A lot of people who liked Twitter and didn’t like Instagram / Facebook are realizing that Threads feels more like Instagram for text, not a Twitter substitute.

The Twitter junkies appear to be amassing on Bluesky, since that experience is the most similar to what they were missing.

Pharmacists, hospitals or inpatient facilities don’t have to issue drugs for off-label use if they have a “moral, ethical, or religious belief or conviction” that conflicts with dispensing a medication off label.

They are not required to administer off-label medication if they have an “objective, good faith, and scientific” objection to the drug being used for anything other than what it is intended for, or if a pharmacist has documented that a patient is allergic to the drug or it could cause a life-threatening drug interaction.

Ok, so this bill seems like a bunch of stupid BS that basically allows quacks to prescribe stuff that they they’ve probably already been prescribing.

You counteract inflation by making sure people’s wages also change to reflect the new value of the dollar. Which they haven’t.

Prices don’t come down unless you enter a period of deflation. And if you thought inflation sucked, deflation sucks even more. Especially for a nation of people who hold a lot of debt. As the value of current grows, so does the value of your debt. If you have debt, your debt burden increases.

If you want to real dirt, search from reviews from appliance repair people.

Wray is a registered Republican that worked under Bush and was appointed by Trump. What did people think he was going to do?

His daily dose of Fox News isn’t telling him to stay.

It was over decade ago, back when people were often dialing in with phones and offices were littered with polycoms.

So the shitter was anonymous. Just a random ass on a conference phone line.

True story.

I was at a company all hands where the CEO was telling people that we were having a shitty quarter. They forgot to mute participants that were dialed into the AH meeting.

Someone who was remote, and wasn’t on mute, started taking a monster dump right when the CFO started to sugar coat the slide about the financials.

It was fucking perfect.

That setting has nothing to do with facial recognition. Here’s what it covers. https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/data/en/ask-siri-dictation/

It’s basically for allowing the voice assistant team to improve recognition by collecting references data, and for using usage behavior decide how to best sort search suggestions, when you like to use certain widget, and who should be prioritized in share sheet for certain apps at certain times. It’s pretty rudimentary.

Some people believe “Trump fixed it,” because he said that.

(He didn’t. He actually made it harder to enroll.)

Yup. It does this.

The image recognition has always been done with an on-device facial recognition model. Been this way since iOS 10, I think.

It’s just trying to find and group patterns of similar looking things, it’s not collecting and tracking you in the cloud.

Depends on the appliance. For example, LG dishwashers have good track records.

Different manufacturers excel at making different things. Don’t shop by brand, that’s how you get stuck with a lemon. Read the product reviews and expect different brands to be better at different things.

Seems like the consensus in this community has generally been “that thing is mildly interesting, but it’s not for me. Especially not at $3.5k”

We just changed insurance and were able to get through with one provider that valued preventative care more, but our new insurance company is a complete pain in the ass. And the person in my family dealing with the insurance company actually works for the company and knows all the ins and outs.

They even give their own employees crap policies.

Yeah, but the problem is, if tests / labs show the precursor indicators for those diseases, and you have a family history, they’ll still deny until you actually have the something like a heart attack or stroke.

GLP-1s are the hot new thing, but it’s pretty common for insurance companies to deny expensive preventative care, even after all other avenues have been thoroughly explored.

There is a lot of crap that they’re able to instantly deny through your plan’s terms and conditions.

It’s worth reading the plan summary of what won’t be covered, even if it’s prescribed treatment. Some of the shit that’s hidden in there is fucked up.

This year someone in my family started to have to pay out of pocket for their GLP1s because their diseases didn’t progress far enough for the treatment to be covered. They’d rather you hurry up and die than pay for expensive drugs that keep you alive for longer.

You don’t like bread that immediately squishes into warm paper towel cover in oregano?

A -lot- of people use it for trail running and hiking, and Apple has been building out a lot of features for those users. Back tracking, trail maps, etc.

Messaging in dead zones would be a game changer for those users. Even in Apple’s home turf, the Bay Area, trail dead zones are very veeery common.

This feature would sell a lot of watches among the REI crowd.

Ahh, that makes more sense. They’re big but not the largest.

I guess people really didn’t like that wallpaper app.