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If you keep your quality of life stagnant, then you don’t (generally) have to work harder.

If you want access to the cutting edge medicine, electronics, and other “new” stuff, then you do have to keep running on the treadmill.

Although, things like natural disasters and wars can shake things up.

Presumably somewhere in the links below, although I doubt the accuracy of the claims.

https://www.openplans.org/how-for-hire-autonomous-vehicles-i...

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e71380706dc865d40a6f...

Succession in monarchies is not a transition of power comparable to a democratic vote changing leaders every few years.

No. "Realtor" is a trademarked term for a member of the National Association of Realtors. Real estate agents are licensed by state governments, but prices for real estate agents are not legislated by state governments.

If this is the 2024 settlement that you are referring to, it did not say anything about the price a Realtor can charge:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burnett_v._National_Associatio...

The cooperative compensation rule has been eliminated as a result of the settlement. Seller's agents are no longer required to offer compensation to buyer's agents when listing a home for sale on a Realtor-owned multiple listing service. In addition, Realtors acting as buyer's agents must enter into contracts with buyers before touring any homes, allowing buyers to negotiate how much they will pay their buyer's agent.

Your comment got me thinking how youtube videos are a bad place to get any information that is not showing how to do a hands on activity.

One should assume the outcome of one's case in court is at least partially, if not heavily, influenced by one's political (influential-ness) standing.

You should share your crystal ball that tells you the future so you can help leaders accurately predict changes in supply and demand curves so that they can make better policy choices.

There are two kinds of people in the world. Criminals, and criminals with plausible deniability.

When I was younger, I would have thought that, but now I have trouble distinguishing nationalism and white supremacism when I see enthusiastic usage of flags/pledges.

The guy that was murdered was not the CEO of UNH, he had a boss. There is 1 head giving orders, and it was not the guy that was murdered. Kind of funny if title inflation got him murdered in error.

That is because the problem was never the sub 3% profit margin or non profit insurance companies (in the case of Kaiser and many others).

The problem has always been pharmaceutical prices, liability costs, and inadequate supply of healthcare.

The government does not want to decrease the price of medicine by funding trials so medicine is in the public domain and cheaper, the government does not want to increase the number of matriculating doctors and bring down their time/money/stress costs, and the government does not want to enact tort reform so every step of the healthcare chain is spending inordinate amounts of time and money to prevent litigation.

In the US, you should always be double checking what your provider (or guidelines or whatever) is telling you to ensure that the information is maximizing your benefit instead of minimizing their liability.

It made no sense that he targeted an underling instead of UNH’s head honcho.

Crack open some Wikipedia and learn about how there were at least 2-3 independents as part of the 60 votes, who often did not vote with Democrats. See the myriad compromises that had to be made for healthcare reform to pass so that the ACA could become reality, including nixing the “public” option due to some of those aforementioned independents.

Tons of people and bots are saying insane things all the time. It is your choice to pay attention to insane things, or to ignore them and pay attention to the (presumably reputable) numbers.

I don’t watch commercials to know what is typical, but I just have experience that video media with lots of cuts is generally low quality and a sign to turn it off.

Needs more cuts.

Most videos might not make much of a difference today. However, in the future, perhaps Meta or Alphabet or Apple can offer a service that does facial recognition and provides a pervert/abuser score on who they are looking at via a heads up display on the glasses.

None, but for actual communication by lay people, it cost a ton of money for audio and video calls by having to pay their phone service provider a lot, or calling cards, or whatever.

Whatsapp provides tremendous utility. I remember paying far more “economic tax” before Whatsapp to communicate, with basically anyone in the world.

Facebook Marketplace also provides me with quite a bit utility.

Same can be said about what is going on in bedrooms

I don’t understand, people have the right to record their own bedrooms.

And I don't think random people filming everything in bars/restaurants/night-clubs is a price I'm willing to pay just to make it easier to prosecute some crazies or drunken catcallers

But it is the price others are willing to pay. See how popular in car cameras are for taxi drivers, both for men and women. Or simply dash cams to prevent being caught in a costly litigation, with myriad accounts of intentional fraud disproven by video evidence.

It’s why calls are record for “quality assurance purposes”. People don’t expect that to not be recorded, simply because the cost to record came down a long time ago, but now the cost to record video has also come down.

Based on the numerous accounts of women being abused and police misconduct only prosecuted because it was caught on camera (and even then, not really), none of the things you bring up have worked.

But not anything is worth litigating. The kids with a lemonade stand on the corner in my neighborhood have a monopoly on that corner.

Video media sellers are dime a dozen these days, and the barrier to entry for selling video media is basically none. Warner brothers and paramount are nowhere near the only business to buy and watch media, and it affects almost no buyers negatively if they merge.

Is there a better way to modulate others’ behavior?

Before, when it was he said, she said, it was always tenuous for the person with less power to pursue the issue. Now, they can finally access consequences for people violating their freedoms.

People run a fowl when they keep large amounts in their processor account instead of doing free nightly sweeps.

Bird law in this country is not governed by reason.

with even more devastating effects due to the very bad ratio of retirees to workers.

But with great effects on reducing carbon emissions and other waste products in the environment.

Which is funny because regardless of whether or not those states succeed in blocking the merger, those legacy video entertainment businesses will become irrelevant whether they are one business or two, due to the fierce competition from TikTok/Instagram/Reddit/Youtube/Whatsapp/computers/anything on the internet in general.

It's probably the most inconsequential merger, from a consumer standpoint.

Official blessings come from government officials (such as those working at the offices of the Food and Drug Administration), not pharma companies.

Pharma companies have to apply for official blessings, just the same as universities would have to.

However, taxpayers do not want to spend money on expensive trials to prove efficacy.

All when you can dry a leaf and use it as-is.

With no evidence of efficacy that the aforementioned expensive years of testing/trials provide.

Remove the phones and the problem will remain, which is people’s desire to consume detrimental content, or content in detrimental amounts.

Before phones/computers/internet, it was garbage on television channels. Propaganda on 24/7 “news” channels, “reality” tv shows, etc.

Technically, could be negated if enough people who are projected to consume above a certain amount over the course of their lifetimes are killed.