It definitely was the last chance I saw a lot of folks.

Yeah, I know, that means I wasn’t intentional enough yadda yadda yadda, but high school really was the last time a lot of folks are in an environment where social interactions are so passively encouraged. After high school, you’re no longer pressured to keep in touch with folks that you’ve known for 4, 6, or even 12 years, and a lot of people do naturally fall out of touch.

When conservative media pushes the same news script to over 200 local news stations across the nation, it is dangerous to our democracy.

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effectively require a dedicated purchase. Rather than giving the kid yoru old motorola you kept in the drawer.

Ah right, because smartphones don’t need to be purchased

Probably start with buying them dinner first

The government does subsidize EVs.

Additionally even used EVs are subsidized.

Between federal and state tax credits, as well as utility company rebates, my folks just got over 5k back for a used Nissan leaf. They were able to trade in their old clunker, netting a profit of a few hundred dollars to upgrade to a practical used EV.

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Yup! In case USD makes things prohibitive, they also accept alternative prices that scale by the cost of a loaf of bread for some countries.

And again - truly unlimited free trial, use it for years if you’d like.

Shout-out to my boy at budget with buckets

Unlimited, full access free trial, $60 one time purchase of and only if you decide it’s worth it for you. The developer is very clear that you should only pay for the software if meets your needs.

You can import your own transactions, set up macros to login to your banks, or sync via simplefinbridge for $15/year.

I would recommend starting off with the free trial and paying $1.50/month for simplefinbridge syncing for a while to see if you like it. It took me maybe half a year before I decided this was it for me. You can even import from ynab!

I mean, it’s a gun issue, but definitely not a pro-gun one.

Oh right, I totally forgot that I can just waive my magic wand and change that for everyone, so I have no right to complain.

I guess while I’m at it I might as well waive the magic wand so everyone has perfect health, right? Cut straight to the chase.

What? I can’t do that?

Could you believe the audacity I have to point out that under the current status quo, unhealthy people are having their healthcare costs subsidized by healthy people? Because that’s fundamentally how insurance works?

ACA prohibits charging people more for insurance based on their weight, so those costs are paid for by the public.

You actually bring up an interesting point.

Their health care costs are our healthcare costs. The way insurance works, healthy people subsidize unhealthy people’s healthcare.

Additionally, many hospitals around America are finding that they have to buy specialized, expensive equipment just to transport and handle bariatric folks. In a few locales, they’re charging folks that need this specialized equipment more, but my guess is in many others the cost is once again subsidized by the general population.

I’d appreciate it if you can link some examples of those studies.

When I say “eat a healthy diet”, I don’t mean go on keto. I mean have some fruits and vegetables, and try to limit processed food intake.

EDIT: like I said, I don’t know much about ozempic so I have nothing to contribute to that end of the conversation, sorry.

Lose weight often IS the cure-all as obesity is clearly linked to a litany of health issues.

Do you want to treat the symptom or the cause? Folks can take pain killers for their knees, but the issue here is often that the knees are overloaded with too much weight.

Idk much about ozempic, but before that, “Lose weight” was rough to hear because a doctor can’t wave a magic wand to fix the patients problems - the patient had to work to fix things. And if you’re honestly putting in the work, eating a healthy diet and exercising and you’re still struggling with weight, then I feel for you, because that suggests there’s a hormonal or other medical cause for the obesity, that the doc needs to go over. However I am certain that the majority of the hundreds of millions of people you cite don’t.

It has been tested, in the field nonetheless

https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2023/09/what-ukraines-shoot-down-hypersonic-missile-patriot-says-about-future-weapons/390498/

I mean a quick Google shows that it’s a very real capability, but if you don’t want to believe, you can lead a horse to water but you cant make it drink.

I run audiobookshelf with drm free audiobooks, but the nicest thing about kindle/audible is the syncing that happens between them - read on an e-reader, and your progress in the audiobook gets updated.

Anyone know of a solution that provides similar capabilities?

Do you remember trump pressuring the fed (already not usually done) to keep interest rates close to 0 BEFORE covid hit?

And then we hit covid, when it actually would’ve been nice to be able to lower interest to spark the economy and wouldn’t you know, it was already too low.

I don’t think anyone is surprised, I feel like anyone who criticizes the government there has a very legitimate threat of getting disappeared.