Important extra step is that the market can't respond and increase capacity - it is increasingly difficult to set up a new vet clinic (nimby, local regulations, insurance, fitout costs) and so any existing vets who wants to roll their own usually can't get capital together to start a new clinic.
I think it wasnt just reboot inconvenience, I feel like there was a period of time where some software updates would break or make your software experience worse.
I have vague memories as a teenager of running older versions of MSN messenger in compatability mode because after a certain version it was full of ads.
Android phone software is also very good at this now, I still hestate to update my pixel because each update somehow makes my phone worse to use.
Ultimately every purchase you make is a vote in support of the company/org you are buying from. Why do you go to one grocery store vs another? One hairdresser vs another?
Maybe I'm misinterpreting the blog and/or comment, but if I don't need groceries, and can list 20+ reasons why I don't need groceries, I'm not going to get groceries anyway just because I like the grocery store very very much.
If the conflict is that the child is expected to behave politely, but the parents do not model this behaviour in the first place, then we are back at screentime being a retreat from conflict.
I (in Australia) was looking at weatherboards on the weekend for some work i’m doing and came across the James Hardie ‘Linea’ weatherboards - they’re fibro-cement boards. A couple of things struck me:
1) I’ve noticed the James Hardie ‘brand’ being used openly a lot in the past 5 years. I guess the stigma from their evil handling of asbestosis claims is gone.
2) In the installation manual it had an extensive list of things you have to do to not get silicosis.
No thanks Satan, regular pine weatherboards for me!
Lots of people in this thread missing that unsweetened yogurt options are probably not distributed evenly across US supermarkets.
Your local coastal city store might have a half dozen plain greek yogurts but I bet there are plenty of areas where they are not stocked because they know it won't sell.
You would lose that bet. I eat plain unsweetened yogurt. I have seen it on the shelf in supermarkets everywhere, not just coastal cities.
But hey, don't take my word for it. Most large supermarkets now offer online ordering. Pick a few small Midwestern cities at random and look what dairy products the major local supermarkets have in stock. It's hilarious how people keep posting uninformed comments here without taking 5 minutes to do some trivial fact checking.
There are tests, proceedures etc that are 'denied' coverage by Medicare(universal health coverage) but you can try get your private health insurance to cover it, or just pay out of pocket, unless it's the doctor refusing the request as not medically necessary.
I had a test recommended once that was not covered, but my Dr explained this in advance and the cash price to me was $110. There are no 'surprise' denials after the fact.
It's absolutely fine (and required even) that single payer public healthcare doesn't cover every conceivable thing under the sun. It should cover the most common, easily scaled and mass produced items.
For the remainder, the patient should be told and know what to expect price wise - private or self-paid etc. And this also allows competition between entities offering this thing that's not covered.
Having opaque and unknown pricing (until after you've done it) is basically a form of highway robbery.
If you are in the 'couple of times a year' consumer type bucket you might not be valuable enough to do the deep discounting to. They offer the better deals to the 'couple of times a month' or more frequent users to keep them hooked.
Why is 'legitimate' local government the hurdle here? Surely the presence of foreign troops killing civillians and destroying infrastructure counts as an occupation.
Gaza was de facto administered by the civilian arm of Hamas on the eve of Oct 7, and throughout while there was still infrastructure to speak of, and this is the only sense I understand the term "de facto" to mean when used unqualified; what entity performs the day-to-day administration and security.
I think in the context of the article it might be more skill related - eg if you were the only engineer in a room full of people making engineering decisions.
You might not be marginalised in the greater business, but for a particular project or strategic issue you might be under-represented.
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