We can all tell, but most of us are too polite to say anything.

The (lifesaving) care is guaranteed, whether you are able to pay or not. The resulting debt could cause a lot of problems, but few of them contribute immediately to life expectancy.

Quality of life, sure. Feeling financially secure in your present position, absolutely. But not how long your ticker keeps ticking.

Health seems to be valid this way https://www.etymonline.com/word/health

But with should have an eth instead.

The major factors in the US’s low life expectancy are guns and automobiles. Because the required medical care for the damage those things cause is already guaranteed, universal healthcare would have a relatively small impact on life expectancy, especially in the short term.

It’s possible infant mortality would benefit. Major reasons for our (the US’s) poor performance there are people that do not seek medical care (polling suggests about 2/3 of this is either driven by or related to cost concerns), and differences in how we track infant mortality statistics (for example, the US counts all infants, even if they are born severely premature, while most countries exclude some prematurely born infants from their statistics).

Birds that can migrate thousands of kilometers without so much as a Netflix break or a quick scroll through a memes community presumably have a good attention span. Better than mine, anyways

It’s impossible to tell the dumbest human and the smartest bot apart, because anything one bleets out with no thought or intelligence to ground it against an underlying reality… Could also have been bleeted out with no thought or intelligence to ground it against an underlying reality by the other.

Unless they use en dash when it “should” be used according to the grammar books, apparently.

I’ve had to explain this to more executives than I wish to remember. Computer code is a recipe, not a cake. When you see a recipe that’s super long, and requires two kitchens worth of bakeware and tools, you probably think it’s a bad recipe. Short, elegant, easy to follow recipes with a little note in the margin from your grandmother about what to do when the dough is too sticky are the best recipes.

Unfortunately, one learned the exact wrong lesson from this, and started measuring lower lines of code produced as better… Which worked for a while, but lead to a lot of weirdness around new features for no particular reason.