We do not have universal single-payer but we have a few very large government-run single-payer systems.
If you have an example of a country with a single program that has more effective outcomes for a population of similar makeup and size, that would be a useful comparison.
The US has not one but two of the largest single payer health insurance programs in the world.
Medicare alone has more people enrolled than any European country's single payer programs other than Germany (pop 83,294,633) and the UK (pop 67,736,802).
> For example, 15-20 years ago we had conservatives yelling video games are the devil and they need to be censored and some topics not even touched.
My memory of the 2003 to 2008 time frame is different.
I recall mainstream complaints about GTA 3, released 2001. Famously, Senator Clinton asked the FTC to investigate GTA 3 over the "hot coffee" mod in 2005.
There was also the 2005 California Law [0] that banned the sale of violent video games to minors.
Ahh, ok. I was under the impression that the vaccines were to prevent a severe reaction in those at risk due to age or comorbidities, which is why some areas gave priority to the elderly.
Are there places where herd immunity was achieved due to vaccination?
One legal reason is fuel economy regulations (CAFE standards) encourage car makers to make their cars large enough to be classified as "light trucks", leading to less stringent fuel economy standards.
A larger footprint also reduces the fuel economy standard, incentivizing larger vehicles.
> I don't think the other 22 states would be wild about that admission standard.
We have a well established process for asking states about this sort of thing, the US Congress. They don't seem to be wild about the minimum populous state standard, we should ask about the median populous state standard.
> I now designate daily subway rides for reading New York Times breaking news emails so that clients don’t find me in an anxiety-ridden state when they arrive for tutoring sessions.
"Intellectuals [are] virtually the most vulnerable of all to modern propaganda, for three reasons:
1) they absorb the largest amount of secondhand, unverifiable information;
2) they feel a compelling need to have an opinion on every important question of our time, and thus easily succumb to opinions offered to them by propaganda on all such indigestible pieces of information;
3) they consider themselves capable of 'judging for themselves'.
They literally need propaganda."
Konrad Kellen in the introduction of Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes by Jacques Ellul
There was a lot of discussion [0] of that point when the Model View Culture article was originally posted 7 years ago.
It's complicated, but the author of the piece seems to take issue with how the character set was designed by the language authorities the UTC delegated to.
> they don't have any intention to develop this software without a profit, then they shouldn't have positioned themselves as a free-and-open-source product in the first place.
If something satisfies the four freedoms [0], it is free software.
You can run the SSPL'd code, you can view the SSPL code, if you change the SSPL code then contribute back if you distribute your changes. If you run a service providing the SSPL code, contribute the management layer back as well.
It gets more code into the open, where's the disconnect?
If you have an example of a country with a single program that has more effective outcomes for a population of similar makeup and size, that would be a useful comparison.