Judging by those USB plugs that hand is enormous

Fairly sure they came with an internal hard drive

People are so lazy these days, they couldn’t even be bothered putting it in a bag or lighting it on fire. smh

Or a meating in their case

Yeah I’m sort of in the market for a new car (tossing up between some relatively exxy repairs vs putting that money toward something new) and am struggling to find one I’m happy with.

Between the anti privacy bs, having to go into menus for basic functionality (which in turn makes the screen a single point of failure for like 90% of functions), subscriptions for things that shouldn’t be, simple maintenance requiring a trained engineer to plug in a bespoke tool so no home or independent repairs, etc etc I just feel like I’d be signing up to be milked dry. Not to mention prices have gone silly.

I hate where things have gone, nobody seems interested in simply making a good product and selling it for a fair price any more.

Guessing this might be non-essential workers as per covid lockdowns, ie how important it is for them to attend a workplace in person, but it’s definitely funnier if it is a ranked list of perceived importance to society, so let’s go with that

Australia seems to be doing its best to ditch it. Medicare levy plus a surcharge above a certain wage, but that surcharge goes away if you have private health cover. Health insurance companies have zero incentive to set premiums below what that surcharge would have been, particularly when, if you take up private health after you turn 31, then there’s a govt loading on it. Gap charges (ie the cost over and above that covered by Medicare) grow every year, bulk billing is disappearing, the public hospital system is constantly being underfunded, etc.

Just privatise healthcare, what’s the worst that could happen?

/ looks at US healthcare, and how well privatising just about everything else has gone for us so far

Sounds like someone is full of shit

Avoid talking to them!

They might make sense, and we haven’t finished indoctrinating you!

There’s no sound but all I can hear is Yakety Sax

There are also some cons

Iswydt

Saw someone making a sandwich once in stop-start traffic, cutting board resting against the (airbag) steering wheel and using a knife. Didn’t hear about them on the news that evening so can only assume Darwin missed it.

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Spiders keep bugs under control

Snakes keep spiders under control

Dogs keep snakes under control

Humans keep dogs under control (sometimes)

Cats keep humans under control

Roxanne

As I understand it these are basically an insurance policy. The promoter takes out a policy detailing the odds of a payout being required, and pay a premium based on the insurer’s risk assessment.

And of course the insurer wants to minimise the odds of paying out, and the promoter wants to minimise their premium - so the top prize is usually, as above, near-unwinnable.

I give it a solid 5/7

How Am I Supposed To Live Without You In My Ass

Kill them all.

Start with… that one

Honestly jealous