On the ISS/Russian problem https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/11/russian-launch-pad-incident-raises-concerns-about-future-of-space-station/ (View Post)

Obamacare was only an absurd bandaid The only politically workable solution was proposed, strangely enough, by Bernie Sanders. Expanding Medicaid & Medicare to cover more and more people over tim… (View Post)

Ahem. A minority of the conservative benches wanted to see if a deal could be found. Note that they had constantly backed rearmament - which had been attacked by much of the Labour party. As Orwell n… (View Post)

As I pointed out previously, existing *federal* health care spending exceeds that of the NHS, per head. That's without any of the state and local government spending. They've already got So… (View Post)

You fool! Calling the peak means that they will go up again. Bet you do BBQ's on the top of Mount Olympus, while a Test Match is on, on a Bank Holiday, while waving a metal rod at the sky and sh… (View Post)