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1·7 months agoI pay about half that per year for my data plan
5·8 months agoThe employers are the real problem. But without an organized movement, random people deciding not to tip anymore is only going to hurt already underpaid workers and kind of does make you a jerk. Some servers literally don’t get a paycheck at the end of the week if they didn’t get tipped enough because they’re paid so little that it’s all absorbed by social security and medicare taxes. If you feel you can’t afford to tip, just pick up food to go rather than being waited on.
But 100% do not tip at random business that have decided to use a tip screen. Not sure how many people know this, but the companies that make those machines actually get a cut of the tips which is partly why they push tipping so aggressively. These days I just pay with cash everywhere to avoid the issue altogether. Better for my privacy too, and local businesses often offer cash discounts.
4·8 months agoThat’s interesting. To provide a bit of insight, I think it has the rating that it does because it doesn’t appear to be overtly harmful (which makes sense if it’s just diluted liver), and lower ratings are reserved for dangerous supplements or those with many adverse effects/interactions with other things
It’s provided by many academic medical centers to their staff as a resource, so I think it’s broadly trusted by medical providers. Looks like it’s pretty expensive to subscribe, that’s too bad.
It gives a 5/10 for Oscillococcinum. It says there is insufficient evidence to rate its effectiveness for COVID-19, COPD, and influenza and sites several studies on each, giving a summary of their findings. Regarding safety, it says it is “possibly safe when used orally.” It’s associated with angioedema but otherwise appears to have no adverse effects.
64·9 months ago14% fewer injuries in the zone and 45% fewer noise complaints is kinda wild
1·9 months agoReally? Show me where.
It claims that he bragged about doing so
The sentence after where it says that… You have ctrl f. Use it.
that other article doesn’t support that claim with any evidence that he pressured them to keep their patent, that he bragged about it, or had any say in the final decision.
Not sure what “evidence” you want… Bill Gates said it was true himself and did multiple interviews talking about it which are not hard to find. Every article I can find online says the same story - that Oxford initially planned to open license the vaccine and then Gates pressured them to change course.
This isn’t Bill’s action, it’s Bill’s inaction.
If you had read the article, you would know that he very actively pressured Oxford not to open license the vaccine, leveraging his $750 million donation to the university for vaccine research.
yeah we need every tool at our disposal fs
During the pandemic, he crippled COVID-19 vaccination efforts in the global south by pressuring Oxford not to open source their vaccine.
https://www.wired.com/story/opinion-the-world-loses-under-bill-gates-vaccine-colonialism/
We need to make major changes in our consumption to even make a dent, but I say our best shot is cold fusion and carbon capture. Those are obvious longshots.
I would argue for extensive rewilding as an alternative
While I can respect a lot of those philanthropic efforts, those should not be his decisions alone to make. That money should’ve been paid into taxes and distributed in agreed upon ways.
As a capitalist, all of his solutions are capitalist. His efforts to slow climate change are primarily technological, with a focus on unproven horseshit like carbon capture rather than proven improvements like better, less car centric urban planning and reducing meat intake. He would never even consider an strategy of economic degrowth to fight climate change even though available evidence shows that that is exactly what we need.
1·9 months agoReverse proxy + fail2ban
Pretty sure most of those people whose smartphone is their only computer would never have had any computer at all otherwise.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/756054/united-states-adults-desktop-laptop-ownership/
Article specifically says the tech does not affect braking
2·9 months agoUS. $1-2/month for global pay as you go data for as low as $1.15/GB (https://silent.link/ data-only esim). $5/month for my virtual https://jmp.chat/ phone number.
The network I use, which also happens to be the one with the best coverage in my area, is about $1/GB