More and more these "excessive treatment" items are appearing, part of the big sell to save privatized care. All of it leads inevitably to denial of care by corporate interests, and an obligation to die. The "Fine by me, as long as you pay for it all yourself" attitude expressed as "cost savings" for care deemed fuitile by insurance industry bean counters. This is the documented reality of healthcare for a profit. In the long run, the 1% will buy their own, the rest will be given a bed in which to die, just do the responsible thing and don't wait too long, there is a long line.
I noticed a couple of errors in your post, so I went ahead and fixed them. Hope you don't mind.
You seem to misunderstand the alternatives here. People aren't choosing to die rather than live forever and colonize space. They are choosing to die rather than spend a decade or two lying in bed, shitting themselves, confused and frightened by a world they no longer have the cognitive ability to interpret, while they are given food and medication through a surgical hole in their stomach.
At least Apple makes some effort to provide a decent user experience. In contrast to the crap getting loaded on the Android phones, which is cynically made purely to fill space on the screen. It has the same mentality that almost completely overtook the Internet: give the suckers crap, take the money and run. It's "punch the monkey" all over again.
Can~t we just use a different symbol for contraction and possession? My keyboard has a few laying around. I~d like to see the tilde symbol put to good use. It even makes a kind of visual sense, and fits in well with it's numerical meaning. That way, "it's" can be unambiguously used for the possessive.
Yeah!
There is no need to setup straw man arguments to attack religious beliefs. The beliefs themselves are so obviously ridiculous as to make it unnecessary. I know many people I would classify as smart who profess a belief in an organized religion, and without exception they were all indoctrinated at a young age. When you look at any of the big religions from the outside without the benefit of that early indoctrination, they all look like so much mumbo jumbo. (With apologies to the devout believers in mumbo jumbo.)
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More and more these "excessive treatment" items are appearing, part of the big sell to save privatized care. All of it leads inevitably to denial of care by corporate interests, and an obligation to die. The "Fine by me, as long as you pay for it all yourself" attitude expressed as "cost savings" for care deemed fuitile by insurance industry bean counters. This is the documented reality of healthcare for a profit. In the long run, the 1% will buy their own, the rest will be given a bed in which to die, just do the responsible thing and don't wait too long, there is a long line.
I noticed a couple of errors in your post, so I went ahead and fixed them. Hope you don't mind.
You seem to misunderstand the alternatives here. People aren't choosing to die rather than live forever and colonize space. They are choosing to die rather than spend a decade or two lying in bed, shitting themselves, confused and frightened by a world they no longer have the cognitive ability to interpret, while they are given food and medication through a surgical hole in their stomach.
At least Apple makes some effort to provide a decent user experience. In contrast to the crap getting loaded on the Android phones, which is cynically made purely to fill space on the screen. It has the same mentality that almost completely overtook the Internet: give the suckers crap, take the money and run. It's "punch the monkey" all over again.
Can~t we just use a different symbol for contraction and possession? My keyboard has a few laying around. I~d like to see the tilde symbol put to good use. It even makes a kind of visual sense, and fits in well with it's numerical meaning. That way, "it's" can be unambiguously used for the possessive.
Yeah! There is no need to setup straw man arguments to attack religious beliefs. The beliefs themselves are so obviously ridiculous as to make it unnecessary. I know many people I would classify as smart who profess a belief in an organized religion, and without exception they were all indoctrinated at a young age. When you look at any of the big religions from the outside without the benefit of that early indoctrination, they all look like so much mumbo jumbo. (With apologies to the devout believers in mumbo jumbo.)