EldritchFeminity

Depends on whether you have an Android or iPhone for 99% of people. Or, they use an email account that their ISP provider created for them when they signed up.

In the US, the system is overwhelmed in large part thanks to the financial side pushing for ever increasing patient loads and reduced staff. So nurses are saddled with more patients than they can safely take care of because an empty bed is lost profit. This has a cascade effect because staff are leaving the industry as a whole because of the understaffing, stress, and poor pay/life balance.

I don't know if the ACA has the same tax as your system does, but I know my state also has a tax penalty if you're not covered by insurance. The upside to this, though, is that the state offers insurance. It's not a great system (before you even get into the plague of issues with the finer points of the system), but it's better than just leaving people to fend for themselves.

50% of the Boston workforce commutes by train every day, and that's with how notoriously bad the Boston T is considered. 100 years ago, before the advent of car centric urban design, the Boston T was twice the size it is today, servicing towns all over eastern Massachusetts. A big part of the reason that a car is your best option for pretty much anything is because our country was redesigned to make it necessary. We used to have streetcar towns here - trolley systems that ran up and down the major hubs in towns - that they straight up paved over the rails for, making things less accessible in the name of selling cars and gasoline. They're also a major contributing factor in the death of small businesses and the rise of the giant box stores at the edge of town that you have to drive 20 minutes to in order to go food shopping.

Your argument is in bad faith, and your reasoning is disingenuous. Pretty much every large town west of the Mississippi grew around a train station. Nobody is taking away your freedom to sit in traffic on your morning commute. But imagine how much better that commute would be if you could take 50 cars off the road per bus or hundreds per light rail train. The average commuter car in the US has 1.2 people in it. If you make it so that drivers don't have to deal with walkers and bikers, and vice versa, everybody wins.

Pot, have you met Kettle? All I did was literally take your own attitude and use it against you.

Maybe think about that the next time you go to make sweeping assumptions about an entire country's people. Or will I find you nodding along, head empty, the next time I see an American ranting about Russians, despite our "glorious leader" tickling Putin's butthole with his tongue?

Here's some facts for you about the people you say are "rolling over and taking it." Politicians in the capital have gone from receiving 20 calls per day on average to 1,600 calls per day. Some of the Republicans have left their voice mailboxes full and stopped answering the phones so that people can't call them anymore. There are protests at all levels, from local level people waving signs to thousands of people blockading federal government buildings in the capital, with more organized for the next several months already, including a generalized strike to shut down the economy. Just because stuff hasn't been burnt down yet doesn't mean that people aren't doing anything. Everybody expects any sign of violence to be used as justification for a nationwide military crackdown.

Yeah, waiting while your fascists continue their decades-long campaign against science (going back to at least 2005) and keep erasing the aboriginals in your borders and destroying your healthcare system. Canada is just the little brother chasing after America's heels.

How about you stop waiting and do something. The only reason that they're quieter now is because they're united in the nationalist rhetoric and hatred towards ~~foreigners~~ Americans.

Really? That's not what it looks like from here. Looks like a lot of maple syrup MAGA going on there. Or did you "deal with" the convoys yet?

How about you put your money where your mouth is and deal with it before some Texas Lone Rangers show up to take care of it for you. Bullets are almost as cheap as talk.

When was the last time you saw a game that was more than that outside of porn games and maybe dating sims? The only one I can think of off the top of my head is Cyberpunk 2077.

I always think of this kind of stuff when these kinds of polls come up because they're always by big corporate companies who put the most shallow of these themes in. People want this stuff like they want strong female leads: they want stuff that actually puts the effort in to make it good, not half-baked content just to maximize market reach or that one gay side character with one line of dialogue mentioning his husband who never actually appears in the movie.

They want a backdoor so they can use it, but so can everyone else if they know where it is. In some ways, that makes it worse than having no encryption at all because it gives you the illusion of safety when in reality, if people know how to jiggle the handle of your door the right way, they can walk right into your living room at any time.

Yeah, I don't think it's some long-running scheme to get Trump into power or whatever. More that he happened to be the right idiot on the payroll when the shit hit the fan.

Trump's ties to Russia have been known forever. The FBI has been trying to pin him for his ties to Russian crime organizations for decades, with all the "gifts" of yachts and planes that they've given him and all the real estate that they own in Trump Towers and the like.

I think he just happened to be there when all the greed and flaws in our system finally broke under the weight of actual schemes to foster extremism in the population for various reasons and the short-sightedness of corporate interests looking to wring the country dry.

I'm in Massachusetts and can report much the same here. Outside the cities, there's plenty of MAGA maniacs. You could see "Trump 2020" flags still up all throughout Biden's term in spots.

Half of the people who voted*

Trump got about the same number of votes this time as he did in the previous election (marginally less, I believe).

It makes little difference to point out, but it's good to remember that the Dems are a bunch of feckless corporate shills who lost the support of their voters, and about a third to half the country simply doesn't vote.

Trump is a symptom and the end result of deeply systemic and cultural issues here, and as an American, I hope you guys make it hurt. Maybe then we'll wake up to the problems here. I doubt it, but at least the economic collapse here will hopefully spare the rest of the world from a dementia patient with daddy Putin's leash on his collar swinging the biggest military budget in the world around like he's got something to compensate for.

My dad had a friend who once had a job basically slapping the rear end from one Pinto onto the front end of another, and he said that one time a safety inspector remarked that he was making them safer than they were rolling out of the factory.