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2y ago
In most places Air is free, access to clean water is in some country's also free, and here (Switzerland) taking the leftover potatoes after harvest is also free, berry's and mushrooms in the forest also free, fishing in some lakes
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>cultural differences It's stupidity, not cultural difference, when one side talks about free and the other side who has that "free" health care feels it's a massive (but good) burden. I'm absolutely for this sys
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2y ago
Yes you are absolutely right, your medicare is a scam without any laws to protect the "obligatory" paying customer, that's a "you" problem.
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2y ago
Just call it universal healthcare, a toddler would think something is free because you do not have to pay for a service immediately. For most people in Europe paying for healthcare is number two or even number one expense, no real concern f
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2y ago
>This is widely understood to mean "free to the patient at time of use/need". This is called insurance, sometimes provided by society sometimes by business or a mix of both, but never is it "free".
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>This is like saying you need to pay to walk on the pavement >or you need to pay to see at night when outside. Yes, please go outside and ask any random person that you have free sidewalks and free streetlights, they will probably loo
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>"pushing hidden agendas and framing actually matters" Thank you very much, this is exactly the point, americans cheer the "free health care" and do not see the point that for example a swiss family has to pay 15-20%
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2y ago
Obviously everyone who uses the word "free" instead of "universal" need's it. It's not free beer but universal beer.
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>Which is colloquially referred to as free healthcare. No, that's the point, it's called "Universal healthcare" and it's NOT free, since for most country's you need "compulsory health insurance" or
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2y ago
Just to be clear, there are NO Country's with "free public health care" but Europe has (mostly) "health care paid by society with compulsory health insurance or taxes and some taxes on alcohol/tabacco etc and some e
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2y ago
>>Google's carbon footprint jumped by 48% from 2019, amounting to 14.3 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions for 2023. According to the company's Environment Report 2024, 24% of its total emissions, or over 3.4 million to
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https://vmssoftware.com/about/news/2024-03-25-community-lice... >Despite our initial aspirations for robust community engagement, the reality has fallen short of our expectations. The level of participation in
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>really "user friendly". and then they're wining that nobody contributes to the opensource for VMS. Yep, one of the first versions of the x86 version one could download everything and it was planed to renew the license onc
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YES, Windows Server 2003R2 was the best version of Windows ever. I worked with it professionally for about 8 years, if you just used MS software on it (exchange sql server etc) that thing NEVER crashed, when we deployed a 2003R2 (as opposed
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Fedora does what RedHat/IBM want's. For example not shipping patented Codecs because RedHat could be sued. Same with openSUSE (the "community"-distro from SLES). >Red Hat: why I'm going all in on community-driven
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>>What would you suggest? EVERY other Community distro: Debian Gentoo Guix Nix FreeBSD etc....
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Yes, it's incredibly stupid, there is already EuroLinux (RHEL) and now EU OS (Fedora), Fedora and RHEL are not community distros. Is this some kind of testbed for ChatControl2.0? From the Site: Sovereign OS built to the requirements fo
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Thrive is a free, open-source game about the evolution of life
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FreeBSD 13.5-Release Release Notes
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GNU Guix is a package manager for GNU/Linux systems
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>>Axel Springer-Verlag (Publisher) is nothing to be toying around with The real question is: Is Elliot Carver (from James Bond -> Tomorrow Never Dies) based on Mathias Döpfner or Rupert Murdoch?
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Thrive is a free, open-source game about the evolution of life
(revolutionarygamesstudio.com)
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The best Voyagers documentation (long form) i ever seen: >>NASA's Voyager Mission: Remastered [4K] https://youtu.be/M62kajY-ln0
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FreeBSD Continues Working on 802.11n/802.11ac WiFi and Other Laptop Improvements
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What a sad and anti-hacker mentality comment.
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>>Where are they doing anything AI related with your data? Where's the proof? https://www.mozilla.ai/ >without need for payment from you and No need to pay YOU, you are twisting things around. Have fun, i stop
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EACopy, Robocopy alternative with a bunch of different features
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>>for the purpose of doing as you request with the content you input in Firefox. So you "Mozilla" license my data, but i am still allowed todo anything with my data..but so are you (Mozilla) right? What are you trying to exp
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>cost and support footprint to maintain and develop a fully featured browser True because the real cost to support a "a fully featured browser" is at least a 1/4 billion dollars....because OpenSource needs to make money, n
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>if that were truly (sustainably) possible, I'd support it, but imo that'd just be signing ff's death warrant I really don't think so, have a look at the ladybird browser: https://ladybird.org/#sponsor
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