Closer to $10, but Streets of Rogue. It’s a top down roguelite that’s…kinda hard to describe. It’s one of those games where you can approach situations in multiple ways, from killing everyone, threatening some guy, to just teleporting through a wall and stealing the quest target with nobody the wiser. It’s simple but fun and addicting… I’m also fairly bad at it, as I still haven’t beaten the game with most of the pre-made classes.
More like “botnets strong”. That’s what really soured me on the second /r/place, it was completely taken over by crypto fanatics and meme stock morons running bots.
You know, I’m surprised that China is supporting Russia rather than taking bites out of it. I honestly expected them to either start asking/demanding territory for aid, or just flat out invading.
I think it’s because it’s still smaller than Reddit.
This is just my opinion, but since modern right wing is reactionary they (by definition) require people to react to and rally against. In turn they need people to react to them for validation. Just look at any of the many right wing social media clones, without a “leftist” audience to perform for they inevitably get bored and leave, causing the site to slowly wither and die.
Unfortunately due to Florida’s topography the peninsula will just shrink. So rather than an island, sea level rise will just push Floridan refugees north.
The funny thing is that species (Solanum pimpinellifolium) is the ancestor of all varieties of tomatoes.
Edit: Actually, thinking a bit more “all varieties” is a bit of a broad statement to make. There are other species of wild Solanum that are sexually compatible with tomatoes which have been used in breeding, so some tomato breeds might have a bit of DNA from other species. But most of the genetics of modern tomatoes breeds are descended from Solanum pimpinellifolium.
I still choose to wear my mask in public places like retail stores, because COVID is still very real.
I still wear a mask in stores, but it’s mainly because I don’t want to breath in whatever is flaking off the 400+ pound man in stained pajamas waddling around the Walmart. A lower chance of spreading or catching COVID is just gravy IMO.
It won’t block the smell, but it will block most particulates coming off them. Like… if some of it flakes off, do you really want some what ever those suspicious stains on his pajama bottoms are in your lungs?
3 was kinda weird, I didn’t care for the pointer aiming and the NPC filled intro made the game feel kinda Halo-ish. Still a good game, but kinda the odd one out of the Prime trilogy.
Also surprised that you skipped the Wii, for all the shovelware there were a lot of very solid games on the console. You might still want to pick one up second hand for cheap. With some homebrewing you can load Wii and Gamecube images off a hard drive, and it’s got surprisingly solid emulators for the fourth and below console generations… of course even a budget PC could emulate all of that as well as WII and GC games now.
Dr. Einav is a professor of economics at Stanford. Dr. Finkelstein is a professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
There is no shortage of proposals for health insurance reform, and they all miss the point. They invariably focus on the nearly 30 million Americans who lack insurance at any given time. But the coverage for the many more Americans who are fortunate enough to have insurance is deeply flawed.
Health insurance is supposed to provide financial protection against the medical costs of poor health. Yet many insured people still face the risk of enormous medical bills for their “covered” care. A team of researchers estimated that as of mid-2020, collections agencies held $140 billion in unpaid medical bills, reflecting care delivered before the Covid-19 pandemic. To put that number in perspective, that’s more than the amount held by collection agencies for all other consumer debt from nonmedical sources combined. As economists who study health insurance, what we found really shocking was our calculation that three-fifths of that debt was incurred by households with health insurance.
What’s more, in any given month, about 11 percent of Americans younger than 65 are uninsured. But more than twice that number — one in four — will be uninsured for at least some time over a two-year period. Many more face the constant danger of losing their coverage. Perversely, health insurance — the very purpose of which is to provide a measure of stability in an uncertain world — is itself highly uncertain. And while the Affordable Care Act substantially reduced the share of Americans who are uninsured at a given time, we found that it did little to reduce the risk of insurance loss among the currently insured.
It’s tempting to think that incremental reforms could address these problems. For example, extend coverage to those who lack formal insurance. Make sure all insurance plans meet some minimum standards. Change the laws so that people don’t face the risk of losing their health insurance coverage when they get sick, when they get well (yes, that can happen) or when they change jobs, give birth or move.
But those incremental reforms won’t work. Over a half-century of such well-intentioned, piecemeal policies has made clear that continuing this approach represents the triumph of hope over experience, to borrow a description of second marriages commonly attributed to Oscar Wilde.
The risk of losing coverage is an inevitable consequence of a lack of universal coverage. Whenever there are varied pathways to eligibility, there will be many people who fail to find their path.
About six in 10 uninsured Americans are eligible for free or heavily discounted insurance coverage. Yet they remain uninsured. Lack of information about which of the array of programs they are eligible for, along with the difficulties of applying and demonstrating eligibility, mean that the coverage programs are destined to deliver less than they could.
The only solution is universal coverage that is automatic, free and basic.
Automatic because when we require people to sign up, not all of them do. The experience with the health insurance mandate under the Affordable Care Act makes that clear.
Coverage needs to be free at the point of care — no co-pays or deductibles — because leaving patients on the hook for large medical costs is contrary to the purpose of insurance. A natural rejoinder is to go for small co-pays — a $5 co-pay for prescription drugs or $20 for a doctor visit — so that patients make more judicious choices about when to see a health care professional. Economists have preached the virtues of this approach for generations.
But it turns out there’s an important practical wrinkle with asking patients to pay even a very small amount for some of their universally covered care: There will always be people who can’t manage even modest co-pays. Britain, for example, introduced co-pays for prescription drugs but then also created programs to cover those co-pays for most patients — the elderly, young, students, veterans and those who are pregnant, low-income or suffering from certain diseases. All told, about 90 percent of prescriptions are exempted from the co-pays and dispensed free. The net result has been to add hassles for patients and administrative costs for the government, with little impact on the patients’ share of total health care costs or total national health care spending.
Finally, coverage must be basic because we are bound by the social contract to provide essential medical care, not a high-end experience. Those who can afford and want to can purchase supplemental coverage in a well-functioning market.
Here, an analogy to airline travel may be useful. The main function of an airplane is to move its passengers from point A to point B. Almost everyone would prefer more legroom, unlimited checked bags, free food and high-speed internet. Those who have the money and want to do so can upgrade to business class. But if our social contract were to make sure everyone could fly from A to B, a budget airline would suffice. Anyone who’s traveled on one of the low-cost airlines that have transformed airline markets in Europe knows it is not a wonderful experience. But they do get you to your destination.
Keeping universal coverage basic will keep the cost to the taxpayer down as well. It’s true that as a share of its economy, the United States spends about twice as much on health care as other high-income countries. But in most other wealthy countries, this care is primarily financed by taxes, whereas only about half of U.S. health care spending is financed by taxes. For those of you following the math, half of twice as much is … well, the same amount of taxpayer-financed spending on health care as a share of the economy. In other words, U.S. taxes are already paying for the cost of universal basic coverage. Americans are just not getting it. They could be.
We arrived at this proposal by using the approach that comes naturally to us from our economics training. We first defined the objective, namely the problem we are trying but failing to solve with our current U.S. health policy. Then we considered how best to achieve that goal.
Nonetheless, once we did this, we were struck — and humbled — to realize that at a high level, the key elements of our proposal are ones that every high-income country (and all but a few Canadian provinces) has embraced: guaranteed basic coverage and the option for people to purchase upgrades.
The lack of universal U.S. health insurance may be exceptional. The fix, it turns out, is not.
Also if you’re quick, before NYTimes pops up it’s “subscribe” window, you can hit Ctrl-A and Ctrl-C to copy all the text from the article… which is how I got the text from my previous post.
I know we pretty much all hated spez for all the shit he pulled, but a few weeks ago the tone towards reddit itself around here was more neutral. People liked it here on Lemmy a lot better, but people weren’t hating on the old place so much....
You know how many sap sucking insect poop out a sugar rich goo that ants feed on? Well… sometimes bees will eat it too and then you get poop-vomit honey (more formally known as honeydew honey).
Teachers will be forced to tell parents that their child is questioning their gender even if the young person objects under new guidance for schools in England, the equalities minister has indicated.
Two of my favorite meats. If I could get some cheap-ish I’d definitely try it. However, nobody sells it locally and all online retailers want around $30 a pound, so that’s not happening.
You’ve been able to patent asexually reproduced plants since 1930, so if a new paper production centric hemp breed was primarily reproduced by cuttings it would be patent-able. If said hemp breed were reproduced via seeds, then you’d need to use the Plant Variety Protection Act of 1970 which allows very similar legal protections.
On the DS/3DS? Not much, Totk is eating most of my gaming time. I’ve nearly finished it (and I’m starting to burn out on it), so that’ll probably change soon.
Anyway, about the only thing I’ve played on the 3DS for the last week have been the daily challenges in Retro Game Challenge 2.
that will show those libs
What game is this for you? (i.ibb.co)
apes together strong (feddit.de)
China secretly sends enough gear to Russia to equip an army (www.politico.eu)
Shipments of military-capable hardware expose a China-sized loophole in Western sanctions.
I've noticed that lemmy as a whole is much more leftist than reddit (outside of political servers of course)
I can’t really think of a reason for that as Reddit is hated somewhat equally by “both” sides of the spectrum. It’s just something I find interesting.
What the hell is going on with my tomatoes? (lemmy.world)
join-lemmy.org on r/place (lemmy.world)
Florida Schools Will Teach How Slavery Brought ‘Personal Benefit’ to Black People (www.thedailybeast.com)
The tiniest, and most annoying tomato I've ever grown - the Spoon Tomato (lemmy.world)
Man, if you ever want to eat 10,000 tomatoes in a season, plant yourself a Spoon Tomato....
Boycott In-N-Out. (www.latimes.com)
Metroid Prime 2 Remastered Coming ‘Relatively Soonish,’ Says Insider (gamerant.com)
Opinion | We’re Already Paying for Universal Health Care. Why Don’t We Have It? (www.nytimes.com)
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Where did all this reddit hatred come from?
I know we pretty much all hated spez for all the shit he pulled, but a few weeks ago the tone towards reddit itself around here was more neutral. People liked it here on Lemmy a lot better, but people weren’t hating on the old place so much....
Meh. As long as it still tastes the same, I’ll try (i.imgur.com)
XYY (edited from XXY) (lemmy.world)
Teachers in England will have to tell parents if children question their gender (www.theguardian.com)
Teachers will be forced to tell parents that their child is questioning their gender even if the young person objects under new guidance for schools in England, the equalities minister has indicated.
Would dinosaurs be white meat or red meat?
Could you eat one tartare?
CRISPR-edited trees reduce the energy and water required to make paper (phys.org)
Discussion - What games are you playing right now?
The 3DS has such an extensive library of games, and I used to play it so much as my favorite console back when it first came out....