Yes! :-)
Couldn’t remember the name, but now found the video watched (recommended btw):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaXRREHVkHo

While it is a good idea to stress that this is a largely US undertaking to show that this country is not all just shit in a barrel yet, the bland nationalism in your comment unfortunately somewhat negates that impression again.

That’s maybe way less impressive as it sounds but just how new tech establishes itself in a burst of progress over the first couple of decades.
E.g. we are currently just 68 years after the invention of the first integrated circuit and 55 years after the first microprocessor…

To quote some youtuber I recently watched:

“We aren’t late now, we were just really early back then.”

That they had been able to successfully pull of a moon landing with 60s technology just a couple of years after the first person in space is pretty insane!

Out of curiosity and as the comic might reference a similar tale:

Do you folks all know the fable of the hare and the hedgehog?

(or sth. in a similar fassion, e.g. the hare and the tortoise?)

This looks (and also sounds…) as if taken right out of some high-fantasy first-person roleplaying game!

And I would love to walk there!

Not USA centric.

It is also solid advice here in Germany and probably many other countries.

Your comment might be UK centric…

I’ll never understand why so many people hate suicide prevention.

Well, perhaps because this is not suicide prevention, but just suicide relocation.

Must have been living during a different 2000s than you…

Progress was crazy during the 00s.

In 2000 we still had clunky stationary computing only, in most cases without or only with modem speed online access.
Photography still was analog, music came on huge, physically fragile silver discs.
By 2010, wireless always-on access had become ubiquitous, fully digitalized private life for most.

Everything coming after 2010 feels like almost complete stagnation in comparison.

Only exception: recent generative AI technology. And l am not sure if I am happy about that…

The other shots I did are even more confusing, I picked the one that seemed to be the most comprehensible…

Location is in Germany.
So maximum hospital bill for someone with standard insurance is 10€ per day.
Wouldn’t jump because of that…

hospitals cannot be profitable, they are a social good, we fund them as a society

l live in Germany, a country with universal healthcare, so basically we do exactly that.
So perhaps “profitability” is the wrong word here.

But funds are still limited, and if the authorities determine that the money is used less efficient in one place than in another, they will consolidate and close the first place (that’s happening for the hospital in the picture).

We have reached, or even passed the limits of that aproach, though.
Doctors and hospitals have to be realistically reachable for people and not a 100km away after all…

l am surprised that the hospital, being halfway closed because of non-profitability anyway, had enough funds left somewhere to even install the nets.

A new elevator would probably have cost more than the whole building complex is worth by now…

Naturally there are also several elevators at the place.

But you must have other routes for exit that are easily available in the case of an emergency.

Also many people aren’t especially fond of elevators (me included).

It’s the first hospital where I’ve seen something like this, though.

I can just guess that there must have been some kind of incident at that place that triggered the installation of the safety nets.

Maximum drop distance at any point is less than 2m.
You will survive…

It’s in the article:

Programmes like the European Space Agency’s Moonlight are planning to launch a network of satellites around the Moon to provide continuous and reliable communication coverage in the future.

Mine was the first Falcon game!

Also, my first Linux distro in 1997 came on CD and had a nice Linux introduction book l still used as a quick reference years after l had moved on to newer releases.

l am pretty sure he talks about pre-online times (which were also largely pre-home-console times).

The instruction manual of my first bought game, a flight simulator on the Atari ST, was basically a printed pilot crash course.

I also had some thick copied instruction folders from the more… unconventional acquired games, often because the copy protection was like: “Enter the 5th word of the 13th line on page 54!”.

Speaking as someone who has been living in towns with rivers for most of my life:

This is the way.

My experience clearly says that you will loose orientation and get confused the moment you go to a district that is not alligned with the riverbank.