I agree with you in principle, but they won’t do it and you’re likely going to end up struggling. There are other payment plan options that I encourage you to research before you end up in more debt which you can’t offload. It’s fucked up, I know. And I’m sorry you’re having to decide between a payment or shelter. Obviously shelter comes first. But there might be other options to allow you to have both.
They basically use that “money” as collateral for low interest loans. So it impacts how much they can physically buy. It’s a good thing.
Paper waste is really something that was overstated in the early 2000s. Yes paper is made from trees. But trees are renewable compared to the silicon and carbon consumed in these electronic tags. It’s way more environmentally friendly to use paper.
Are we to judge simple supply and demand now? If they haven’t been smart enough to save for a disaster, then perhaps they deserve what they get. If they would rather die they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population. Bah. Humbug. A poor excuse for picking a man’s pocket every natural disaster.
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Just a reminder that during the pandemic these companies were given money to stay afloat and they immediately laid off the staff and have - apparently - neglected all meaningful maintenance.
The child is alive. He may get out of prison earlier than that. Not sure if it’s possible that he’d still be responsible for back pay of the alimony. No idea how that works.
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Yeah but the market sets the price. This is capitalism. If you want to change the price, don’t go there. Pick a cheaper clinic. There are plenty of hospitals. It’s up to the consumer to price shop, emergency or not. I’m sure the Mayo clinic is making razor thin margins.
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I had hoped 8 years ago that we might turn this ship around. I knew we wouldn’t be able to fix it, but I thought we’d make an effort.
Now I am just hoping I make enough money that my family can survive the bad times. I know that is not a very kind way to view the future, but I’m sure it’s going to come down to: can you afford the extra costs to survive this?
Food will cost more. Water will cost more. Land will cost more. Insurance will cost more.
It’s going to become very expensive to exist.
It was pretty fucking stupid to ask him those questions. In addition, being a member of the CCP isn’t as big of a deal as this senator is making it out to be. We aren’t living in McCarthyism are we? Are we afraid of ideas?
America is afraid of ideas though. We have a long history of banning ideas from within our borders. By way of example, ideological restrictions on naturalization. We basically didn’t allow people to become citizens if they believed in communism as a valid government structure.
If the CEO of TikTok was born in China and moved to Singapore (or America for that matter), does that preclude him from doing business with America? Why? Are we so insecure as a nation that we must ban an entire country from our internet activity?
I’ll be the first to admit that TikTok - and apps like it - are security vulnerabilities. However, this entire debate has nothing to do with national security. If it were, Meta or X would also be under fire for selling advertising/user data to foreign countries, no? Plenty of these social media companies have entire sectors of their organization providing APIs and SAAS solutions for consuming data. Twitter has something which is essentially a firehose of all tweets being posted in any country that match a search query of yours. Is that not a security risk? It comes with geo information, timestamps, hashtags, urls, etc.
If this is about security, focus on user protections. The EU has shown a lot of promise in this area. I was the first to say “you can’t moderate the internet”, but they’ve done it. If you’ve ever been to a country within the EU in the past 5 years, you’ll notice those “accept/deny cookie” popups are far less spammy and easier to deny. In addition, most companies I’ve worked for in America have adhered to GDPR standards.
I believe we should protect locations, names, birthdays, emails, phone numbers, addresses, etc. Data should be opt-in and not opt-out. Is this hard to mandate? Yes. Of course there are going to be bad actors. But laws should not be written to catch all criminals. They should be written to promote what our society values. Do we value privacy or not?
I’d be far more impressed with a senator questioning tech companies about their data protections and their willingness to agree to not sell user data. But I somehow doubt that’s going to happen in our Congress.
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