Critical_Thinker @ Critical_Thinker @lemm.ee

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I know quite a few spanish speaking people here who are hyper conservative. In general latin america is a greatly more conservative place than the US, so it's kind of amazing seeing the conservatives here targeting them.

Poorer immigrants usually work in conservative spaces for poverty wages especially if they are not fluent in English, but the conservatives want to kick them out and start the white breeding programs to get some more white homegrown poverty cases going in red states.

When I hear people be all nationalistic in regards to their planned expenditures I never expect them to really bite the bullet.

Experiments like this are why I doubt i'm wrong. https://afina.com/blogs/news/made-in-usa

People en masse don't care about where something is made, they care about how much they are paying for it, assuming both products are of identical quality. I don't doubt that many will simply avoid spending money altogether. I doubt there are many out there willing to voluntarily pay more just for a made in X badge.

Check your clothes labels, personal electronics, appliances, fabrics, salt, medical devices, medicines, customer support lines for major businesses, networking equipment...

I'm not canadian and i'm certainly not a dumpy supporter but realistically what the fuck would you ever want to buy from the US that is actually made 100% in the US anyway?

By that you mean you're buying indonesian, vietnamese, chinese, ecuadorian... and probably a ton more imported things because nobody really manufactures much of anything in USA or Canada outside of a handful of things that are costly to transport.

because tons and tons of potential solutions exist. At the core of this class of product is a very simple computer that costs next to nothing. FOSS software exists to accomplish the same goal and for minimal cost someone can compete with them.

Synology doesn't really control anything. In the enterprise segment they tend to be tiny little offerings that are on the small end of SMB. Their bigger bulkier enterprise stuff is easily overshadowed by any real enterprise offering from a larger hardware company, though i've seen some exist even in larger orgs but it's not because something else couldn't have done the job.

Anyone starting fresh has to do some work to catch up but it really depends on the use case. Basic NAS/DAS functions are so trivial.

It's the year 20X6.

I, his inheritor, am sorry to inform you that GabeN has passed. I've realized that I want an even larger pile of money, and it's come to my attention that you aren't paying for us to maintain your account.

You have 30 days to download your content or subscribe to Steam Plus at a cheap $X9.99/mo to avoid account deletion.

Why these people absolutely hate this one guy is completely indeterminable.

it's like the only thing dumpy really wants is to never be told no, regardless of how wrong his mistake is.

You're literally not their market. That's why so much of what they focus on are digital only sales, consoles, deals and schemes. They want buy once at full price, never resell.

They aren't your friends, they don't care about you - they care about the money in your pocket.

They know they are too big to fail, so they are gonna raise prices 50% no problem.

Steam is not free. Steam is 30% cut to businesses.

Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft offload their costs via yearly subscription costs as well as developers paying a protection fee to launch on their platform. Steam just has the highest protection money scheme. You wouldn't want anything to happen to the games you're publishing through them, would you?

As you get older it's no joke what kind of medical conditions can make something so simple end up being so difficult. 1/50 is not even a stretch.

I'm certain this can be disabled in windows at any moment as without it loads and loads of criminal evidence would be available for discovery and litigation against the wealthiest people and businesses across the world.

A real fear is being a worker in a world with micromanagers inspecting your workweek, 3 second snapshots at a time.

I'm not ok with shipping anyone to foreign prison camps. There's zero reason why we should ever do that, with exception of a valid extradition request from another country.

Sure and Santiago is a horrible example. I was just there a few months ago. It feels the most like boston of anywhere else in latin america. When I was in el salvador I thought I was gonna get robbed at the airport, where they pat you down at each departure gate.

The wages are livable, the neighborhoods are safe(mostly), the housing is affordable, the food is terrible (compared to lima anyway.) I couldn't get enough of the mountains.

In lima I was getting cased by pickpockets, in santiago I didn't ever feel that way. Lima's traffic is on another level. Santiago's rush hour is much more organized and you have way more street lights and better drivers. In lima as a pedestrian you have to RUN so they don't hit you. In santiago they stop and let you cross - something nearly unheard of in a lot of other latin american nations.

Education quality is a tip of the iceberg.

Talk to someone who went to a public school in say the dominican republic. I've heard stories of years of kids just waiting around with next to no actual teaching involved from someone who was physically there in their childhood. If you don't go to a private school odds are you aren't going to get any real education or structure beyond what you pick up at home... and odds are your parents were in the same boat.

The US education system has been nothing like that, it is going to get like that in the south though. In remote low population areas it's very possible to get bad - and clearly some teenage pregnancies disrupt things in the US, but in the DR it's a lot worse.

You should see major cities in latin america if you think that's bad. In many countries it's like they don't even care.

The US has no excuse though, we should be way, way better.

I swear the nation of israel is trying to go down with the ship that is the trump administration.

No nation, or organization should be able to get away with murdering hundreds of thousands of civilians just because they want their land.

He's certainly old enough to be significantly impacted by mental decline. Some have it happen much earlier than others.

shipping people to a concentration camp in el salvador without any due process sounds like a violation of many laws to me.

3300/6600 here. 6000/12000 out of pocket maximum though.

I'm basically dinged for 3300 whenever I need health services other than a yearly physical or an eye exam.

Every january we drop 3300 on meds for my wife and she gets eaten alive with copays for all her specialist visits.

The $1000 deductible plan my employer offers costs $1062/month for family and you still pay $40 per visit as a copay, and the employer is still dropping that $1500/month - so you're effectively paying $30,744 to insure a family of 3 and that's not all-in on expenses. Plus since $1000 is a "low" deductible you don't get to keep basically anything you put into your FSA, unless you know you're gonna use it all. Why medical expenses are ever subject to taxes is beyond me. The whole thing should be single payer... we could probably operate on a third of the budget we have today without giving any worker providing care to patients any kind of pay cut. The middle men (insurance) do very well.

They can only make profits off of something like 20-25% of overall revenue, the rest must be spent on "providing and improving" patient care. Hiring bean counters to make sure you maximize your revenue and reject as many costly applicants as possible is part of the "providing and improving" part, so they spend substantially less than 75% of their revenue on actual treatment.