The irony of clicking on this link and getting hit with “accept cookies” “Subscribe to unlock this article”.
Since September my wife has had about ten CTs, three MRIs, two major surgeries (the last one 7 hours long), one emergency surgery, weeks of chemotherapy and radiation treatments and about 8 weeks hospitalised including some time in the ICU.
Total cost: $0
Unless you count the cost of parking when I visit her in hospital, in which case I’ve spent about $170 USD
This is in New Zealand with a publicly funded health system.
On Twitter I’ve reported:
- Pictures of dead babies/toddlers
- Pictures of murdered people
- Death threats towards public figures
- Illegal videos of terrorist acts
- Ads for illegal weapons (tasers)
- So so much crypto spam
Things found by Twitter to go against their community standards? 0
He was outdoors, with a mask on.
How does compare to being in an enclosed courtroom?
Republicans: Let the free market decide.
Also Republicans:
I started off with immense respect for Tesla succeeding in delivering a mainstream electric car, and SpaceX delivering on successful commercial space flight. Finally, I thought. A rich billionaire who might actually be doing good.
Then the paedo cave thing happened. Ok. Guy can’t take criticism. That comment as uncalled for.
Now? Holy shit. The guy is a full on racist, anti trans, misogynist, white supremacist, conspiracy peddling whack a doodle.
It’s tech news. Even if you don’t like Apple products, their buying the entire node affects everyone else.
Stupid decisions like paying $200 million for Joe Rogan’s shitty podcast certainly don’t help
Other than “this should never have happened” I see this as the best possible outcome.
Now we wait and see I suppose.
*Musk’s. He regularly overrules the Tesla engineers.
It’s 2009, 2014, 2017 and 2020 all over again.
They keep promising great new battery tech just around the corner and never delivering.
If I was a cynic, I might think they’re simply doing it to put people off buying current EVs so they’re not saddled with ‘old tech’.
While you wait for our amazing new battery, pick yourself up a great new hybrid..
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Viper_NZ
joined 1 year ago
The entire Polity series is great, but my favourite parts are always when we follow a Prador perspective.