Blackberry insisted on a 3-row thumboard on the face of the device. I want a 5-row slider, like Samsung’s Relay.

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There are a number of potential fixes.

Universal healthcare is one. Completely separate employment from healthcare.

Restore the tax structure we had in our most prosperous decade: 91% top-tier rate. Nobody ever paid that rate; nobody will ever pay that rate. That rate compels businesses to spend $10,000 on “business expenses” rather than keep $900 and pay Uncle Sam $9100. They get to keep $10,000 worth of tangible goods and services, purchased on the market. Or, $900 cash, that they can convert into financial instruments.

We could assign all healthcare bills to the richest person in the country. When we take enough from Musk that Bezos catches up, they can split the bill between them. When they get down to Zuck, they split it three ways. Nobody gets to be the richest. The competition switches from dollars to number of lives saved.

Or, we could roll out the guillotines again. Behead the most problematic tranche of capitalists (as evidenced by their degree of wealth). Repeat as necessary.

The capitalist fucks are swinging the whip. The 25-hour limit is the whip they are swinging. Both are a problem.

We need to just make the richest person in the country financially responsible for all healthcare.

When Musk falls to #2, he can share the load with Bezos. When Bezos and Musk tie him for third, Zuck gets to join the party. Nobody gets to be the richest American. At that point, they get to brag about how many lives they are responsible for saving instead of how much damage they’ve done to the rest of us.

Welp, the midterms are finally going to be all about universal healthcare.

Yo ho, all together…

Corn cares not from whence the shit posts

FTFY. “Whence” means “from what origin”.

Ninety percent of the time it has no bearing on anything the doctor will be doing

I would tend to agree with you if that were the case. But, I would ask you to quantify your claim.

According to ACEP, 48 in 100 ER patients will undergo simple radiograph procedures (some form of X-rays), while 27 in 100 will undergo CT imaging. Both pose significant dangers to a fetus, if present.

Based on that data, at least 48% to 75% of the time, the question does, indeed, have bearing on something the doctor will be doing. Is that sufficiently high enough to prioritize determining whether there is a second patient in the room?

There’s plenty of time later on in the exam

You’re assuming that she’s not going to quickly lose consciousness due to shock or blood loss. That is not a particularly safe assumption.

I would say this is not universal. For some, the written word is the native “tongue”, conveying the actual, intended meaning. The written word allows the speaker the opportunity to evaluate and revise their language to match their intent, and the listener the opportunity to re-evaluate previously transmitted thoughts.

The oral variant is dependent on the real-time aptitude of the speaker to articulate their thoughts and message, and for the listener to extract that meaning from the same. For those of us handicapped in these traits, the spoken word is the poor facsimile for actual (written) communication.

I think “whence” is a near-perfect example. “Whence” means “from what origin”.

The word is used nearly exclusively in the phrase “from whence it came”, or “from (from what origin) it came”

I would call that “fraud”. In declaring themselves “gynecologists”, they are effectively advertising that they are qualified and willing to perform routine gynecological procedures. Their refusal to do so constitutes a fraud on patients seeking such services.

“Neonatology”, “Histology”, “Reproductive physiology” and “Reproductive biology” are comparable specialty fields wherein the practitioner would not be expected to perform elective abortions.

Additionally, if they would prefer to call themselves “general practitioners”, I would be far more lenient in allowing them to define their own scope of practice.

Fair Ok

FTFY.

I’m a gynecologist. My religion says I can’t do an abortion.

I would say that if “you” won’t perform an abortion, “you” are not actually a gynecologist. Go study and practice urology, or proctology, or gastroenterology, or oncology, or neurology, or cardiology, or dermatology, or any other field where “you” will not be called upon to perform a simple, routine procedure.

The crank stations? Or their users?

My old PC locks up every 4 to 48 hours. It would make a terrible NAS.

Your own fault for living west of your workplace.

Perfectly good billionaires and hundred millionaires all over the place, and someone’s taking pot shots at guardsmen?

Unbelievable.

You’re literally arguing that merely BECUSE the code needs safety devices it is therefore unsafe

“Unsafe” is not the correct term. “Unsafe” implies an absolute condition. The UK system is not “unsafe”, and I have not argued that it is “unsafe”.

“Less safe” is the more accurate description. “Less safe” implies a relative condition. The UK system is “safe enough”, even though their household wiring - the wiring between the breaker and the outlet - is significantly “less safe” than household wiring around the world.

A fault between the breaker and the outlet in most of the world develops 2000-4000 watts before a breaker can be expected to trip. Japan’s 20A @ 100V is on the lower end; EU’s 16A @ 240V is on the higher end of that scale. 2000-4000 watts arcing at a faulty terminal. 2000-4000 watts that can only be dissipated by various potentially flammable building materials around the faulty device.

In the UK, it’s not 2000-4000. It’s 7200 watts. A similar fault can deliver substantially more energy to those flammable building materials, increasing the risk of fire.

North America mitigates such risks in its 7200 watt (60A @ 120V, 30A @ 240V) circuits by minimizing the number of connections; the number of places where a fault can potentially develop. We don’t allow multiple outlets: these circuits must be dedicated to a single, special-purpose outlet only. Europe, Japan, and the rest of the world have similar requirements for such circuits. The UK goes ahead and daisychains their 7200W circuits throughout the home.

By that metric, the household wiring is, indeed, “less safe” than competing circuits around the world. By that metric, UK household circuits are, indeed, substandard, even before they eschew simple straightforward branch topology for rings, which introduce a variety of complex failure modes that can easily overload household wiring.

The “less safe” condition of UK wiring necessitates additional protections at and after the outlet. The safety measures employed in the rest of the world are inadequate to mitigate the dangers posed by the UK’s 7200 watt household circuits.