I guess you’re referring to the part I edited out where I said that there doesn’t seem to be any evidence that life is supposed to be easy. I don’t think that contradicts humans trying to make life easy.

But it seems to me that a lot of meaning is derived from being at the limit of what is impossible and staying at the level of easy makes people depressed and unhappy.

You get to exist and understand that you do. That’s pretty huge already, as far as I can tell.

It’s like a good C++ that is actually able to replace it. There are lots of places where a good C++ is useful. Like everything that needs low latency and low resource usage.

But it’s not an easy language, so (I’m guessing) people who see everyone loving it but are unable to learn it start to suffer some sort of cognitive dissonance. If it’s too difficult for me to learn, that must be its fault, not mine.

I have been using X11 since 1996, and I never felt that it was very good. Sure, at the start it was better the then state-of-the-art desktop (Windows 95), mostly thanks to Linux, but that advantage went away in 2001 when OS/X was released. And even Windows went past it at some point, perhaps around Windows 7 or 8.

Wayland took a long time to get there, but it definitely is there today.

PHP is Russian. Used to be huge, caused lots of problems, now slowly dwindling away. Its supporters keep saying how it’s still better than the competition.

The person you replied to said that

All fascist ideologies will use the argument of “Protecting the children”

Did they? Did you just make a reverse strawman fallacy?

Rooting for bad people in fiction is a fine way to process that part of your own self with no actual risks or consequences. If doing that turns people bad, then playing role-playing games turns people into satan worshippers.

I miss the time when people realized that fiction, even if possibly metaphoric, is ultimately not real.

Hey don’t blame me. You’re the one who used the A-word in a place filled with OCD nitpickers and in a discussion around CSAM.

Time to close all the fascist schools and put the kids back in factories as Marx intended.

And I’m thinking “hold on, there aren’t 2.7 trillion people here”

Is it so that there is usually no competition for health insurance providers in the US? I don’t know that system too well.

Do you think of the fire department as “some sort of public insurance”?

Yes, it can be viewed as such! Things can be viewed from many angles. Another one that’re not called insurance but kinda are, are flat prices for things whose price actually varies. Like electricity prices: they’re often based on a spot price in an power exchange, so if you as a consumer choose to get a flat price, you’re essentially paying a premium.

Insurance is a pretty great industry and good fit for markets if only there’s healthy competition. If there’s no fertile ground for competition, it’s one signal that perhaps the public sector should handle that one.

Yes, exactly. Healthcare via taxation can be viewed as a some sort of public insurance. The problem there is that the level of resources needed has to be decided manually instead of letting the markets handle it “magically”.

Where do you find Insurance like this?

Literally all the insurances are like this. If yours isn’t, why are you paying for it?

I broke my arm last year here in Finland. I think the whole bill for an overnight stay and surgery and all the medications was… around 50 euros.

Finland is famously having major problems with public healthcare currently because the costs versus clients relation is too low.

Healthcare provided publically can be thought of as nonprofit insurance.

If you live long enough, it will be costly.

This is why if you start paying for a healthcare insurance at an older age, your premiums will be higher. They are pretty good with the math there, and it’s not even very advanced math.

Pooling everybody’s money so that the ones who are unfortunate get money to help with their situation definitely is a product. Just because you don’t understand something doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.

My iPhone is repairable and supported until 2028. And because Apple is refusing to make more mid-size phones, I will be using this one until 2028 at minimum.