One wonders where they find the time.

It seems to be a case of fans looking at something that’s tremendously, phenomenally popular, and seeing only a narrow, obsessive monoculture. The Larry Groznic Factor.

Also, there might be more interesting and pressing matters than someones tastes in movies/games/music/etc...

Well, I have seen people demand Bauman from RLM drink bleach because he didn’t love the movie. That was pretty fucked up.

I’m still not completely clear on why they didn’t just license Shadowrun.

Clearly.

Republican Jesus? No.

Just gotta get through this, Melania, she thinks as she walks through the whispering wood. Just gotta get through this.

All software is buggy. As you said, Apple has always had bugs, but they’ve been minor enough to ignore or were fixed quickly. None of the bugs in your article are major per se, but they’re supremely annoying UI issues that should have been caught in QA. What was “ignorable” a few years ago is no longer. It interferes…

Will there be cake?

The health insurance lobby will not let that slide without a huge, economically crippling fight. Just think of how they would love it if I paid the government instead of them!

Poor civic education and rural poverty. These basically keep feeding each other, generation after generation of ignorance and hatred—especially in the rural South, which never recovered economic influence since the Civil War was lost, the Industrial Revolution shifted economic power to the cities.

Oh absolutely they need to pull together! But only in local communities and only voluntarily, not with taxation (because taxation is theft you see!) If the government would just butt out then everyone would voluntarily donate enough money to take care of all the problems even MORE efficiently!

I guess it’s our way. I read a little bit about the Dutch system in a book earlier in the year — I like the idea of being able to switch insurance provider at any time, for no cost, to fit one’s need. That’s a nice feature.

It’s a simple question with a complex answer. The meat of it is that we don’t have any transparency or consistency on pricing. Follow that with fear of change, and fear of “rationing” (even though all health care is rationed to some degree). There’s also an innate distrust of government that we’ve always had, plus a…

Because our nation of 350 million people is wildly different than the Netherlands

Because there’s been decades of indoctrination into the belief that taxes are evil, full stop.

Right into oblivion.

It’s not even repubs exclusively, more how deeply embedded insurance is in the medical industry overall. Everyone hates it, including insurers, but no one has the guts to overhaul the system with a more sensible single-payer version because it’s so interwoven into our economy. That’s how Dems went from “Universal…

“Because the United States is just so big we can’t possibly depend on the system of such a small country”