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Cuba proliferates their doctors because they've massively contracted them out as exports to bring in foreign exchange money. Sometimes they donate care when it's politically expedient.
Liquidation is not socialism
> Roughly a year ago, Mr. Trump was briefed about the intelligence findings, which have not been previously reported, and chose not to do anything with the information.

Res ipsa loquitor

Re:Software may be getting worse, but it used to be horrible on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @10:29AM (#50259952)
username checks out
Re:Vegemite is not a human right on Monday October 26, 2026 @03:43PM (#50249828)
This article deserves its own headline: Murderer’s bid to eat Vegemite in Australian prison rejected by judge

And the court actually found Vegemite to be a cultural right, just not important enough of a right to overrule the prison system, so there's the problem with the headline.

Re:I paid people to try and follow my README on Sunday October 11, 2026 @10:09AM (#50043485)
I'm so old that I remember when a software deliverable included documentation, and the product delivery was incomplete without documentation.
Re:`123456' password used in Danish CPR data breach on Saturday October 10, 2026 @02:21PM (#50035651)
It flows nicely on the numeric pad
Re:So You Think You Could Be an Electrician? on Sunday October 04, 2026 @09:58AM (#49954000)
Bypassed lockouts are surprisingly common. EE I worked with lost his brother to some idiot who removed the lockout from the circuit he was working on.
As a practical matter medical underwriting didn't make decisions based on lifestyle, the decisions were made by way of broadly excluding pre-existing conditions. An an example, pre ACA my insurer (whimsically named "Golden Rule Insurance Co") made everything cardiovascular-related excluded from coverage due to very mild hypercholesterolemia.
It wasn't this way always (obv?). In the early 80s it was still acceptable for the entire engineering dept to get sloshed at lunch w/o any expectation of getting work done upon return. The salesdroid would sometimes accompany us. This was at a very large mostly defense contractor on the east coast of Florida.
Re:People Hooked on Vapes Try a New Way to Quit: Cigarettes on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @11:16AM (#49817432)
I don't know if most pipe smokers inhale.
Re:25 Years of Mass Surveillance Is Enough on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @04:00PM (#49718060)
This is untrue. Throw out your TV.
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Re:Are others seeing Google's ReCAPCHA rejecting Firefox users? on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @01:42PM (#49613778)
Yes, recaphca's become far more intrusive to this ff user
Re:Actively exploited sandbox RCE in all Chromium versions on Sunday September 06, 2026 @10:54AM (#49587063)
When did being a nerd become unfashionable again?

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