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In theory, yes. ERs in the US are obligated to treat all emergencies owing to the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) In practice, they would likely be very stingy regarding what is an emergency condition, and do the minimum required.

I think it’s more that he has no real expertise to lend, so it doesn’t matter much.

When you registered your account you agreed to follow the rules of this site. You replied to a post in speculations but it was a new take, meaning you hijacked the thread. That’s against the rules. Preaching is also against the rules. “Scientist have zero for sure proof ANYWHERE about ANYTHING” tells us you don’t really have a grasp of science and are posting in bad faith (another violation) Further, the first rule of the speculations section is “Speculations must be backed up by evidence or some sort of proof. If your speculation is untestable, or you don't give us evidence (or a prediction that is testable), your thread will be moved to the Trash Can. If you expect any scientific input, you need to provide a case that science can measure” which is why you were admonished for not using science references, and why the post was put into the trash - we told you that would happen, if you had bothered to check. If you’re referring to your right under the first amendment of the US Constitution, you still haven’t. That means the government can’t silence you. We’re not the government and can moderate as we wish. Your speech wasn’t erased, but it was moved, because this site has rules, you broke several of them, and that’s what happens. If you complain about this elsewhere, make sure you point out that you broke the rules. You wouldn’t want to bear false witness. Oh, and “The Bible is recanted live stories” probably isn’t what you meant to say. But it’s a funny typo.

Sure. But the issue was “wealth inequity” - which I took as the difference between the very rich and the very poor. And there are hundreds of millions of very poor. Are people, on average, better off? Sure! But the very poor aren’t, and the rich definitely are. The inequity is greater. And that’s really a tragedy of modern times.

I don’t see that there has been a serious job offer for that position, so it’s largely moot, but I don’t know how much time it takes to say “Let’s go to Mars!” every now and then. It’s not clear that he’s all that involved with daily operations of any of his companies.

That he’s a tad better than a coin flip is hardly a ringing endorsement. A coin flip gets you 6 correct out of 12, and all you need are three elections where the winner is pretty obvious where there’s no real guesswork (Reagan beating Carter, Bush beating Dukakis are two candidates)

Which means the disparity comparison should not be using the poor in an industrialized nation as the baseline, since there are a billion people elsewhere who are worse off.

What does being speaker have to with going to Mars?

We’ve been over why this is a bad idea, but beyond that, I don’t see how it solves your conundrum. Surely a referendum can be both good and bad? We have referendums in the US, and it’s not like they universally get huge landslide victories. There’s always something bad about them, in the view of some of the people.

Not sure. I’ve read things that show the NHS in the UK employs doctors. Canada, as I recall, is a single-payer system. The advantage of medicare is that it strips out the middleman (for-profit insurance) that only seems to add cost and deny service when it threatens profits.

That’s the payment vehicle - single payer insurance - not the healthcare itself. It’s not doctors and nurses on the state payroll, providing the services.

That has some physical significance, as it’s the most probable distance an electron would be from the proton in the S state of hydrogen. It gives you the scale of the size of the hydrogen atom. The classical electron radius doesn’t have an analogous role. By not saying much of anything other than citing the number, you didn’t do much to dissuade this notion.

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In industrialized countries, perhaps. There are a lot of people who don’t have access to clean water or safe food, or decent medical care, or even electricity.

Musk vs Bezos inequality misses the point. A rich king sitting on a pile of gold and jewels in olden times had the same issue of having money that would never be spent. That’s the case with inherited wealth. It’s why their heirs were also rich. So do the very rich.

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! Moderator Note What is it you want to discuss? Your rambling does not make it clear.

Tell me you’re a troll without saying you’re a troll.

The issue was souls, and the fact that we don’t know the details of dark matter or dark energy doesn’t mean anything regarding souls. That’s on par with saying we don’t know what a particular light in the sky is and concluding it’s an alien. We didn’t know the details of the composition of the nucleus 100 years ago. It takes time to figure things out.

Please don’t use the report post function, or PMs, to request we fix trivial typographic errors. If you can no longer edit your post either live with the pain of having typed it’s instead of its (or whatever), or, if you must, quote yourself and respond with the correct version. Most of the time people will know what you meant. If they don’t, they can ask for clarification.

True but completely beside the point. Did you really think anyone was think wealth inequality was Musk vs. Bezos? And again, it is not obvious to me this is true. Merely asserting it is not sufficient Must can buy basically anything he wants, that can be bought, and there’s much, much more that you can buy these days. A person who can buy almost nothing, but nothing is still nothing - that hasn’t changed.

Yeah, the Hg spectral lines are in the UV and blue half of the visible spectrum, with nothing in the red, and then IR 184.5 nm, 253.7 nm, 365.4 nm, 404.7 nm, 435.8 nm, 546.1 nm, 578.2 nm and 1014 nm.

The radius is not measured, since it doesn’t physically exist. The precision stems from being able to measure the mass.

The classical electron radius is not the actual size of the electron A clue should be the use of “classical” in the name, while the electron is a quantum particle. Classical concepts have a habit of failing when QM comes into play As the article says, “It links the classical electrostatic self-interaction energy of a homogeneous charge distribution to the electron's relativistic mass-energy”

No doubt a possible factor. I know that processing out when I retired had months of lead time, and it was probably 6-7 months from putting in paperwork until they got the disbursements right. (4 before and 3 after. They start with a guess to get the retirement pay flowing, then adjust when they finalize the numbers) The system still consults paper files and there’s always a backlog. I imagine the SSA has similar issues. I had a comparable experience when I joined the navy. “placeholder” pay for a while until I was in the system and the numbers got properly crunched.