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  • You pay for your doctor visit with taxes.

    Oh you're one of them. Real relation that you're providing everyone there.

    Except it's actually not strictly speaking true, yeah everyone pays some taxes and some of those taxes go to healthcare but it's not a separate tax, it's just part of the tax everyone pays. Some of it goes to healthcare, but some of it goes to road maintenance, some the police. It's all just in a big lump of tax.

    It's not as if your tax rate goes up depending on your health. You pay the same amount of tax regardless of your current medical status so to say you pay for health with tax is a rather disingenuous.

  • I'm not working today, yet I'm still being paid thanks to employment law ensuring full paid time off.

    No, obviously we'd be much better under the American style hyper-capitalist system. Especially now.

  • I'm assuming you were talking about the London riots, there were a few days of violence but it was only idiots who were after a free TV and PlayStation, and of course the one unimaginative guy who famously stole some rice and then posted about it on Facebook. But of course no one has any guns so once the police turn up everyone tends to calm down.

  • You get that hacking isn't magic right. In order to "hack it" the files actually have to be available on the public network. If they're just on an internal file system you would have to be on site to get access.

  • Did I know how printers work and can fix their printer.

    Look, I have a computer science degree (utterly pointless qualification folks don't get one) and I work in cyber security. I haven't got a clue how those fuckers work, I don't know get a brother or something they seem to be fine.

  • A single atom of gold is far too small for any photon in the visible spectrum to interact with.

    A single atom of gold is 0.2 nanometres (a nanometre is an incredibly small thing and a gold atom isn't even half of 1% of that), meanwhile the wavelength of blue light (The smallest wavelength of visible light) is a hulking 380 nanometres. No matter how much you zoom in you would never see anything a single atom is just too small to interact with light.

  • I think it's more that people don't appreciate the wall of text that you copy and pasted from an AI.

    Seriously, you are demonstrating everything that's wrong with AI. People use it instead of thinking.

  • Yeah the problem has always been that solar panels only really like to operate within a very narrow temperature band. It's why you can't just plate the Sahara desert in solar panels. In theory that would generate loads of power but the heat of the desert is way outside of their operating range.

    There's been loads of ideas to heat/cool solar panels, the problem up until now has always been to do that without cutting into the panel's efficiency so much that it isn't worth doing.

    But there's been videos on YouTube of people cooling solar panels with plasma cooling and phase change materials for a few years now.

  • If you ever talk to anyone over the age of 100 every single one of them without fail, swears that the secrets to long life is brandy and cigarettes.

    Either they're really on to something or they're trying to kill everyone else off.

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