Plus they’re likely removing things that advertisers don’t like, so if it gets less coverage, advertisers are less likely to notice and report it.

Makes sense. I don’t usually call customer service - I tend to use email or social media where possible, so that I have everything in writing with timestamps, just in case I need to refer back to it or use it as evidence.

Does that mean I can also record them?

that makes anything you say after implied to have given consent for the recording, bypassing any two-party comsent laws.

That… doesn’t sound like two party consent to me. Are you saying that I can tell someone “I’m recording this call” and they don’t have to actually consent, they just have to not mention it?

Some people don’t want universal health care because they don’t want their taxes going towards other people’s health care. What they seem to fail to understand is that the exact same thing happens with private health insurance, and some of the money goes towards the insurance company’s profits. Universal health care would make things cheaper.

How long until they replace driving lessons with a page that says “not driving a car is the only 100% effective method to prevent car crashes”?

The US really needs universal health care.

The best approach at the moment at the moment is to work at a large company that’s self-insured. Obviously this isn’t an option for everyone, but at least in my experience at large tech companies, insurance plans with self-insured employers usually have reasonable fees and tend to be less likely to reject claims. My employer is self insured but uses Aetna’s network and billing systems.

Medicare levy is 2% of income, so you’d pay $1600/year on $80k taxable income.

Insurance in the USA is great if you have a good employer. I pay around $100/month to cover my wife and I, and that includes a $200 deductible (amount you need to pay before the insurance starts covering stuff), $15 doctor visits, $100 for ER, max $15 for generic medication, and a $4k out of pocket maximum per year (after which everything is fully covered). I use a CPAP machine for sleep apnea, and both the machine and supplies are fully covered.

The monthly price plus the deductible is less than what I was paying for the Medicare levy in Australia.

On the other hand, if your employer doesn’t have a good health plan, or you’re unemployed or self-employed, health insurance is way more expensive and the coverage isn’t as great.

The divide between well-off (not necessarily rich, just middle to upper middle class) and poor is significantly larger in the USA than it is in Australia. My parents relied a lot on Australian government assistance when I was young (below market rate government housing, rental assistance to help pay the rent, etc) so I’m very grateful about that.

Honestly I’d be happy to pay more in taxes if it went towards universal healthcare.

China has banned practically all US social media sites, not just Meta-owned properties. A bunch of other sites are blocked too.

China generally wants major internet services to have servers in China itself, similar to how the EU wants citizens’ data to remain in the EU. In order to operate servers located in China, you need to get a license from the Chinese government (ICP license). Large sites that don’t do this tend to get banned by the Great Firewall.

I think they became more shady after the investment from Francisco Partners, who are likely trying to squeeze more value from the company. I think Gamers Nexus mentioned this in the previous video.

They pay cooks less than $20/hour

So their cooks get paid less than ‘cooks’ at McDonald’s? Fast food minimum wage is $20/hour throughout California.

A lot of employers (at least the larger ones) block USB drives and have software to monitor for data exfiltration - monitoring where files are copied to, usage of copy/paste in browsers, etc.

You should always assume that your work devices are being monitored.

It’s way worse. At least Excel lets you do database-like stuff. Discord is unusable for long-form posts or any info you want to keep long term.

This is why I like Docker. It’s basically “works on my machine” as a service.

Similarly, I’m starting to really like dev containers. They’re Docker containers with all the required dev tools already installed inside, and a config so that VS Code knows how to spin up a new container when you want to do dev work on the project. They use VS Code remoting - a VS Code server runs in the container and the regular VS Code desktop app connects to it.

I was recently dealing with a project that has some Ruby dev tools and it was 100x easier to deal with since they were using dev containers.