Because healthcare has been free in Mexico for decades. This seems like the usual political posturing. Saying "healthcare is free" is an empty statement if people are turned away at the point of service because of a lack of medicine or service providers. Give them three months and then check again. Then you'll know if it was a shallow gesture or not.

The internet arguably exists as a mass phenomenon because of porn. They have their shit and unethical parts. But, on the internet tech side, almost all the good (and some of the bad) trends appeared on porn first.

Are you new here? Madthumbs is a little loose on the old rocker. They got themselves banned out of, pretty much everywhere, because they would inject themselves in every other community spamming hatred. Some think it is just a troll, but I fear it is genuine. They do hate Linux and FOSS, and the community associated, yet insist on staying here in some sort of holy crusade against open source.

Many engaged with them in good faith years ago, but they are just out of touch with reality and any rational conversation is virtually impossible. Now they just exist alone in their own echo chamber where they just interact with themselves. The rest of us learned to leave them alone and avoid interaction if you don't have them blocked already.

Fear not, because a single person doesn't constitute a community. And Madthumbs gets talked about every six months or so, when a batch of new users discover them. Everyone then completely forgets about them until the next cycle.

There are studies on this. Extensive research shows that physical punishment stops immediate behavior, for a very short time. In psychology it has been established for a long long time that punishment doesn't extinguishes behaviors. In practical terms, the behavior just resurfaces when out of the source of the punishment. In cognitive terms, punishment creates resentment, emotional disregulation, that leads to revenge behavior.

You could spend a million dollars every day until you died of old age and still die a billionaire. A trillion is a truly incomprehensible amount of wealth.

And millions of drivers would disagree. The study is clear. If a driver doesn't fear hitting something they mostly disregard painted lanes. Without protection, bikers fear the lane with good reason.

Paint is not infrastructure, no surprises there.

You do know that instagram specifically tailors the content it shows to your interactions patterns? It adjust to trigger exactly what catches your attention. What you see is not what everyone else necessarily sees.

You have way more than I do, with more flexibility. Definitely not tied to Visa and MasterCard. Skrill for example, accepts crypto and debit. PaySafe I think is outside of the Visa network and takes debit for prepaid cards as well.