Yep. Still no health insurance. Everything out of pocket, and because its all out of pocket I only go to the doctor once a year, and ignore any issue that isnt worth an ER visit

only existed if you could absorb being price-gouged for your insurance.

The last time i tried to get insurance on the exchange, they said it would be 5 thousand dollars.

I said “5000 dollars a year? that seems high”

they said “Oh, no sir. 5000 dollars a month”

I said “Goodbye” and hung up.

Nope, the issue 99.99% of the time is, and will always be, stupid entitled assholes.

Thankfully its a self correcting problem, since their population will slowly diminish and, perhaps with luck, one day go extinct.

The only death rate on trains I care about is deaths from the train crashing/malfunctions/etc. You know… Things the train/train operator are actually, legitimately responsible for.

People being fucking stupid and going around barriers and getting hit and killed should not be held against trains.

Trains are not hiding in a bush waiting to jump out and get you when you least expect it. They are enormous fucking things, stuck to rails, and the only way they are gonna get you is if you are a momentously self centered idiot (you know, you’re average american) that tries to put yourself in a place where common sense and barriers tell you not to.

Then again, it doesnt matter to anti-mass transit propagandists who love to seize upon any opportunity to say “THIS IS TOO DANGEROUS/EXPENSIVE/UNAMERICAN, WE NEED MORE ROADS AND CARS INSTEAD”

Yep. This is exactly why my grandparents think crimes exploding everywhere.

Cause theres constantly crime in the news.

and no amount of explaining “None of this crime is local to us, if crime was as bad as you think it was, they wouldnt have to report on a minor incident from across the country to have a crime to report on the local news”, no amount of showing them falling crime rates, nothing, will convince them otherwise.

Cause they can only believe what they see and are told repeatedly, and the news…both local and national, is perfectly doing their part to make things seems worse than they are.

Its partly because of unnecessarily increased coverage… 3+ hours in the morning, an hour or more at lunch, then like 2+ hours at dinner, then again at 10pm… and thats not even accounting for the 24 hour news channels, and the regular channels breaking into regular programming for increasingly banal shit.

and partly because they have a vested interest in strife and mayhem because theres no profit in a 24 hour news coverage where the every our on the hour, the only report is “And nothing of concern happened today.”

Which is why they’ve bent over backwards sanewashing trump before the last election. a trump presidency is great for ratings because people turn in every day to see what new horror is being unleashed, and the media doesnt care how complicit they are in creating it.

You don’t consider reviews influencers because you are a sane person with two functioning neurons to rub together and have not sucumbed to this social media brainrot that tried to fit everything into socia media labels that social media addicts can understand without having to think.

You DO realize the entire point of a review is to influence others, right?

No, the entire point of a review is to inform others.

But keep trying. I’m sure you’ll get it one day.

Cant even rely on reviews anymore… I forget what game it was, but there was a game had a massive pay to win scheme in the game… that was only added on launch day, so the reviewers copies didnt have it… So they gave glowing reviews on the gameplay, without the game having the pay to win store and all the gameplay nerfs that encourage using it.

He said, on a topic, about a big ominous message on linux, that would have done nothing at all… if it wasnt for the bug known for months in the distro, that they refused to fix until it got bad press from a popular youtube video.

But yes, its windows fault. /s

“You should be happy with gods graces, unless you are republican and need to make yourself look like a toy some child melted with a magnifying glass to appease your one true orange god”

As much as I fucking cant stand him, I have to say… in that case, Most new users would do exactly what he did.

Computer users always get hit with big ominous warning messages that amount to nothing 99.9% of the time. IIRC the reason something happened that time wasnt because Linus ignored the warning message, but because of a known bug in that version of the distro that was known about and wasnt fixed in the installer for months, until the video came out, that caused the DE to be removed when uninstalling something else… Which is just pants on head and should have been fixed long before the video came out.

Besides, and I say this as a non-technical non-sysadmin linux user… the overwhelming amount of tech support for linux doesnt encourage knowing what commands do, it encourages copy and pasting… because almost all the tech support solutions I’ve ever found basically amount to “if you have X problem, copy Y command into terminal to fix it” with no explanation on why it works, just that it (hopefully) does.

subscribing to humble monthly is also a good way to amass games on the cheap. not as cheap as free, of course, but still better than most sales.

Its amazing how absolutely adamant America is to refuse to hold parents accountable for all shit they are actually responsible for with their children, but are willing to throw the book at the parents if the kid goes outside and anything happens to them as a victim.

Everyone is.

I don’t buy new releases anymore.

Why?

Cause the prices are getting stupid. Cause its all digital downloads with no physical product. Cause my “ownership” can be revoked at any time by the platforms whims or the platforms shutdown.

What happened to digital downloads being cheaper, anyway? Thats the promise we were sold 10+ years ago. That by sacrificing physical products, Publishers/Devs wouldnt have to pay for printing, manufacturing, shipping, storage, etc, so they’d be able to sell AAA new releases for 30 dollars, and Pub/Dev would still make more money.

And now we’re supposed to be paying 60, 70, 80 dollars or more, for these digital download games… that we don’t even own? And because they have no product on the shelves, prices never come down either. Sure, you might find a sale like on steam or something… but those sales pale in comparison to what they were 5, 10 years ago

Fuck that. Amazing how the only promise fulfilled on moving to digital download was that pubs/devs would get more money… and they get that by skyrocketing the costs, not because of the sacrifices we made to give up boxes, disks, manuals, and ownership

Oh well, if you say it, it must be true… even if it flies in the face of established capitalist behavior and precedent.

Yep.

All that matters is profit.

And they arent gonna leave profit hanging on the vine by pricing their producting below the product they are competing against, even if their hypothetical costs are 90% less.

The fact that you think it’ll be cheaper shows you havent been paying very much attention to capitalism.

Everytime a thing like this comes along, that promises a cheaper, better solution… It ends up being neither .

I’m sure this will work just as well as changing out avatars to green helped overthrow the iranian theocracy.

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