AMA only attempts to solve half of the problem with medical care in the US. Before it access to medical care was gated through insurance and many people (especially children, who are worthless in the capitalist system) were uninsured and therefore had no access to medical care.

Providing access as Obamacare does kind of works, but only by making a Faustian bargain with insurance companies: they are given carte blanche to extract wealth from the population bad and only have to provide the barest fig leaf of medical care.

So…the ACA is bad, but better than what came before.

It shows the evolution of the empire.

At some point the need for casus belli disappears and then the wars of pure domination begin.

I found Delicious in Dungeon to be charming.

Germany was worried about a two front war, with Russia slowly getting ready to help Serbians on the east. They decided to try for a knock-out attack against France by going through Belgium. They made it shockingly close to Paris, before their efforts stalled.

You do realize that Iraq and Iran are not the same country, right?

The universe includes everything. As such it would include the higher being.

Nature was perfectly fine with the earth having only single celled life for billions of years. Nature will stumble along with or without humans until the planet gets too hot for liquid water.

Sending humans to Mars is evil.

It is impossible to have people anywhere without gazillions of microbes. Once humans land on Mars we’ve at the very least corrupted any evidence of life, and possibly destroyed an independent genesis of life.

Since all life on earth comes from a single progenitor, this is both an incalculable loss of potential knowledge, and also a greater extinction than all earth extinctions combined.

I propose a moratorium for say 200 years or so, or at least until we’ve explored more than a few square kilometers in detail.

Definitely. Generational divide is another tool of capital to reduce solidarity of the working class.

This is amazing. Thank you!

Back in the late 1990s and early 2000s we started to be able to use WiFi on laptops and connect to the Internet with some mobility.

Almost everyone had the fantasy of working from the beach or their garden in the sun.

It turns out that sitting down trying to read a screen in direct sunlight for hours sucks ass, which everyone who tried it discovered before moving back indoors.