billygoat

joined 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

There are still people so powerful they manage to use Windows XP in this day and age

Those people are called doctors and they deserve your respect!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Same here. 300w with 12 disks, switches, and router. But electricity only costs $.12/kwh. I wouldn’t trust having terabytes of data in the cloud.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (10 children)

TBF he is still an exec. Just not an insurance exec.

Wendell Potter, a former vice president for corporate communications at Cigna, is the president of the Center for Health and Democracy and writes the newsletter “Health Care Un-Covered.”

The Center for Health and Democracy(CHD) is a non-profit organization led by renowned healthcare expert and insurance industry whistleblower Wendell Potter that works to transform America’s system of health coverage. The organization’s core belief is that healthcare should be driven not by industry profits and greed, but by the needs and rights of every American to get the quality care they need without concern for cost.

 

One story that we couldn’t keep out of the press and that contributed most to my decision to walk away from my career in 2008 involved Nataline Sarkisyan, a 17-year-old leukemia patient in California whose scheduled liver transplant was postponed at the last minute when Cigna told her surgeons it wouldn’t pay. Cigna’s medical director, 2,500 miles away from Ms. Sarkisyan, said she was too sick for the procedure. Her family stirred up so much media attention that Cigna relented, but it was too late. She died a few hours after Cigna’s change of heart.

Ms. Sarkisyan’s death affected me personally and deeply. As a father, I couldn’t imagine the depth of despair her parents were facing. I turned in my notice a few weeks later. I could not in good conscience continue being a spokesman for an industry that was making it increasingly difficult for Americans to get often lifesaving care.

One of my last acts before resigning was helping to plan a meeting for investors and Wall Street financial analysts — similar to the one that UnitedHealthcare canceled after Mr. Thompson’s horrific killing. These annual investor days, like the consumerism idea I helped spread, reveal an uncomfortable truth about our health insurance system: that shareholders, not patient outcomes, tend to drive decisions at for-profit health insurance companies.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Tbf, all the well written shows of the last decade only made 10-13 episodes per season. This was one of the major reasons for the writers strike since they only got paid per episode.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Since you are there you might as well try some Chanpuru. It is a stir fry dish with Goya but it can be a bit strange for first timers. Not sure on what’s there anymore, been 15 years. Yoshihatchi is probably still there, pretty good sushi joint.

I also recommend that you hit up Peace Memorial Park if you can make it down to the south side of the island. Can’t remember if the tunnels are near that but those are interesting as well.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Hey, I would want to know if a pill is gonna make my taint tear.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Yeah, 10%, 20%, and 37% should each be ~~buffet~~ different colors.

Damn autocorrect

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Minisforum or beelink make what you’re looking for. If you are considering setting up a 10gb Network, I would recommend an MS-01 . I’ve been using it for the past year and love it https://a.co/d/iwNATJb

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Pizza rat became a thing after This

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I thought cars in the last decade couldn’t have hood ornaments anymore ?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Meh, I no longer participate but it still had a huge wealth of knowledge. Only time I end up on it is from a search engine.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)
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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Really enjoyed last years. Can’t wait to see how this one goes!

For anyone unfamiliar with TGP, it is like NFL Redzone but for WoW.

https://www.twitch.tv/warcraft

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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

cross-posted from: https://catata.fish/post/7302992

Well that's depressing

 
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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Any way to swap the actions for tapping vs holding? To me it makes more sense for a tap to expand it and a long press to open the app. Searches popped up results from last year that it is not an option but did they add it to iOS 17?

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