TheGalacticVoid @ TheGalacticVoid @lemm.ee

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Kamala is a cooler name

I pay $30 per doctor's visit and $40 if the visit is for a specialist. I also pay $0 for a yearly checkup and $0 for telehealth. For any hospital visits, I pay 20% of whatever the actual bill is after a $300 copay (basically a down payment), which came out to a total of $600 when I went to the ER. Lastly, my prescription drugs are capped at $10 per month for generics and $150 for some brand-name drugs.

I use a ton of healthcare and the costs have been super manageable, but affordability is going to vary wildly between people. A ton of insurance plans don't start working until you hit an out-of-pocket minimum of several thousand dollars, and others work like mine except with way higher copays.

Lastly, insurance often doesn't cover certain drugs or procedures. As someone with really good insurance with good customer service, it's still an issue every so often, and the solution is either to find an alternative, try to find a manufacturer's coupon and pay up, or suck it up and move on. There are insurance companies that use shady tactics to get them out of paying for certain expensive drugs that they're supposed to cover.

Long-distance calls being equivalent to local calls has been an incredibly good change.

Does the UK not teach media literacy? I went to public school in Texas and we were given lessons on basic media literacy every few years at a minimum, though I don't think it was in-depth enough.

That's close to 2!

All that buying another soda maker does is create more waste. If you don't want to support Sodastream, then buy some of the high-quality accessories from 3rd parties.

The company is based in Israel and makes a lot of their products there. That being said, they're owned by PepsiCo, an American company.

It is a little clickbaity, but the new device isn't the same as Chromecast.

The first thing that comes to mind is credit card point redemptions. Right now, the best information on getting stuff like free first class flights are on communities like FlyerTalk. If that info was super accessible, those opportunities wouldn't be available in the first place, and travel companies would be far less generous with rewards programs.

If Reddit were run by competent people, I'd think that paywalled subs might be a good idea. I imagine that there are countless scenarios where people have really useful info to share, but at the same time, said info can't be spread too widely, and a paywall is one way of making sure that only people who truly care about said info can take advantage of it.

I get your point now. I interpreted your comment as "he was born rich". I also didn't watch the exposé until after I wrote mine.

Then you should also not like how Google has a history of making their sites, which are market leaders in many cases including search, perform worse on browsers other than Chrome. That is considered anti-competitive behavior.

Just because it's possible with a small sample of games doesn't mean it's possible for all or even most of them.

Also, even if a normal desktop can't run a particular game server, there is almost always a way to get a computer that will.

Many consider games to be works of art in the same way that music, books, movies, and paintings are. In the same way that historians use the creative works of yesteryear to guage how people during events like World War I, historians of tomorrow need access to games to study the events of our lifetimes.

Book burnings have occurred throughout history and they have been devastating, but many works can still be studied because other copies exist elsewhere. The problem with games is that they're deliberately designed to self-destruct. Historians 50 years down the line can't study Fortnite's mechanics or its evolution because as soon as a new update releases, the servers for the previous chapter of the game are gone. Even if we wanted to preserve just the final release, we can't because it is far easier for Epic Games to hide or throw away the server source code rather than properly archive it when they inevitably kill the game. This is a huge deal because Fortnite has genuinely had an impact on our culture, for better or worse. Even if it didn't, it is a technical feat to get a game like that to work well, and programmers need to be able to study the game after the industry inevitably moves on.

To be clear, companies shouldn't need to maintain their games and software forever. However, there is simply no way to play many games because there are no usable servers for them, which is entirely unacceptable. The initiative simply wants us to be in a world where someone can put in a reasonable amount of effort to play abandoned games, and I don't think that's a huge ask.

I imagine that, if regulators go hard enough, it'll make sweeping changes company-wide. Google does a lot of anti-competitive behaviors that don't involve money and are very sneaky, and as a result, we might see a lot of features be changed in the long term.

Just because it's losing market share doesn't mean it's not a monopoly, let alone an illegal one.

It's content from places like Netflix or Hulu, or anywhere else on the general internet.

I asked my question because the NYT headline that I personally saw didn’t say "Trump agrees," and I wanted to verify whether that was the actual headline or an interpretation of it.

Did the headline change or something? I don't think NYT said it's an acceptance

Legroom is probably the most expensive thing to give on a plane, so if you want legroom, pay for the privilege and fly business class. Otherwise, at least try to enjoy the few concessions you get from the airline