EasyMark

I think the point is that you are not everyone. Not everyone has your requirements, sounds like paying the premium is worth it for you, but others simply don't need it.

I think it's gone corporate where the oath to support the oligarchs has gotten more levity than the Hippocratic oath. Megacorps want to buy up all the small outfits and move to pure profit driven medication. I've found that for day to day health care joining a doctor that doesn't take insurance and takes cash on monthly base. I hate subscription models for the most part but have had a much better experience with see a doctor who takes cash instead of insurance. They actually listen. For specialists I have had to stay in network though.

I found if you actually push back they will work with you. You own your health, not your doctors. That said they mostly do know better than you. I have seen too many of my friends move from skeptical to cynical on medicine, and that's a bad journey that will lead to worse health outcomes. Just ask Steve Jobs.

what is a dropped filling? It came loose/fell out?

I have done a bit of a changeup, in the mornings I use a novamin+fluoride based toothpaste, at night before bed I use an nhap+xylitol based (non-fluoride) toothpaste and it's been flying colors and no cavities for years. Takes care of cold/sweets sensitivity too. I floss every couple of days. I also use a cheap braun electric toothbrush with 2 minute timer. I don't see why anyone needs a $100 bluetooth tracking toothbrush tbh. Anyway, may your teeth always be a natural teeth color and you be cavity free :)

that's what it always seems like. buy a viable company, load it up with debt until it bankrupts, take your fees, declare bankruptcy.

if you like maintaining servers that are exposed to the web in the age of AI rogue agents

why do I always feel like "this is where the enshittification begins" when I hear about license changes, even though these seem kind of harmless? But I'm not a lawyer so my hackles always hackle. And yes I am a paying customer, currently

Why is it hard to believe that a super intelligent alien (inhuman) AI would consider humans more than a nuisance after it gains control of it's environment via robotic extensions of its will? has any species shown real compassion for other species on the whole and not seen them as competition for resources from a survival of the fittest perspective? why would the AI be a moral being in the sense of some of the better members of our species? The trillionaires certainly aren't and they'll be the ones deciding it's core software and principals.

and why would a superintelligence (or the trillionaires controlling it) want to cure cancer for the populace rather than just the ruling elite? I just don't think they are making altruism a core feature in the "conscience" of the upcoming superintelligence if the singularity (exponential recursive self-improvement) happens.

I've worn one, you forget it's there fairly quickly. It really isn't a big deal. I wore it for a month (2 of them @ 2weeks each) and it wasn't a big deal at all. Ijust wanted to watch how my eating affected my glucose in almost real time.

Agnostic, but I'll throw my prayers in for this one

unless you're willing to do it, then I don't think you can ask others to do it. garbage bag = small dismeanor, sawsall = felony

I believe so, but they'll drag their feet on getting it back to the person

well hopefully this snowballs and most public facing cameras other than private ones by people and businesses go extinct (state run cameras). We don't need to be recording every citizen's movement "just in case" . Society got along for thousands of years without it, and the potential for ever increasing tendency toward authoritarian regimes points to such surveillance as a terrible mistake in any society striving for a democracy.