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if your router is able to you can set up ACLs to allow the TV access to your network but not the internet.

It’s usually two quarters. By the time we are officially in recession we have been for half a year.

The victims here are all children. I am intensely angry at their irresponsible parents and even more so at the profiteering hucksters who convinced them that vaccines (that the parents already received) were bad.

Fortunately my dad is a retired cybersecurity architect so they live as modern-day Luddites.

What would be the purpose of US support in Europe if not defending against Russia?

The US presence in Europe exists to facilitate US power projection, if we are not stopping Russian advancement then there is no reason for host countries to allow US bases in their territory.

I still know my way around autoexec.bat and config.sys

He also ended a very effective needle exchange program.

No honor among thieves.

My interest depends on their dlc policy. I play 4x games with friends and some of my friends can’t always buy the latest cool dlc. I want to be able to play with stuff I paid for even when I play with them.

If your business model requires you to pay your workers less than a livable wage, you do not have a viable business model.

Restaurants are getting killed by greedflation not higher wages. When everything is expensive people start cutting back on discretionary expenses like eating out.

Unions nearly always vote to authorize during contract negotiations, to do otherwise removes all their bargaining power.

And to do that they are going to increase premiums and double your max out of pocket limit every year. Perfect!

Edit: ok having read the article it looks like he is going to push for regulating pharmaceutical companies while simultaneously pushing for states with stricter insurance regulations to be forced (via federal courts or legislation) to lower their standards.

Probably wrapping and cooking our food in volatile plastics.

This isn’t so bad. I normally am more than happy to let someone else take the lead but if nobody else is going to do something I may as well take charge.

The trick is to fake confidence then everyone thinks you know what you’re doing.

The “90% of medical claims” is such a weaselly metric. Yeah, if you have a small-cost claim like your annual physical or basic x-rays they pay, but if you need anything that costs money, that would push you over your deductible, they deny. Saying 90% just isn’t meaningful if most claims are small-dollar.

Yes, “streaming fatigue” is the problem. It’s not that services are charging more for worse content. The enshittification isn’t the issue people are just randomly tired of streaming for unexplainable reasons. Very insightful.

Another article where I started out angry at the insurer and then got angrier and angrier the more I read. These people are evil.

He is already talking about it. He is threatening to imprison her for “false accusations”.

I think the indie scene is still where the best games are at. Currently enjoying Caves of Qud but it’s not for everyone.

It’s the magistrate judge doing the pretrial hearings, not the trial judge. Not great, but not quite as outrageous.