There are thousands of possible reasons and many of them won’t have anything to do with you. There are fake job postings. There are many jobs where the hiring manager already has someone in mind for the job (but they have to check the required boxes and pretend to open the position to any candidate). Another candidate may have gone to the same school or been in a frat with the hiring manager. The list goes on and on.
I was a musician for a few years, and some players had what we jokingly called GAS. Which is “Gear Acquisition Syndrome”. They were always buying, selling, and trading things like amps, instruments, effects, etc.
I found all that constant GAS stuff to be very annoying. So I know where you’re coming from…I think.
I will give a mild counter-argument: an expensive tool probably won’t make you better at a task, but a cheap crappy tool very well could make you worse at a task. I think there’s a sweet spot somewhere in the middle.
But overall, I appreciate your anti-consumerism take. People buy too much crap.
The plan is logical and pragmatic. In the US, people often spend more on healthcare for the last few weeks of life than they did up to that point. Healthcare is absurdly expensive here, and end-of-life medical heroics don’t make any sense.
The tricky part will be the timing. It’s not always easy to predict when we are close to being incapacitated.
This sort of thing used to be a “third rail” issue. The current political environment is so batshit, I think that rail is long gone.
I hope I’m wrong. Privatizing Medicare would cause massive suffering.
I don’t think they are missing very much. Staying out late to “party” has always been overrated. It made a little more sense as a form of entertainment decades ago. These days you can be entertained in a variety of ways. As for social mixing, playing sports, table top games with friends, or volunteering are much more fulfilling activities than late night clubbing. Ryan George has a funny video about how awful nightclubs are.
In the USA, government agencies like the IRS and FBI can order banks and other financial institutions (like brokers) to freeze your accounts so that you can’t access the money. Under RICO, they can also take possession of your stuff like vehicles and such. They just show up with guns and badges and take it.
This is why some wealthy people squirrel money away in “numbered Swiss Bank accounts” that are outside US jurisdiction and much harder to identify who owns what. However, the international laws have changed over time and I believe it’s far less convenient than it used to be.
The wealthy can always find a way to hide their money. Some are better at it than others.
A lot of them have legal insurance, too. For example, Theranos scumbag Elizabeth Holmes went bankrupt, but insurance pays for her exorbitant legal expenses.
Gold cables just work better, man.
Totally kidding. I know exactly what you’re talking about. I’m not an audio engineer but I have worked with some.
And you’re 100% right that on reddit it’s more about the “hip vibe” of the post than the content.
I don’t know that we’re any smarter (or dumber) but I think the asshole filter has far less impact here. On reddit, niche subs often became so much worse after growing to front page status. Once the assholes start flooding in, the nice people tend to give up and leave.
"Oh my god, that’s so relatable! She’s like a real person. "
Meanwhile that dog probably has a bigger housing and healthcare allocation than the average American family.
Pain. Very familiar. They went full Clippy on us.
Thank you for the recommendation. I have dabbled but have a lot to learn. Looking forward to it.
I feel this in my bones. Can’t tell you the number of times I’ve been working on some late night or weekend work emergency when fucking Microsoft throws some random unnecessary bullshit in my path. Haven’t run into the Win 11 mandatory commercial yet. But MS is notorious for wasting our time with push notifications, Teams drama, mandatory updates, and slow ass software that glitches at the worst possible times.
MS lost the way years ago. They forgot that software is supposed to work for us. They demand we work for their shitty software.
“Just use Linux” indeed. Will be doing that in my retirement.
Unethical. Not even a gray area, IMO.
Something of limited but actual value–like a coupon or a book of stamps–would be more of a gray area.
I like Malkovich, but I wouldn’t watch this stupid movie if it leaked tomorrow. Lame advertising stunt.
Sorry, I wasn’t trying to fear monger. We do live in “interesting” times.
They think their individual rights and freedumbs mean laws don’t apply to them.
Some of their grievances are true. The government is often guilty of overreach and trampling on individual rights (like Roe v Wade being overturned, declaring corporate money to be free speech, cops murdering people, cracking down on protests, etc).
However, sovereign citizens think they can use “constitutional logic” to basically do whatever they want. They often find themselves sitting in a cell with Pikachu face, asking for a real lawyer’s help.
Perhaps the most egregious (or successful, depending on your point of view) example would be constitutional sheriffs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitutional_Sheriffs_and_Peace_Officers_Association?wprov=sfla1
In my opinion, they are basically domestic terrorists, or at least adjacent to that. The 3-letter federal agencies keep a close eye on these types of people.
Usenet is a decades-old distributed message sharing system. It’s like an old school message board. To access it, you need a newsreader. Mozilla Thunderbird is one such example.
I have not accessed newsgroups in several years, so I don’t know how active it is today. But it used to be the go-to source for “warez” and bootleg media and porn. Oh yeah, and discussions threads on myriad topics. :)
Slashdot, digg, Reddit, lemmy, 4chan, etc. are all spiritual descendents of usenet.
The software tech for usenet is old, slow, and has a learning curve. You might find it frustrating to navigate and use. However, modern newsreaders probably hide some of the complexity.
Not that unique, but one of our dogs loves to play hide and seek with her toys. She will wait patiently in one room while we hide the toy in another. Then we call her in to the room, and it’s adorable to watch her searching for the toy. She always finds the toy, though some hiding spots take her longer. Really cute when it’s hidden in plain site and she has trouble spotting it.
Thank you! This is the kind of info I was looking for. Fuck IPOs.
Having permission to access to the HIPAA-protected dataset is only the first hurdle. You also need a medically valid or claim processing reason to look at individual patient records within that dataset. People have gotten into trouble by not respecting this. Doctors and other providers are not going to just poke around in the data for fun. Too little to gain for too much risk.
HIPAA is far from perfect, but it does do a decent job of protecting data at rest and in transit. If a bad actor like a hacker manages to get a copy of it, the sensitive stuff will be encrypted.
We handle HIPAA data at my job, and we all take it very seriously. There’s annual training required, and a reporting process for violations. Nobody is looking at anything unless they really need to.
Large corporate health insurance providers are another problem. They of course do have access to it, and I am sure they abuse the privilege for data mining and scheming on claims denial strategies and so on. But that’s a political and enforcement issue not an issue with HIPAA itself. They are violating HIPAA and getting away with it because they are a powerful lobby.