Hi everyone, I am reaching out to ask if anyone knows of any #GirlScouts selling cookies that wants to help there troop? I love buying cookies and supporting the Girl Scouts, but I want the credit for my contribution to go to someone indevidually who has a page that they can give me so I can buy from them and there troop gets the credit. I'm willing to work with anyone in need, I just want to buy some cookies and help a scout build some confidence. I was a Boy Scout and made it to Eagle when I was 17-years-old, and this is my way of supporting scouts by buying from them directly. Thanks, feel free to reach out via DM or just reply to this post, I'm down to buy from anyone who reaches out, because I think that programs like the Girl Scouts are a great way to raise future leaders. It certainly helped me a lot when I did scouting.
I highly recommend the Midlands Graduate School in the Foundations of Computing Science. And so do tell me many previous students, some of whom are now well-established academics, including LICS invited speakers.
The courses for 2026 are:
1. Type theory using Agda 2. Category theory 3. Lambda calculus and combinatory logic. 4. Effects and Call-by-Push-Value. 5. Synthetic Homotopy Theory. 6. Categorical Algebra and Logic. 7. Inductive and coindictuve Reasoning with Isabelle/HOL
(4) is to be delivered by the winner of the 2025 Alonzo Church Award, my colleague Paul Levy.
The problem was that there is a password for the coffee shop wifi, but I couldn't discover that from ifconfig until I pulled it upon my phone and saw it was asking for a password.
So, dear #FreeBSD fam, how was I supposed to know? There was no mention of WPA or WPS in the CAPS flags:
rld@Intrepid:~$ ifconfig wlan0 list scan |grep -e ^SSID -e ^The.Book
SSID/MESH ID BSSID CHAN RATE S:N INT CAPS
The Book Shoppe 50:e4:e0:b7:b8:e2 6 54M -53:-96 100 EPS RSN BSSLOAD APCHANREP HTCAP WME
The Book Shoppe 50:e4:e0:b7:7b:c2 11 54M -54:-96 100 EPS RSN BSSLOAD APCHANREP HTCAP WME
The Book Shoppe 50:e4:e0:b7:b8:f2 36 54M -59:-96 100 EP RSN BSSLOAD APCHANREP APCHANREP APCHANREP APCHANREP HTCAP VHTCAP VHTOPMODE VHTPWRENV WME
The Book Shoppe 50:e4:e0:b7:7b:d2 149 54M -57:-96 100 EP RSN BSSLOAD APCHANREP APCHANREP APCHANREP APCHANREP HTCAP VHTCAP VHTOPMODE VHTPWRENV WME
I've had a hard time finding/figuring out what all of those various CAPS flags mean. :P
@BorrisInABox I think you're right. It's got the word "move" written on it and everything. But they only shipped me one wheel, and it's got a wire hanging off one side so it's effectively useless. I'll definitely be complaining to Sweetwater about this.
@Bri Nah, it must be some new and exasperating invention for the blind. I mean the word "able" is right there in the name. They embossed the letters on the box so we could feel them, but they never talked to a blind person so nobody told them Braille exists. I bet I'm going to open this and find a robot vacuum that cleans up dog hair but also uses AI to guide me around my apartment. I took a picture of the box and apparently it's something called an Ableton Move, so I think I'm really onto something here. I'd throw it in the trash, but it's already full of pizza boxes and disposable MacBooks.
Aha, that'll be a Move. Or to give it its fairer name, a Move-anywhere-you-want-so-long-as-you-take-along-a-second-device-capable-of-running-a-browser-and-producing-TTS-because-we-didn't-do-this-properly.
@Bri @Scott I love Ableton but I feel this way too. Is there seriously no way for them to make a screen reader for it? They basically already did, they just have to put TTS in there.
@Bri @Scott Yeah this is mainly why I'm not getting one, no way I'm going to carry around another device just to use it. Completely defeats the whole purpose.
@ZBennoui @Bri @Scott I wonder if they're using something very proprietary for audio. It seems moderately hackable, so if nothing else, maybe I can make it broadcast a hotspot when there's no active internet connection.
I don't know exactly what they did, but it sure isn't the standard Linux audio stuff. No alsa to be found anywhere, so no pulse audio, and sure's hell no Pipewire. They're also using a custom realtime 5.x Linux kernel. Latency is as good as I've seen on any DAW on it's rather not at all high-end hardware (Raspberry Pi CM4), so there's that.
I have added wireless networks using SSH, yes. That part is still unfortunately not accessible on device. It uses Connman to manage networks, which is a rather odd duck.
@Scott @ZBennoui @Bri Stupid thing is, you can select from a list of networks already in the device to connect to accessibly, so long as you can connect to it in the first place, either through WiFi or USB-C, which is also Ethernet, but you can't add a new network with accessibility like that.
@BorrisInABox @Scott @Bri Yeah I thought this was something they were planning to fix shortly after Move's release. Worth noting that the main accessibility dev had to take a leave of absence for a few months, but is now back, so hopefully we'll start seeing more accessibility improvements soon.
@BorrisInABox @Scott @ZBennoui @Bri This seems like such a ridiculously interesting device, but the fact they haven't managed to fix that in a year is troubling. I kind of want to make a full system backup in case they break it entirely at some point in the future. The idea of accessibility being a priority doesn't seem very compatible with the fact that I have to get sighted help before I can actually access it. If I can add my phone's hotspot to this, I'll have screen reader access anywhere, and should then be able to add another wi-fi network, but right now I guess I can't. There are a huge number of ways this could be made easier, and they have Linux people working on it, so I wonder if the screen reader is just someone's random idea that hasn't been maintained since the device first showed up on shelves
@BorrisInABox @Scott @Bri See my other reply, main accessibility dev was on leave for a few months, which is why accessibility work has stalled. They're back now, though, so hopefully things will improve.
@Scott @ZBennoui @Bri I've never done this from straight up out of the box, but theoretically, you can connect to a PC or Mac, go to a URL, add an SSH key, and initially get at least one wireless network configured. I only did it that way after the fact, so I don't know if Move blocks SSH access via USB-C until you go through it's onboard setup junk, or press the "I don't care" button.
@BorrisInABox @Scott @ZBennoui @Bri I'll let you know. It's currently charging and I have a couple more things to do before I can get super distracted with it, but I'll probably set it up this evening. I'd love to just avoid an Aira call entirely. Do you have notes on how you added a network?
@Scott @ZBennoui @Bri I recorded an audio thing for the Move WhatsApp group at the time, with the intent of actually writing everything out, from the process of generating and uploading an SSH key to adding a wireless network, but I never got around to doing that bit.
@BorrisInABox @Scott @ZBennoui @Bri This is ridiculously useful; thanks for making it. It's also just fun to have a little preview of what it's like to access the Move over SSH. It sounds like it just shows up as a network device? Meaning if you don't mind connecting it to the computer, you technically don't need to connect it to wi-fi at all. I assumed I'd need an ethernet adapter. Part of the reason I wanted one of these is to hack around with the Linux install. I want to figure out what they're using for audio and see if I can inject stuff into it. Failing that, maybe I can make the screen reader work over Telnet or something. The bus factor is real here, but the openness is a huge plus.
@Scott @ZBennoui @Bri Yeah... I think you probably won't get very far with that audio injection stuff, but good luck to ya. No, you don't need an Ethernet adapter. USB-C shows up as Ethernet, even to a phone.
@LeonianUniverse @Bri @BorrisInABox @Scott Here's my take for what it's worth. Until NI actually start taking accessibility seriously, and not taking multiple years to roll out what essentially amount to minor improvements, I would go with Ableton every time. I think Move is overpriced for what it is, but that has nothing to do with the accessibility implementation, even though that needs work. If you're set on getting hardware, though, Move is the only mostly accessible option out there that doesn't necessarily require the use of a computer.
OH yeah, you also may need to install the Ableton driver to make everything work from USB-C on a Windows PC. I forgot what it does without that. No need on anything that isn't Windows.
@Bri @BorrisInABox @ZBennoui @Scott I see, okay, was actually looking for some real insight on this, as I plan to buy either device and I don't know which one I want to get yet.
@Bri @BorrisInABox @ZBennoui @Scott Yeah, but even with the new update to the accessibility, is it still bad? I've heard its much improved over the old KK Access program.
@Bri @BorrisInABox @ZBennoui @Scott I think that makes my decision clear then, I was debating whether or not to buy the Ableton Move or the Machine MK3, but I think I'll stick with Native Instruments instead. They are very reliable.
@ZBennoui @BorrisInABox @Bri FYI the person who was on medical leave isn't a dev. They're accessibility lead, so of course progress will change without them there, but it's not great to see no progress since release. IMO what's there so far should be called an accessibility prototype.
@Scott @BorrisInABox @Bri Ah thanks for the correction, and yeah totally agree regarding slow progress. I remember shortly after Move came out, I'd heard Ableton was working on a solution to make set up easier out of the box. Surprised that hasn't materialized yet.
Unfortunately I'm not sure if the Ableton comes up immediately with network access, but I suspect the answer is yes. I figured out that Tailscale was breaking DNS, but only after dismissing the welcome screen. That said, when you power it on for the first time, you can just skip the wi-fi setup. At this point, the wi-fi is disabled but it otherwise functions normally. When you first power on the Move, it shows a "Welcome, press wheel to get started" prompt. When you press the wheel, you'll be asked if you want to set up wi-fi, and you can turn the wheel to the right and press it again to select "skip". You can then go to move.local/development/ssh and add a public key. Worth noting that the page prompts you to "confirm with the wheel"; just press the wheel and the key should be added. After that, you can set up the network according to this audio file, but you need to type "enable wifi" from the connmanctl prompt before you can scan for networks. So, as long as you know what to expect, independent setup seems to be possible. Also, I see a "Beta" tab in the development section. Has anyone tried joining that? Edit: I'm on version 1.2 and the current stable version is 1.8. I'm installing the update now, but I can't guarantee everything will work exactly the same way on the new version. I assume 1.2 is somewhat old.
Yeah, that just gets you access to the beta builds when they come out. It's just an easy opt-in/out. If you want to actually contribute to discussions, you have to go through their code central thing. Forget what they call it now. Generally speaking, during an active cycle, you'll get one beta build per week until release. Then it goes quiet for a bit, then more betas. The current 1.8.5 looks like mostly just miner bugfixes. Most of them add obvious features.
"Contrairement aux idées reçues, ce n’est pas grâce aux véhicules électriques, mais par le développement des trains à grande vitesse que les Chinois ont réussi à limiter leur consommation de pétrole" lemonde.fr/idees/article/2025/…
Contrairement aux idées reçues, ce n’est pas grâce aux véhicules électriques, mais par le développement des trains à grande vitesse que les Chinois ont réussi à limiter leur consommation de pétrole, constate dans sa chronique au « Monde » Jean-Baptis…
"Québec était la plus importante municipalité dans la province à encore arborer un crucifix dans sa salle de conseil. C’était aussi l’une des dernières."
La retraite a sonné pour le crucifix de l’hôtel de ville de Québec. Le symbole religieux sera retiré d’ici Noël de la salle du conseil municipal pour se conformer au principe de laïcité, et sera entreposé dans une collection d’objets historiques.
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So you're telling me JAWS was really the first screen reader to virtualize 32-bit Eloquence into its own process with FSSynthWOW64? Wow, they were ahead of their time I suppose.
Yes, because JAWS was the first third-party screen reader to have a 64-bit version of the main screen reader program, not just support 64-bit operating systems while keeping the main program 32-bit (that was, I think, Serotek System Access).
@matt I guess technically 3rd since iOS did this in VoiceOver and Eloq? Quite interesting that we're putting so much weight behind keeping a dead synth alive, but with not enough competition to challenge it (Vocalizer sucks at punctuation, ETC), it'll just stay alive. And become increasingly hard to maintain, although I don't see Windows abandoning win32 for a long while, maybe only if ARM64 became better, or this AI-first agentic OS crap makes them lose sight of compatibility.
@matt oh true. I've never tried ZDSR or any of the other Chinese readers, I suppose they might be the only ones to fall in that list then. Makes sense though why I could never get Sapi5 Eloquence working with Narrator then, it only reads the SAPI64 reg voices, you've solved a longstanding mistery for me :D
@matt I am in favor of improving other options, or even creating another, similar, formant-based synth. Perhaps record more voices to RHVoice, or improving ESpeak plus MBrola, etc.
@clv1 RHVoice has true potential and I think momentum for it has gotten greater as time has gone on, to me performance comes almost as close as Eloquence but not quite as I don't hear the start of letters when holding down the tab key like I do there. Perhaps that's the other bit, some people are sensitive even about the smallest amounts of lag, wish I didn't count myself in that group. ESpeak had the potential but I feel like we saw the limits of it with SpeechPlayer in Espeak's project, so far though that was the closest for me if ever that I considered switching away permanently. @matt
For this #GivingTuesday I'm going to make the (biased) argument for why you might consider donating to @spritely, especially if you care about a healthier future for the internet! spritely.institute/donate/
*None* of the decentralized social networks today are robust enough to handle the threats facing vulnerable people and activists today. Not the present-day fediverse, not Bluesky/ATProto. What can we do?
What can we do? Is there hope? Is it possible to build something better?
Spritely was born out of this work, and the strive to create infrastructure allowing for "Networks of Consent". More on that here: spui25.nl/programma/we-can-cha…
Christine Lemmer-Webber, best known as co-author of ActivityPub, the decentralized social networking protocol, will speak about the crisis technologists face. Why must we revise the default assumptions of the web 2.
User-empowering technology is a lot of work, corporations aren't motivated to build it. We need research and development of new tech that changes the game from an org that isn't bound by pushing profit.
And that's why @spritelyinst.bsky.social is a nonprofit research lab.
Mi enfermera me acaba de decir que con cómo viene la gripe este año están intentando que se vacune todo el mundo, tenga la edad que tenga y sea vulnerable o no. Así que si estabais con la duda, podéis pedir cita sin problema pa que os pongan la banderilla
Just went down the rabbit hole of Japanese train departure melodies, where most stations got unique tunes to announce when a train is leaving, often themed around the area they were in. And then I went down the much sadder rabbit hole of finding out this year JR East, one of the companies running the network has started phasing them out for standardised, line-specific and more generic melodies, maybe due to equipment changes (because now the driver is responsible for pressing the button to play them which is now located in the cab instead of outside where it used to be pressed by a conductor), maybe due to expiring copyrights, or some people claim due to people getting in the way pointing their selphiesticked phones to record them. Apparently minimalism doesn't extend to just visual logos anymore. :( Anyway here's a good video in English that explains the concept. The whole channel is worth a sub if you love to also hear about things like the Wilhelm scream and its lesser-known brother or the origins of the Playstation startup sound. youtube.com/watch?v=-KxQIEhsFQ…
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I'm pretty blown away that Liblouis just added support for Grade 3 English Braille. I imagine there will be a subset of Braille readers who will be quite happy with this news.
@Tamasg yep was just thinking the same thing. It'll depend on the companies managing the products that depend on the library. I'm sure NVDA will get it soon.
I started to learn grade 3 braille years ago and stopped. I don’t even have any kind of a reference manual for it now. I would certainly be interested to give it a go.
@mcourcel @Bruce @JamiePauls I've seen some learning sessions covering Grade 3 Braille hosted by ACB Community's calls but I've never listened to them.
Un señor en su casa descubre que una empresa llamada Pinturas Rosell se ha llevado 3,4 millones en 1.182 contratos menores de Ayuso.
Funcionarios. Oposición política. Interventores. Observatorios de lucha contra la corrupción. Tribunal de cuentas. Fiscalía de Madriz. Medios de comunicación.
Todos cobrando al final de cada mes por buscar y denunciar corrupción. Y un tío con un portátil y un par de tardes libres hace mejor su trabajo.
Pregunta seria. Todos sabemos qué marca la tradición editorial. Textos justificados, letra con serifa, separación silábica, evitar líneas vírgenes y huérfanas, etc. Cuando he escrito mis trabajos y mis apuntes para clase he respetado esa tradición. Sin embargo, yo soy profesor de lengua, no editor de textos. Y cada vez que leo algo específico sobre accesibilidad, lo que leo es que evite todo eso. Al final atiendo a alumnado de muy diversa índole y me interesa que mis materiales propios sean adecuados para todos. Las tipografías sin serifas son más fáciles de leer. Los textos, justificados a la izquierda. Nada de separación silábica. No he leído ningún informe técnico o divulgación científica al respecto (tampoco he buscado mucho), pero este es un tema que me sorprende bastante. ¿Estoy en lo correcto? ¿Conocéis bibliografía específica sobre el tema?
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There seems to be some excitement about Code Factory bringing Eloquence back to Android as a 64-bit app. As someone who doesn't use Android and doesn't have any particular love for Eloquence, I'm out of the loop. I thought everyone hated Code Factory for how they've handled voice demos and existing Eloquence customers in the past? Do I have that wrong, or is this such a big deal that all will be forgiven? No judgement either way. I'm just not sure what the deal is.
it's one of those things where I think they're the only stewarts of the Eloquence engine left alive out there, so people accept it. I'm not that excited, if I can get the beta I get the beta, but the sub fee is where I'm out on it. With how little I use Android phones, mainly for testing at work, it's so so not worthwhile. I also doubt it's true 64-bit. Unless they're in such close partnership with Cerence that they get that decompiled, there ain't no way, I'm thinking more like a wrapper library that's translating calls directly inside the process, sort of like what chinese phones are doing to get around the lack of aArch32 on modern ARM chips.
@Tamasg Every screen reader will ultimately need to virtualise/translate calls in that way to keep Eloquence working. JAWS and VoiceOver are already doing it, there's efforts underway to make it workable for NVDA, etc. Code Factory doing it on Android won't be that special. @alexhall
Today I slept in till 11. It's now just after 12:30. And I've seen and dealt with all I want to see and deal with of this day. I want to go back to bed and just sleep this day away. #DepressionSucks
Noo, this is no good. Depression sucks indeed. I'm sorry you feel that way, and I do understand depression way too well. I hope the day gets better for you, we can't have you depressed all day now, can we? Here to be a listener if you need to talk to someone, and I'm pretty sure others are here as well: you will get through this, I know it. ,
"if only there was a #chat app that had end-to-end #encryption, without phone numbers or any private data required for registration, #decentralized, easy to use, with multi-profile and multi-device support and available in all platforms"
It doesn't have quantum resistant encryption, SimpleX and Signal do, SimpleX is also decentralised with multi-profile, no private data for registration and available on linux android windows and macos
Quantum resistance is important now because of an attack vector called Store Now Decrypt Later > youtube.com/watch?v=-UrdExQW0c…
A quantum computer in the next decade could crack the encryption our society relies on using Shor's Algorithm. Head to https://brilliant.org/veritasium to st...
> Quantum resistance is important now because of an attack vector called Store Now Decrypt Later
that would apply in a centralized server with access to all messages, but with #DeltaChat you can use a trusted server or your own server and then the attacker can't "store now" because communication between you and your delta chat server is already encrypted with quantum-resistant encryption
> SimpleX is also decentralised with multi-profile
but it doesn't have proper multi-device support besides the UI is pretty bad, not user friendly, not on the level of mainstream apps like #WhatsApp or #Telegram, see this #SimpleX screenshot for example
Custom backgrounds are far from an essential feature and anyway its not like the main messages are unreadable, this is easily fixed anyway I doubt it will be like that for much longer
Multi device support is a harder problem, but simplex still tackles it better than protocols with similar threat models like briar messenger or cwtch messenger for which there is essentially no multi device support, (and with briar not even a migration feature not sure abotu cwtch yet)
You alluded to simplex's Linked Mobiles feature have you tried it? it is surprisingly easy to use you just scan a qr code and after at most a couple of seconds you can use the same profile on a different device
It has gotten a lot more usable in the past 2y, the UI used to be a lot harder to navigate and you couldnt even trust it to reliably send messages its definitely a growing userbase amongst hardcore privacy enthusiasts and I expect it to get more polished
Also I don't think you give people enough credit I've got a lot of my friends both online and irl to message me there and no one has complained about the UI before obv you know your mom but I suppose it comes down to how much she cares abotu privacy and anonymity, imo motivation matters more than making tech solutions more pallatable to people who realistically dont care about the same things we do, but privacy and anonymity is a pillar of democracy and a last line of defence against fascism so everyone should care about it if they understood
I really need to get a handle on this "making FreeBSD laptop automatically handle Wifi and ethernet on the same network gracefully, preferring ethernet, but can't use lagg because ethernet is a dock" problem
I have ideas. But god damn this is a huge gap in the OS/network stack compared to MacOS
@piero also if I boot up when I'm not docked, then dock, the interface won't get put into the lagg and set as the primary. It's a whole goddamn mess.
I'm also getting very angry I can't figure out how to deal with /etc/resolv.conf right now because when I disable my wifi, it wipes /etc/resolv.conf even though openresolv / resolvconf should have the config from dhclient of the ue0 interface and put that in its place. But it doesn't.
I'm just going to write a blog post documenting three massive bugs / shortcomings with FreeBSD and a laptop with multiple interfaces so maybe someone will do something about it
Sorry, I did not want to be controversial. I was just surprised, since for some time I was using a lagg with ue interface (tethering from a mobile over USB) as the last link but still.
@piero nah you're good, I'm just agitated that nobody seems to see how terrible this experience is.
I'd be happy if simply disabling the wlan0 interface worked, but it doesn't. It wipes /etc/resolv.conf but leaves wlan0 as the default route interface which makes no sense because the interface is down and ue0 is up on the same network.
hm. That CodeFactory URL is giving me "not found" here, strange strange. Curious to crack it open, install it on a rooted device and tear into the APK, just to know: did they rebuild it into a 64-bit .SO library or are they just sandboxing the 32-bit form? About my only curiosity.
@jpellis2008 I am so wherey of cracks honestly. None for me, unless I can really break it down and make sure there's no logging mechanism sending my speech history to a server. Imagine the nightmare. I doubt the current ones have this but it's why I've used paid copies even if it still needs the Play billing to work.
@jpellis2008 If I wrote a hacked synthesiser that sent all your secrets to a remote logging endpoint, I would intentionally make sure it continued speaking without internet access. Otherwise it would be a tad suspicious.
In other words, it working without wi-fi doesn't imply anything about its trustworthiness. @Tamasg
@jscholes guess that's a good point. Thing is, even at most it wouldn't be more than 100-300 KB of logged data to send, or even smaller chunks. Then filtering it is easy enough for credit card numbers, e-mail addresses or common password pattern words to quickly extract info. I've seen some nasty stuff including Ransomware from blindness cracking places so I guess it's created a feeling of distrust. @jpellis2008
@pixelate I'd laugh if a cracked copy made it to the lists and sites before it even launched. Ha. Not that I condone pirating it, but man would that be ironic.
@socheat @pixelate that's the thing, it usesCortex-A78 cores. That thing would be faster than a Raspberry Pi5. If they really cannot make it work on an SOC like that, there's very little hope for anything Mediatek or worse.
Most presenters lose a significant amount of their audience 10 seconds into their lecture, because they play it safe. Not this one. The question is, what is real #music and is AI ruining it? youtube.com/watch?v=ZZ0BOEOtD2…
What makes music “real” — is it the instruments, the voice, the creator’s intention or something else entirely? Dustin Ballard, the creative force behind the...
Des rayons vidés : le magasin U Express rue du 22 novembre conteste une interdiction de vente d’alcool. Remarque : Depuis qu'il n'en vend plus, la rue est tranquille. Les alcooliques sont allés devant un autre magasin plus loin. #strasbourg dna.fr/economie/2025/12/01/des…
Sous le coup d’un arrêté préfectoral, le supermarché U Express de la Grand’rue à Strasbourg a dû retirer toutes les boissons alcoolisées de ses rayons.
If I had to guess, its gonna take a little longer, probably a few days, since the new Battlegrounds mechanic cannot be toggled off and needs to be supported first.
I'm mad the Bitcoin price is going back up because the bank has been making it hell for me to buy lots of Bitcoin this last week.
They cancelled a wire transfer I scheduled because I didn't answer their phone calls. Said it was the first time I've done a wire transfer and needed to speak to me first.
But that's not true. I did a huge wire transfer in 2021. They should know this.
And then they're throttling my ACH transfers, even to another bank where they verified I own that account.
I hate banks. They are not your friend. They never will be. Long live crypto.
Million dollar idea: a new telephone signaling protocol so that when I'm put on hold, it signals the music app on my local phone to play my tunes rather than whatever random junk has been badly recorded into their PBX.
If you're reasonably wealthy or poor enough, healthcare costs are not a concern. Be poor. Have a baby. Never see a bill. Thanks Medicaid!
Be middle class. Have a baby. Your finances are now fucked hard.
This guy is right that they're taxing it out of existence... FOR THE MIDDLE CLASS.
Poor people will still have babies and not think twice about it. The hospital is not going to turn away a mother, deny her prenatal care, make her have her baby in the streets -- yet. Once that starts happening people will really start caring I think. But for now, poor people often get some of the best healthcare in the country. But only if they're a specific kind of poor and in rather narrow circumstances.
The healthcare market is taxing reproduction out of existence.
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