost to treat a broken arm, not then cost to treat a broken arm and have everyone involved show up and your share of building the hospital room, and the cost of the janitor cleaning the room.
It’s time entirely likely they never actually paid anything out of their own pocket. Situations like this are awfully common, so hospitals pretty easily mark a bill as in legal dispute and move on while it gets sorted.
Part of the horrible cycle is that bills are high to cover costs while bills are disputed, which makes them more likely to be disputed.
It’s less to avoid situations like this and more to avoid the stresses of travel and having something come up in a situation where medical care might not be available, or leaving you far away from your usual care team, or in a situation where you have a very fresh baby and you live 5000 miles away, which can make for a very rough trip home or a difficult recovery in a faraway place.
It’s actually the same in the US. Misery increases the birthrate.
Our birthrate is higher because we traditionally have had a higher immigration rate from countries with higher birthrates.
With some products, that’s entirely intentional. The goal is to convince you to keep thinking it was a good idea so you say you like your car in consumer satisfaction surveys that work as better sales drivers since people tend to do a degree of research on them, and to keep people from trying to return the product or make complaints.
But that’s typically things like “cars”, and they target you very precisely because they know exactly who you are, having just sold you a car.
The humidifier is that they see you bought a “home air treatment device - consumer grade - basic”, which puts points in you being in the category of people who want to improve their home air quality. And you know what the most common purchase by that category of people is? Humidifiers!
As big and horrifying as the models are, they can’t track everything and rely on putting people into consumer groups, and labeling products by relevance to groups and then tracking them that way.
So even though you’re probably in the group because you just bought the thing that most people buy to put them in the group, it’s still statistically the thing someone in the group is most likely to buy.
All that to say, it’s a fucking sham and you get 95% of the results by matching ads to products instead of people, and it costs a fraction to do it that way.
I see you’ve never gotten sand in a brushless motor, or seen how most of those robots move outside of a choreographed scene, or thought about their battery capacity. :)
All that aside, I think they were talking the morality of it.
10/10 I would rather fight one of those than a human.
Humans are quite durable, adaptive, and agile.
I twisted my ankle once doing a task I’d never done before. I adjusted my footing and carried on. Our current humanoid robots cannot adjust to something like that. They’re just not designed in a way that makes them adaptable to changing physical layout.
I might be squishy, but I only have two places that are vulnerable to sand and they come with covers that usually work pretty well, and one of them is mostly redundant.
… Do you think it rains enough for everyone to have drinking water now?
Secondly, air pollution can render rain unhealthy to drink. Aggressive environmental regulation, the type that people are currently staunchly trying to remove, are what made it so everyone stopped talking about acid rain.
Thirdly, climate change alters the growth of plants. The growth of plants mediates soil conditions, and soil conditions control water evaporation, drainage, and where rain falls. For an example, consider the dust bowl.
Finally…
As long as we keep from polluting the fresh water too much it’ll continue to be there.
That’s exactly one of the major concerns!
We’ve been polluting ground water sources for a while, and there’s also a phenomenon where over pumping a ground water source can shift the water table and expose it to ground pollution that it was previously not exposed to.
You’re taking what they said a fair bit further than they actually said. They said a class a day for technology literacy, and you reacted like they advocated for nothing except advanced computing.
Teaching tech literacy is part of the basics.
You can say it should be learned on their own time, but why not say that of drawing and color theory? Math, history, civics?
Some parts of primary and secondary education are about teaching you how to live in the society you’ll be living in. Technology is part of that.
I mean, I get that. As I said, it’s the surprise that confuses me. I understand “ugh, why are we putting profit in _____”. It’s that someone would go “whoah, hold on, people are running daycares for money?”
I’m honestly slightly confused by this response. Any business type will end up with some that do well, open more locations and get some manner of central office. It’ll inevitably be some manner of corporation because that just how we structure any business beyond small. The daycare is where the kids go and the office their handles local stuff like contact forms and medical notes, and corporate office handles billing and such.
Like, yeah it’s weird for something as personal as childcare to be a franchise, but no one gets too worked up about corporate pharmacies and that’s literally trusting a stranger giving you a bottle of drugs to eat not to hand you the poison they keep a few feet over.
It’s weird and kinda dystopian, but I’m confused by the shock.
It’s actually a real thing.
Since taxes are paid when an asset is sold, not when it goes up in value, your net worth goes up with no tax liability change. When you die, the purchase price for tax purposes resets. Now the inheritor sells the assets. Since the sale price is essentially the same as the taxation price, there’s no taxes.
You’re borrowing today’s money against tomorrow’s value and taking the difference out of your death messing with taxes to free up the value.
From a financial perspective the time horizon for return doesn’t matter, only that the return is balanced against the time. From that perspective, the people giving the loan have no reason to really care since it makes them look good and they’ll at least not be working there when and if it goes wrong.
I’m assuming you’re ignorant. There was a supreme Court ruling that they don’t need probable cause, and can detain people based on skin color, and then the head of ice said “yes, we’re just stopping people who look Hispanic and if they can’t show proof of citizenship we assume they’re undocumented”.
invade via the mexican border
Dial down the racism there Willy, I’m already convinced. You don’t have to go all lugenpresse on me.
For visas: they aren’t waiting for expiration, but I was more referring to you going from “eesh, they could be better” to “they should have fucking expected to get locked in a cage without trial for invading our land, dirty mud bloods”.
Ah, I see you haven’t watched the video of the fucker walking in front of the car that was turning away from him, walking into the hood, then walking over out of danger and shooting her in the face several times.
I’m assuming you saw the video of them disarming that man, clearing the gun from the scene and then shooting him in the back several times?
It’s why all ice agents are trash in my book. Shut the agency down and deny them all pay. Fuckers get no sympathy.
If you have seen them, I honestly hope you never find joy in your sad little life you disgusting little troll.
… What do you think happened at Nuremberg that the Nuremberg special would be a bad thing? It was a trial.
When this all goes down I hope asshats like you get a fair fucking trial and your names are written in the history books as fucking assholes.
"Oh well, the law says that technically we can pen people up in chain link fenced enclosures without bedding, so that means that they deserve it. And that’s okay even without a trial, but because the cop though you looked too brown, because I’m okay with immigration arrests based on ethnicity. I’m also unwilling to address the contradiction of ‘crime gets a trial, but these criminals shouldn’t’ because of definitely not racist reasons. " - this is why you’re a fascist.
Remember, the SS was just enforcing the law to deal with a problematic population and people who wanted to “trans the kids”.
You backed down from visa overstay being something we should think about how we handle to “deserves being locked in an open air cage” in like… Zero time whatsoever.
What side is the side of tolerance and peace now?
Sure as shit ain’t the one defending shooting mothers in the face and locking children in cages.
you insulted me multiple times
You noticed? I’m shocked. I was so subtle. Maybe I was distracted by your talk of my execution.
No, it’s not a crime. The law is exceptionally clear: it’s a violation of the terms of the visa, not a crime.
If it were a crime they would be entitled to an individual trial by jury. So if you think it’s a crime, then ice is flagrantly violating their constitutional rights to a trial.
I don’t care that you don’t know what a concentration camp is. That doesn’t change what they are.
Comparison to a Nazi death camp only serves to make “open air cages without blankets, medicine or adequate hygiene” sound better by comparison.
fascist because that’s not what we are
I don’t think everyone who disagrees with me a fascist, but that doesn’t mean they don’t exist, nor does it mean you’re not a fascist either. Try reading what a fascist is, as opposed to thinking about how the word makes you feel.
what you’re seeing now isn’t similar in any way, Trump has followed every law
Read a book.
Speaking about execution, he would’ve executed you if he was the fascist dictator that you think he is
Wow. Fuck you with your death threats. I hope you get the Nuremberg special. Do you think Hitler was executing people for dissent right out the gate? Or did he build up to it?
Pro tip: “illegal” isn’t a description of a person. Most of the people being targeted haven’t committed a crime in any sense of the word. Entering the country legally and then having your visa revoked isn’t a crime. Most people in the country without visas entered legally. It’s why you see ice targeting citizenship exams and places where people go to renew their documents: it’s easier to fill your quota if you revoke the visa of someone following the rules. They’re not against illegal immigration, they’re just against immigration by brown people.
Second, you don’t know what a concentration camp is. What you described is a concentration camp and you just prefer the newspeak. They are being used for the detainment of large numbers of people who haven’t been convicted of a crime, purportedly of a single demographic and predominantly from one ethnic group. Thats what a concentration camp is.
Finally, why on earth would I respect them or you? Fuck you for bringing the Holocaust into this. It’s vastly more insulting to forget the lessons they died for than it is to draw a comparison to their killers.
The world would be a better place if the Germans had killed Hitler at the first hint of despotism, not sat around just because he was fairly elected.
Not to totally detract from the point of what you’re saying, which is totally correct, but… All of everything seems to keep stepping over that it’s not just influential on American music, but it is American music. That they keep framing parts of our culture as somehow not shows that it’s just racism.
Puerto Rico has been part of the US longer than Oklahoma, new Mexico, Arizona, Alaska, or Hawaii. Puerto Rican culture is more American than whatever weird nonsense they have in Oklahoma.
Eh, there’s the legal concept of someone being an agent of the company. It wasn’t typically expected to take orders, nor was it tied into the order system it seems.
In the cases where the deal had to be honored, the bot had the ability to actually generate and place an order, and that was one of the primary things it did. The two cases that come to mind are a car dealership and an airline, where you could use it to actually place a vehicle order ornto find and buy flights.
As agents of the business, if they make a preposterous deal you’re stuck with it.
A distinction can be made to stores where the person who comes up and offers to help you isn’t an agent of the business. They can use the sales computer to find the price, and they can look for a discount, but they can’t actually adjust the order price without a manager coming over to enter a code and do it.
In this case it sounds like someone did the equivalent of going to a best buy and talking to the person who helps you find the video games trying to get them to say something discount code-ish. Once they did, they said they wanted to redeem that coupon and threatened to sue.
It really hinges on if it was tied to the ordering system or not.
We can do both!