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If it can name what the most likely combination is, couldn't it also know how likely that combination of words is?

Just to note, it's not free, it's not magic, it's just better regulated. I've lived in a few countries with socialized healthcare, and we still pay insurance. It's just a lot less since we don't have to cover ever-increasing insurance profits, and there is no such thing as "out of network" as long as you don't leave the country (and the rest of the EU).

My premium is 116 EUR for full coverage per month, with no maximum coverage or any other fees, and every healthcare institution in the EU is going to treat me for that in an emergency, for no additional charge. If I need extended treatment, I will get transported to the institution that's most convenient for me (and thus, the system), and be treated there. Dental, mental healthcare included.

I still pay for some OTC medicine, but prices are kept low.

That said, there are drugs which fuck your life up even in the very short term, and dealing them absolutely be criminalized. Using them should be a medical problem, but dealing? Straight to jail.

Just to be clear, I'm not talking about pot here.

That's my point, all that shit was justified by pointing to Cold War enemies. Of course, no country exists in a vacuum, but if the US and the USSR hadn't been both engaged in a dick-measuring contest for a century, we would live in a different world. Both of them justified their horrendous human rights records by saying, "they are doing it too!"

How do you know? The US would be a different country if it wasn't targeted by Russia during the 2016 election. Russia made Trump. Russia made Brexit. How do we know how the world would look like if that hasn't happened?

Wan't CA a Russian op though?

That said, this new hybrid war era has nation states conduct disinformation campaigns against each other. Tiktok was a tool to conduct such a campaign, the US wants to defend itself. It's not like China or Russia doesn't do the same even harder to try and defend itself. It's not a crime yet to accept Russian money as an NGO or politician in the US (as least not in itself), it is definitely a crime in Russia to do the same.

Don't get me wrong, it's a move that will definitely consolidate control over opinions, and that's not a good thing. It's like a fever. We can't have nice things because China would break them, so we need to put them away until China stops doing that.

Let's be honest, they are looking for brands where it is not everyone's first association that the CEO is in the news every week for being in the wrong side of the culture war. They don't mind if the company they buy from does some union busting and buys raw materials mined by slaves, as long as it's drowned out by the marketing of said brand.

If I wanted to be cynical, it's also that it's a bit different when it's not Average Joe asking for a payout, but Mercedes, for example. It may shift the legal playing field with the insured parties not being consumers, but car manufacturers. Even worse for insurers, car manufacturers would be more successful in negotiating the initial deal as well.

According to who? Did the NTSB clear this?

Yes.

If this thing fucks up and kills somebody, will the judge let the driver off the hook 'cuz the manufacturer told them everything’s cool?

Yes, the judge will let the driver off the hook, because Mercedes told them it will assume the liability instead.

The Dutch govt is way ahead of you on that one.

I'm more iffed by the casting of Tiny Tina. That actress basically acts out an arrogant teenage girl stereotype in every film, which is really not a good fit for TT.

It's not even the humour, the thing is just miscast so hard I've never seen before.