It’s not just proofreading, but people not knowing English grammar.

People seem to be using apostrophes to pluralize words because they get a red line for things like “trys” and notice that “try’s” makes the red line go away.

Ironically, it seems to be more common amongst monolingual English speakers.

Turning them into letters just seems harder to me, lol

I don’t know if that’s a problem with society so much as it is a problem with reality.

…or a problem with time and sequences of events.

Where is the line between meeting somebody halfway and being a doormat with no personality?

About half way.

Doormat with no personality is all the way. Meeting somebody halfway is halfway there. Always needing to have it your way is going nowhere at all.

And if you are a fan, the game feels just like playing maybe a half season of the show. Jumping right in to episode after episode!

You can and should talk about those things early on. But there’s a difference between…

Do you want to have kids?

(which is about ensuring an alignment of values)

And…

What should we name our kids?

(which is trying to get too serious too quickly)

I think it’s more like spicy food. Tons of different ways to make food spicy. It’s generally a little more rough than other “easier” foods, and some people just can’t handle it at all.

And of course, there’s always going to be ultra-spicy food that will leave even fans of less-spicy food to wonder “Does anybody actually eat that for fun?”

Shit, Jehovah’s Witnesses

No, it’s a comforting “sh” like “shhhhh”, don’t worry, it just works.

It’s only one h for the double entendre.

/joking

I played new games on the Switch, but that was about it.

I got Mario RPG and Mario Wonder last Christmas. What can I say? Haha

Thank you! Indeed I am there!

Keep enjoying SC. I loved it. A few people I’ve seen didn’t like the first few chapters, but imo it’s worth it to play through to the end.

My friend who loves the entire series says SC is his second favourite game in the series!

I’m playing through the series now. Just finished SC/the second chapter!

It’s always fun to see someone else playing the same old game as you by coincidence.

I find it funny that a lot of people seem to be assuming that this is everything that they were allowed to eat. Fruits and veggies have been completely banned, in this world! Haha

Well, it depends on how much profit across how many companies we’re looking at, along with how many lives we’re comparing to. Also whose lives.

There are people who get paid to make these kinds of decisions…

Cue Zap Brannigan’s quote…

Some of you may die, but that’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make

In some ways, it already has.

Lots of orgs that used to have file servers and data centres have been moving to things like OneDrive.

On-board storage space used to be a selling point for laptops, phones, and pre-built computers…but now some of them are coming bundled with a few months’ subscription to cloud storage. It’s been easy to find desktops with 0.5 or 1TB of storage space for years, yet the price of HDDs has been decreasing for years.

Plenty of people seem to use things like Google Drive as a way to move files or even to “save space on their devices” the way that we used to use thumbdrives or external drives (and yes, those are still viable methods of moving and backing up files, but it used to be the only way).

I think if your computer has only 0.5TB of storage, then the machine might as well be primarily a cloud storage-backed device. (Unless you’ve got your files elsewhere, etcetcetc). We’ll always need local storage for things like the OS and for more easily running whatever apps or files that were just downloaded off the cloud…so I don’t think it’ll ever go to 0. But 0.5TB is pretty darn close these days! Lol

And if you think that you’re not guilty of using cloud storage…tell me what percentage of your Steam library you have downloaded locally… Lol

(Steam isn’t cloud storage, but the principle is similar – “I don’t need to store my files because they’re available for me to download at any time from someone else’s computer!”)

What’s to say that this wasn’t just a combination of stupid actions?

Someone makes a report with the wrong category. Someone takes a way over-the-top action in response to the report.

There are a lot of idiots with a lot of power who do things without thinking them through.

A public system specifically would mean it’s run by the government. So that would need to be created by the government. Which means you’d need all relevant voting systems to vote in favour of it, which isn’t likely… especially given the last presidential election.

I imagine the biggest challenge of creating a non-profit health insurance thing is one of two things.

Firstly, anyone who has that much money would probably rather open a charity.

Secondly, people actually DO commit fraudulent claims, or try to claim things that they don’t need or that the health insurance company decided that they won’t cover. If the company doesn’t try to filter these out, it’d be losing more money than it expected to…and it’d go out of business.

Another factor is that being in the insurance business is already a losing model if you want to do good in the world. Hospitals will charge jacked up rates because they don’t have to worry about what a person can pay. They try to extract as much as they can out of the big insurance corporation, since the patient doesn’t care what the insurance company has to pay. So this non-profit insurance company would be paying as much as any other insurance company, more than any patient would be paying, and so it’d be losing money even just paying out all of its valid and covered claims, let alone the fake and unnecessary ones.

So, maybe you want to partner with the hospitals because, why should you pay as much as the evil companies, right?

Well, that sounds great from a consumer sense. But from a business perspective, that’d be suicide for the hospital – why would any other insurance company do business with that hospital if they’re giving one company discounts unfairly?

Or…maybe they do give discounts. But then they make less money and can’t pay the doctors as much (who can leave for work elsewhere), or buy the newest equipment, etc.

But if they do want to give discounts and just charge the company what things actually cost…at that point, you might as well be a charity.

And even then, you still need to budget for validating the claims that come in, because how do you choose who gets covered, and within that group, who gets priority?

Your writing style looks very young. I would’ve guessed that you were in high school, maybe on the earlier end.

If it’s friends online, you might want to focus on that. Proper capitalization and periods would help.

If it’s in real life, then you probably act or “feel” younger than you are. It could be something like not having “street smarts”.

I played A Blurred Line back in the day and loved it. I wish it would turn out that the creator ended up making an indie game or something, but I fear its story will never be completed.

Ahaha awesome, thanks.

Looks like it wouldn’t work well in Australia unless the models are not very privacy-conscious…lol