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[–] bennel 87 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

Tim Allen says Disney would not be making "Toy Story 5" if it was just about the money.

Riiiiight.

[–] bennel 30 points 3 weeks ago (11 children)

$1.05 trillion is spent on Medicare and Medicaid and yet drug prices are soaring and healthcare costs for Americans are at an all time high.

Meanwhile in Canada, in 2023 the federal government spent C$334 bn ($233bn USD) (source)

And in the UK, the budget for healthcare is £201.9bn ($266bn USD) (source)

Both Canada and the UK have free healthcare.

So for about 1/3 of the cost of what the US government pays in healthcare, other governments are able to provide free healthcare to their people.

The problem in the US isn't that they're spending money on social services. The US can solve its budget by regulating the out of control healthcare market. Other countries have done it, it's clearly not impossible.

[–] bennel 114 points 2 months ago (17 children)

I disagree. Ubisoft has been very consistently trash for a while.

[–] bennel 5 points 4 months ago

You're replying to a song lyric

[–] bennel 6 points 5 months ago

The Enterprise-E had seatbelts

[–] bennel 5 points 6 months ago

Of course not lol. The CMS I usually use stores it as HTML in the database, so I have a go-to HTML sanitization plugin with a tag whitelist. I wish it used markdown or something similar under the hood instead, but it is what it is.

[–] bennel 12 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

You'd save it to the database in the same field as the rest of the text. You don't store the positions or anything like that - you'd store the text with HTML and have the front end render it as expected.

For instance, the database could have the following text:

Hello <strong>World</strong>

And the front end just renders HTML.

Alternatively, you could store Markdown syntax if you're hesitant to allow HTML.

EDIT: as always, if you store raw HTML, don't forget to sanitize it.

[–] bennel 1 points 6 months ago

So... anybody else have to read that title a second time because they missed a letter?

[–] bennel 7 points 7 months ago (4 children)

4!? Since when was there a Jurassic World 2 and 3? Did they not do any promotions of them or something or do I live under a rock?

[–] bennel 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

You can try garlic infused olive oil

[–] bennel 45 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Nintendo issued an apology in 2020 over the issue, but argued that players who purchased the items were bound by the user agreement of the Nintendo Switch and thus ineligible to participate in a class action lawsuit against the company.

I'm not a lawyer, but this seems suspicious. How would this work? If I purchase a product in a retail store, where exactly would I sign something agreeing to give up my eligibility to participate in a class action suit? Are they trying to argue that linking the hardware to your account carries over the restriction to any hardware used?

[–] bennel 2 points 8 months ago

Exactly. Win customers over by providing a better experience that makes people want to use your platform over a competitor, not because they're forced to

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