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Re:Ford F-150 Lightning: Fast Truck, Slow Computer by m000 on Wednesday August 17, 2022 @05:13AM (#32493999)
> doctors and nurses make 40% of what they do in the US

Oh, those US nurses living the high life.

> relying on US defense subsidies

It's more like "keeping the US defense industry afloat by buying expensive gadgets we don't need".

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Re:Ford F-150 Lightning: Fast Truck, Slow Computer by ceeplusplus on Wednesday August 17, 2022 @03:17PM (#32500519)
> Oh, those US nurses living the high life.

More like oh, those UK nurses in the poorhouse. They deserve to make what their US counterparts are making.

> It's more like "keeping the US defense industry afloat by buying expensive gadgets we don't need"

Yes, because that's what's defending Europe against Russian invasion, right? Expensive gadgets you don't need? Or is Germany's broken down, dysfunctional army [1] going to do that?

[1] https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-biggest-enemy-thread...

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