That’s probably a factor (insurers make enough payments to hospitals they can demand lower prices and get them while out of pocket people usually don’t have much power to negotiate), but also this article makes it sound like $1400 is just the base price,

The report estimates the average ambulance ride in the United States costs $1,383.44, more than double Australia’s $622 average. The gap widens further with mileage fees: Americans pay about $19.49 per mile, while most other countries charge little to nothing based on distance traveled.

Meanwhile if any of these people try to escape this oppression by migrating anywhere they’ll get treated like terrorists

The problem is the lack of debate. This team think that makes every idea from the other side stupid by default. A parliamentary system will fail when people stop talking to each other.

Somewhat agreed, but there are a few things that really need to be behind debate (human caused climate change, the need for universal healthcare and universal human rights, the efficacy of vaccines, etc.). Some political organization is a good thing.

It’s a great century to bring back https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanism?wprov=sfla1

Except in the current disorganized world we always just end up with one or two superpowers bullying the little governments and crushing all kinds of diversity anyway.

Also,

You can move to a country with less oppressive laws

That might work for the crafty and well-resourced individual who has a go bag and good OpSec and can actually hop borders and keep their heads down, but that sort of thing is nearly impossible for, like, a single parent working for a crap hourly wage, or an unhoused person dealing with an extended mental health crisis, or other more vulnerable people. Justice shouldn’t depend on geography.

A true and important point, but the message I takeaway from this one is

Failure: you will wonder if there was more you could have done

Success: you will wonder if there was more you could have done

French newspaper Le Figaro reported Kavinsky had been complaining of headaches for several days, and authorities think he may have had a stroke.

No suspicious items were discovered at the scene by the first responders and Paris prosecutors have now opened an investigation to determine the cause of death, the outlet said.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c204n74xyv3o (arc)

Also, https://www.lesoir.be/762002/article/2026-07-29/le-dj-francais-kavinsky-retrouve-mort-son-domicile (arc)

Fuck misogynistic twerps and assholes who give flight attendants and other kinds of service workers a hard time, but this story would not be getting signal boosted by rags like the Daily Mail and New York Post if it wasn’t a Muslim immigrant being accused

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_anarchism?wprov=sfla1

My hypothesis is that the rise in distracted driving was just as bad in European countries but they have safer infrastructure that limits cars’ speed and otherwise protects pedestrians, and I think that could be tested by looking at the rates of car crashes overall in Europe (if those went up at the same time as the US without a corresponding rise in dead pedestrians I think that’d suggest their infrastructure is the difference)

This doesn’t read like AI to me, it actually does connect its thoughts together and builds an argument narrative

That said, it is really awful human writing that has some cringey phrasing choices and the kind of grammar/sentence structuring I’d expect from a text to speech derived unedited stream of consciousness, I’m just not getting AI vibes off of it

Yeah, hearing the NYT decry hijacking of the public square is like hearing a Republican complain that Trump’s foreign policy is destabilizing the world

1. Pretty sure the margin in this vote was a little less than 90%
2. Saying “I believe other people have been brainwashed” without even making a gesture at evidence to support your own claim seems a bit ironic

If you’re not talking about voter suppression you’re doing conservatives’ work for them

e; “Oklahoma’s election laws inhibit voter participation, create more extreme candidates, experts say” (arc)

“Yes” is a death sentence too, it will just be a more drawn out process that enriches the people killing you

I mean, they can flood all of our feeds, but I’m pretty sure it’s had the worst box office performance of any Star Wars movie ever

Basically any track from the new Vince Staples album, but if I had to pick one - https://vincestaples.bandcamp.com/track/the-running-man

Wouldn’t have happened if he was on Pixelfed instead

That is some clean zip tie work

I mean, the kind of person who will actually notice the coercive nature of the governing structures of other platforms and seek out a different space like this one here tend to be ornery. There are some bad politics sometimes to be sure but I think they’re organic.