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If I'm going to be paying $200,000 for medical procedures then they better be replacing my liver or something. How could a pregnancy possibly cost that much money?

They probably asked 6 grand just for pulling out a splinter.

Apparently if you ask for an itemised bill (Which they have no right to refuse) they tend to lower the price because they can't actually justify the random numbers they came up with.

We'll also historically people weren't very good at keeping track of when they got pregnant so it was a bit hit and misses to when the baby would be due.

Yeah in most European countries at least half the kids survived to adulthood now. So if you have four kids at least two of them will survive and that's all you need to pull the ox

I doubt any of them have passports and probably couldn't point to the UK on an atlas, so I think you'd be relatively safe.

How's the US still a country, how do people just put up with it.

We had a 4 hour lecture on AI safety. It really could have been an email.

The French would never do that. They take an hour and a half for lunch and go to a restaurant that serves wine and a choice of cheeses.

Why are they more ready now than they were 2 years ago? Politically nothing has really changed I know Americans like to think that Trump is a big factor but he isn't, since even he is just as bullish on China as any other US president has been and it's not as if the military is left.

Yeah well we can't all be French. I'm not saying it's a good thing, but 30 minutes is standard even in Europe.

What's your source for that. China has no more reason to invade Taiwan next year than they have at any point in the last 30 years

If you work for a large enough organisation it's almost impossible to get fired. Microsoft like most organisations almost certainly operate on the PIN system, or something equivalent.

Basically to get fired you have to get yelled at by your manager, then have a documented yelling at from HR, then get another documented yelling at from HR, then get put on report, then fail to improve, and then you're fired. Each stage has like a 2-month cooldown before the next step.

Start to finish the whole process can take over a year. Most people quit out of boredom before it gets that far. If you are not literally the most incompetent employee in the department you're probably safe.