The social credit score stuff is basically a Western myth. There was some local level rumblings and plans, but most of it has been unpopular or axed. The only thing that exists at a national level for individuals is the equivalent of a credit score in the US and western countries. I believed this narrative at one point, but then I delved deeper. https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/11/22/1063605/china-announced-a-new-social-credit-law-what-does-it-mean/
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I think you're assuming their intent is to make it sound expensive and that it's a right wing talking point, but they've already said in their comments that they agree with a publicly funded healthcare system and are actively for it. They've also said their reason for wanting to use another word besides "free" to describe it is to explicitly deflate the right wing talking point that it's being called "free" when it's really not. If you call it publicly funded or something else besides free that gets more at the essence of what the thing is, then the right wingers can't use the point that it "isn't free" against you and the public discourse around it will then have to shift.
At point of service, yes. But not entirely. It's still paid for lol. Which is the entire point that the person you've been replying to was trying to make.
Your country has publicly funded healthcare that is free at point of service.
No worries, it's okay to be skeptical! Especially in this day and age when this could be some deep fake, Photoshop, or AI imagine. I get it.
Damn, guess we'll have to cut the "defense" budget, oh nooo. Maybe that'll encourage them to pass their audits.
The entire point of a protest is to disrupt and inconvenience people, including civilians. Protests have no teeth otherwise.
You're probably telling them something they're already viscerally aware of.
You could always use native grasses and plants. There's nothing inherently wrong with grass, but it's important to have grasses that make sense within your ecological context. Using a bunch of non-native grasses may help for soil retention on your hill, but native grasses would do the same thing -- arguably better since you can use ones with root systems that grow deeper into the soil and they're more drought tolerant -- and they'd be multipurpose (food, cover, nest materials, etc.) for native animal species. They're often prettier and more colorful during the various seasons and take fewer resources to maintain once established.
What happened in 1984?