This is like the saying blood is thicker than water, but the the full version:

The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb.

Sometimes you relationship with your FOC is stronger and better, because it is not built on genetic predisposition but rather it is a bond that you intentionally create.

Apparently there isnt much to back that up.

Writing in the 1990s and 2000s, author Albert Jack[18] and Messianic minister Richard Pustelniak,[19] claim that the original meaning of the expression was that the ties between people who have made a blood covenant (or have shed blood together in battle) were stronger than ties formed by "the water of the womb", thus "The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb". Neither of the authors cites any sources to support his claim.[18][19]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_is_thicker_than_water

Somewhat tangential, but from what I can see, the idea that "the blood of the covenant..." is the full version of the saying is a fairly modern invention.

As is "the customer is always right in matters of taste"

So that juatifies this attack does it? How many dead Venezuelans does it justify?

Seriously, I don't need my car to get weekly OTA updates. And my 8yr old nissan qashqai had lane assist, it's hardly revolutionary. Tesla is pretty much dead in Europe, mainly due to Musks personality, but the quality of its product is also poor.

HK is dead, it's just China now. No independence and so no reason to be there than mainland China.

The banking and shipping and other service industries will slowly migrate to Singapore and KL, possibly Bangkok and HK will be a non-entity in a decade or two. I know many HK expats who moved to the UK who had seen it's decline in just the last 5 years.

That poses 4 questions.

Yeah?

And?

So?

What?

And this is a 5 sigma anomaly.

I actually heard this from my wife who is working with GOSH and related a version of this to me. So I was really grateful to be able to read the proper analysis.

So you want to ban Europe in X?

No you're right, I was imprecise.

Ban EU in X.

Then they'll have to build their own tech though instead of just fining foreign tech and regulating tech to death. Not really their thing. China's helped by being pro-China.

We do innovate.

The US frequently buys us up whenever we get something going in tech.

Like DeepMind.

Now, a question: what exactly has been innovative about X specifically after Musk bought it and fired so many of the people working there?

Another question: what can X do that all the free clones can't do?

While I'm at it, what about vice versa? Because if the free clones can do more than X, that would show how un-innovative X has become.

What I've seen from X since the purchase has been copying other people's features. Longer messages, videos, that kind of thing. Even getting into GenAI, though on that at least everyone is plagarising everyone else.

You think China doesn't regulate tech? Regulation drives innovation.

That will be why the doc tells you it's too expensive, because over the counter is cheap. It's not that they can't afford it, but in the UK there is a standard prescription price. It's under £10 per prescription for any drug that prescribed, but it's a flat fee. So if they prescribe something that costs less than the prescription charge it makes no sense for the patient.

There's a standard perscription price in England, not the UK. in Scotland and Wales there's 0 charges to the patient

Thanks for the correction.

Just because some idiots will buy anything apple related doesn't mean it was good and should not have been mocked