I didn’t know why a person would go to these lengths to deal with a misbehaving computer, as compute devices are generally for work, and need to work in order to do work, and any kind of crash is going to get my entire focus until it is banished to Hades…

…but then, learned something along the way I probably otherwise would not have, because of @bleistift2@sopuli.xyz’s tenacity.

It’s even worse than that, really.

They take those premiums, and what employers pay, and all the co-fees like when you pay a $30 copay on a drug that would cost $5 out of pocket (there are many! but you have to research) and invest them.

They make tons and tons of money on all the premiums. So it isn’t even $100k in, $1mil out. It’s 100k times a thousand in, and that $1mil is peanuts by comparison out.

Coupled with the fact that the $1mil in treatment is all fake cost values made up by the industry, when in reality, it probably would cost 1/10th that, to still turn an operational profit.

Not disagreeing with you either, just pointing out the monetary disparity is insanely worse.

Sad, but likely true. Especially sad given how fast the Harris team just rolled over and shut up.

That way the corpos can try and focus the energy of the low-education religious folks (trying to frame that in a non-disrespectful way as people be people, yo, even the misguided) that live off being constantly angry away from the fact that they all should be targeting their anger at CEOs and instead to some of the old soft made-up topics not based in reality. How long until the corpos spread a rumor that a covid vaccine generated his behavior?

We citizens get unity and the corpos are all proper fucked. About time we did get some unity. We’re darn close.

Why not beta test a general strike on Jan 6, 2025?

Did you check at a FedEx store to see if they had other unlisted rates? Web sites often cater to the lazy for the profits. That being said, I seem to recall an overnight FedEx document envelope across the US costing around $60, so it might not have any advantage.

The “Weather Modification Activities” bill sets out that “the injection, release, or dispersion, by any means, of a chemical, a chemical compound, a substance, or an apparatus into the atmosphere within the borders of this state for the express purpose of affecting the temperature, the weather, or the intensity of sunlight is prohibited.”

So, taking it at the closely-adjacent letter like how Repub trash interprets everything, all industry in the entire state must cease, including power generation.

21% of the state is also of Hispanic or Latino descent and growing, but yeah, predominantly white.

Using modern tech with its associated crappy software lifecycle to save cost is a heavy gamble, however. Instead of breaking Reddit for a couple of hours, they can’t fire their RCS thrusters to avoid collision with space junk because some stupid NPE that was missed in the QA process that no longer exists because that team was replaced with AI.

The one time I ever had an outage on my municipal fiber ISP 8 years ago, shortly after install, was just that the installers misaligned the fiber in the port outside. At 4 or so in the morning, I randomly woke up (I think I sensed the internet went out) and Internet was dead for an hour or so.

Next morning, 11am, city truck rolls up, fixes the fiber, and leaves. I never filed a ticket or anything. Hasn’t blinked since. I asked them how that worked. They said, the low light was alerted on their end and a service ticket was auto-generated.

Early on, Netflix (back when it was worth paying for) wasn’t working one day on the fiber, since we had recently migrated from DSL with 800kbps uplink that would starve out voice calls while browsing TV for a show. I assumed it was the muni ISP. No, it was Netflix themselves, for everyone.

It’s weird having Internet as a utility, as it should be. It just always exists and works.

Moderate investing of $6.2 million with a 4-6% return would amount to a monthly payout of $25,833/month. Very comfortably.

Nobody ever said it was a sane plan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRIwh95klZQ Relevant Idiocracy

LLMs are really fucking bad at math. They’re trying to find the statistical close answer, not doing computation. It’s rather mind-numbingly dumb.

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Unfortunately, the judge paused the purchase and the site it back up slinging crap.

Better-compressed in saved Mbytes, but comparing images, that compression somehow looks more…fake. Hard to describe how.

A lot of that could very well be French attitude versus American attitude and the doctors offices going, “yeah, no, we’re not accepting new patients.” Accept 5 new French patients 2 minutes later. Especially given the American attitude given off in the quotes in the article are classic entitled behavior. “You mean you can’t make a Martini if it isn’t on the menu!??!!”

I now know what that actually is, and would also like to watch it. Games are so terribly slow with never-ending commercial breaks.

I think I used my toaster 7 or 8 years ago?