Galaxy Buds are just so solid. The little spendy goblin in me has looked at new ear buds for years, and I even got some free Pixel Buds with my last phone, but I keep going back to the galaxies.

Oh this is so helpful. Thank you.

So I got a flash drive to install Windows and (attempt) to install COD, but I have a Mac computer. To move anything to the flash drive, I had to format for MacOS, but to move anything to the deck I had to format for Linux. Am I misunderstanding something?

NASA is hamstringing itself? Tell me more. I don’t know anything about NASA, but I would have guessed the bureaucrats were external.

If I’m reading this right, you’re saying you’d understand if Huang sleeps soundly at night despite his wealth. I’ve made more money every year for 5-7 years, and I’ve never worried that I’ve become an out-of-touch rich person. For most people, becoming wealthy is gradual. And like you said, we can probably all look back at our past hardships and feel confident that we earned our paycheck.

You think she’s not handling fame well because she’s setting clear boundaries, and reminding fans that she’s not their friend just because she’s famous?

It was interesting, but not surprising, that he said both that Obamacare was a failure, and that they would protect all the parts of it that people enjoy.

This is so good. Congratulations.

Medicare Advantage insurers have for years been diagnosing patients with diseases they don’t have, then pocketing the money for treatment. The treatment never actually happened because the patients didn’t actually have the diseases. This WSJ report said that UHC specifically got HALF of its income from this fraud.

https://www.wsj.com/health/healthcare/medicare-health-insurance-diagnosis-payments-b4d99a5d

I know nothing about cyber security, but it’s funny to me that depending on the time of day these comment sections either mostly criticize Telegram or mostly support it. I have no idea what to believe or whether it’s safe for me to use Telegram.

It’s absolutely voter suppression. Every election we have 1/3 of the electorate that doesn’t cast a vote. We could court these couple million undecideds or we could fix the system and have automatic registration and even compulsory voting. And then, you’re absolutely right, Republicans would never win again.

I agree, and we’d have to do it carefully so tipped workers continue making roughly the same as they do now.

Where I live a handful of trendy restaurants announced opened as no-tipping restaurants. They would add a 20% gratuity to every bill and claim it was used “to support a living wage and benefits” to the staff. Usually it was just sucked up into the revenue pile and used however the owner wanted.

If restaurants dropped tipping, raised their prices by 20%, and paid their staff 20% more, I would be okay with that. In the European countries I’ve visited, it seems to work just fine and food is still cheaper than where I live.

Comedian Geoffrey Asmus said something like, “I don’t understand why Republicans are anti-abortion. Isn’t abortion just dead liberals?”

What’s this now?

Slay the Spire is really nice for limited mobility. Turn based, point and click based. I like to play with one hand while I’m eating with the other.

Anti abortion? Am I reading that right?

What

Why do you say that? I don’t see anything in this article that references cocaine babies. And in what way are they a legit issue? It’s an incredibly rare phenomenon and prenatal cocaine exposure doesn’t have any consistent or defining characteristics.

As a recovering Catholic, my experience has been that Lutherans tend to be humble, charitable, and… not weird. Lutheranism puts a heavy emphasis on showing grace to yourself and people around you. I guess without the obsession with sex and shame, you can be a Christian and turn out pretty normal.

I experienced both sides. I was out there protesting every night the first weekend after Floyd was murdered. Friday night the cops and NG were present, but they didn’t intervene and didn’t stop any vandalism. Saturday they set an 8pm curfew and NG started tear-gassing at about 8:15pm. At the time I thought it was despicable that they were gassing even those of us who were marching peacefully. The government can murder people but we can’t walk down the street in protest?

Then I went to work on Monday (I was leading therapy groups with teens) and they were saying they felt scared all the time. Humvees on their street, gunshots, fires, people screaming, talk of civil war. Then I understood why Walz was saying, “The people of Minneapolis deserve to feel safe.” The protests continued during the day, and at the provocateurs couldn’t hide in a crowd of 50,000 people.

Over time I’ve come to think that Walz couldn’t have had a better response to what happened, and he was willing to be the bad guy. Jacob Frey was a scared little boy the entire time (still is) and had no fucking clue what he was doing (still doesn’t) without Walz.