Not sure what reality you live in, but NHS Emergency care is among the best in the world.

Specifically emergency yes.

There ongoing and preventative care has gotten bad enough that it can drive you to A&E to actually get seen. Last time I called my NHS doctor I was given an appointment 3 weeks out and my mom just waited 6 weeks for an X-ray on her foot.

But that's not the straw man that the comment I responded to was attempting to construct.

It's widely known that non-critical care is a postcode lottery. But in the few times I and others have needed the NHS in life-or-death situations, they have been nothing short of amazing.

I cannot agree more. GPs and sometimes A&E is sheesh, but if you get through to specialist NHS is amazing

And people flocked to watch executions - for entertainment.

Capital punishment has never been about deterrence, nor has it ever been an effective deterrent.

It has never been an effective deterrent? You really believe that?

Not even once?

Oh, I'm sure it might have been marginally effective in some very specific circumstances.

But that was far from the norm. In the hope that you might actually go and educate yourself somewhat on the topic, here is the Times report on the last public execution ever carried out in England, that of Michael Barrett on 26 May 1868.

https://www.arthurlloyd.co.uk/Timeline/Execution.htm

It certainly sounds like it had the effect you claim it does, doesn't it?

It's preparation for the inevitable nano-texture cloth you need to buy from Apple to wipe the screen with.

That's exactly what the £9 Apple Polishing Cloth is!

> Made with soft, non-abrasive material, the Polishing Cloth cleans any Apple display, including nano-texture, safely and effectively.

That is surprisingly cheap from Apple

They recently reduced the price (also rare from Apple), but the macbooks with nano upgrade do ship with one.

I will say that it's the best cloth ever, and the nano upgrade is worth it

The most efficient aircraft are gliders.

> most efficient aircraft are gliders

L/D, yes. Complete aircraft configuration, not always (actually, rarely).

so use your phone?

Ook.

He is a bit of a Cnut, to be sure.

Your pipeline is then effectively nothing but an expensive flowchart.

This is what an operations engineer or first line support does.

An SRE goes and fixes the cause of the recurring alerts.

Cooperative online shared worlds, even adversarial ones, are a wildly different use of time compared to spending hours staring at short-format video after short-format video.

And even gaming has been largely "gamified" into microtransaction casinos rather than a place to hang with friends.

Even single player games have adopted these practices. It’s in retrospect not surprising that roguelikes became so popular, but I think it’s very unhealthy that a game like Balatro is considered one of the exemplars of the video game medium. It activates almost exactly the same emotions as gambling and its no surprise that people spend hundreds of hours on them, but its almost certainly bad for the consumer even if they’re not losing money

Strong disagree, balatro plays on the same things that vampire survivors does: overwhelming the enemy with enormous domination.

And let me know when in the casinos (authorized) SKILL USE is the most important part.

I don't disagree that AAA games have horrible practices at time, but poking Balatro is a big mistake.