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by bbqfog 2y ago
That this sort of mass killing is an externality to our legal system is why people have to take matters into their own hands. Our system is flawed and this a a symptom.
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by bbqfog 2y ago
It was actually a pretty large net positive. Anthem immediately reversed their decision to cap anesthesiology coverage: https://www.wfsb.com/2024/12/05/anthem-backtracks-anesthesio...
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by bbqfog 2y ago
No, "every survey" doesn't suggest 80% of Americans are satisfied with their health coverage. Can you site this data? Every person I've ever met IRL has hated the health industry with a burning passion. As you would expe
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by bbqfog 2y ago
Like you say it's US politicians doing this. That's my point, I don't care if China does it as well because my current government is fully engaged in as much propaganda as they can get away with.
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by bbqfog 2y ago
People still live like this today.
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by bbqfog 2y ago
I don't find him redeemed, but I do wonder what has been baked into the tuning of these models? What a way to generate influence!
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by bbqfog 2y ago
WWII is a much more likely inspiration.
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by bbqfog 2y ago
Was it more terrible? You certainly had more organic social connections and family support. Physically tougher than a modern white collar job? Sure. Better than commuting and working for some shitty boss though!
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by bbqfog 2y ago
Inflation wasn't caused by the low interest rate and raising the interest rate didn't fix inflation.
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by bbqfog 2y ago
Does this air the original run of Reading Rainbow? I've only ever been able to find the second, 90s run online.
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by bbqfog 2y ago
Why would you grind when its not rewarded?
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by bbqfog 2y ago
Unless you're a founder, it only makes sense to be a coasting/grifter. Everything else is exploitation/for suckers.
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by bbqfog 2y ago
The interest rate is hurting everyone who can't buy houses with cash. High interest rates have also helped crash the real estate market, so even if you just own a home, you've taken a bath since the high interest policy has been i
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by bbqfog 2y ago
Looking at the numbers the interest rate is almost 7% making most things very unaffordable for people who can't buy things like houses and cars with cash. Until that number dramatically goes down, regular people will suffer.
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by bbqfog 2y ago
Neat, the macros even work: (->> "you" strings.ToUpper (fmt.Sprintf "hi %s")) (doto "hi" fmt.Println fmt.Println fmt.Println)
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by bbqfog 2y ago
Not true, look at what happened to Internet Explorer after MS was forced to allow people to uninstall it.
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by bbqfog 2y ago
Other parties should succeed because it's good for me, the consumer. If I need to take a trip, it's not in my interest at all for Google to be in the value chain and for me to pay the monopoly penalty as a consumer.
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by bbqfog 2y ago
MS has all the same issues as Google, this is why they can release inferior product and have it survive in the market. I also use DuckDuckGo as would many other people if you severed Google Search's monopolistic lifelines.
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by bbqfog 2y ago
No the idea would be that the search would lose its ability to be a monopoly because Chrome + Search + Maps + Android... would stop artificially propping it up in the market. There would be many search engines and the ability for one to dra
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by bbqfog 2y ago
This is a great argument for breaking up Google because they've created an anti-competitive environment where other parties cannot succeed without Google gatekeeping them.
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by bbqfog 2y ago
I'm sure it has to do with fighting a bunch of "wars" for absolutely no reason whatsoever. I'm sure the dudes who got their legs blown off in Iraq for "reasons" feel great about it.
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by bbqfog 2y ago
They're afraid that people will see that they're not needed in the organization. It's easy to fake that when everyone is forced into the same location and the people who like to talk do just that.
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by bbqfog 2y ago
We should all work to end exploitation and that starts with ourselves.
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by bbqfog 2y ago
Those companies will also feel the wrath of the free market. I'd never work for them and I'm quite a high end resource!
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by bbqfog 2y ago
If you want to buy a house, it's going to be a lot more than double to live in the Bay Area vs say rural Arizona.
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by bbqfog 2y ago
I would never work in an office again or for a company where the leadership pretends like there's some value to working in-person. My time and space are way too valuable to give them to some company. They can get my work on my own te
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by bbqfog 2y ago
According to Israel itself 38 children died in Oct 7th: https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/38-children-wer... That's the same number killed by Israel in the West Bank alone in 2023 before October 7th:
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by bbqfog 2y ago
I remember Softdisk for the Apple IIe. It has an ASCII "tv show" call Alfredo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-OQ4eheYKc&list=PLWOBhBZEPZ...
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by bbqfog 2y ago
> You should also leave room for the possibility that the Israeli public is actually more informed than you are. Was the Nazi public more informed than the rest of the world? Just as Germany today isn't an "expert" in ge
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by bbqfog 2y ago
> And Israel is a Western society, mostly. Its values are largely the same values as the US or Europe. So you don't think it's indigenous to the Middle East? Israel shares values with no one. I've never seen dozens of US

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