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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • The more I hear about other countries health systems the more I love the NHS. For all its faults I cannot emphasize enough about how relieving it is to never need to worry about not affording health care. I had a prolonged stint in the hospital a year or so back, more than a month, from seeing my GP, having a blood test, going to A&E, the actual stay and the copious amounts of medication I’ve been on since (and likely will be for life) I am no more out of pocket than if I’d not had a thing wrong with me.


  • I’m not sure Google can be blamed for people using ad blockers - but from that perspective actively preventing ad blockers would be the “right” thing to do. Unless you want them to ban creators securing in video sponsor deals, I’m not sure what you want Google to do here or how that’s a scam. YouTube premium removes Google’s ads, I don’t think it claims to do anything else. Do Google make claims about creators getting paid everything they generate? Was anyone under that impression? The platform does need to be paid for and the revenue generated through some content creators is subsidising others.

    YouTube isn’t perfect by any stretch, I don’t enjoy ads any more than anyone else, but calling it a scam just seems very far removed from reality.






  • It’s one piece of superior tech for sure, and there’s 4x as many of them as the next comparable non-US fighter, along with the F-22s, the AWACS, the drones, the fact all this shit talks to each other, the abundance of carrier platforms to put them wherever, the missiles, the list goes on. The US military is a fucking beast of a thing, if y’all turned your minds to healthcare or something that’s not being the ultimate deathbringer you could probably build a utopia.