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Malpractice insurance is less than 1% of revenue for all medical specialties except the one that is dangerous and used routinely.


It annoys me, too, that people think only chatbots wrote intelligent prose.


He bought Twitter to restore free speech.


He had to bought twitter because he was legaly bind after he said too much stuff.

He then leveraged his buy as a propaganda platform.


There are 2 axes: the second is authoritarian-libertarian.


The Internet is anonymous so that bigots don't know the gender of the poster, bro.


This is the exasperating part about learning to speak Spanish using a textbook; you must guess the grammar rules because the textbook won't tell you. So, you use the English rule and hope and pray that it is the same in Spanish, and you'll be right the majority of the time but often wrong. Spanish textbooks written 100 years ago tell you the grammar rules and are more useful than recent textbooks.


While interesting, I rarely found knowing grammar rules beyond some very basic ones to help all that much for learning to speak a language, compared to language exposure and speaking practice.


I would be very surprised if there was even a single natural language with a complete grammar that actually describes the spoken language. It's all just conventions. Lots of people confuse common patterns with rules.


I’ve noticed this too. Any idea why modern language books get this so wrong?


I call it theft when the government steals money from people without kids to enrich parents.


Government is not the solution, government is the problem. There is no such thing as a healthy functioning regulatory body - they all regulate too much and some should not exist. Don't call your legislator because the most dangerous words in the English language are, "I'm from the goevrnment and I'm here to help."


Nothing is 100%. Unrestrained capitalism is just as bad as unrestrained government. Balance is important.

The system you exist in today is heavily regulated. Perhaps over-regulated. But you don't want to live in an unregulated chaos.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jungle


At my state college in the 80's, most dorms and showers were unisex but I never saw anyone naked outside my dorm room.


This bubble is caused by excess competition. There are 4 large companies who believe that a large new market is being created so each is investing large amounts without any evidence that there will be a single winner that dominates the future market. None of these companies has anything remotely resembling a monopoly except for Amazon in online retail.


Google: search, chrome, youtube

Microsoft: desktop software

Meta: social media

Maybe on some technical definitions of "monopoly" these aren't monopolies, but nothing remotely resembling a monopoly? come on maan


Monopolies being bad for free markets is a simplification. Substantial control over the market would be more accurate description of the issue.


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