zaphod @ zaphod @lemmy.ca

Just this guy, you know?

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I can also recommend Keepass2Android, which I've been using for years.

More accurate according to whom?

I'm willing to bet there will never be any kind of voluntary transfer of power.

I firmly expect that Israel's intention is to drive out the Palestinian population and annex Gaza once and for all. Nothing else explains their strategy of mass infrastructure destruction, the regular bombing of civilians, and the regular drumbeat of suggestions of foreign nations like Canada taking in Palestinian refugees. They're clearly attempting to render Gaza utterly unlivable.

I mean, what else could possibly be their endgame given the level of destruction Israel has engaged in? A vibrant and functioning Gaza will never be tolerated by the Israeli far right (they literally just finally openly rejected a two state solution, though let's face it, in practice that's nothing new). Containment has failed. The only thing left is destruction.

It's all behind-closed-door conversations, but one can only assume some form of self-governance in Gaza given the US continues to push for a two-state solution despite supporting the Israelis as they, you know, wipe out one of those states.

What Bibi is saying, here, is that even that small modicum of Palestinian agency will be eliminated and Gaza will formally become the open air prison it's unofficially been for decades.

Cuz I have restless leg syndrome and when it's bad it won't let me sleep otherwise (RLS is sometimes treated with a dopamine agonist).

Obviously any reputable password manager is better than none at all, but I strongly recommend using KeepassXC on the desktop and a suitable mobile client for phones and tablets, and syncing the database across devices with an encrypted peer to peer sync tool like Synching.

I've always been nervous about being part of a large, juicy cloud hosted target, and LastPass was the proof that those concerns are well-founded.

That's true for most folks, and is why it's so hard for people who aren't ultra wealthy to understand just how different the world is when you have that kind of wealth; a world where the law and the financial system and the basic experience of the economy is completely and utterly different due to the power and influence that wealth brings.

Heck, most people can't even truly grok the scale of the difference between an average person and a multi-millionaire or billionaire. The human brain just doesn't process large numbers like that well.

I'm far from rich, but I do have a paid off house in a low CoL area, and a have decent chunk of retirement savings put away, and even then I get different treatment: better credit cards, better loan products, etc. The industry calls it "qualifying" but what it really is is monetary gatekeeping.

It's particularly weird having grown up relatively poor because I've lived the shift and can see how expensive it was to be poor, and how relatively easy it is for the rich to get richer.

Banks will happily take 3% risk free from someone sufficiently wealthy given the associated relationship benefits: a multi-millionaire or billionaire is probably going to hire that bank for wealth management and pay fees, etc, etc.

I have issues for advocating for providing life-saving assistance for members of our community.

Sure guy. Keep fighting the good fight.

So therefore ignore a health crisis? Wtf man.

The majority of folks who are housed also have insurance which covers ambulance services, either through an employer or a provincial subsidized program, of which there are a variety, such as:

https://www.alberta.ca/non-group-coverage

Or

https://www.alberta.ca/coverage-for-seniors-program

Or

https://www.alberta.ca/aish-what-you-get

But keep soothing that conscience.

And those fees are waived for people experiencing financial hardship:

https://lethbridgeherald.com/news/lethbridge-news/2023/08/11/ahs-waives-ambulance-fees-for-people-with-no-income-or-address/

“In cases where an ambulance service fee is incurred and patients are uninsured, reasonably believed to have no fixed address, and collection is not reasonably assured, AHS will waive the fee and absorb the cost,” the representative said.

There is literally no excuse not to call 911 or, in my area, 211 if you witness someone whose health appears to be in danger.

Oh please. All someone had to do was call emergency services. Dress it up with all the excuses you like, all this demonstrates is the ongoing callous disregard for anyone unhoused.

This is essentially admitting that the cheap money dried up as interest rates returned to normal and now they're in trouble.

This is basically the story of the last year in tech and while the fed has indicated rates aren't going to rise further and may start to decline in 2024, we're unlikely to return to the ultra low rate environment that's existed for the past 15 years.

I fully expect we'll hear a lot more stories like this as Silicon Valley companies are forced to actually operate as profitable businesses.

Is it prophetic, or do we just have a techno-capitalist elite that looked as those books as a roadmap rather than a cautionary tale?

ZIRP - zero interest rate policy. Very common term for anyone following macroeconomic policy since 2008.

Given the group we're in I hope I don't have to explain the rest.

Because FAANG is the entire economy? Please.

Step out of the SV bubble and you'll see the economy is fine. The fact that tech was dumb and overextended themselves during and shortly after COVID while relying on ZIRP to fund those expenditures doesn't mean everyone else did. Stir in changes to tax treatment around R&D that disproportionately impact tech and and no one should be surprised that industry might be getting hit while the rest of the economy ticks on just fine.

If you're so sure you should run off and short the S&P 500.

IMO the right compromise is to return copyright to its original 14 year term. OpenAI can freely train on anything up to 2009 which is still a gigantic amount of material while artists continue to be protected and incentivized.