Apropos of nothing, I use SMS more than all the other instant messengers put together. It suits my purposes fine.

> to address violations of the Antigravity Terms of Service (ToS), specifically the use of 3rd party tools or proxies to access Antigravity resources and quotas

Translation: Google doesn’t want you using Gemini oauth with openclaw

> Also it’s not age verification really

Not yet, but it will be one day if it passes

Corruption is as normal as cancer in organizations. Sometimes it gets excised, and new cells form eventually starting the process again. Other times, it ends up killing the organization.

One of the big reasons we have no universal healthcare is because we socialized defense for other countries like your country. You guys are years if not decades away from being able to defense yourselves.

That’s not really true, as an American.

We spend a ton on healthcare anyway, just inefficiently and in a way that causes stress and struggles for patients.

Yeah, the administrative overhead related to just the billing system is staggering. Many hospital systems have more billing professionals than they have beds.

We spend more overall because our healthcare is bifurcated. There would be waste regardless of whether or not we socialize our healthcare completely. Look at Medicare as an example

Defend against who? You?

I am in Canada, and the USA recently threatened to invade us, basically.

So we need to buy weapons from the USA in order to defend ourselves from the USA?

Sounds like mafia protection schemes.

Sure, we are now a threat, but let’s not ignore Russia or China. Neither of them are breaking news and Russia is the immediate threat for most of the West, and until recently for you guys as well

I never heard Russia or China openly say they want to annex-invade Canada.

However, I did hear the USA president say that openly, recently and multiple times.

So pardon me for entirely rejecting your 'Russia+China = BAD, USA = GOOD' narrative.

I would even go as far as saying that today, the most immediate danger to World stability is Donald Trump and his USA, which are not friends to anyone anymore. Let us hope we can survive the next 3 years.

My original point stands. Your country was able to invest in healthcare because it didn’t spend enough on defense. It doesn’t matter who the aggressor is.

Do you think that if europe had tripled its defence spending over the last century the US would have spent more or less?

Less, which is implied by my first comment

I disagree, the US clearly enjoys being the biggest spender in the world

Just treating it as an employee, would solve most of the problems I.e. it runs on its own machine with separate accounts for everything: email, git, etc…

Maybe if you can keep the results a secret from health insurance companies you’d have a point. However, not everyone has coverage under a large organization’s umbrella, and these people might be denied coverage.

That’s the point: enable mass surveillance and thee loss of privacy under the guise of another cause, usually “protecting the children”.

Are sandbox-exec and seatbelt no longer deprecated? I genuinely don’t know. I am asking

Still deprecated. Still in use by everyone.

The way it works now is that 20% of the bottom students eat up 80% of a teacher’s time and resources. I’m not saying it’s a bad thing depending on what your goals are. What I am saying is that you can’t have everything. You have to choose. This system this comment describes and the system your comment below describes cannot coexist.

That just means that we need to move the bottom 20% of students into their own classes where they can get the extra attention they need. That means they can get a high quality education and so can everyone else. You do not have to choose. You can have both.

No, you do have to choose because money for education (or anything) isn’t unlimited.

There’s a real question of how many resources and what kind of ROI you’d get from trying to educate that bottom 20% to the same level.

I saw this play out when I was in school: profoundly intellectually disabled students getting 1:1 or even 2:1 teaching, trying to get an 18 year old to be able to read 3 letter words, while AP classes were bloated to 30+ students.

> No, you do have to choose because money for education (or anything) isn’t unlimited.

The US is the richest nation on Earth. It can easily afford to educate its people. If you really think we'd need to find new sources of tax dollars to fund that, I have a whole lot of suggestions for where to start and I'd bet that you can easily think of a few low hanging fruit yourself.

> There’s a real question of how many resources and what kind of ROI you’d get from trying to educate that bottom 20% to the same level.

The ROI is massive. As I've said elsewhere, uneducated children become uneducated adults. Adults who vote. Adults who, if they lack the education needed to live successful lives, end up costing society in many ways over far more years than they spend in school.

I don't know about you, but I want to live and work with people who are educated and literate. If I were looking to move to another country for work, I'd want to move somewhere where the people were educated and literate. Especially if those people were going to be my boss, or my neighbor, or handling my food, or in charge of my visa application. Having a well educated population is pure win. The cost of ignorance and a lack of the kinds of skills a good school teaches is staggering.

The US already spends significantly more (both in absolute terms, and as a percent of GDP) than other developed countries, but with worse outcomes (particularly for non-white, non-Asian students).

The question is whether anyone actually expects the outcomes to change if we throw even more money at the problem, or if it'll just get gobbled up by teacher's unions, administration, and silly things like non-phonic instruction or DEI programs.

We are in a record amount of debt and we are about to go to war again. That’s not including the fact that we have a shortage of teachers who are underpaid. As for “new” sources of taxation, increasing the burden on the middle class is yet another way the bottom 20% eats up 80% of the resources. Tax the rich? Unfortunately, if you tax them high enough, they will just leave. They haven’t been patriotic since the last century.

> We are in a record amount of debt and we are about to go to war again.

Isn't it funny how nobody ever worries about how much that's going to cost, no matter how unnecessary there's never any effort to make sure that our warmongering is funded before burdening taxpayers with it. Seems like a ripe target for some tax savings.

People did worry about the cost pre-Biden because they were unnecessary. Unfortunately, for everyone both Putin and Xi exist. Even if you put your head into the ground, it’s not going to change their intentions or behavior. Only missiles and drones will. Your comment is over a decade out of date.