It’s becoming harder and harder to get a homeowner insurance policy in California. State Farm and Allstate stopped writing new policies, citing wildfire risks. Others are limiting new customers....
In Quebec you wouldn’t be able to get a mortgage as long as the house is not insured… If they stop giving policies here, we’re going to have bigger issues…
But right wing also oppose government interventions to lower those prices. And no, the market will not fix itself. Some things are not bound to laws of supply and demand. When your kid is on the operation table, you’re not going to tell him « hey sorry it’s too expensive to keep you around, we’re putting you down ».
Even if you think what you would say is obvious, please add. This is genuinely something I think makes sense regarding local bus routes given the longevity of light rail and how infrequently routes change, but I also suffer from confirmation bias, so I’m hoping for reasons this would be a terrible idea but obviously would...
IMO it should be a progressive transformation. First light bus coverage, then more frequent busses and longer busses, then once the line is packed elevated light rails with remote control. The goal should always be to carry more people with less effort. Busses can be deployed quickly. Rails are a better long term solution.
IMO electric busses needs to have a trolley bus infrastructure on some route so the bus is recharged during the day. Won’t cover 100% of the energy needs, but will spread out the charging time.
Convicting Trump shouldn’t be the end. It will simply motivate his troops.
Get the truth out. Make it clear that even Trump knows that the election wasn’t rigged. That there was no « steal ». That he trued a coup, not tried to make things right.
Trump in prison is a byproduct of that. If we truly want to start fighting against the raise of facism, we need people to band together against it. We all need to set aside the liberal vs conservatives fight, and push against facism and dictatorship. Because once the US falls, forget the small fights about public services and worker’s rights. That won’t be on anyone’s radar.
Unless they sell the new insulin at cost, then no, they don’t get to charge more for the existing product.
They always say that they charge more to pay for the risk from R&D, but having people pay more an existing product to finance future R&D is the complete opposite of that.
This is why some stuff should never be handled by private corporations.
My takeaway from witnessing a friends journey between imcompetent doctors, side effect heavy antidepressants and increasingly whacky other depression treatment methods:...
Getting a first diagnosis took me about 10 minutes. I’m in Canada, and we have a doctor available one day a week at the office. After a 10min discussion he gave me a prescription and with some trial and error we found the right dose of concerta to use.
You’re a sysadmin, you’ll figure it out one day. But here’s a clue : why would you need to protect a windows folder from being written into by windows-based malwares from a linux OS ?
Force them to cover all water damage under warranty. And let them void the water damage warranty if you replace the battery. This will remove their bad excuse if « keeping the phone waterproof » as it will acknowledge that opening it breaks the seal.
The idea that there’s an acceptable number of innocent people being killed by the state on the death row so we’re allowed to sometime get vengeance on someone instead of having them go trough their life in a prison cell is simply horrible.
Twitter could have 200% more users, if no one want to show them ads, then ad spots will be dirt cheap. Printing 5 millions of 1cent ads vs 1 million of 10cents ads is not the same. Both on income and expenses...
Yet, social medias are filled with people saying that they saw this every day when they were younger and the millenials are just weak and should stop complaining.
Forget all the stuff out there that says the GDPR protects EU citizens. This is a question of jurisdiction and enforcement. Say I run a blog under a business registered in the US funded by advertisers in the US. A EU citizen that comments on posts issues a GDPR request that I ignore. Their government fines me. I tell them to get...
If the comment keeps your IP address, and/or your email, or a nickname, it can be considered personal data.
The “simple” rule is : does that info, once used with other data, can allow someone to figure out who you are ? If so, then it’s personal. From there, always validate with a lawyer who is actually properly trained on the GDPR to review your decision.
Most of the time I was logged out, and using Reddit new UI on phone or desktop. I mostly wanted to see the random stuff that were getting in r/all. I logged in sometime to comment on stuff, but it was not my main use. Reddit was mostly my main news source. I tried to pull the plug on social media once and it took only a couple of days to realize that it was cutting me off from all news...
As kbin gets more popular, I can clearly see that the news are also getting shared a lot more here. So I can move, subscribe to a couple of magazines, and have the same experience.
I never used 3rd party apps, but I know how the API is a core feature used to help moderators. Or at least I can easily figure out how important it is being a developer myself. Spez's AMA showed us how little Reddit care about their users, but also how little they care about sharing information... and that's a huge insult to Aaron Swartz. I believe that without his death, Reddit would be really different now.
Internet Archive's digital library has been found in breach of copyright. The decision has some important implications (theconversation.com)
The legal ruling against the Internet Archive has come down in favour of the rights of authors.
Seattle becomes first in U.S. to protect gig workers from sudden 'deactivation' (kuow.org)
California couple loses homeowners' insurance after draining their swimming pool to save water (abc7.com)
It’s becoming harder and harder to get a homeowner insurance policy in California. State Farm and Allstate stopped writing new policies, citing wildfire risks. Others are limiting new customers....
More Perfect Union went to a trump rally. They seem to somewhat agree with socialists. (www.youtube.com)
Disallow GPTBot to access your site (platform.openai.com)
Shouldn't we be switching buses with light railway? (lemmy.tf)
Even if you think what you would say is obvious, please add. This is genuinely something I think makes sense regarding local bus routes given the longevity of light rail and how infrequently routes change, but I also suffer from confirmation bias, so I’m hoping for reasons this would be a terrible idea but obviously would...
How Jack Smith Structured the Trump Election Indictment to Reduce Risks (www.nytimes.com)
NYT gift article expires in 30 days....
Capitalism CookBook: Take an invention which the inventor wanted to be accessible to everyone and make it 57 times more expensive than it costed to make it 🧐🎩 (i.imgur.com)
Depression itself is only a symptom in this case (lemmy.world)
My takeaway from witnessing a friends journey between imcompetent doctors, side effect heavy antidepressants and increasingly whacky other depression treatment methods:...
Every time i have to use windows again my IQ slips a point or two (lemmy.one)
Apple Explains Why It Won’t Make iPhones With Replaceable Batteries (www.inverse.com)
Right wing trash site headline: "The New Charges Against Trump 'May' Carry the Death Penalty" (pjmedia.com)
#HOPE 2023...
Advertising revenue in Twitter crashes by 50% (lemmy.world)
nuff said
‘I’ve never seen heat this bad. It’s not normal’: Italy struggles as temperature tops 40C 118f (www.theguardian.com)
What happens if a US site just ignores the GDPR?
Forget all the stuff out there that says the GDPR protects EU citizens. This is a question of jurisdiction and enforcement. Say I run a blog under a business registered in the US funded by advertisers in the US. A EU citizen that comments on posts issues a GDPR request that I ignore. Their government fines me. I tell them to get...
Will Reddit ever cave in?
Exactly as the title says, do you guys think Reddit will buckle and at least be more reasonable or maybe even reverse their current decisions?...