The chapter is titled "evolution" and the fact that we're on figure 24.16 leads me to believe there are at least fifteen other images in this chapter. If that's the case, it seems unlikely this section would be so far back in the chapter.

The section above literally talks about the results of natural selection on speciation.

When comparing content between the two sections, the top had lots of scientific vocabulary and creates valid points. The below section has multiple misspelled words and bad grammar. Tonally, very different.

Most obviously, the line spacing in this section is about half what it is in the above section.

Are we just ignoring that this is an obvious Photoshop?

Medi-Cal is already available to all Californians that meet income requirements?

You are wrong on both counts.

I just addressed "you", even though you're not physically present, so clearly that's not a requirement of second person usage, not to mention that presumably this child saying "chat" is being heard by people physically nearby in this example.

In order to break the fourth wall, the speaker must be part of the media. In the instance of streamers talking to their fans, it's clearly meant to be an interactive experience between streamer and host, consuming the same media (albeit in different ways). They're asking a question and getting a response which informs their actions.

Fundamentally, it's no different than when my wife asks "did that wizard just cast fireball?" while she sits on the couch watching me playing Skyrim.

The number of times I shout "your car is supposed to be smarter than that!" As a Tesla does something like, without signaling, whips around me and into oncoming traffic to pass a stopped city bus is staggering.

A coworker of mine was recently bragging about their new electric mustang and its zero to sixty time. "Have you ever gone zero to sixty?" was my only response. Of all the facts and figures, 0-60 has you to be one of the least important when buying a car.

Am I insane? I've been seeing avocado toast on menus for years. Granted, I was living in California at the time, but still. I feel like Dunkin donuts introduced avocado toast to their menu like three years ago.

I'm not really a "brunch" guy, but I feel like every breakfast spot I've been to since 2015 has done avocado toast.

People hanging Christmas lights do the whole house and when they go to plug it in, they realize they have the female end by the outlet, not the male end. "Fuck, I'm not gonna redo the entire process" the idiot thinks to himself, I'll just get a male/male adapter.

It's not sold because as soon as you plug in the side to the house, the other ends become live, and touching them means "big ouch".

"That's okay, I'll just plug the end into the lights, and then into the house, problem solved" the idiot thinks.

Except the far end of the lights has a male adapter and that end is still live. Plus, anyone who doesn't know about your deadly modification is in danger of hurting themselves because they don't realize the hazard.

There are exceedingly niche applications where these cords are used, but those applications only come up for trained electricians who know how to make one of these cords, and use them responsibly. If you're asking the minimum wage guy in the blue vest, this sign is for you.

There's nothing in the Constitution that says dogs can't play basketball! We've been over this; there's a series of documentaries about it.

There was a rubric for qualified scores. Software X power user? +8%. Experience in position Y? +1% per year. Bachelor's degree in the following fields? +20% The premise was "make everything internally clear and we can internally promote, set career progressions and encourage people to remain loyal. This was a huge company that tried to absolve themselves of any accusation of racism/misogyny/ageism by saying "no, we apply the exact metric to everyone".

I didn't personally rewrite my job description. I was able to demonstrate other programs and processes were able to achieve the same/better results, and would do so quicker/cheaper/more easily. This was really easy because the job was stuck in the past. Shit like "I can upload a csv to import this data" was basically witchcraft, as the current description called for typing thousands of lines by hand (and rewarded this experience with +2% qualification for every year of data entry experience). Suddenly the two week long job that required ten years of experience was done in thirty minutes.

I convinced them the -35% hit I took on my qualifications because I'd never used done ancient software could be swapped out with a +40% qualification in excel, for example, so my supervisor rewrote the job to include these advancements.

Also, over half a million Welsh speakers exist in Wales, accounting for roughly 20% of the population. It's hardly dead.

I'll answer for me, and 70% of Americans:

1. It was the only plan offered by my employer. Vision and dental insurance are typically optional extras, but medical is mandatory. Some jobs provide a choice between one or two different insurances, or a good/better/best plan. My wife (who is on a different plan than me, because she works elsewhere and neither of our jobs covers family members at a reasonable discount) selected the "better" option because she takes a few prescriptions and it works out to be cheaper long term.
2. N/A (but the answer is the affordable care act)
3. Insurance providers have a website where you can search for "in network doctors" by specialty. When I joined my current network, there were exactly two primary care doctors within 20 minutes of my home. Vision (which is separate insurance, generally) is often much easier to find. Dental (which again is separate insurance, often) is usually even harder to find a provider, in my experience. At my last job I could pay $200/month for insurance accepted by a dentist in my town, or $12/mo for dental insurance where the nearest dentist was over two hours away.
4. I would prefer the entire system was scrapped and replaced with government healthcare at low to no cost, including prescriptions, dental, vision, and mental health.