I doubt this. Most employees are low hourly salary, whether at Walmart or a local restaurant: they don’t offer healthcare so universal healthcare is a free benefit they don’t have to pay.

Even for professional jobs, I don’t see how this can be true. I can see how much my employer pays for my healthcare and I’m sure they’d prefer not to pay it, or be able to match more competitive pay packages

No, not in years. I don’t even know whether the one in my car works. Radio is crappy music, too much talking, constant ads: just not worth it

Streaming is like you want radio to be: select a genre or band and it just keeps playing

Mortality. I was always “invincible”, with a better future always ahead of me, but now I know that physically it’s all downhill from here and eventually I will end

Nyt is an interesting case because they do have good quality reporting i might be willing to pay for. Then they post some ultra-conservative sociopathic stuff on their op-ed or opinion page and I want to block their shit.

Washington Post was also under consideration before it got Bezo’d

Huh, I came here to say the opposite. If people were similar to me, a weak paywall is exactly right

I hate the idea of paying per article: I don’t know the value at the time nor do I know whether they’re trustworthy. If something posted here isn’t readable without pay, I’m not reading it.

However I do recognize news sources the I find useful, that are high quality, that are likely to have more well done news, and i do subscribe to a couple

On the other hand I also pay a news aggregator and have no idea how their sources are paid. Do they get a cut per article I read? Is it effectively advertising where they offer teaser articles and hope to sell me a subscription?

Edit: it’s a mix of revenue

Apple News publishers earn revenue through a combination of ad placements and subscription fees, with payment models favoring those who use Apple News Format (ANF) and generate high engagement. Key revenue streams include selling their own ads (100% of revenue), utilizing Apple-sold “backfill” ads (70% revenue), and receiving a portion of Apple News+ subscription revenue based on total time spent reading.

A big difference is 70s car might retain its outer shape. Modern car not only intentionally crumples, but the passenger compartment is much stronger to keep all those sharp metal bits away from the soft squishy people

Yeah, but also not a fair comparison. Whatever the safety status that Cybertruck might be, getting t-boned is always a challenge. No car has a crumple zone on the drivers side door

And have poor performance, handling, ride. Most people really wouldn’t want one

I use a password manager so I don’t have to remember all of the hundreds of passwords that online services insist I set up. Each one is unique and complex, unguessable … and there’s no way I could remember them all. Before the password manager, I would find a good password and use it for many/most places, meaning that if anyone was careless and leaked my actual password, then someone would effectively have all my passwords.

But to answer your question, yes, for apples implementation, your normal account and phone unlocking also unlock your passwords. Depending on settings, you probably need to use your biometrics each time

This logical disconnect is even worse than the time loop concept. There’s no logic for someone remembering from a previous loop and even less logic for some people remembering and some not

I can really only compare to Reddit and find the fediverse generally better

But those outliers are a doozy. I don’t recall even wanting to block anyone on Reddit but have blocked at least half a dozen here. Just earlier today I had to because we were enjoying a nice discussion, then someone stumbled in saying they’ve debated politics with me, starts attacking, trying to start an argument over something completely unrelated …… Reddit had plenty of trolls but I never encountered anyone there who followed me around to be an asshole.

So on the one hand the capability of blocking anyone is a great way to stop seeing the most toxic part of the fediverse, but on the other hand there’s got to be a more permanent solution

Maybe Chicago. It’s been years: I used to like going once or twice a year and convinced my ex we had to do it for the kids

Edit: or maybe that Billy Joel show

Dry? Plain? Flavorless? Even if you start with good bread with flavor, toasting it takes that flavor away. But I’m not going to judge if you want my toast. Dry, plain, flavorless toast with nothing on it. Enjoy!

Yeah none of that, but one of my kids is a pretty serious weightlifter, so I need some serious equipment for when they’re home from school for the summer.

And an exercycle for cardio when the weather isn’t good

Started with the cycle: a high end machine for dirt cheap off Marketplace. Then dumbbells (except they’re only up to 30 lbs and he uses higher). Most recently found a deal on an Olympic bar and plates. Now comes the hard part: benches and racks, and I’m running out of time to find them on Marketplace

Why would anyone care about poor whites in the mountains? Let them survive in their hovels and shovel coal. They had no organization or other power to affect anyone

I gotta admit to one particular nightmare here

Setting up a home gym in my garage to hopefully remove my excuses …… but years back an acquaintance died while using his home gym in his garage, and was discovered by family. You don’t usually think of exercise as a deadly risk but it happens. Since I live alone, the nightmare is it would be a long time before I was discovered and that much more traumatic if it were family

Literally watching a presentation right now where they quoted “Use AI intentionally, not as the only answer”

On the other hand my human knowledge is invalidated because my kpis focus more on how frequently I use ai than on what I do

In my real life, also mostly no. My kids are in college, so they mostly need their bills paid and I rarely see them in person

Then you have the additional challenge of matching the amount of bread to the amount of spreadable butter or peanut butter

Ha ha, my wife accused me of that as well, because of this exact scenario.

…. But eating sandwiches is very predictable: why wouldn’t you order exactly the slices you need for a week?

Bread would be worse because I’m less likely to want to eat just bread. It’s also minimal because why care about bread? I might eat it simply because I don’t want to get up to find a place to dispose of it. If there were extra cheese I’d just eat it

But I reject this scenario: a more realistic and relatable one would be crackers and cheese. It’s also philosophically more of a challenge since crackers are valuable bread